It’s the last day of the year and as most of us have been doing I’ve been busy all day cleaning the house. It isn’t like the house isn’t clean already but for the bells we spend all day getting it cleaner as if it will bring us something better in the year to come. I remember as a kid wondering what all the fuss was about. It is only now that I see that it is more to do with visitors see your house at its best. Yet the people that we have coming to our houses are the same people that know us and know how clean we keep our homes. So why is it different as the year ends?
I was told when I was younger that it wasn’t lucky to carry last years muck into the next year. I never did work out why that was and if I asked was always told the same thing, “Because it is.” If I tried to question the logic further I’d soon feel the back of a hand to silence my inquisitiveness.
Like me my kids hate this day because of the extra work that is involved in getting thing clean. They have asked the same questions as I used to ask but I have tried hard to make them see that it is just one of the things we have to go through to be ready for the bells and the New Year. As the years have passed and they have grown older them have stopped asking the questions though I still get the look and I now wonder did I have that same look at one time. I suppose I must have.
HAVE A GREAT AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR.