General Chat

I have a cleaner who does downstairs once a week. I try to stay on top of upstairs but it's been a bit neglected lately.

Washing 3 times a week.

Main problem is OH's clutter and musical instruments.

No point getting old if you don't get crafty!

have a clean up occasionally - if you don't move things dust doesn't show!!! like the toilets to be clean and the kitchen tops - since OH died I don't really care if the place is untidy - the vacuum cleaner is permanently on show - people will either think I'm just about to - or have just finished

keep a "get well" card on the mantelpiece in case someone fussy calls - "I've been so ill I haven't been able to do much" :-D :-D :-D :-D

I took the living room apart today and cleaned everything, top to bottom
It hadn't been properly done in weeks!

Rolled up the big rug and washed the floor, cleaned the leather sofas, dusted and vaccumed the entire room ( the skirting and lighting were really dusty)
Unrolled the rug and vaccumed it.
I planned to do the kitchen today too but I was fed up with cleaning and decided to leave that until next week.

However.....I'm on jury duty next week. LOL

sheets changed weekly , washing done 3 times a week . floors and dusting twice weekly ,kitchen and bathroom daily, other odd jobs as and when (eg...cupboards ,windows ). :-) iris

He is not a chef at home but he does keep to chefs standards.

I have stuff in the middle of the three seater, all my patchwork stuff. It is in baskets so it moves quite easily.

We have a perfectly good vacuum but it does not get used as much as it could because the sound of a vacuum makes me panic. Evidently this is due to something that happened when it was being used (because I had not turned out the front room or something). Shake and Vac stunk so much it made me gag so that was used very liberally every time my mother used the Vacuum. The carpet needed scrubbing more than it needed that stuff!

Sharron as a chef he probably has minions yo do the clearing up.

I do cleam bathroom and cloakroom and kitchen regularly, we are not too untidy although I seem to accumulate magazines (waiting to be read) by my chair. OH sits on the sofa and has all his 'stuff' in the middle of the three seater. OH also vacuums failry regularly and beds do get changed weekly, washing done, Joan there are only two of us but I seem to do three loads a week!

Anyway we had twelve people this afternoon so by the time they were all seated the room was cluttered with their stuff so it didn't look tidy anyway. :-D :-D

I have a huge problem, very much a part of my big loss of plot. I grew up in squalor where my mother's idea of housework was to sit on the sofa with a Woman's Weekly whilst hurling abuse at me because the house was filthy and it was all my fault. Huge things were my fault and it was down to me to sort them out.Not having sen the job being done, it was quite hard for a little girl, still in single figures, to actually attempt to clean the front room or do whatever enormous job was all of my making.

My mother was a hoarder who was always at jumble sales, OH's mother is also a terrible hoarder (at least five bedrooms full and a couple of living rooms as well now, She builds heaps and puts curtains over them and so does he. he has never seen te job done properly either.

We get by. I don't cover heaps, I build from foundations. My cupboards are ordered and well organized inside but the worktops are cluttered because I don't try to hide my mess,. It is mess until I tidy it because you can put diamonds on a dog turd but that doesn't stop it being a dog turd!

Because he is a chef, the food prep areas are always clean. One of the worktops was very cluttered and untidy, because he thinks emptying the bag is putting the shopping away. One day, he decided the top needed washing off so he took all the junk off put it on the kitchen table, washed down the top and put the junk back exactly as he had taken it off!

Woudn't even go as far as 'a lick & a promise'!

Can you see dust from a seated position? Then show it the duster.
Bits on the carpet? May be vac today, or tomorrow, or the next day.
We are relatively tidy and have tried to declutter in recent years.

We do have a blitz when 'the Queen's coming' aka the inlaws, but only as far as the half-landing. They can't make it to the top of the stairs ;-)

Life is too short to worry about a bit of dust. ;-). I do clean kitchen and bathroom every day and dishes, clothes and bedding get done. It is usually tidy as we put things back when we have finished with them. People come to my home to see me not a showpiece :-D :-D. Mine is not a house it's a home. Come in flop down and feel welcome and comfortable. \my SIL has OCD and I am terrified to visit as I end up sitting on the edge of the sofa as she almost plumps the cushions while you sit there.

I'm like Sheila. The things I do regularly are washing/ironing, washing up and running the carpet sweeper over the hall carpet, which is dark red and shows up every speck of dust, and is the first thing visitors see.

On the other hand, compared with some of the properties on TV programmes, my flat is in "pristine" condition. :-)

You only have to watch TV programs such as Phil Spencer: Secret Agent to realize many people do not bother clean properly from one year to the next.

Dog hair gets vacuumed regularly.
Bathroom gets cleaned regularly (the only thing I'm 'fussy' about).
Bed gets changed regularly.
Everything else - as and when/when we're expecting visitors/when I can see the dust!
Most hated jobs - cleaning windows, cleaning oven, dusting.

Oh no, I like it clean and tidy all the time

every quarter day
I have better things to do and the mice give senior cat something to hunt

Or do you admit to a 'lick and a promise', like me as seeing it done, only to know it will need doing again the next day. Life is too short!?

I have a really clean downstairs today and feel very self satisfied. I suppose I should be grateful to the group of 7 U3A people who will be arriving shortly for the photography group! :-D