Don't worry about the floor so much. You're really not going to pick something up off the floor and eat it. And that will go for the sink, too. When you boil water for tea, pour it down the drain. It will dissolve clogs and disinfect it.
Boiling water is a wonderful disinfectant.
Every once in a while, pour boiling water and bleach down the drain. Don't get too worried Whether you decide to do a spring cleaning or not, Mendelson has one more important lesson - don't get too worried about it. After all, your home is a place to live in, not a museum. That's where Mendelson departs from that other goddess of domesticity, Martha Stewart. Her orientation is very different from mine.