Cleaning House

[Hoof Hearted]

Originally Posted by Elspode

Holy shit. We're gonna read about you in the Strange News column in about thirty years, aren't we?

Oh, you just might! I feel like a cat-lady in training...
Honest, I don't go looking for them, they seem to find us on their own quite well enough. Though I must say all but one were a rescue from a desperate situation and Hubby brought home more than half. Not a LOT more, but definitely more than 50%.
I find that with this many kitties, I have pared down my home and don't have a lot of little knick-knacks of clutter and most things are put away to keep the kitties out of them so the house looks tidy.
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[Aliantha]

I am very concerned about the blatant disregard for cleanliness displayed by all of you.

Don't you know that germs can kill you? You need to spend more time cleaning and less time surfing the net. Just imagine how clean your house could be if you spent your cellar time cleaning!

If you all left to do your housework I could then sit here and talk to myself all day long.

[CaliforniaMama]

Originally Posted by Aliantha

Don't you know that germs can kill you?

Does that mean I hafta stop eating blue (bleu) cheese?

But wait, my friend just told me she was going to stop cleaning the dust bunnies because those little bunnies are going to help her baby not get asthma.

I'm sooooo confused . . .

[fargon]

Hi Gurlz, I am a house husband, I cook everyday, I do laundry every week, I clean and dust on a daily basis, and find the time to work 6 hours a day. I do all this between 5am and 6 pm. So Bri don't think that us XY types are incapable of housework, I do this so keryx and I can do better things than house work when she is off.

[Shawnee123]

Originally Posted by fargon

Hi Gurlz, I am a house husband, I cook everyday, I do laundry every week, I clean and dust on a daily basis, and find the time to work 6 hours a day. I do all this between 5am and 6 pm. So Bri don't think that us XY types are incapable of housework, I do this so keryx and I can do better things than house work when she is off.

You are no mere mortal.

(Do you have a brother?)

[lumberjim]

Brianna, what do you do for a living?

[Trilby]

Originally Posted by lumberjim

Brianna, what do you do for a living?

Why do you ask?

[lumberjim]

Originally Posted by Brianna

Why do you ask?

because i don't know.

[lookout123]

i clean the whole house and do all the yardwork on saturday. once a month i pay a lady to do the shit i don't do like ceiling fans, baseboards, scrub the tile. every six months a guy comes and washes and squeegies all the windows. if i let a little clutter gather i get bad and let it all go to hell, so i have to keep everything straight daily, or i'm hosed. no dishes in the sink overnight - ever.

[footfootfoot]

Originally Posted by lookout123

...no dishes in the sink overnight - ever.

lookout just redlined all the single babes man-o-meters.

[Trilby]

Originally Posted by lumberjim

because i don't know.

Oh.

I was an X-ray tech for 8 years and an RN for 11. Now I am a f/t student and I work at the Uni, too.

The biggest portion of my nursing career was occupational health; the last four/five years of nursing was in psych--a field that flat-lined me pretty completely. I don't know how wolf stands it, but she does.

[Stormieweather]

Before I moved in July, I had things in the back of my closets and under the bed that I hadn't seen in years and had totally forgotten about. There were 5 of us crammed into a 1,300 sf apartment with very little storage, so every available surface (walls, corners, underneath) had shelves, tupperware storage containers, etc. covering them. Clutter like that is terrible to try to keep clean. I couldn't have reached the baseboards unless I had a crane to move the furniture straight up (since there was no slide-it-out-from-the-wall room). So I did a major overhaul before I lugged it all to the new house. Out went the clothes I (and the kids) could no longer wear or were dusty/out of style. Out went all the books I had read (except the 200 or so titles from my favorite authors), out went the broken knick knacks that I was going to fix (some day), out went all the tupperware with no lids, out went all the tapes that I had listened to death. I flooded Goodwill.

We moved into a much bigger house and I refuse to cram anything into a closet or cover every available inch with a shelf or cute little table. We have hardwood floors, so I dust mop it every day and wet mop every 3rd day. I use the good wood polish about once a week and swipe a pull-out polish cloth over the cherry furniture every other day. I never leave dishes in the sink. The ceiling fans got cleaned when it became cold enough that they weren't needed anymore. With a toddler, I keep all knick knacks (I have a lot from my travels around the world) up high or in barrister's bookcases. The bathrooms have drawers for brushes, appliances and cosmetics, the surfaces get scrubbed on the weekends. My laundry room gets cleaned every week, including the washer and dryer tops :p . I wipe down the cabinet fronts and doorjams every couple of days (or when I notice fingerprints on them).

Overall, my home is pretty clean, I like to think. I don't stress the toys being scattered around or project messes as long as they are all picked up before bed each night. I like to 'live' in my house so I don't expect it to be Home and Garden's tidy and clean at all times.

Stormie

[lumberjim]

Originally Posted by Brianna

Oh.

I was an X-ray tech for 8 years and an RN for 11. Now I am a f/t student and I work at the Uni, too.

The biggest portion of my nursing career was occupational health; the last four/five years of nursing was in psych--a field that flat-lined me pretty completely. I don't know how wolf stands it, but she does.

huh.

seems like it would be a bitch to be accustomed to RN money, and then go part time, and have kid(s) all at the same time. my hat is off to you. what are you learning to be?

[Aliantha]

Well I hope not. There's nothing nicer than I good bit of blue cheese.

[John Adams]

My wife cleans whenever she gets stressed which I manage to cause for her on a regular basis.

Before my last surgery we had made arrangements with my parents to come help out with the kids, my wife and parents don't exactly get along. Her first thing to clean when stressed are the hardwood floors, Sweep then mop. I swear she wore the floors out in the weeks leading up to that event, she must have done those floors at least 5 times a day not to mention the bathrooms. She cleans those every couple of days, when stressed at least once a day sometimes more. Needless to say the house was sparkling by the time my parents arrived.