Hellbent Housekeeping

[partscounterman]

So yesterday was my day off so as soon as I got Dennis off to work I started the wash. Threw a load of towels in on sanitary cycle. Then I got out the vacuum cleaner (my Compact C-6) and vacuumed darn near everything in the house from the ceiling fans down. I even got down on the floor with the crevice tool. I'm using the cloth shake out bag and was SHOCKED by the amount of dirt I shook outta that bag. In the meantime I Kept an eye on the laundry. I hung it all out on the lanai, so I could smell the lovely Gain scent. MMmmm! So I could keep up, I gave all of it a quick spin in the dryer, so I got to play with that too.
Once I got done with vacuuming the rugs and floor, got out my kneepads and scrubpail and washed the floor with Spic and Span. Not only did I wash the floor but I also rinsed it and was amazed at how much mud and goop I picked up with the rinse. I was really technical about it and used fresh wash and rinse water for each side of the apartment. I also washed the outer shower curtain and replaced the yuckky inner one. Once I got done with washing and rinsing the floor, I put a coat of Future Floor Polish on it. What an amazing product! My floor looks fantastic!
My last load of laundry was all the white and light colored things, including the floor rags I used. Threw 'em all in the Hettie first on the presoak cycle first with some Pine-Sol. Just ran them through the fun first half of the presoak, hit cancel and reset the machine for a Sanitary Cycle with an extra rinse. Added Gain HE and some liquid Clorox II. Later, when that cycle was nearly done, I reset the machine for two more rinses. Wheee! Dennis helped me hang those things up and later I popped them into the dryer so I could get everything put away that day.

Sure wish I could sit around the house today and enjoy how clean it all is.

I suppose the real trick would be to do all this housework and laundry AND tend to children at the same time!

 

[pulsator-power]

.....and cook dinner too at the same time.
I usually start about 3 jobs at once, then get burned out.
What did you eat/drink for energy?
Jerry

 

[DADoES]

I'm next

OK, now come do all that over here. Different toys with which to play. 

 

[retromom]

David, the whirling dervish!

David:

What did you do dude, power up with a Red Bull? LOL

Don't you just love when you're in one of those "clean-up" moods? At the end of the day, it's a great feeling to look at all you've accomplished! It's almost like you can stand there and breathe in the good vibes (ok, so it's really Spic n Span fumes)!

The dreary, rainy (say YAY) weather here lately has made for some great catch-up cleaning days!

Good for you!

Venus

 

[veg-o-matic]

Every once in a while I'll get into one of those "cleaning moods". I tend to resist manfully! As I always say--you can eat off my kitchen floor. There's lots of good stuff down there.

Now that I have the Floor-A-Matic, scrubbage is so much easier and actually gets done. The Clorox squirt mop thing takes care of the in-betweens.

Cleaning wouldn't be so bad if things would just STAY clean for like, five minutes.

veg

 

[Brneyedgrl80]

Man, I'm tellin' ya, I get one room clean and the rest of the house is a mess. I'm always playing catch up!

I keep telling myself that once my semester is over, I'm going to dedicate more time to the house, but it never happens. Every time my semesters at school end, I just veg out.

Oh well, one day the house will clean itself... I hope.

 

[toggleswitch]

My policy is to do enough every day so that it doesn't "snowball" and get out of hand.

Kithcen, living and dining room and den/ofice must be pile and mess-fee before bed. SOME piles are allowed on bedroom bureaus. Kitchen sinks clean and empty. No dishes drying overnight.

If the spousal unit gets into a pile or hoarding mode and leaves things out, they go to a corner of the basment. You figure out where. After two days of not being gathered up and sorted away---- right in the garbage. You'd be amazed that in the beginning after 4 months of being a couple how the urge to hoard and make piles stopped.

And when i get excues that the drawers and closets are full an dpiles are "needed" it works like this. YOU clean yoru closets or I will. discussion ends real quick.

I HATE CLUTTER and EXCESS.

I am not your wife, your girlfriend, mother or your maid. Leave it as you found it or better.

 

[DADoES]

<blockquote>Oh well, one day the house will clean itself... I hope.</blockquote>Ummm, in my experience, that will *never* happen.

I can clean some of the house, some of the time. That's all.

By Toggle's standard, all of the house even just some of the time, nope.

 

[toggleswitch]

no no no, not that it's womens' job to do that stuff.

But traditional gender roles lend themselves to a division of labor.

My new motivator. "This place WILL get cleaned thoroughly once oa we'll or a cleaning person gets hired." I sometimes reluctantly get assistance. LOL I mean we go to the gym to get excercise to stay healthy and alive...what is housework but natural excericse?

IRONY? Spousal unit is asthmatic and allergic more than me. You want dirt? FINE You get sick before I do, so let's do it YOUR way....

Another good one. GO ON STRIKE, Give back exaclty the same level of energy and cooperation you GET. The point gets across very fast.

 

[westtexman]

I don't think I would mind so much . . .

if I didn't work so much. Might be kind of nice to stay home for a bit and take care of some "much needed" household chores. I keep telling myself that if I can just get it ALL DONE, then it will be easier to keep that way. I, of course, am wrong. LOL. I have considered a cleaning person before, but I just can't quite get over my presupposition that no one can do it as well as I can. The only problem with that is I ACTUALLY NEED TO DO IT! LOL.

Tex

 

[partscounterman]

I just had a nice lunch (meatloaf and potato-mac salad-leftover from Sunday) and my normal morning coffee. Nothing special. Dinner that night was frozen burritos that I threw in the oven. I wasn't doing any real cooking.

I have my own cleaning hang ups. I know that many labor saving devices exist to help wash the floor, but I don't think anything works as well as the old "hands and knees" routine.

The good thing about living in a tiny place is that you can get it all clean in one day. I don't know how I would take care of a large home and still have time to go to the beach (thats what we did all day Sunday).

At the end of the day I was amazed I got so much done and the place looked just great-there is satisfaction in a shiny floor.

Glen-I will be right over!

 

[hoover1060]

I wish it would clean itself

It used to be worse when I was with the EX. I'd work 50+ hours a week, and come home to a disaster on Friday night. Laundry, cleaning, sometimes dishes too if Jason felt like cooking for himself. When I would comment on the condition of the house Jason would respond "Oh just hire a service"

These days its mainly Jack I am cleaning up after, and I don't blame him for shedding like he does. I rented my extra bedroom to a friend a year ago, and if he's a slob I don't know about it, the mess stays in his room.
I still work 50-60 hours a week, and still spend a great deal of the weekend cleaning. I keep telling myself that since I quit smoking I can afford the maid once a week now, but have yet to call anyone. She wouldn't even need to do the whole house, just the bathroom, kitchen, and dust. I can still vacuum, well when I have time.
maybe I should make that call now...

 

[westytoploader]

Wow David, that's great when you can just sit back and admire the clean house! Now we need to get Mom to do some hellbent housekeeping of her own! ;-)

I try to keep my room clean when I have time, and recently it just hasn't happened, with school, work, etc. I've pretty much only had time to vacuum recently, and with the amount of use my room gets, that doesn't cut it. However, with the fair holidays now in session, I can finally resume dusting, Windexing, and spot-cleaning the carpet!

 

[veg-o-matic]

David, I admire your standards. (I was going to say "spunk", but I know how we can be!)

I, on the other hand, will no longer scrub floors that way. If I'm going to get down on my knees, it sure ain't going to be for scrubbing!

AUGGGGGHHHHHH! I'm channeling toggleswitch!

veg (and as a matter of fact, no, I haven't taken my medication today)

 

[gizmo]

Hi Partscounterman

scrubbing floors - I used to live in a very old part of Melbourne. (Richmond) Someone wrote a book of interviews of older local people - a "living history" project which was a very good read.
The interviewer went to one house to interview a lady in her nineties who had lived in Richmond all her life. When the interviewer arrived, the old lady was on her hands and knees scrubbing the floor with a brush. When the younger woman said, wouldn't it be easier to use a mop", the older woman snapped, "mops are for dirty people!"

My floors are happy to see the occasional mop.

Chris.

 

[toggleswitch]

Said: AUGGGGGHHHHHH! I'm channeling toggleswitch!

Response:
Veg, I for one knew what you meant. If you were on your knees it would be in a house of worship, during services, giving thanks to the "all that is" for everything you have and everything you dont' have.

N'est ce pas?

 

[toggleswitch]

"mops are for dirty people!"

Well I'd say CERTAIN types of mops. LOL

One mop used once a week still more effective than machine or high-tech gizmo used once a month.

 

[veg-o-matic]

Steve:

Not even close.

veg