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"My husband and I love to entertain. It&amp;#039;s not just because we&amp;#039;re friendly people, but because it forces us to clean up fast. We&amp;#039;re not big slobs or anything, but let&amp;#039;s just say our house isn&amp;#039;t &amp;quot;camera ready&amp;quot; at all times. I&amp;#039;m really not so great at speed cleaning\u2014I have a tendency to start looking at a piece of clutter, reminisce about where I got it, how many times I&amp;#039;ve used it and whether I need it or not. That&amp;#039;s OK when you have all day to clean, but not when you&amp;#039;re doing a last minute, beat-the-clock-type clean. My husband, on the other hand, is the master.  He starts at the front door of our apartment, working like one of those street sweeper machines, moves around the perimeter picking up debris, straightening, folding and fussing. He tells me it&amp;#039;s important NOT to throw anything out at this point because, in your hurry to clean, you might mistakenly get rid of something important. Instead, he carries a large shopping bag to temporarily store all the miscellaneous clutter so that he can plow through at a later time. The attack is three-pronged: Clean off all surfaces, dump piles of clutter into the bag and dust wherever or whatever is obvious with his favorite Swiffer Duster with Extended Handle. He then throws the offending bags in the bedroom, sits down where guests might sit and sees what they see.  And at last comes the secret trick: He turns off several lamps and lights candles. A flickering candle, we&amp;#039;ve found, can hide a multitude of sins.  While it&amp;#039;s not the most thorough in the world, it gets done fast and you don&amp;#039;t have to think about it for that long. Isn&amp;#039;t that the perfect type of cleaning? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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