The Strangest Things....

For over a year now I've been trying to convince my dad to come over and clean my house - for money of coarse. He's unemployed and every time The Husband and I go over there for Sunday dinner my dad slips in to the conversation at least once about how he has to conserve his money now that he's unemployed (again). He works in the summers and gets laid off for the winters. Every time he states he wants more spending money that he can come and clean my house. I feel this is a fair trade since it's exactly what I had to do to get any money for anything I wanted when I was growing up.

Every time I bring up my dad cleaning my house he tells me it's too disgusting, which it's not, it's just covered in pet hair. All I really want is my house to be vacuumed an extra time a week. We vacuum it every Sunday (and if company is coming over at least an extra three more times that week) but when you have four, count 'em four, shedding hair monsters, two hours later there are hair tumble weeks rolling across the living room floor as big as a jackalope.

Today my dad was talking about what he was going to be doing on this time off, he started listing off his tasks and when he got to the last one where I typically inject "and come over and clean my house" I added "and come over and work on my bedroom remodel."

Instead of getting a "uh. no." response I got "Oh? What are you doing?"

He was genuinely interested in coming over to work on my remodel. I can get him to paint and put up trim for FREE but I can't get him to come vacuum my house for money.