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

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  • gettingready
    gettingready Posts: 11,330 Forumite
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    urghhh well i pulled the under the bathroom sink metal "tidy" out and started to pull out stuff stuck behind the sink bottom, i swear to god i have found a new life form:eek:
    it is a mix of hair ,hessian and seems to be covered in a thin plastic film but its all shredded together- im not sure if it a nest or came out of something but there is a lot of it and it wasnt there before....now im waiting to find a mouse:(


    Photo pls?


    LOL
  • Photo pls?


    LOL

    urghh i considered taking a pic but binned it in the end, really dont know what it was , i wonder if it is somthing my daughter made as she is training to be a zookeeper and is prone to do weird stuff:eek:
    i find toilet rolls stashed in cuboards sprouting seeds for the birds, bowls of mouldy water in her room, knicked bamboo cage from garden, i presume for birds to perch on:shocked:
    she was cleaning the cockroaches yesterday and they had loads of babies-if she brings one home im moving out:eek:
    ***MSE...My.Special.Escape***
  • Sublime_2
    Sublime_2 Posts: 15,741 Forumite
    Still piling through my laundry. Been a sickness bug going round, so lots of soiled linen from kids. Eeeew!
  • richmond
    richmond Posts: 12 Forumite
    2 Border Collies - run of the house.........you do the maths:rotfl:
  • We had lovebirds when I was a teenager and they were terrible for this. they're quite clever and get bored easily. We had trouble when ours figured out that they could lift the cage door if they worked together :rotfl:

    We ended up having to buy a massive cage and loads of toys for them..
    yes ours have a huge cage and loads of toys, my daughter is allways buying/making stuff as well to keep them entertained as they are like kids and get bored after a bit, I found the main culprit yesterday after hoovering every bit of seed i could find, five minutes later i spot marley the second youngest having a bird bath in the seed bowl till have of it flew out all over Miyagi the furrball who just bloomin sits there till he decides to walk it round the house:rotfl:
    we have locks on cages now since my youngest opened up door one day and our daddy bird flew off:(
    ***MSE...My.Special.Escape***
  • chucknorris
    chucknorris Posts: 10,795 Forumite
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    With now 3 cats and a semi log haired GS, despite vacuuming every day and moping every day..... I live in a kennel/cattery of the worst sort.

    Cat/dog hair everywhere, bedding covered in hairballs, hair in food, hair in bath.....

    Pls tell me it is not just me?

    Some places people wipe their shoes when they enter - at mine they have to wipe their shoes when they leave....

    sigh....

    Our house (and car) is undoubtedly much dirtier (and smellier) because of our Lab/Springer cross but I wouldn't change anything even if you offered me £3m. He brings so much joy and love into the house.
    Chuck Norris can kill two stones with one birdThe only time Chuck Norris was wrong was when he thought he had made a mistakeChuck Norris puts the "laughter" in "manslaughter".I've started running again, after several injuries had forced me to stop
  • We have a rottie,four cats(2 are housecats and long haired) plus a house rabbit,guinea pig,hamster and gerbil in the playroom and four kids aged 5,7 and 8..cleaning my house is like shovelling snow in a blizzard!!:p
    I sweep at LEAST 5 times a day and each time get handfuls of supposedly medium haired rottie hair with tons of ginger fluff.Even five minutes after I sweep there are bloomin hair balls rolling across the floor like tumbleweed and I've killed quite a few hoovers with my constant hair fighting battles.
    Clean bedding is covered in hair in 5 mins,any baskets of clean washing you'll find the ginger fluffball asleep on top of it.Lovely cat litter tracks on the kitchen floor and woodshavings and hay kicked out of various cages in the playroom.And then there's the constant litter tray/cage cleaning and air freshners to try not to let your house smell like a pet shop!Sadly enough though we love every single one of our small furries and wouldn't have it any other way!:rotfl:
    Slightly mad mummy to four kidlets aged 4 months,6,7 and 8 :D:D:D xx
  • Our house (and car) is undoubtedly much dirtier (and smellier) because of our Lab/Springer cross but I wouldn't change anything even if you offered me £3m. He brings so much joy and love into the house.


    with that £3m you could buy a bigger house with tiled floors, a cleaner to clean for you and a car just for transporting him
  • Mama_Cat
    Mama_Cat Posts: 104 Forumite
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    It's not just the cat hair, which I can understand getting everywhere as it's fine and flyaway. But the cat litter!

    The litter tray is upstairs in the bathroom, but I've found litter in impossible places - in the drawer of the DVD player, in my shoes, in my underwear drawer?!

    Don't ask ... I've no idea ...
    :wave:A highly active brain needs feeding often :D
  • Sequeena
    Sequeena Posts: 4,728 Forumite
    2 cats, 3 dogs. 1 a GS (hair) the other a mastiff (drool). I sweep every day. Mop every other unless muddy paw prints are brought in. Sofas are leather so wipeable.

    I do get tumbleweed fur every now and again. Annoying!! But for the most part it's clean (I like to keep it as clean as possible because of baby).

    I have a problem with dust though.
    Wife and mother :j
    Grocery budget
    April week 1 - £42.78 | week 2 - £53.05
    24lbs in 12 weeks 15/24
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