Happy National Cleaning Week! ISSA – the International Sanitary Supply Association – coordinates this week-long event during the 4th week of March to “celebrate the value and importance of clean environments on public health, the environment, and our economy. Having a whole week designated to the importance of cleaning, allows us to raise public awareness for the value of clean AND to show appreciation for cleaning professionals.” (source) You can learn more about National Cleaning Week and which locations across the USA have made NCW official at the ISSA website.

If you’ve got before-and-after photos of a big spring cleaning or organization project to scrapbook, shots of your daily or weekly housekeeping routine, or images of Mount Laundry and the never-ending piles of dishes your family leaves behind, we’ve got kits, cards, and templates in the Shoppe to help you scrapbook them with both style and humor. Check out these fifteen products and be sure to scroll to the bottom for some cleaning-related quotes you can use on your next layout!

Quotes about Cleaning you can use on your next layout:

• My housekeeping style is best described as, “There appears to have been a struggle.”
• Housework can’t kill you, but why take a chance? – Phyllis Diller
• There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn’t get any worse. – Quentin Crisp
• Nothing inspires cleanliness more than an unexpected guest.
• Housework is what you do that nobody notices unless you haven’t done it.
• Why can’t the house clean itself? It seems to get dirty by itself!
• Both of us can’t look good at the same time … it’s me or the house!
• Spring cleaning always sounds like a good idea until you’re knee deep in old toys & clothes wondering why you did this to yourself.
• I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes, and six months later you have to start all over again. – Joan Rivers.
• Housework never really bothered me… what bothered me about it later was that it was expected to be your life… when you’re a housewife, you are constantly interrupted. You have no space in your life. It isn’t the fact that you do the laundry. – Alice Munro
• My theory on housework is, if the item doesn’t multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you? Erma Bombeck
• Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization. – Ann Oakley
• Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day. – Simone de Beauvoir
• The cruel irony of housework: people only notice when you don’t do it. – Danielle Raine, Housework Blues – A Survival Guide
• I love it when my justifications for avoiding housework are actually legitimate. – Julie Kenner
• Our house is clean enough to be healthy; dirty enough to be happy.
• Everybody wants to save the earth; no one wants to help mom do the dishes.
• The dust bunnies killed my cleaning fairy.
• The only thing I hate more than having a dirty house is cleaning.