"It was so cold that we didn't clean the house…

“It was so cold that we didn’t clean the house—we just defrosted it” is a joke about extremely cold weather. The joke was posted on the Athropolis blog on December 4, 2003.

Athropolis (December 4, 2003)
It was so cold…
1. It was so cold . . .
we didn’t clean the house - we just defrosted it!

South Marion Citizen (Dunnellon, FL)
Some of my best friends are (snow) flakes
By Dick Frank
Thursday, December 18, 2008 at 7:00 pm
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We didn’t clean the house – we just defrosted it.

TapRooT
January 30, 2009
Friday Joke: It was so cold . . .
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It was so cold . . .
we didn’t clean the house – we just defrosted it!

Google Books
Murder at the PTA
By Laura Alden
New York, NY: Obsidian
2010
Pg. ?:
You heard stories about life up there. That you knew it was cold when the keg of beer on the porch froze solid. That if you milked a cow in January, you got ice cream. That in spring they didn’t spring clean the house—they defrosted it. And so on.

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I was so cold…..
PPPG
1/29/11
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It was so cold . . .
we didn’t clean the house - we just defrosted it!

Twitter
The Logical Baba‏
@scarneck_arpit
It is so cold…
we don’t clean the house - we just defrosted it! #winter
5:38 AM - 20 Dec 2011

Twitter
Caleb Hayes‏
@PurpleHaze_96
“It’s so cold out I didn’t even need to clean my house. I defrosted it.”
5:45 AM - 23 Feb 2012

Twitter
The Dawg‏
@DownatthePound
Replying to @Sakashareh
@sakashareh It was so cold… we didn’t clean the house – we just defrosted it.
9:40 AM - 16 Jan 2013

Twitter
Linda C. Hamilton‏
@lchamilton76
It’s so cold, we didn’t clean the house - we just defrosted it!
11:28 PM - 22 Jan 2013

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WENDY LYNN January 3, 2018
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9. We didn’t clean the house, we just defrosted it

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TOP “ITS SO COLD JOKES”
JAY HICKS January 4, 2018
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9. We didn’t clean the house, we just defrosted it