Month 1

Onion has nicknamed this "Fresh January," so I guess I will run with it.

The rules:

1. Each partner must clean something (ourselves not included) for 30 minutes everyday.
2. It doesn't matter where you are, there's always something that can be cleaned.
3. If for some ridiculous reason you cannot clean for a day, you must make up the time on another day of that week (however, that still counts as a half-fail).
4. All 3.5 hours must be completed in a 7-day time frame.

That's it.

Sure, we know that a lot of you (probably MOST of you) already do this everyday anyway. We don't. We'd rather snuggle than vacuum. We'd rather read than mop. We'd rather (insert ANYTHING here) than fold the laundry. We're the kind of folks that wait until someone is ten minutes from the house to remove the dirty bra from the ceiling fan (ok, maybe not THAT bad, but close), and that's probably the most annoying habit we hate about ourselves (is this true, Onion?). We want to have a house that people can just let themselves into (people we know, not the bastards that robbed us a few months ago) without feeling bad about the mess.

So, that's where we're going to start: somewhere simple yet important.

Resolution one, here we go. . .