Why you shouldn't pick your nose when looking at houses

So some people live this way always?  Living in a house that is clean and that stays clean is a new thing for us at the Hoots household.  We've done the clean thing before but never the stay clean thing.  I've wanted to try the stay clean house thing, but its never worked out for me.  Like most life changes, this one comes from necessity.  Maybe if we could pretend our house is on the market for the rest of our lives, we could actually maintain this sense of order.

So even though our house is much cleaner than it usually is, I still have a destroyer living here and I'll admit, every time we leave our house, its not exactly ready for the next potential buyers to walk through the door.  The second day our house was on the market, I was turning my car into the pool when my realtor called.  It was 3:05 and someone wanted to see our house at 3.  Yes, they literally wanted to see it 5 minutes ago.  I pulled a U-turn and rushed back home.

Oh, the temptation to leave Brady in the car was attractive (cmon, I'd leave the AC on!).  But instead, I ran into the house with a toddler in tow and literally sprinted around my house like a crazy woman.  With all our clothes folded nicely on our bed, I debated between the extra minute it would take to put it all away vs. throwing it all in a laundry basket.  I was lighting candles, opening blinds, throwing things in closets, and throwing food at Brady hoping to appease him for a short time.  I cursed Eric for a few unfinished chores and cursed myself for lollygagging during Brady's naptime.  I cursed Brady for his room, which seems to always smell like poop and cursed the Febreeze for not being somewhere where I could easily find it.  And of course, I cursed whoever decided to set this showing up last minute.  Unless of course, they choose to buy our house, in which case, come let me kiss your feet.  I actually did very little cursing, either verbally or internally, but I thought it gave the story the dramatic flair it needed.

Our second showing was on Saturday and we had a little more lead time.  Which means we had time to rig up secret cameras and take pictures of unsuspecting buyers.

Yes, those are actual people walking through our house with no idea that they're on film.  Cheese!

To lesson the creep factor, I'll tell you that we actually have a new security system that takes a picture of our house every day when it detects the first motion after 10am those images are sent to Eric's phone.  I stopped my practice of mooning the camera each morning when I decided the security company was probably lying about nobody having access to those pictures.

Eric and I got these pictures while we were at the football game and analyzed the buyability of these intruders.  Apparently it was quite low as we got this feedback later that night.

"Buyers decided only to purchase single family homes only today. Sorry."

I'm only sorry that I cleaned the whole house for only them.

Just kidding, I'm totally not bitter.  Everyone come see our house!  And be sure to smile for the camera!