How Clean Is Your House?

Tarzana2

Tarzana2 wrote: »

If you don't change your underwear every day, you will definitely smell with not showering every day, no doubt about it. As if your colleagues would answer that question honestly. :pac:

I'd count some of the people I work with as good friends, we have no issue in telling people things like if they smelled.

Your and others minds are just conditioned to believe that a shower every day is necessary for everyone which is just isn't.

Tarzana2

Menas wrote: »

I still think people were messing in that thread when they said they only showered every few days.

I've never showered daily in my life. Lots of people don't, I reckon. I can't believe people find it so hard to wrap their heads around this.

Tarzana2

Jasmine Incalculable Martinet wrote: »

I'd count some of the people I work with as good friends, we have no issue in telling people things like if they smelled.

Your and others minds are just conditioned to believe that a shower every day is necessary for everyone which is just isn't.

Nox, I don't shower every day, I shower every other day. But changing underwear needs to happen every day or else there will be a bang off you. And no, people won't tell you that you smell.

tomwaterford

Jasmine Incalculable Martinet wrote: »

A shower every second day sometimes maybe pushing to 3 days does not mean you smell it's total nonsense.

As for cleaning I already said I'd do it far more often was it my own place but I've no desire to clean up after other people (except the kitchen as I can't prepare food if it's let in a mess so I do end up cleaning after others)and they have no interest in cleaning either so things like hovering and cleaning the bathroom don't happen very often.

I've lived in a few houseshares and with loads of different housemates and I've found that cleaning the house does not happen very often at all in these types of living arrangements.

No wonder ya won't shower enough....if the bathroom rarely gets cleaned....please say ye at least clean out/hose down the shower when your finished??

john the one

tomwaterford wrote: »

No wonder ya won't shower enough....if the bathroom rarely gets cleaned....please say ye at least clean out/hose down the shower when your finished??

Hosing down the shower is the funnest part. It's like a fireman putting out a fire with a powerful hose.

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Ruu

Fairly clean, but house is too big for just the two of us and no plans to have kids. Going to have a clear out soon.

greenfrogs

Jenny Thalia wrote: »

My house is very messy, but quite clean. My youngest sister leaves things lying about on all available surfaces, so it looks like a bomb would do 20k of improvements.

But, the counters, floors, curtains, windows, bathroom, bedrooms, etc are all spotless. Big clean up is done once a week, where I scrub everything in sight to within an inch of its life, and hoovering, cleaning down counters, tables, windows etc are done pretty much every day.

You clean the windows everyday?

Reading this thread makes me feel filthy. The bathrooms are cleaned once a week. I wouldn't be scrubbing the tiles to within an inch of their life though. Maybe once every few months.

The kitchen is kept pretty clean everyday with an extra big clean at the weekend. Floors are swept very regularly because they just get so dirty so quickly. Mopping would be usually once a week. I don't see how people have time to clean so often. I mean there are other chores to do such as dinner, washing and drying clothes, taking care of pets, gardening, etc.

I try to keep on top of cleaning the skirting boards though. The amount of dust they and radiators collect is just annoying.

lulu1

My house is clean but not tidy I have learned from experience that there is more to life than cleaning the house 2 or 3 times a week

tomwaterford

tomwaterford wrote: »

No wonder ya won't shower enough....if the bathroom rarely gets cleaned....please say ye at least clean out/hose down the shower when your finished??

Sometimes I do mostly I don't. generally though it's not done by the others either I reckon.

tomwaterford

Jasmine Incalculable Martinet wrote: »

Sometimes I do mostly I don't. generally though it's not done by the others either I reckon.

I mean this in the nicest way possible but honestly the things you say as normal.....sound like a health risk

The only valid saving point is it's just yourself and possibly other manky housemates and no children are affected


If you were to bring up a child in those conditions the social services would soon be invovled

Akrasia

Our house is clean but we have 3 small kids so tidying up is like sisyphus pushing the rock up the hill

While we're tidying one bedroom, the kids are in the other bedroom taking all the clothes out of the dressers and throwing them on the floor

Ush1

I'd be very tidy and in favour of clearing junk and my OH is very into the cleaning side so we work well.

But we'd have the place spotless and then 20 seconds later my toddler son has mashed banana and whatever else around the place.

Menas

Its a bit of a challenge keeping the place clean when you have kids under 4. Spilt food and mucky hands would break your spirit!

RhubarbCrumble

Mine is quite clean and tidy.
Major clean once a week when everything gets cleaned, dusted, hoovered, polished, scrubbed etc. Bed clothes get changed that day too.
Bathroom gets a quick clean daily as do the kitchen surfaces and floors. Dishwasher and washing machine generally go on every second day.
Only thing I really don't bother with anymore is ironing. Nowadays I only iron stuff that really needs it. I grew up with a mother who was completely OTT when it came to housework, and to this day she still irons towels, pyjamas, underwear and even DUSTERS!

tomwaterford

tomwaterford wrote: »

I mean this in the nicest way possible but honestly the things you say as normal.....sound like a health risk

The only valid saving point is it's just yourself and possibly other manky housemates and no children are affected


If you were to bring up a child in those conditions the social services would soon be invovled

Its actually not bad at all really, a bit dusty around the house but otherwise it ok to be honest. I seen many many places far worse including previous places I've lived myself where there were more people living so got dirty faster and no one wanted to do any cleaning.

There is no doubt that if I wasn't housesharing I'd keep the place much tidier but I just cant be arsed when the others don't care (bar the kitchen which I often clean up after other leave it in a mess). I see it as a place I'm temporarily living and no more.

The level of exaggeration on your last sentence is massive, social services :rolleyes:?

Into The Blue

We used to be clean/minimalist till the kids came along...... Now stuff gets shoved into corners till the house gets its once over on a Saturday morning, but its manky again by lunch time.

Think it's good for me to learn to accept the mess.

ComfortKid

My house is immaculate for about 1 hour each day, until dinner is cooked and kids are let loose

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Jasmine Incalculable Martinet wrote: »

Its actually not bad at all really, a bit dusty around the house but otherwise it ok to be honest. I seen many many places far worse including previous places I've lived myself where there were more people living so got dirty faster and no one wanted to do any cleaning.

There is no doubt that if I wasn't housesharing I'd keep the place much tidier but I just cant be arsed when the others don't care (bar the kitchen which I often clean up after other leave it in a mess). I see it as a place I'm temporarily living and no more.

The level of exaggeration on your last sentence is massive, social services :rolleyes:?

Nox, you don't wash yourself, you don't change your underwear on a regular basis, you don't clean your house. I know that can be the sign of underlying issues but that's not my place to speculate, just that the way you claim to live is not normal. Do you realise the rate bacteria grow at? You sneeze/cough, touch public transport rails, or hit buttons other people touch, open doors with the same door handle, walk around where people and dogs could be peeing and pooping, you're trampling all sorts of awful things onto a floor you clean twice a year. You're touching gross things all day long and not cleaning anywhere you wash (an annual clean??) yourself or sleep. I shudder to imagine the germ infestation in your house. Do you not feel better when your living area is clean??

Teyla Emmagan

Mine is a constant 8 out if ten. I will deduct 2 points from myself for not washing the floors often enough though. I am bit fond of mopping. Also they are building beside me ATM so v hard to keep on top of the windows.

LexieOnRale

LexieOnRale wrote: »

Nox, you don't wash yourself, you don't change your underwear on a regular basis, you don't clean your house. I know that can be the sign of underlying issues but that's not my place to speculate, just that the way you claim to live is not normal. Do you realise the rate bacteria grow at? You sneeze/cough, touch public transport rails, or hit buttons other people touch, open doors with the same door handle, walk around where people and dogs could be peeing and pooping, you're trampling all sorts of awful things onto a floor you clean twice a year. You're touching gross things all day long and not cleaning anywhere you wash (an annual clean??) yourself or sleep. I shudder to imagine the germ infestation in your house. Do you not feel better when your living area is clean??

Since when is every second day for a shower and change of clothes (aside from trousers/jeans which last much longer) not a regular basis? Its not my house, I keep the my room tidy and try to keep the kitchen tidy but I aint going to be the one hovering the rest of the house or cleaning a bathroom after other people.

kylith

I love my steam mop! A friend called me yesterday and gave me 30 minutes notice she was coming over and I could get the floor hoovered and washed and dried with more than enough time to change out of my jimjams. Brilliant invention.

Menas

Jasmine Incalculable Martinet wrote: »

Since when is every second day for a shower and change of clothes (aside from trousers/jeans which last much longer) not a regular basis? Its not my house, I keep the my room tidy and try to keep the kitchen tidy but I aint going to be the one hovering the rest of the house or cleaning a bathroom after other people.

But it is your home!
In fairness you have said you would like your own place and would keep that a lot cleaner....I suppose that me personally- I could not be living in that house due to the lack of hygiene.

Menas

Menas wrote: »

But it is your home!
In fairness you have said you would like your own place and would keep that a lot cleaner....I suppose that me personally- I could not be living in that house due to the lack of hygiene.

I would have my own place spotless, but I have no attachment at all to a place when its just a houseshare, I'm not even there a lot of the time with going home/away at weekends, gone places in the evenings, staying at the gf's etc and when you are living with random people who often have no interest in cleaning then I really don't have the motivation to keep the place spotless. All things considered its not that bad as I said, i clean the kitchen once or twice a week (no one else does) so that's ok and the bathroom isn't too bad really.

Its far better than the last place I lived.

Liamario

Into The Blue wrote: »

We used to be clean/minimalist till the kids came along...... Now stuff gets shoved into corners till the house gets its once over on a Saturday morning, but its manky again by lunch time.

Think it's good for me to learn to accept the mess.

It's not just me so. I've only got the one and tidying up only to find the house returned to a mess an hour later, has broken my will to clean up.

Menas

Jasmine Incalculable Martinet wrote: »

Its far better than the last place I lived.

Half of me wants you to tell about the last place you lived- but the other half is not so keen!

Tilly

My place is gleaming, I love cleaning. Stick on some music and off I go.

Ascii

Mop all down stairs (timber floors and tiles) two-three times a day... hoover and mop upstairs twice a week.
Down stairs Windows washed outside once a week. Downstairs windows polished daily (kids with paw marks). Up stairs windows outside washed once a month.
Dinner pots and pans nearly all scrubbed before the dinner is eaten. Then just put the plate in the dishwasher afterwards. Dinner tastes so much better when you have no big clean up to face into afterwards.

super_furry

It's great right now because the cleaners have just been. Get them to come once a month because with myself and my missus both working fulltime, we'd rather spend our free-time not arguing over who's turn it is to scrub the jacks. Felt weird about it at first but it's just for a monthly deep clean while we look after the day-to-day stuff.

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Nox, I get it. I've lived in absolute pigstys and it's disheartening when you scrub a place from top to bottom only for some degenerate to come and piss all over your hard work. It's annoying.

I lived in a house where I was the only one who did any cleaning. There were two inside dogs, and 5 boys so it was an absolute sesspool for germs. There was no heating and no hot water in the taps.

But, I still cleaned the oven, I still cleaned the microwave, I still kept the kitchen clean when I had to eat there, my room was clean (polished and hoovered and windows cleaned once a week) I cleaned other people's pubes out of the shower before washing myself.

Why? Because I wanted to put food I was going to eat into the oven and microwave, and the oven was so dirty, it set itself on fire. I hoovered because I didn't want dog hairs all over the floor I had to walk on. I cleaned the bathroom because it was a horrible feeling going in there and being afraid to touch off things. All purely selfish reasons, but I did it because I had to live there and I couldn't do it. It didn't bother them, and they had no regard for a clean house. But so what?

tomwaterford

Jasmine Incalculable Martinet wrote: »

Its actually not bad at all really, a bit dusty around the house but otherwise it ok to be honest. I seen many many places far worse including previous places I've lived myself where there were more people living so got dirty faster and no one wanted to do any cleaning.

There is no doubt that if I wasn't housesharing I'd keep the place much tidier but I just cant be arsed when the others don't care (bar the kitchen which I often clean up after other leave it in a mess). I see it as a place I'm temporarily living and no more.

The level of exaggeration on your last sentence is massive, social services :rolleyes:?

Do you not think it would be unsafe/unhygienic to bring up a child in those conditions???