Our house is for sale and that means we get interruptions by real estate agents wanting to show the house to a potential buyer. Don’t get me wrong. We love the agents! We want more of them. Bring all your clients! We want an offer, please! However, each time the phone rings, we all stiffen just a little.
When we get ‘the call’, as we did tonight for a showing tomorrow morning, everyone has to drop their plans and clean. The kids are especially getting tired of it and I don’t blame them. It is tough keeping your room pristine every day of the week. It is like you never get to really live in your house anymore.
It isn’t that we are slobs and it takes hours and hours to get the house ready. It is just an unplanned inconvenience. It takes about a hour to straighten all the rooms, clean all the bathrooms, vacuum all the floors and clean up the kitchen. When we all work together, though, it goes more quickly. Many hands make light work. Thanks, kids!
The lesson is to enlist help when there is a lot of work to do. Offer to help someone else. It doesn’t need to just be family. I saw my neighbor roofing his shed a few months ago. I grabbed my hammer and went over. It was fun. I got to know him better in one hour of roofing than 6 years of living next door. Yes, I banged my thumb and ripped my pants, but it was worth it. Service always is because it generally comes back when you need it most.