Winter Cleaning

One of the traditions of the Chinese New Year in Asia is that you have to give everything a good cleaning before the day comes. You can't clean during the new year, because you will sweep all your wealth away during the next year. Being a somewhat fastidious sort, I'm all for the cleaning, but it seems like a country as dirty as Taiwan would make it a point to clean behind the furniture more than once a year.

The year of the Monkey starts tomorrow. God help us all.