i hate these threads. they bring me nothing but anxiety. i dont/cant stop haing chametz available more than 24 hours before pesach and i don’t have goyim to do my work. i can’t even take off of work to do it and i dont have garages or playrooms or a dishwasher so it just makes me feel bad. obviously i have much much work to do on my sameach bichelki (which, by the way, is not quite the struggle the other eleven months of the year).
ya know what i’m doing today while you clean? I am still having drop offs of everything everyone is cleaning out of there freezers and i am calling people who can use it to feed their families over the next weeks. it’s great but my house is a wreck.
My house is a wreck. Yes, and not the mid-clean up kind. My living room is filled with pans and pans of food and candies from mishloach manos that are way too expensive to throw out and can be dessert for someone’s shabbos table. My freezer and fridge are stuffed with chametzdik ice cream, roasts, chickens and meat that people are “clearing out of their freezers” to make room for their pesach stuff. pesach cleaning will be an an anxiety provoking nightmare for me for the next month until 6 days before hand when my husband and i have no more choice and spend nights cleaning everything Hashem wants clean, and only what Hashem wants clean. And we pray that it accurately syncs with our cleansing of the chametz from within us in the same way, working on priorities first and foremost even tho everyone else is having an “i just finished cooking for every meal of pesach for this year AND next year!” fest. Humiliating, but the way it needs to be.
if anyone doesnt feel like eating macaroons three weeks early, you are welcome to visit.