Hiring Cleaners

Moving is not stressful because people are bad at packing boxes. Moving is stressful because it turns your whole life, every last corner of it, into a job site overnight. The closets stand half empty like a stage between acts. The garage has become something closer to an archaeological dig, full of relics nobody remembers acquiring. The fridge needs cleaning, the lease needs checking, the keys need returning, the utilities need switching, the kids still need to eat, the dog eyes every box with deep suspicion, the movers run late, and somebody, somewhere, still has to get down on their…