Anyone elso have a aggressive wife (Cleaning the house that is)

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My wife is a aggressive cleaner - She has this idea that everything in the house is bullet proof.

Got up this morning and looked at the Hob in kitchen - On top was a piece of plastic chromed and one end had a leg snapped off - Looked around and saw that the extractor fan only had three buttons and a black hole.
When asked she said I was wiping it with a damp cloth - How did you break the knob off - Don't know it just came off.
This isn't the only thing - she thinks shower cubicles are water tight even where the rubber on edge of the sliding door is so soaks it with shower head.
If it sticks out it will eventually become a victim to her harsh wiping and dusting.

I am forever repairing things.

Is it only me ??
 
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My wife doesn't need vacuum cleaners or anything to break stuff, she's a walking disaster zone!! Whenever she calls me by name the first thing I ask is what have you broken now?
 
randal said:
No, not just you. When the good lady gets her clean on I get out of the way, she's a 5ft force of nature. A whirling dervish of home cleanliness. A raging badger of organisation.

I'll be in the garage, hiding.
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Yeah but then you'll get blamed for letting her do all the cleaning and you're just "messing about"!
 
Yep, mines a little rhino as well. If it doesn't budge then clearly you aren't applying enough force. Whats utterly baffling is that shes smarter than I am but puts absolutely zero thought into most things around the house and then gets annoyed when I try to explain things like "how dishwashers work". She thinks I have some weird rules that are impossible to fathom. Things like "there are two spinning blades that fire water at the dishes, if you stop them moving with things, it won't work" and such head scratchers.
 
My wife thinks that washing machine and tumble dryer labels and settings are meaningless, god help anything delicate. Also as far as I can tell she uses chaos theory to load the dishwasher, I try and get to it first :p.
 
Mine throws our expensive and fairly delicate Japanese knives into the sink, rinses them and leaves them wet; cuts things directly on the kitchen worktop with no chopping board; crashes the vacuum cleaner into every piece of furniture and then tells me "be careful you must have scratched the furniture"; solves things that will not come apart/open by just forcing them harder until they snap and so on. Her mechanical sympathy is less than zero.

I regularly have to explain that things do not last indefinitely, and that misuse can wear them out or break them. When I explained, for example that cars do not just last indefinitely, and even new cars can suffer wear and mechanical failure she looked at me like I was speaking Klingon, because her mum's car has "Never ever gone wrong" in six years, other than the brakes needing doing twice, flat battery, aircon packed in, uses some oil, couple of bits of broken trim etc - apparently these things do not count.
 
My wife does lack mechanical sympathy for most things other than our children.

Fortunately our cleaner isn't too aggressive with her cleaning!
 
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Putting lots of effort into putting in the effort. Makes them look like they're working really hard. You see this type in the office, always running to/from meetings, rushing to pick up the phone, dashing to the photocopier, hustling to pick up the post, because everything they're doing is SO urgent and time-sensitive that without their personal haste and effort the company would collapse and the world would end....

tom_e said:
Wife cleaning...what is this phenomenon?
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Don't you clean your wife out after you've used her? :p
 
Mines gone on a cleaning binge lately after downloading some ADHD level of detail "things to do" App.
Ill edit this with the name later.
Its got the most ridiculous things like clean cutlery drawer, dust the inside of a wardrobe every 2 weeks, rotate all the pot plants, face off all the tins of tomatoes, beans, soup etc in the cupboard. etc etc etc. Anal levels of detail.....

Its been suggested to me that i go through the tool box/shed/room we have and throw out all the old ones "i don't use anymore...." !!!! w!!!!! t!!!!!! f1!!!!11!! woman logic vs Intelligent men storage.
We have a huge 50sm outdoor Shed but its unheated not super weather proof, i might look into a new one this spring once the snows melted, lot of money for hopefully less greif :O
 
Efour said:
Mines gone on a cleaning binge lately after downloading some ADHD level of detail "things to do" App.
Ill edit this with the name later.
Its got the most ridiculous things like clean cutlery drawer, dust the inside of a wardrobe every 2 weeks, rotate all the pot plants, face off all the tins of tomatoes, beans, soup etc in the cupboard. etc etc etc. Anal levels of detail.....

Its been suggested to me that i go through the tool box/shed/room we have and throw out all the old ones "i don't use anymore...." !!!! w!!!!! t!!!!!! f1!!!!11!! woman logic vs Intelligent men storage.
We have a huge 50sm outdoor Shed but its unheated not super weather proof, i might look into a new one this spring once the snows melted, lot of money for hopefully less greif :O
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yeah chuck away all your ratchet spanners, router, SDS drill, saws, screwdrivers, lathe, vice, socket sets, torque wrenches

:D
 
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