hating housework

[Pip]

My mum ingrained in me from young that you never know who's going to call and when, so the house should always be as you want it to be if someone did call.

My mum didn't ingrain that in me, trust me

 

[madzone]

Oh FFS now I'm all confused, the only reason I clean my skirting boards is so people will like me

Would you want to be friends with someone who only liked you for your skirting boards? Would you?

 

[quimcunx]

I'm confused. You say you have children?

Have you never heard of ''chores''?

 

[Pip]

Would you want to be friends with someone who only liked you for your skirting boards? Would you?

Probably!

 

[madzone]

I'm confused. You say you have children?

Have you never heard of ''chores''?

If you mean me the feel free to attempt to get my children to do anything that doesn't involve a gameboy, a wii or a football next time you're down

 

[madzone]

Probably!

I admit I'm always quite impressed if people do have clean skirtings. I just can't work out how they do it

 

[quimcunx]

If you mean me the feel free to attempt to get my children to do anything that doesn't involve a gameboy, a wii or a football next time you're down

No madz, I didn't mean you.

Sometimes people don't!

and to be fair, you are saved from making your own white chocolate cheesecakes.

 

[_pH_]

First thing I do when I visit somewhere I haven't been before is look at the skirtings If they're as dirty as mine we're kindred souls and will get on just fine.

 

[Pip]

I admit I'm always quite impressed if people do have clean skirtings. I just can't work out how they do it

I run my besocked toe over it when I'm on the phone

Weirdly enough my flat isn't at all dusty, despite having wood floors and being on a main road. It really freaks me out, I'm thinking about writing to the Fortean Times.

 

[madzone]

I didn't get time to look at yours

 

[quimcunx]

wooden and laminate floors are great. all the dust wafts to the edges so you don't have to hoover for yonks.

 

[madzone]

No madz, I didn't mean you.

Sorry. If people don't quote who they're replying to then it's quite difficult to know who they mean

Sometimes people don't!

It was funny about the first 50 times

 

[Pip]

wooden and laminate floors are great. all the dust wafts to the edges so you don't have to hoover for yonks.

That must be it then

 

[_pH_]

I didn't get time to look at yours

good job too. I'd hoovered along them all while cleaning ready for your arrival

 

[madzone]

I run my besocked toe over it when I'm on the phone

Weirdly enough my flat isn't at all dusty, despite having wood floors and being on a main road. It really freaks me out, I'm thinking about writing to the Fortean Times.

I have a lot of skirting boards - that would take me a day

My house is really dusty. I wonder if it's to do with the open fires

 

[madzone]

good job too. I'd hoovered along them all while cleaning ready for your arrival

Awww, and I didn't even notice

 

[Pip]

I have a lot of skirting boards - that would take me a day

My house is really dusty. I wonder if it's to do with the open fires

Almost certainly.

 

[quimcunx]

Sorry. If people don't quote who they're replying to then it's quite difficult to know who they mean




It was funny about the first 50 times

But you know I know you've got children and that you can't get them to do housework.


so there.

 

[Guineveretoo]

It's perfectly normal and acceptable to hate housework, and to live in squalor as a result. IMHO

 

[madzone]

But you know I know you've got children and that you can't get them to do housework.


so there.

I've got to re-do yesterdays dishwasher load because I put the knives in wrong and it didn't clean properly. I got told off

 

[moomoo]

I don't mind housework. Does that make me weird?

 

[madzone]

I don't mind housework. Does that make me weird?

You need to ask?

 

[ice-is-forming]

i feel 'normal' now do you think its nature or nurture that makes you like this? i can't really blame my mum, i wasn't there long enough for this to have come from her and she wasn't fussy anyway.

i can't stand to live in new houses either...makes me very unwell in the head

mr numbers if you lived nearer then you could clean my home and make me cocktails in yer marigolds all you liked... i could live with that.

 

[ice-is-forming]

well not actually cocktails in marigolds..i'd prefer a glass.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

I too despise houswork and would actually be too ashamed to invite my prissy PA colleagues over to my house ever as they probably would not sit down and they certainly would not eat anything out of my kitchen.

Not that we live in a pigstay mind - it's passable - just that each one of them has some sort of crazy OCD like obsession about cleaning, ironing etc. One of them even irons her fucking towels! She also complains that she has no time to do anything "fun" when she's not at work because she's always bloody cleaning. Mental.

These people would hate me for my dirty skirting boards

 

[sojourner]

Heh - whenever my boss comes to my house, you can see his nose wrinkle. His wife is a total clean-a-maniac - she mops the floors every.single.day!!! She cleans up when she comes home from being on holiday!! When she already cleaned before she left

 

[izz]

I too am allergic to housework. Brings me out in a filthy temper.


oh and gardening, even though I'm middle aged and meant to love it.

*fail*

 

[Mrs Miggins]

she mops the floors every.single.day!!!

I suspect my mother-in-law cleans like this...last time I was at her house, I really noticed how every single inch of the place was absolutely bloody spotless. And I mean totally SPOTLESS. Suddenly, I realised how much she must hate our place and look down on me as an usuitable wife

 

[ringo]

I've now taught the littlun to hoover the front room and do the dusting. She thinks its a game, not sure how long I'll get away with it.

 

[butterfly child]

I met someone on OKCupid who was meant to come on Thursday to do some cleaning.

I got an email on Wednesday saying he wasn't well

He's meant to be coming next week instead - if he doesn't turn up, I'll kill him.

Mind you, my newest sub has offered several times to do my cleaning. He's in bloody Dover though