Cleaning house is da devil!
I think my family thinks I am cleaning house for the good of my health! *rolls eyes*
I have been cleaning the livingroom just about everyday this week. I can usually get just the livingroom clean and a couple loads of laundry done before I hurting too bad that I am just snippy.
So, yesterday I started on the kitchen. I was going to wash the dishes so, when hubby got ready to make dinner the dishes he needed would be clean. So... I started washing and then realized I needed more counter space to lay the clean pans on and well I got off task and started washing everything from a lotion bottle to ketchup and mustard bottles to make sure they were "clean" before setting them on my just disinfected counter right? Well, I did not finish the dishes only a couple of pots which he did not need
So, anyways... hubby came home and hurt my feelings and made me cry.
I am tired of cleaning just the livingroom and half of another room. I want to be able to have a schedule of what rooms get cleaned on what day and the others rooms stay semi-clean until I get back around to them! I told hubby this and he laughed at me and said "They call it a livingroom for a reason." I told them I do not live in the livingroom, I live in my room and it was cleaned the same time I cleaned the livingroom and it is still clean!
Anyways... I give up on house work until I am back on Humira and doing better. I am not going to overexert myself just so they can mess it up and back to the way it was 2 hours after I cleaned it.
The most discouraging thing about house cleaning is it never stays clean, unless I'm the only one home and then I'd be lonely. I think my DH is overcompensating for his obsessively clean mother, which means he is a slob. Thank goodness he has many other endearing qualities.
I just wish they would help just a little about helping to keep it clean.
After I talked and talked to hubby, last night before he came to bed he did vacuum up all of the crumbs in the floor from son eating a granola bar while watching TV.
It is a start... I think
I think I already visited that site.
My idea is I am just going to throw everything out the door and they can pick it if they want it when they come home
My son who is now 17 only recently realized that other families allowed children on the carpet with drinks and food. I'd been doing this since they were babies so they never realized it was strange. They just thought that's the way things worked.
Now my two step sons; 9 & 10 have slowly but surely adapted to my rules....but it took a while. I refused to allow them off the kitchen floor with anything though. When I met my husband those boys had bugs in their room from all the food that had been allowed upstairs and never cleaned up. It use to freak me out to sit down on their couch and it be sticky. GROSS!! Everything smelled like syrup and it freaked me out!
My husband has grown to apprecite my obessive manner of house keeping.....but it's taken a little getting use to. lol He had to go into his ex-wifes house and see house nasty it was before he apprecited how nice and orderly ours is.
Just do a little at a time Joonie....and get those children on board. Even little Andrew is not too little to take care of his own mess. If you allow them to constantly make a mess and they never have to clean it up it's only going to get worse as they age.
I know Lovie. I did have my daughter "trained" to throw her trash away, but something happened. Not sure. Son... well, he will throw away weird things like other peoples trash, but not his own
I think if hubby would help me in getting them to clean up after themselves they would do it more often. Hubby even makes a mess just as much as the kids. Heck most times I am not sure which one it was that made the mess
I have decided I am going to make a chores chart for daughter to do. That way she will have something to do around the house everyday of the week after she finishes her homework. I am tired of her not doing what I tell her to do. If she does not do the listed chore of the day she will get something took away from her or I might even be a mean momma and make her eat brocoili I gave up on putting their stuff outside when they left it in my way, they just bring it back in, put it where it's supposed to be and then go back to their evil ways later. My DH is a guy Emelda Marcos, I've pitched his boots out the door a couple of times, he has ten times the shoes I do and they are always in the way.
Deidre
LMAO!!!
Ok I will just throw them in a BIG Black Bag and tell hubby it is stuff for the Salvation Army
Ok I am thinking maybe going on strike... anyone else with me? Lisa we must live with the same teens in the same house! Wet towels on the carpeted bedroom floor. Drives me insane!!!! Icky work boots under kitchen table! Filthy and I mean FILTHY uniforms on the bedroom floor inches away from the laundry basket!
Let's face it...no one but us cleans as well as us and they will never understand how important a clean home is to us. So we just nag lots and slog thru the mess daily.
I can't go on strike. I wouldn't last a day lol.
OOH this thread has got me going! I struggle to cope with cleaning and try to do the "clean as you go" thing but unfortunately no-one else seems to understand it! I rinse the bath out after using it, try to tidy as I go and was up a bit at a time. My other half can't do this nad I get sooo cross when I have to tidy after he leaves. I'm not really a clean freak but I like my house to be accessible and it is tiny so it needs to be reasonably tidy to move around the rooms/sit on the chairs etc!
Off to wash up before bed now...
KT
Hi, was reading this and I have to respond. Trying to keep my place clean is very hard. We have very dry conditions here and the dust flys. You dust everything and the next day it looks like you never touch it. So now, I dust with my swiffer and hope that it will look good for a couple of days.
The bathroom is the hardest to keep clean as my roomie doesn't believe in wiping down the shower afterwards. Forget about cleaning up the water that he's gotten all over the counter and half way up the wall. His idea of helping to clean the bathroom is to put the cleaner in the toilet! He waits until I get done scrubbing up the shower and rushs in to take his shower. I get so tired of cleaning up the water and scrubbing the shower tiles with my toothbrush.
Dishes, he's getting so that he sits his dirty plate in the sink with soapy water and waits until I clean up my dishes. That's when his dish gets done. He won't clean the pots and pans that he uses. I, even try to leave my dishes in the sink with his to see what would happen. He picked out his dishes and washed them. I give up!!!
Shouldn't complain too much as he doesn't get into my stuff and will help when I beg him.
I've just have learned to live with the dust but I do sweep up the kitchen floor everyday and clean up the counter afterwards.
Since I have only small area rugs on my hardwood floors, it's ease to keep the livingroom and dining room floors clean. The only hard thing for me is trying to vacuum as I'm walking with a quad cane and my grip is terrible.
Thanks for letting me vent.
OMG, you guys sound just like me. I have stainless steel appliances in myOh boy, teenagers... we have tried everything. The wet towels on the floor - i removed the towel racks from the wall and mounted big decorative hooks, thinking if only they could toss the towels in the general direction, successs? nope. What does work is taking the wet towels, pulling back the covers on their beds and making the beds over the wet towels for them to find when they go to bed. Hubby went so far as to put their dirty dishes (including bowls of milk leftover from cereal) in their beds with covers pulled over them, so they would climb into bed and make a mess, requiring them to change their sheets, lol. That made a big impact that lasted quite a while. Food on the floor? that is why we have a fat little doggie named "Hoover"
LMAO fat little dog named Hoover HAHAHAA
I cannot have a dog in the house. I am sorry... it is the "germs" and I do not even let my kids pick up cats or pet dogs that are the neighbors, and if they do... as soon as they come in from outside they have to take a shower.
I like dogs, cats, and other animals, but I do not like how they smell, and I do not have time to bathe them, unless I can get them to take a shower with me like I get my kids to
I am waiting to get a little better then I am borrowing the neighbors rug cleaner and cleaning the only carpet in the house, the livingroom, and anyone who wears their shoes thru the front door will be lapping up their tracks!
And owiedeb.... good very good ideas there! But I would end up cleaning up the messes that got made because for some reason they do not know how to clean right
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