cleanliness

fannyanna

vroombroom wrote: »

PS if anyone wants to hire me, my hour rate is a brew and a custard cream

I'll hire you :rotfl:

Lotus-eater

We only pull the loo chain when we do a number 2, helps with the septic tank.
I pull the fridge out and clean the mouse droppings that always seem to get there no matter how many times I eradicate them, once a year at least.

We sometimes tie a rope round someone's waist and send them under the sofa with a hoover extension, at the first sign of trouble, you have to pull back fast though.

Does that make anyone else feel better about their house

balletshoes

Lotus-eater wrote: »

We sometimes tie a rope round someone's waist and send them under the sofa with a hoover extension, at the first sign of trouble, you have to pull back fast though.

Does that make anyone else feel better about their house

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::T:T:rotfl::rotfl:

Gillyx

I'm clean and tidy and wouldn't sleep at night if I thought my home was dirty, but I draw the line.

Surely our bodies need some sort of bacteria to protect us, if I bleached every surface and floor, I feel like I'd be catching all the colds and stomach bugs of the day.

My OH is over friendly with the bleach, drives me mad.

rachelhen

I wish I could be cleaner/tidier but there is a bit of fluff round my house..work full time and spend saturday with mum n dad doing chores etc so only have sunday when I do some cleaning washing etc. I do change the bed every 4 days though I do like the bedroom to be all fresh and cosy.

GlasweJen

Think of all the bugs your poor kid is going to catch. He/she is supposed to be building an immune system up, how can that happen if they're never exposed to anything barr detol?

meritaten

I often say 'My house is clean enough to live in and messy enough to feel lived in'! My mothers fault - talk about houseproud! on our once a week family visits to her, we have to all sit in the kitchen diner (and there arent enough seats so anyone who gets up to go to the loo or see to the kids finds their seat occupied when they get back), as the living room is out of bounds to us!

We all have to remove shoes and one day the kids were playing with Lego and I stood on a peice and cut my foot quite badly. Mum shrieked in horror at all the blood and I was trying to staunch it with a handful of tissues.............what did mum do? well she ran and got a bowl and filled it with soapy water and started cleaning the carpet!!!! My OH looked at her in disbelief then picked me up and drove me to A&E for stitches! I just laughed, as I knew what she was like and the shriek she gave was 'MY CARPET!!!!!!!!!!!!!'

savingmummy

I was diagnosed with OCD in 2006 and unless you are truely OCD it isnt a nice experience. Maybe nice to have a clean home but to me even after a 6hr cleaning frenzy it isnt clean!
I`m currently being referred for cognitive behavioural therapy to help me as it is now getting out of hand.

I wont even go through all my daily rituals, it scares people and myself at times.

milliemonster

OMG I feel such a stig after reading this thread! I clean the bathrooms once a week, bedding and towels once a week, kitchen floor gets mopped once a week, I will dust probably 2-3 x a week, clean kitchen worktops daily, hoover every other day unless something is spilt!, windows get done when I can't see through them lol!!! we don't wear a complete set of clean clothes each day either, clean underwear and tops daily but jeans if they're clean will get worn again and again, nightwear will last a few days, even for the kids!

I work part time too but I just don't want to spend all my spare time cleaning, my mum was obsessed and would spend hours cleaning every day and we never did ANYTHING!!! because she always had too much to do at home, we would never go shopping together or anything and I feel I missed out on so much, when I was older and she was dying of breast cancer she actually said to me that she wished she had not spent all those years cleaning as it really hit home how much she had missed out on.

Anyways I keep my home tidy and generally clean but there are far too many things I would rather spend my time doing than cleaning

make_me_wise

What is it they say 'cleanliness is next to godliness' in which case folks I am keeping very good company with the devil. If it weren't for the fact that I can always find something more interesting to do than housework and cleaning, my house would be like a show home.

As it is hubby and I work full time and have a pretty full on social life. So our home looks well and truly lived in and a burglar could write 'I was here ' in the dust.

Twins arriving in Jan aren't going to help with keeping the place neat and tidy but somehow we will all muddle through. It gets a full on blitz before people visit. If they just turn up unannounced then they have to take us as they find us.