Posit: You pull out the couch and find a great deal of ephemera and a small village of dust-bunnies that have all been co-exsiting just beyond the reach of the

• Call the children and with only the bare minimum of lectures attack the mess until the carpet is pristine and the baseboard has been duly polished.

• Look both ways and shove it back for when you have more time. (Aren't dust-bunnies a protected species?)

• Grumble, clean and repaet until finished-AFTER taking pictures for the blog. Make a new rule that the cushions cannot be picked up--if we don't see it we don't have to clean it.