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I have to clean often and disinfect
Due to having lots of pets

Which I would not be without :-D :-D

They are all house trained but you still cant be to careful :-D :-D :-D

As I had 4 workmen arriving today, the stairs got vacuumed at the weekend, the bags taken out of the bottom of the airing cupboard (boiler service), the shrubs either side of the front door had a severe trim (new front door), the living room and my bedroom had a vacuum (boiler's in my bedroom), but I couldn't face the top of the chest of drawers in my bedroom - so much stuff, so much dust :-(
Kitchen had a 'lick & a promise' - (tap man)

Then, this morning, (she must have known something was 'up'), Betty cat threw up in the living room. I cleared that up - then she brought up a pile of grass and saliva (obviously no hairball in evidence) - intentional sabotage, methinks.
Fortunately the gate man arrived and she shot off before she could register her disapproval in any other way (she hates strangers) :-S

George spent the day asleep in a spare bedroom.

The grass got cut AFTER they'd all left - which was when Betty reappeared :-D

We have this rather unusual house arrangement where the kitchen is literally in the centre.

It's because the house was built ca 1943/44 as a 1 bedroom house with a basement for returning vets, then the first occupants expanded to the back with a 2 bedroom and basement extension

Thus the only way to get to the kitchen is through the front door into the living room and dining room OR through the back door in the basement, through the basement and up the stairs.

The kitchen floor doesn't get too much outside dirt on it :-) It only gets what we drop on it :-D


We loved it when we first saw the house back in 1972 because the kitchen was in all senses of the word, the centre of the house, and still love it.

And, as my dtr pointed out, will your child remember you for keeping a spotless house or for playing a lot with him? <3

Exactly - when we were first married a friend of our age group gave a good peice of advice.
Visitors come to see you, not to check on your cleaning skills.

The Kitchen floor got washed today - the first time in about 3 weeks :-D
I should hasten to add that it does get swept on a more frequent basis.

Well AC you have made me laugh!! What a brilliant idea!! I must get one of those cards I think.......a big, showy one with big letters to plonk on the mantlepiece so no visitor can miss it!! ;-)

Bathrooms, kitchen and bed changing standards are kept up here, but like others, the mention of 'visitors' is the usual reason the rest gets brought up to scratch. I have a tidy OH which is a blessing, but I have tried to cut down on most other work. Hard floors and leather settees cut out most dust, built in wardrobes/drawers mean no awkward corners to clean. I keep things quite minimal with most things behind cupboard doors in the kitchen. The dishwasher does the dishes, the oven cleans itself and few things need ironing. Life is too short and there are so many more interesting things to do. When I was young and working full time, cleaning the house every week took a huge chunk of the weekend and who nowadays would remember and comment on the clean house I had then.....no-one!!

I love watching the TV programme where OCD cleaners clean out a hoarders house.
I sit there thinking 'I'm not as 'bad' as either of them' :-D
I have 'stuff', I also occasionally use bleach (loo, sinks etc), I also have dust and clumps of cat fur that wends it's way into corners.
My sink is occasionally full of dishes - but that's usually because I'm waiting for the previous dishes to dry (tea towels appear to attract cat fur, so I try not to use them), and are done fairly soon.
I've never killed anyone by food poisoning, but if you have a cat allergy - there are seats in the garden :-D

As someone much less organised than the rest of you - I do find my handheld chargeable vacuum cleaner a blessing - keep it near land it is instantly available instead of having to haul the hoover out for bits of earth, crumbs etc.

I'm a good cleaner prior to the arrival of a visitor.

The bathroom and kitchen are cleaned daily
Then I give one room a day a good clean
But just tidy round the others till its their day for a good clean

But if Its sunny or we are going out
I go on strike that day :-D :-D

I like a clean house and I'm fussy about the bathroom and kitchen. We are quite tidy but there are always books around.

Ann .........

it's now been proven in several studies that all the antibiotic soaps, wipes, ahnd washes, etc that have been used for the last 10-15 years are in fact harmful to our health and to the environment ............. they've killed off some bacteria, but led to an increase in antibiotic-resistant ones.

I'm so glad that I decided long ago they were not good, and have never used them.

Keeping kiddies out of the dirt mud, etc has led to an increase in allergic and intolerance responses, and to less resistance to bacteria and viruses.

So kiddies are getting sicker now than when we were young and allowed to make, and maybe eat, mud pies

My doctor when in my 20s with a young toddler, told me that 'you young mothers are too clean, you use too much disinfectant so little ones get no immunity from germs. I have therefore followed his advice ever since and our children, when little were rarely ill.

I once read ,that a house should be clean enough to be healthy ..dirty enough to be happy , :-D :-D

Do I clean my house diligently?
No! A house that's too clean is bad for your health !! :-D :-D :-D


(well that's always been my excuse) :-D :-D :-D :-D

I'm also very easily distracted :-(

Mind you, I HAVE been a cleaner for other people - and I'm really good at cleaning their mess up!!

Visitors arrived a day earlier than expected :-0

OH dropped me off after afternoon coffee yesterday and went to do the weekly grocery shop. THAT is when I realised there was a phone message, timed 3:10 pm (it was now about 3:30 pm) ............. they were about 2½ hours away) and would be with us "soon".

Their room and bathroom were clean, other areas of house not yet dusted (but vacuumed), bed not yet made.

I quickly checked their bathroom, put out clean towels, moved some stuff that shouldn't have been in there, and did some other things, then waited for OH to get home about 5 pm. We put away the groceries, he went to make the bed while I found the missing pillow (don't ask how we mislaid a pillow!). Visitors arrived ca 5:30, just as OH finished in their room.

Needed to say, but didn't ............. "don't look at the dust"!!!!

As I said, he knows us, partner Caroline is finding out!!!

Today OH has taken them on our "Tour" of the city, I decided to stay home as I'm not moving too well, and thought they would move faster and see more without me.

Lick and promise for me, I live in a dusty atmosphere and have no windows in, so the dust just comes straight back in. I do keep the bathrooms and kitchen clean and since the purchase of a cordless dyson and 3 dogs the floors get done regular. (hoovered and mopped ) Washing and beds seem to be on a daily basis this time of year.
I have major clean ups when expecting visitors, I´m bored or seasons change :-0 :-D

Enjoy their company and I am sure it will be fine.

well hopefully visitors come to see you - not the accommodation

We have visitors from England arriving tomorrow for a 2-3 day stay .................. so panic stations!!

I can't do much these days, and OH is supposed to do the cleaning, but he hates it. I never liked it much myself. We used to have a cleaner every 2 weeks, and loved coming home to a shining clean house ............... but decided not to keep her after she turned 80 :-0

We do keep the kitchen clean and 2 bathrooms clean-ish ........... toilets cleaned regularly, sinks and baths cleaned, counters not always. There are always books, magazines and newspapers lying around, and my computer desk is always a mess (although I do know where everything is) ............ but then most visitors don't see this room. Washing done by OH every Sunday, usually 3 loads (hot, warm, and coloured cold)

We have been cleaning slowly over the last couple of days ......... their bedroom is clean, the bathroom they will use is cleaned from top to bottom, carpets all vacuumed, dusting to be done today and this evening. Windows? Pah!

They're coming to see us and the city. He's a cousin-by-marriage, she's his new partner (we think) ..... he knows us, she'll learn! :-0