cleanliness

caledonian_princess

There's only me here so the house stays pretty much tidy as i clean up after myself and put stuff back after I've used it. Bathroom, kitchen, bedding, towels, washing, dusting and floors get done at the weekends. My Mum is a tidy freak and I grew up in a house that was pristine, I prefer a lived in home any day, I have a friend who's an earth mother - her house is never tidy but it's clean and so very comfortable and welcoming.

Luckyred

What a fantastic thread! :T
I love the pic of Peaches in the fridge. One of ours likes to have a nosy when the fridge door is open. She prefers chicken to ham though or anything really that takes her fancy.

delain

barbiedoll wrote: »

Hahaha...love Pigpen's cat in the fridge!

We've just laid laminate flooring to replace my 12yr old lino and OH had to pull all of the front panels away from the bottom of the kitchen units as well as moving the washing machine and cooker.

How on earth do crumbs get beneath the washing machine? It's not like anyone eats down there! Luckily, even he realised that no-one moves their washing machine out to clean behind there (do they?) so I got away with that one.

The cooker though, was a different matter. I just used my bad back as an excuse for not cleaning underneath it! :rotfl::rotfl:

I won't clean underneath aplliances

I did tell OH when he commented on the dusty carp down the side of the fridge when we changed ours that if he wanted a 50's housewife girlfriend he needs a to find a new one because I am never going to be that fussy:rotfl:

rachbc

Not read all this thread and I'm sure someone else has posted it but

Mother, oh Mother, come shake out your cloth
empty the dustpan, poison the moth,
hang out the washing and butter the bread,
sew on a button and make up a bed.
Where is the mother whose house is so shocking?
She’s up in the nursery, blissfully rocking.

Oh, I’ve grown shiftless as Little Boy Blue
(lullaby, rockaby, lullaby loo).
Dishes are waiting and bills are past due
(pat-a-cake, darling, and peek, peekaboo).
The shopping’s not done and there’s nothing for stew
and out in the yard there’s a hullabaloo
but I’m playing Kanga and this is my Roo.
Look! Aren’t her eyes the most wonderful hue?
(lullaby, rockaby, lullaby loo).

The cleaning and scrubbing will wait till tomorrow,
for children grow up, as I’ve learned to my sorrow.
So quiet down, cobwebs. Dust go to sleep.
I’m rocking my baby and babies don’t keep.

I'm actually fairly house proud, the place is clean enough to be healthy, tidy enough to find what you need and lived in enough to be relaxed. And all without resorting to daily bleachings!

balletshoes

delain wrote: »

I won't clean underneath aplliances

I did tell OH when he commented on the dusty carp down the side of the fridge when we changed ours that if he wanted a 50's housewife girlfriend he needs a to find a new one because I am never going to be that fussy:rotfl:

yep, a common comment from me in our house used to be "if its not clean enough for you, you know where the cloths/cleaning stuff is" - OH has learned over the years not to moan about it, he's not allergic to cleaning :rotfl:.

I_know_my_ABC_and_my_CMYK

vroombroom wrote: »

I'll be the first to admit I have slight OCD when it comes to cleaning, even more so since I had my son. Just wondered what every one else thought and what their routines were?

I polish, wipe and dust every surface in the living room, dining room and kitchen every day, as well as hoovering and mopping the wooden floors. The bathroom gets bleached and floor mopped every day. Our room and the baby's room get hoovered as well. Back yard is scrubbed with disinfectant every day as well.

Bedding gets washed and ironed every few days as well. Curtains get washed every other month, as do the the blinds:eek:

The baby is dressed in fresh clothes every day and fresh pjs at night.

We have two dogs and rabbits/guinea pigs outside and I'm paranoid about the house smelling:eek: but also I'm very houseproud and think there is no excuse for a mucky house!! x

I used to be exactly the same until my disability reared it's ugly head.

I'm a lot more relaxed now, have to be, but I do insist on the kitchen and bathroom being scrupulously clean.

puddy

god, i consider my house to be clean and tidy but i do no where near the amount of cleaning people are talking about on here

i hoover downstairs once or twice a day, every now and then i do under things and the skirting

a couple of times a day i wipe over the kitchen worktops

about weekly i clean the sink

about every other week i clean the bathroom, but the toilet usually gets a light going over weekly, nothing major though

about every other week or less i hoover the shelves and window sill to dust them

about monthly in summer, and probably every other day in winter i drag a floor wipe around the floor in the kitchen and dining room using my feet as a mop

i clean windows inside and out about twice a year

the stairs and upstairs gets hoovered probably monthly

bedding gets changed weekly or less

litter trays are changed daily

i have never cleaned an oven

i have never washed curtains

the fridge and oven have cat hairs in them, they're everywhere, cant get rid of them

and yet my OH would describe me as obsessive with cleaning!!!

pigpen

Luckyred wrote: »

What a fantastic thread! :T
I love the pic of Peaches in the fridge. One of ours likes to have a nosy when the fridge door is open. She prefers chicken to ham though or anything really that takes her fancy.

She is the greediest thing EVER..my sister has 2 of her litter mates and they are too... they steal from plates, out of your mouth, from cupboards etc.. I swear if she had thumbs she would open the tins of cat food! She eats her way into bags of biscuits I have to lock stuff away from DD3 and from her too! I found her in a box of shreddies happily chomping away on more than one occasion (children leave them out she eats them!)

Parties are a nightmare.. we have to fight the little furry legs swiping food off the table!

pebbles88

pigpen wrote: »

Only if you teach them properly whose pockets to pick and which cars to steal....

Defective ones are quite profitable.. starve them of O2 at birth that does the trick.

DS1 was useless.. he tried stealing an old biddys handbag as we past the bus stop... no sneakiness at all... silly child.

off thread, but Pigpen, i don't think i have ever come across one of your posts that hasn't made me smile or laugh! you're fab!

i am very much like you, it gets done when it needs it, i have a tidy bout every now and then and go on a ruthless throw out/tidy.

but, with everything else i have going on, i just dont have the time, nor energy or strength to be doing housework each day! I am not meaning to be mean to anyone at all when saying that either!

my sister and mum are totally the other way, causes no end of [STRIKE](arguments/hysterics)/[/STRIKE]frustration! but as has been said, if it isnt causing problems, nobody is becoming ill from it, then it will always keep to the next day!

i only have a small family on my side, and I want to make sure that i spend as much as poss with my loved ones as you never know whats around the corner, i know that at no point will i ever think i had hoovered rather than chat with them. I know that some people could get full clean done in very small amount of time, but i cant. so i salute the ones that can... and whilst you're there.....

mines a cuppa, milk no sugar :rotfl:

squoog

vroombroom wrote: »

and think there is no excuse for a mucky house!! x

I can think of plenty....where shall i begin...:rotfl::rotfl: