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Old 11-18-2017, 08:54 AM
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Originally Posted by graciegirl View Post
I think we Villagers come from a group of people who kept themselves and their homes and their children very clean and orderly.

What do you have to say about this? Have times changed?

I still see a lot of well kept homes on the outside and visit a lot of well kept homes on the inside here in The Villages. I haven't been in anyone's home that was dingy or not well ordered here.

Are we too scrupulous as a group or just right? How do our children and grandchildren approach this subject? Were we silly or right about our standards for cleanliness of boomers or better?
I don't think that it's a generational thing. Growing up and in my adult life, I have seen people on both ends of the spectrum and in the middle.

When I was a kid, my house was always reasonably clean.
We had neighbors whose houses were pigsties and I recall going into friends homes where we were not allowed to touch anything or sit on the furniture.

I've met the same kind of people in my adult life. I see people that sweep the streets in front of their homes after they finish their daily cleaning and I see people that have let their house fall apart.
I think that most people are in the middle somewhere although I would guess that those who are on the extremes believe that they are in the middle.
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