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Post by fluffernut - now Jannie on Dec 2, 2008 12:13:51 GMT -5
My MIL had a super-clean house. she was the kind who cleaned the toilet every single day. One day I looked behind the toilet and saw a little dust on the floor. Ahhh, sh'es human!
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Post by dayeanu on Dec 2, 2008 19:46:47 GMT -5
I used to think I was the only one (level 2-3). Over the years, I have come to realize that there are a whole lot of people out there living in measurable mess. Lots of folks who invite us over, have one door that must not be opened. (I feel sorry for the ones with little kids. They invariably open it when everyone is looking.)
My mother has a reputation, far and wide, of being an immaculate housekeeper. I always believed that, too. Her house is beautiful - always looks like Southern Living just finished a photo shoot there. She brags on her housekeeping a lot. No one can make a bed like her, etc. Anything I did (or do), is not up to standard, according to her! Neither is anyone else. After my dad passed, my daughter, grandson and I started staying with her all the time. My grandson wanted to take his portable keyboard to her house. It was then that we noticed her house is wall-to-wall stuff. There was not one spot in her 4,000+ sq ft. house for a keyboard! You don't notice it because her stuff is all very expensive and very beautifully arranged, but stuffed to the gills, nonetheless. She even did things like place a large desk in front of double doors! It's all arranged so nice, she pulls it off, but nobody puts a desk in a doorway! Bottom line, she's very neat, creative and artistic, but definitely a (high-dollar) clutterer/hoarder. She has always bragged about not throwing things away, because she is so thrifty and conservative. In these last few months, I've realized that she's just sick. We looked in the barns for the first time, ever. Nine large barns crammed to the gills with her junk, and I don't mean neatly organized, either. Some of the junk is over 30 years old. My daughter commented that if I had daddy's money, a housekeeper 5 days a week like my mother, and 9 empty barns to store my stuff, my house might not be so cluttered, either.
I have an uncle and his wife who will not allow anyone to come visit them, although they frequently accept invitations for overnight visits. They go to great lengths to keep people away from their house, except that once a year her sister spends a week with them. My mother is very offended that even though they often come for visits to Mother's, she has never been invited to their home. Nor has any other relative. I finally told Mother I suspect the house is such a mess they won't let anyone in. That would be my guess.
Another aunt-in-law keeps cardboard boxes. They are empty, but piled high and deep.
I have another aunt and uncle who come to visit every year or so. They always want to stay with me. My daughter and I stuff and clean non-stop for weeks before their visits. The last time they came, we stuffed everything into an outbuilding and the spare room. It was so full, I had to climb through the window to get out! Unfortunately, that room has not been emptied, yet the rest of the house has somehow filled up again.
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Post by puppybox on Dec 3, 2008 16:17:39 GMT -5
I would never eat of a floor that had been cleaned by bleach. bleach is a poison. The faintest smell of bleach makes me choke and wheeze. (i have sensitive lungs and sinuses). I am horrified by people who clean with windex and bleach etc and then don't rinse those surfaces off. It says on the isntructions that you must rinse!
Much better to eat off somewhere the dog licked clean. not that I want to eat off any floor. but the dog saliva is not going to give you cancer or asthma (unless you are allergic to dogs).
Am I the only one that feels this way??
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