I thought my place was bad… Matt’s place is worse. It has prompted me to draw up a list of must haves in Tokyo.
1. Dishwasher
2. Decent vacuum cleaner, preferably an automatic one which roams about the place on its own.
3. Less of everything…clothes, crockery, pots, etc….etc…
4. Monstrous plasma TV. This will help the cleaning process by attracting all the dust in the apartment for one-stop cleaning.
5. Central heating. These bar heaters are a bugger to clean!
6. Sink hole in the bathroom floor. Make this area easy to clean. Flood and finish.
7. Sink hole in the kitchen? Do these exist? Same reason as above.
8. Sink hole in the fridge. No comment needed.
9. Shorter shelving. I just can’t reach without balancing precariously on a wobbly chair. It’s either shorter shelving or glasses for Matt to see what he has missed!
Some of these requirements may be unnecessary if we got a cleaner at least once a week. But really…the apartment will be so small and we are 2 capable adults.
The other solution would be to plastic wrap everything. My dad is a professional at this. Matt was shocked when recently he saw that all of our remote controls at home in Melbourne were shrink-wrapped in plastic. Maybe plastic wrapped furniture is the way to go for 2 grots like us…
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