Say you want to hire a professional house cleaning service - someone to come clean your house top to bottom every two weeks to take the burden of such upkeep off your shoulders. And say you’ve been wanting this done for over two years but you can’t seem to convince your husband of the necessity of such a monthly expense. So, you try to get your mother and grandmother and even his own mother to talk him into it but all he does is shrug and grumble and although he doesn’t necessarily deny your request but he doesn’t really approve of it either. Well, then you’re left dangling on the fence with a dirty house and the ever-overwhelmingly churning desire to pick up the phone and call someone to come clean your filthy pig sty for you! What do you do!? How can you make it so that everyone in your house is happy with such a decision?! How in the world do you convince your husband that it really is a necessity?!

I’ll give you one guess.

Give up?

Here’s what you do: Hand your husband the bucket of cleaning supplies, a rag, and some paper towels. Ask him to clean one entire floor of your house within a specified time limit (like, say, a party for which you need to conserve your own energy) and then leave the premises!

I guarantee that by the time the timer goes off (or your guests arrive) your husband will have changed his mind and suddenly agree with your request for a professional house cleaner! He may even go so far as to say things like, “YEAH! Now that you mention it, I think we can definitely afford it!”

The only catch to this line of trickery is you must be willing to apply IcyHot or some other sore muscle rub to his back and then listen to and soothe his painful grunts and complaints for next day or so. If you can’t take care of him in this regard then please do not attempt the aforementioned technique!

DISCLAIMER FOR HONEY: I swear I didn’t plan it on purpose! It just happened to work out this way in the end! And I thank you from the bottom of my heart! *MWAH*