How clean is your place? Honest answers pls....

tankgirl1

[QUOTE=Kimberley;47801361_there_is_no_such_thing_as_a_tidy/clean_house_when_you_have_kids.[/QUOTE]

So true! :rotfl:

Kimberley

scheming_gypsy wrote: »

you not find your house smells like a butchers bin? i feed my two raw, i take it out in the morning to defrost and feed in the evening. By the time they've eaten it the kitchen is starting to honk.

Not really no because I feed them it in their outhouse

Owain_Moneysaver

gettingready wrote: »

Its just that with no carpets but laminate all over it really REALLY shows..... dust catches to hair too... I will vacuum in the morning and by midday you can not say I did.... sigh....

Shave them all?

You need a duster mop (bottom of page). Vacuuming just spreads it round. The scissor mops are excellent if you have large spaces

Owain_Moneysaver

Caroline_a wrote: »

In the meantime I watch the original beige carpet slowly turning dog colour...

Be easier to dye the dog beige...

Owain_Moneysaver

lizzielondon wrote: »

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talking rubbish about the state of my flat despite the fact i had no pets... not realising this thread was on the pets forum........ *scuttles away*

That's alright. I don't have pets either.

I blame upstair's cat who treats this place like a hotel.

hethmar

Well, Ive sort of given up really. Between constant packs of pets, a husband who does a very dirty job and in earlier days sons who pushed their bikes and anything else through the entire house along with packs of mates - well, why waste time doing something which will need doing again an hour later. I TRY to keep the bathroom reasonably hygenic and I blitz krieg the kitchen every couple of days (the dishwasher has been an absolute godsend, if you arent using it, you can still bung all the dirty cutlery and stuff in there out of the way). My sisters house is absolutely spotless - I dont know how people manage it but then each to their own, eh.

I had to larf (or cry) when a couple of years back youngest sons girlfriend (all the girlfriends examine the dust in the house) had YET another cough and cold. I said to her, oh dear you do suffer with all these illnesses dont you. Youngest boy says (I think this is what is called a back handed compliment) "Well, its her mum's fault, she always keeps their house so clean." Have to say, my kids were never ill all the time like a lot of neighbours/friends - they walked about in bare feet in the garden, covered themselves in unspeakable stuff and I used to say to them dirt never killed anyone. PMSL. May be I was the better mother after all.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

I prefer laminate/vinyl flooring because at least it doesn't hold the stench of an idiot animal deciding the corner of the brand new carpet is the ideal place to use as an alternative litter tray. When I got rid of the carpet in my old flat, I had used a shampoo machine every 3 - 4 weeks without fail and didn't think it smelled. As it was lifted up - _pale_. All soaked into the concrete, so it is there forever more....And the dust/dander from them that hadn't been lifted by the Dyson! My skin was almost blistered from touching the carpet to get rid of it, the reaction on my skin was so strong.


With hard flooring, a slightly damp foam mop thingy gets any fluffy tumbleweed left after vacuuming and smells cannot linger.

I have to get carpet for the stairs and landing soon, as it's getting too cold to manage with bare hardboard anymore, but I just know it will be vile, smelly and scratched within minutes of having it fitted.

There are still pockets of fluff - the cat box in the bookcase against the radiator, the rug in my bedroom, 8 inches away from my right shoulder on my bed - but they can be dealt with. Little so and sos only have the two rugs to shred (as the scratching posts are unworthy of their attentions - well, the MC has such furry toes, she would fall off a scratching post, so has to claw with the assistance of gravity).



DD tends to file her clean washing on her bedroom floor :mad: and this gets her looking like a yeti, as I refuse to clean her pit when I spend most my time trying to keep the contents of her pit from spilling out over the rest of the house. I have watched a moulting cat curl up and happily sleep on her school blazer where it has been abandoned. Then she complains that cat hair is making her sneeze!


All clothes are tumble dried to remove cat hair and fluff from them. I hate clothes covered in fluff.



Everyday, I am sweeping up litter excavations. Furballs every other day. Overspills from guzzling dry food too quickly, about the same.


The bowls with various delights in them are a constant source of irritation as I trip over them or kick water across the floor (especially as they will most likely be drinking from a bathroom sink somewhere in the house at the time)


Oh, and I mustn't forget that when I have vacuumed, brushed and generally tarted up the rugs, they get felines throwing themselves on them and writhing around like brazen hussies, rubbing chins and fluff and bums and backs all over them, just because they feel nice, I suppose!



The place is relatively clean - there's some junk under the coffee table, some in the bookcase in the kitchen, some in my room waiting to be put away when I save enough to get the flooring done in there - and we don't count DD's Pit of Endless Despair - but, having been in some other places, I can say that it could definitely be worse.

MUCH WORSE.



My advice to anyone considering giving it up as a bad job is DON'T. KEEP AT IT.

One reason and one alone. My mother's house [shudder]. Not been vacuumed upstairs for somewhere in the region of [works out when I left home] twenty years. The far side of her room, probably nearer 48. Downstairs, probably about 15 years. The kitchen and bathroom, never.

She decided one day that, as we had 5 cats, a dog, a rabbit, fish, various wildlife casualties and by then, just one child, she wasn't going to bother at all. Only so much a 14 year old could do, but I must have been the only one with their own vacuum cleaner in their wardrobe. My cat spent all night in with me, but my room was clean. Even the window saw soap and water occasionally (when she wasn't looking, as she said window cleaning made the windows dirty).


When she took my brother's cat off his hands so he could go on holiday three times in four months, the poor thing kept looking around for the cat that obviously lived there. It had been put to sleep eight months previously. Food bowls on the sofa, bits of old food on the sofa, litter tray in front of the telly in the middle of the living room.

But she says it is how she likes it and refuses to allow anyone - cleaner, relative, anyone - to clean it (although you'd spend a year decluttering the junk first)


When I think to myself 'oh stuff it, I can't be bothered anymore', I remember my mother's house.

And I clean.


Interestingly enough, she hates my house. It's empty and boring and sterile, in her opinion. Doesn't make you itch or wheeze when you come here once a year though, does it, Mum?

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

I have a duster - it looks similar to this one




(not her, because she is too dim to hang around to be photographed, but you get the idea)

Owain_Moneysaver

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

Oh, and I mustn't forget that when I have vacuumed, brushed and generally tarted up the rugs, they get felines throwing themselves on them and writhing around like brazen hussies, rubbing chins and fluff and bums and backs all over them, just because they feel nice, I suppose!

That's because you've taken all the familiar smells away so they have to make their territory smell nice and familiar again.

Or because they're little devils. :mad:

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Owain_Moneysaver wrote: »

That's because you've taken all the familiar smells away so they have to make their territory smell nice and familiar again.

Or because they're little devils. :mad:

It's your second diagnosis, believe me