Indoor cleaning and home hygiene

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koolpc said:
My mate lives in a house with a 'live in' landlady. She NEVER cleans the house! It is extremely dusty, dirty etc, everywhere! Rooms piled full of c r a p.

Cats bowl never cleaned out, mouldy cat food around bowl. Its disgusting there. He is trying to move out but nowt available.....

His room is the cleanest room in the house...
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That sounds like hell to me. I hate dirty people !
 
HC1 said:
I'm muting you for your constant unnecessary jabs and insults that irritate me too much and draw me into having a silly argument with you.
Trot along and annoy someone else.
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Oh come on, listen to yourself. Asking someone why they don’t feel ashamed for having a cleaner is a very odd thing to do.
 
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HC1 said:
Seriously though have you never heard the phrase "clean as you go"? It's much easier to live day to day in a tidy organised way and clean up after yourself than it is to leave mess everywhere and keep adding to it until it turns into a big problem that will take ages to put right.
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But that’s our argument lol. I’m clean, I tidy up after myself! It’s the stuff like wiping the bathroom floor of hairs and dust, dusting the stairs etc that I just don’t see. I still maintain that our house looks absolutely spotless compared to any of our friends houses that we’ve visited. So getting nagged at for not cleaning kinda annoys me!
 
robfosters said:
Oh come on, listen to yourself. Asking someone why they don’t feel ashamed for having a cleaner is a very odd thing to do.
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@HC1 was asking if “one” feels ashamed for paying someone to clean their house - which is a fairly valid (and common) opinion.
 
We try to keep on top of things which isn't difficult in a small house. Tbh it's got a LOT easier since we lost our cat a few weeks ago.
When she was around I could get a bowl from the middle of a stack in the cupboard and find a cat hair in it...
 
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Scam said:
But that’s our argument lol. I’m clean, I tidy up after myself! It’s the stuff like wiping the bathroom floor of hairs and dust, dusting the stairs etc that I just don’t see. I still maintain that our house looks absolutely spotless compared to any of our friends houses that we’ve visited. So getting nagged at for not cleaning kinda annoys me!
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Your relationship is going down the crapper and won't last for long if you don't find a compromise with your lovely lady :cool:
 
What's the man version of happy wife happy life :) Clean is clean up to a point of diminishing returns. Surface level day to day tidy with a periodical deep clean is reasonable but there comes a point where it leans into obsessively clean/ocd. And that my friends is a mental issue imo.

I'd be tactical. Trial a cleaner and if that settles the missus down win win. If she's not happy about or complains about the standard of the cleaning from a professional cleaner you know it isn't you who's oblivious to mess, it's the missus has an elevated standard.
 
HC1 said:
Following on from my last thread about mould I've now found myself getting a bit obsessive about dusting, cleaning, and hoovering etc, after blitzing my flat from top to bottom last week to make it almost as clean as a science laboratory. So I was just wondering how much effort you lot put in to cleaning and how often you do it. Are you pigs or princesses ? :)
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Have two children, 2 yo and 5 yo. So pretty much give up on having the house spotless, and it's just pick up the food they drop and that will do kind of clean.
It really bugs me but if I were to try and keep it spotless it would be a full time job.
 
I have 2 young daughters (3yo and a 7yo) and 3 dachshunds. I absolutely hate an untidy house so the wife and I are constantly picking up after the girls/dogs. We vacuum (downstairs) twice a day on weekends and every evening during the week. We also Steam mop the kitchen twice a week.

Back in late 2019/ early 2020 before Covid, whilst my better half was pregnant with spawn number 2. We hired a cleaner to come round for an hour once every 2 weeks. honestly it was the best thing we ever did. The house was never really bad so after an hour of her cleaning it honestly felt like a palace.
 
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Noakesy85 said:
I have 2 young daughters (3yo and a 7yo) and 3 dachshunds. I absolutely hate an untidy house so the wife and I are constantly picking up after the girls/dogs. We vacuum (downstairs) twice a day on weekends and every evening during the week. We also Steam mop the kitchen twice a week.
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Good lord, are you retired?! :confused:
 
Noakesy85 said:
I wish, just not a fan of a messy house. Thankfully the house isn't too big so it doesn't take much to keep on top of things.
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Hoovering every evening sounds like a lot to me! I barely have the time to cook and eat, clear up, sit and relax for maybe 1hr, then bed on a week night! Definitely couldnt fit in a 45min hoover into that.
 
Scam said:
Hoovering every evening sounds like a lot to me! I barely have the time to cook and eat, clear up, sit and relax for maybe 1hr, then bed on a week night! Definitely couldnt fit in a 45min hoover into that.
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I could hoover my entire house and probably my car in 45 minutes :cry: My dogs have a bag full of 'Victims' aka dog toys they like to destroy and spread their fluffy innards all over the floor on a daily basis so we have our routine pretty much nailed.

We normally eat around 5 pm, the kids then go upstairs for their washes/baths and to get ready for bed, one person sorts the kids whilst the other washes up the dirty dishes etc. We usually leave the majority of our tidying i.e vacuuming etc until between 6 and 7 pm ( the period where the kids are in their 'cool down' phase and before we put them to bed).

By half 7 in the evening we can normally be sat down with a brew and 3 sleepy Sausage Dogs.

This may all change dramatically when we eventually move out of Military Housing and into our 'Forever Home' and our Square Footage increases ;)
 
Noakesy85 said:
I have 2 young daughters (3yo and a 7yo) and 3 dachshunds. I absolutely hate an untidy house so the wife and I are constantly picking up after the girls/dogs. We vacuum (downstairs) twice a day on weekends and every evening during the week. We also Steam mop the kitchen twice a week.

Back in late 2019/ early 2020 before Covid, whilst my better half was pregnant with spawn number 2. We hired a cleaner to come round for an hour once every 2 weeks. honestly it was the best thing we ever did. The house was never really bad so after an hour of her cleaning it honestly felt like a palace.
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If your doxie is anything like mine, then you're pretty much guaranteed to have a messy house, at all times - even as soon as you've cleaned it.
 
Semple said:
If your doxie is anything like mine, then you're pretty much guaranteed to have a messy house, at all times - even as soon as you've cleaned it.
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2 of the 3 are horrendous, my eldest (almost 3) just likes to sleep all day. The other 2 are 11 months old and constantly on the go. Our livewire loves to empty the toy bag and keep it empty, he'll be in the box pulling things out as you throw them in :cry:
 
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