Harriet, you're doing a good job staying on track with the focus areas. I have been neglecting the deep cleaning somewhat while I work on my declutter goal.
Except for this weekend, when I did a lot of cleaning at the 4-day sewing camp. Can I count that?
If we don't clean up after ourselves at the lodge, the camp owners charge an additional $200.
There were 11 of us at the sewing camp. The sleeping accommodations are dorm style, with 2-4 beds per room and then a shared bathroom with 4 toilet stalls and 4 shower stalls on the sleeping floor, a separate handicapped-accessible bathroom with 1 shower, and on the main floor a public restroom with 3 toilet stalls. (We did not use any of the men's restrooms this time.) There is a large kitchen, dining room, and an open meeting room where we set up the sewing tables.
Everyone vacuumed their own sleeping rooms, and 3 people took care of vacuuming the halls and the big room where we were sewing. I hope someone vacuumed the dining room, but I didn't see anyone do it. A couple of us emptied all the trash cans.
I offered to start the job I most dislike, cleaning the bathrooms. I assumed someone else would come to help, but that didn't happen, so I swished all the toilets, wiped down all the showers, and scrubbed all the hand sinks and counters. Another person then came along with her Swiffer mop and wiped the floors.
The other person had also damp mopped the kitchen floor. Unfortunately, no one thought to scrub the 3 double sinks in the kitchen, nor did anyone clean the shelves in either refrigerator/freezer, or empty the coffee pot.
I did the best I could in a rush.
How could no one else see that the sinks were dirty? This leads me to think that maybe my own housekeeping skills are not as poor as I've been thinking they are.
I asked several times if we could have a cleaning checklist for the lodge this year, but no one else thought it would be necessary. If I go to this event next year, I will insist that we either have a checklist and share the jobs, or charge everyone enough extra money to be able to pay the $200 cleaning fee.