cleanliness

annibee

Well because of this thread today I have hoovered and dusted and washed and scrubbed and tidied and shredded and now have dinner on. The kids think its Christmas and my oh will think he's walked into the wrong house when he comes home.

I think I have done enough to deserve a big fat cake lol

[Deleted User]

I am also very tidy and clean as I go. Every day. I could never have pets because I have a bit of OCD going on.

candygirl

Before I met my lovely OH I went out for a very short time with a very boring OCD freak:(He used to hoover his car out every day, and went ballistic when I spilt some wine on his carpet:eek::eek:I could never piut up with a clean freak again, although OH is very clean and tidy but not OCD:D:D

manda84

I feel so ashamed after reading this thread. Think I'll clean the bathrooms when I get home from work!

digitalphase

pigpen wrote: »

No..mine is thick..she sits yowling at the cat flap because she has forgotten how to use it! She got her paw stuck in it once. She got her tongue stuck to the end of her collar yesterday and she the grand old age of 3 now!

We opened the door and she bounced in! She knows that is where the ham lives.. and the cheese! and sometimes prawns... she is nothing but a furry pig!

My mothers house is like Steptoes yard.. she can't say diddly when she comes here!

Haha! There's no hope for her I'm afraid - my thicko is 5 and only last week got his tongue stuck in his collar, and on a daily basis miaows to go outside, then 10 minutes later scratches the door to come in, then 5 minutes later wants to go out again (we don't have a cat flap) - drives me nuts :rotfl:

The thread spurred me on to do a bit of housework with a bit more vigour too, Annibee

Make-it-3

I'm exhausted just reading these posts. I'm still doing my spring cleaning come autumn.

I hate untidiness, so will go round straightening everything, I'll tidy up the pile of washing up and then I'm happy, I don't feel I actually need to do it!

I'm going to have to shape up a bit once baby starts moving around, one of the things I hate most is cleaning the floors.

vroombroom

:rotfl::rotfl:haha this thread is hilarious

for those who have said things about it taking over my life/they'd rather be doing other things etc, I'm not actually cleaning instead of spending time with my family - I do it when OH is home first thing in the mornings so he can spend time with the bairn. I wouldn't get the chance to do it in the day as the baby rarely sleeps in the day time and most days we are out doing something x

I think if I didn't have the dogs then I probably wouldn't do it as much but I'm quite paranoid about the house smelling (not that my dogs are dirty or smelly, but you know....dog smell ). But then they both go to the groomers every 6 weeks.

Beside OH is working 13/14 hour days 6 days a week at the moment to make up for my lost wage, so I think it's nice for him to come home to a nice clean house so he can chill out. He does a lot for our little family too :ox (and he hates cleaning anyway!!:eek:)

Did I mention I love ironing as well?:money:

(PS I am in the north east - if anyone wants a spring clean.....!)

pigpen

digitalphase wrote: »

Haha! There's no hope for her I'm afraid - my thicko is 5 and only last week got his tongue stuck in his collar, and on a daily basis miaows to go outside, then 10 minutes later scratches the door to come in, then 5 minutes later wants to go out again (we don't have a cat flap) - drives me nuts :rotfl:

The thread spurred me on to do a bit of housework with a bit more vigour too, Annibee

we do the cat flap hokey-cokey too!!!!! It is almost like she expects to end up somewhere different each time she goes through the transdimensional portal.

vroombroom wrote: »

Did I mention I love ironing as well?:money:

Sicko!

(PS I am in the north east - if anyone wants a spring clean.....!)

Me too.... what time can you be round?

lostinrates

vroombroom wrote: »

(PS I am in the north east - if anyone wants a spring clean.....!)

Is there anyone like this in the south.....pleeeeeeeeeeeeease?:D I don't mind the housework when I can see results, but today has been one of those days when I turn my back and the good work is undone.

And I don't have kids to be making the mess!

Steel_2

balletshoes wrote: »

well it sounds like theres always something going on round your house Steel - I bet its never boring !

:rotfl:
There is always something going on and it's exhausting. My fantasy is to walk in the house, smell dinner that's bubbling on the stove, see an empty washing up bowl and all the rubbish cleared away. Then I'm presented with a bottle of cider, ushered to a chair and dinner served. My laptop is handed to me afterwards, and later I slip into a bath that's been run for me to do some reading before toodling off to a clean nightdress and a clean well made bed.

In reality, I stagger into the house, smell where hubby has spent a pleasurable half an hour defecating and reading a magazine before he came to pick me up, get changed, empty the rubbish and do the recycling, do any washing up, wipe down the surfaces and cook dinner. While it's cooking I check my poorly chicken's !!!! to make sure she hasn't had a relapse of her prolapse, chuck the hens their corn and treats. I serve dinner and eat it while replying to emails and coming on here. Hubby makes me a coffee which I forget to drink. I try and work out either budgets, meal plans, shopping lists or project plans for a bit, before getting engrossed in some crap film I've seen a hundred times. Then I stagger to bed around 11:30pm, swish a bit of cleaner around the loo and scrub off the skid marks that I meant to do earlier but forgot, drag my nightdress out from under a cat and wriggle my way past all three cats into a bed whose sheets I forgot to change for the last two weekends.

All joking aside, I hoover once a week downstairs and once a month upstairs. I usually change the bed every week. I try to wash up every day and wipe the surfaces down. Fridge is cleaned out once a month. I dust once a week. I swish and wipe the main bathroom in the morning and clean the shower while I'm in there when it needs it. Ditto bath (although I usually wait until I've got out of it first). In the evening I give the main bathroom floor a spot clean with a baby wipe if there's mud/oil/grass on it. I do all the washing on a Saturday and iron what we need for the week on Sunday evening. Once a week I try to remember to take a fur scraper to the cats' sleeping spots and the living room curtains. The rest of the chores get done when the kettle is boiling or I'm on the phone. Favourite cleaning maneuver at the moment is chucking some boiling water on the kitchen tiles, add a squirt of cleaner and push the mop round while on the phone to my mother. Then I chuck the mop head in the wash.