I'd rather paint than clean!

Some of you, dear readers, know that John and I are buying a house in Montana and are planning on moving there at the end of next month. For those of you that didn't know, Surprise! After a little more than a week of frantic work on our current home, John and I finished the last part of renovations and cleaning today and just happened to have our first showing today as well. No telling, of course, how it went but even if they aren't interested I am confident that it isn't due to how the house showed. John worked like a demon, painting, repairing things that have been on our list for months (sometimes even years), and downsizing our belongings. Literally half of the stuff we own is now in a storage locker a few miles away. Now I want to know, why couldn't we have done this before? It wouldn't affect our decision to buy a new home, we outgrew this one almost 2 yrs ago, but it's really nice living in a house where you can see the actual paint color instead of dirty hand prints. Washing the walls can only do so much, since eventually the paint disappears and all you have left is drywall. Why didn't I realize before how much easier it is to throw a coat of paint on occasionally than it is to keep scrubbing the same areas over and over again? I made it clear to John that this would not be happening in our new home. The kids better get used to the smell of paint, because I fully intend to freshen it up every chance I get.