手を抜く：cut corners


Do you usually clean your house on the day before end of year?
My family makes it a rule to do a big cleaning in summer
because we don’t risk catching a cold due to the cold water and
everything will dry up very soon!

We believed the summer was the best season we do the cleaning and
the hot weather could make the cleaning much easier!

I was in charge of washing net windows out,
which was taken away from more than five windows by my husband.

That task was a kind of playing with my son with water.
I sometimes cut the corners and played the water gun he had.
While I and son was doing these things,
my husband was devoted to wiping windows and cleaning the lower sashes.

In the evening, my husband said that he got sick.
He checked his temperature and it was close to 39 degree…! Oh, my god!
He must have been suffering from heat stroke!!
We might have underestimated the intense summer heat…

We have to find another season for a big cleaning or
he has to follow my example how to cut corners.