Omletina Kyckling Posted October 17, 2008 Author Share Posted October 17, 2008 Oooo, little tiny newborns *gasps* *hot foots it over to the Omletina household* oooh I wish you would!! I never know what to do with babies, and I'm terrified of holding them....I never know which way up, is it the stubby end uppermost?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seagazer Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 I should add that I grew up with clean freaks for parents so I think I'm still rebelling (Can I still get away with that at 44?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omletina Kyckling Posted October 17, 2008 Author Share Posted October 17, 2008 I should add that I grew up with clean freaks for parents so I think I'm still rebelling (Can I still get away with that at 44?) There's a lot in that, my mum is a fanatical cleaner, she cleans about twice a day....she always checks the tops of doors to see if they are clean and dustfree. I've lived here for two years and dusted once! I have antique pine furniture because that doesn't show the dust!! So I'm a cleaning rebel....I like that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 Oooo, little tiny newborns *gasps* *hot foots it over to the Omletina household* oooh I wish you would!! I never know what to do with babies, and I'm terrified of holding them....I never know which way up, is it the stubby end uppermost?! The noisy end points upwards Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkshire Pudding Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 I subscribe to the "clean the bathroom and kitchen when hygiene levels are deteroriating to unacceptable levels" school of thought and the "I'd better do a bit of dusting and hoovering because x, y or z is coming to visit". My brother and sister in law are having a new kitchen installed....mum reckons that it was either that, or they'd finally have to clean it..... Their bathroom has to be seen to believed!......and Clare is works in the health service.... Actually my dad was a plumber and obviously went into a lot of houses, he always said that the "muckiest folk about" were teachers and doctors and nurses !! I know there are a few from those professions on here (including me, former teacher) At university we did a practical where we gave dishcloths to staff members and then after a week analysed them to see what was growing on them. The number of microbiologists who had faecal bugs on their dishcloths was amazing. I always say you don't develop an efficient immune system unless you're exposed to muck and germs! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard T Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 The noisy end points upwards Not always. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ain't Nobody Here Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 she always checks the tops of doors to see if they are clean and dustfree. Doors have tops ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bronze Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 I don't think its worth it. If I try then someone somewhere will be undoing my hard work faster than I can do it. So in fact by not doing housework I'm helping keep the housecleaner/tidier. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlo Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 There's a fridge magnet somewhere that states, "Tidying up when you have kids is like shovelling snow in a blizzard." That works for me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chickvic Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 You lot sound like me! No housework, until DH gets fed up and does it, occassionally my pile of ironing is smaller than Everest, but not always and I always come on here for just 5 minutes... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omletina Kyckling Posted October 17, 2008 Author Share Posted October 17, 2008 OK, I'm done....it took me seven hours to vacuum in total....well, of that 30 minutes was vacuuming and the rest was I think you can guess..... I haven't vacuumed the third floor on the grounds that I don't really go up there very much.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tessa the Duchess Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 Manys the time I have wandered into the kitchen or conservatory to find a piece of dinghy or a sail parked in the place I want to be ............the OH was fixing a daggerboard while I was doing dinner the other day, I don't know what was in the stuff he was using but it stunk........why he couldn't do it in the garage I don't know! DH once took a motorbike engine apart in our living room, and a couple of winters ago he built a wooden canoe from scratch on our kitchen table, it was ridiculous we had to eat perched right on one end of the table he has a large shed, but of course it's nice and warm in the kitchen I don't give a hang about housework, as long as the bathrooms, kitchen and bed linen is reasonably clean, the rest is done on a 'when it REALLY needs it basis' Tessa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowy Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 Glad we helped with the housework! OH bought me that fridge magnet that says "you can touch the dust, but please don't write in it" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omletina Kyckling Posted October 17, 2008 Author Share Posted October 17, 2008 why he couldn't do it in the garage I don't know! I'm glad I'm not the only one.....hubby was home at the weekend and was trying to find a leak on the quattro intercooler so he had it on the kitchen working top and was putting talcum powder on it and then blowing through in the hope of seeing a puff of talc....I only realised this as I was on the forum and thought I could smell my very expensive Penhaligons Violetta talc somewhere and found him sprinkling it on with gay abandon!! Needless to say I confiscated it....about half an hour later I wanted to make some tea and I couldn't get near the kettle as this was the "work area" - he seemed really put out that I wanted to do kitcheny things in the kitchen and pointed out that he was there first! Worse than that, eons ago, I commented on a red mark on his mum's sideboard in the sun lounge and she answered, as if it's the most normal thing "It's Alfa Romeo red, Guy resprayed his Giulia in the sun lounge" - I asked how on earth she had stood by whilst he pushed his car into the house to respray it, to which she answered "Stood by? I was pushing..."............I really don't have a hope do I?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seagazer Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 No Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chook n Boo Mum Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 As I quote to anyone who's interested..... A house is not a home until you can write "I love you" in the dust! My house is very homey!!!! Sha xx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 How refreshing to read all of this in one go! It all sounds so familiar. I'm definitely someone who does things when they need doing i.e. if I can see it looks dirty I'll clean it (but not upstairs where no-one else goes ) I try to maintain a level of tidiness downstairs but I am aware that my level may not be the same as other people's! But I still yearn for a clean and tidy house, just not enough to make me spend every day doing it. And the forum . . . as Omletina said, we just learn so much extremely useful and vitally important information here. So ediucational! no wonder we all get on so well - we're all so alike! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plum Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 [quote name="Omletina Kyckling Actually my dad was a plumber and obviously went into a lot of houses' date=' he always said that the "muckiest folk about" were teachers and doctors and nurses !! I know there are a few from those professions on here (including me, former teacher) [/quote] Oy leave nurses alone. Yes teachers are mucky - from when I was a midwife in Leeds. (when were your children born) The secret to housework is to clean the kitchen sink and washbasin in toilet, vacuum the centre of the carpet and flick a cloth at the fire. Thats all you ever need to do. simple Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KimmyCustard Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 I thought it was just me! How weird that we do the 'wipe the bathroom round during the week' thing! Only 2 of us living here so it must be our cat that brings in all the muck (along with live mice). I have definitely suffered at the hands of my manical mother, the phantom cleaner of old Islington and now Falmouth! When I was a kid, she ironed: flannels into squares, socks (yes,really), knicker gussets so they were flat and as she never had a nice towel when she was a youngster, her linen cupboard is stuffed full of them, some still in wrappers. Every time we go shopping together, she is drawn to the Home dept of shops and 'has' to buy yet another towel - therapy needed??!! She also had a cylinder hoover and my Dad referred to it as the electrical coffee table as it was always out and in the centre of the sitting room. Hence, OH does ALL the ironing, hoovering and DIY, I do gardening, cooking, flick of dustering and bathroom. Tired thinking about it............. Kimmy x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omletina Kyckling Posted October 18, 2008 Author Share Posted October 18, 2008 as she never had a nice towel when she was a youngster, her linen cupboard is stuffed full of them, some still in wrappers. Every time we go shopping together, she is drawn to the Home dept of shops and 'has' to buy yet another towel - therapy needed??!! With my mum, it's flannels and dusters....everytime she comes down, we go shopping and she's in search of dusters - I think she must eat them!! She asks me where my duster is so she can run it around when she's here and when I say I don't own one, she's aghast and offers to buy me one....errrr no mum, I'm just fine without.....I'd hate the genes to suddenly kick in and find the need to clean.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keyhole kate Posted October 18, 2008 Share Posted October 18, 2008 OOOh how strange my mum was the same sheets,towels,bedding in general she used to take empty suitcases to the USA and buy more there and fill them with her fix She also had a thing about bargain butcher meat she even brought some back fron Malta once I always put it down to being deprived in the war years My mum passed away earlier this year and I could open a shop with unopened and still in packets of sheets, bedding, comforter sets She wasen't a clean freak though that will be where I get my couldn't care less attitude from Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ardene5 Posted October 19, 2008 Share Posted October 19, 2008 (edited) Hello Given the time to play Yes I'm on here. BUT I do try to get work done, very early morning and late at night the pc is on. Trying to do other things during the day I know it is like a magnet but I now switch it off. So to put it back on takes 5 minutes and in that time I have started doing something else so do not come on the computer. Anyhow, in Health and safety on computers it states you should have 10 minutes break from the computer every hour as it is a strain on your eyes. Do you use a mouse rest with a wrist support ( gel wrist support) as this will stop RSI. Do you use a keyboard support also helps that problem. Do your arms rest on the table or are they in mid air. Arms should be supported as that too can give problems, are you using a good supporting computer chair high backed, Have you good lighting by the computer. If you look behind the screen do you look out into space or at a wall. The wall is not very good, if that is all you can have angle the table to give a vista behind. So sorry I have gone on & on but I used to work in Health & Safety and this was one of my subjects once I got going on it I could not stop it. So give yourself a break and this will gives you plenty of time to do something else. Best regards Ian Ian & Valerie William & Harry Missy & Millie dogs 9 lovely hens In The Henian Castle with inside it Edited October 19, 2008 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One Man Banned Posted October 19, 2008 Share Posted October 19, 2008 I was never very good at the housework living at home with Joe. I love having a clean house and I can clean very well - (car's however have to be clean - I hate dirty alloy's ) My argument was that I paid for the cleaner Since I moved into the flat (which I share with a great close friend) I have realised that I am a bit of a clean freak! This is not the same sentiment shared by Phil - who's quite content to sit on the sofa or up in his room on his laptop or with his boyfriend. He's being driving me mad - literally - when I put the dishwasher on a few days ago after going through the flat from top to bottom (technically it's a maisonette above his shop) it was still not emptied by Wednesday, despite us not having any clean dishes left in the cupboard and when I went to empty it - he'd added dirty dishes to it I did get him to clean the bathroom this week after having a major strop when I got in from work - and he's been helping keep the place a lot tidier since A xx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cam1 Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 ha glad i am not the only one i really HATE cleaning . Have to say though have been forced 2 potter and do a bit as have been off work sick for about 5 (maybe more) weeks though due 2 what they think is asthma (diagnosed at the ripe old age of 36!!!!). Now get really breathless on walking far and have to resort to inhalers! Of cause all ive heard from everyone is itsthe chickens! Anyway as long as its (the house )is vaguely clean and not a health hazard who cares my mums house was always immaculate sure that had something 2 do with my rebellion! the only problem is my 2 1/2 yr old is showing signs of going the other way she tidies up in shops putting things in neat rows OCD!!!! cam mya velma Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
