Honestly, there are rare moments when I absolutely amaze myself with my brilliance, and today was one of them.
Many moons ago, we started a project around here called Finishing the Basement Family Room. We put a good chunk of change into putting in walls down there, and were left with a a lovely room that just needed a little more work to make it usable. Due to the drywall work, the room was covered in sheetrock dust. A few weeks after the drywall was finished, I went downstairs to clean up the dust.
It was such an awful job, that I got disgusted and quit after about seven minutes.
Fast forward to today, which is much too far away from the day we started this project, when I got disgusted with myself for letting it sit so long. Me and the shop vac went downstairs to get that dust cleaned up. I vacuumed and vacuumed and vacuumed, but there was still a lot of dust that wasn't coming off the walls or the floors. I knew I needed to damp mop it but I couldn't stomach the thoughts of buckets and water and dirty messy towels and smeary dust everywhere.
And then it hit me. Maybe the swiffer duster would be good for this job. It has a long handle and a rotating head. It works great on my hardwood floors. I had a whole box of the disposable cloths that go with it that were just begging to get used. Might as well give it a try.
Oh, I am a genius. This is the best idea I've had all year. If you get the cloths nicely damp, they hold the perfect amount of water for collecting dust off of walls and floors, without ruining the drywall or making a smeary mess of things. No dust angst!
I could have swiffered away down there all afternoon. I had to make a conscious decision to NOT engage my OCD tendencies on this project, and stopped myself when it was good enough.
It took about half the time I thought it was going to and it looks so much better than I ever thought I could make it look. Now we are ready to primer, then we can paint.
We are out of our rut! Progress is good! I feel so smart.
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