I have found that if I move every two years or so, I only have to do heavy cleaning once (in order to get the deposit back - no play on words intended).

As a young man I used to do the same with my checking accounts. If I got to a point that I could no longer figure out my balance, I simply switched banks!

I think that many of us have made concious or unconcious decisions to put housecleaning in a lower priority on our "things to do" list. We seem to have much more important things, (such as making music,) to do.

An acquaintance of mine used to have a sign hanging in her kitchen which said, "My house is clean enough to be healthy, dirty enough to be happy".