Vacuuming, dusting, just keeping your home generally tidy. Do you bother or have you like me given up, finding it hard to keep on top of?

[dicko]

Every Sunday the Mrs and I clean our house from top to bottom. The Mrs does upstairs I do downstairs it takes us two to three hours to complete our tasks. We have three bedrooms upstairs and one bathroom, downstairs open plan living room and dining room, open plan stairs, utility room and kitchen. When completed we have a Port and Lemon and at lunchtime a Magnum each, every Sunday no exceptions.

 

[Drago]

When completed we have a Port and Lemon and at lunchtime a Magnum each, every Sunday no exceptions.

A large handgun or a large bottle of champagne?

 

[dicko]

A large handgun or a large bottle of champagne?

A Classic Magnum for myself and an Almond Magnum for the Mrs.

 

[Drago]

Did you know that Roger Moore invented the Magnum ice cream lolly thing? The story goes that he loved Wall's luxury choc ides but found them messy to eat, so he wrote to them suggesting they put it on a stick. The man was as wise as he was talented. Walls created a prototype for Moore's approval and the Magnum was born.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Every Sunday the Mrs and I clean our house from top to bottom. The Mrs does upstairs I do downstairs it takes us two to three hours to complete our tasks. We have three bedrooms upstairs and one bathroom, downstairs open plan living room and dining room, open plan stairs, utility room and kitchen. When completed we have a Port and Lemon and at lunchtime a Magnum each, every Sunday no exceptions.

SUNDAY??!! You psychopaths!!

My Mum would very often get us to clean the house on a Sunday... When we had spent all day at School/College/Uni and then done things on Saturday... By Sunday all we wanted to do was REST!!
It was probably the only time we were religious, telling our Mum that it was the Sabbath!

... Predictably, it never worked. 😏🤣


I bloody hated it.

 

[dicko]

Did you know that Roger Moore invented the Magnum ice cream lolly thing? The story goes that he loved Wall's luxury choc ides but found them messy to eat, so he wrote to them suggesting they put it on a stick. The man was as wise as he was talented. Walls created a prototype for Moore's approval and the Magnum was born.

Mrs Roger Moore actually and she could make one last for thirty minutes

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Mrs Roger Moore actually and she could make one last for thirty minutes

To be fair, any Mrs Bond tended only to last about half an hour anyway, so... 🤷‍♂️

 

[irw]

No, it’s just the lack of forum etiquette is starting to make the cafe a very frustrating place to come ☹️. The cyclechat forum is a safe space for me, and it’s disappointing that the cafe board is becoming frustrating to browse ☹️

 

[Pinno718]

All these posters need countless hours of therapy and you're concerned about etiquette?!

 

[Jameshow]

I clean on a Saturday morning after my parkrun.

Running clothes and clothes from the week go in the machine, then I hover round before I pick up my daughter. She's back on Monday but I'm often out Sunday so it doesn't need cleaning till next Saturday.
I hang out my washing on Saturday too, which in winter is the one day with (Monday) I have the heating on.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

No, it’s just the lack of forum etiquette is starting to make the cafe a very frustrating place to come ☹️. The cyclechat forum is a safe space for me, and it’s disappointing that the cafe board is becoming frustrating to browse ☹️

🤔🤷‍♂️

Pardon?

 

[Chislenko]

I am currently trying to thin down everything in our house as we have way to much stuff for two people.

When I have finished the house will get a good clean.

NB. I have been on this thinning out process for about five years so a fair bit of dust has collected 😊

 

[VinSumRox]

We dust and clean when we notice it needs it. Not wearing your glasses indoors helps not notice.

 

[N0bodyOfTheGoat]

We were never great at keeping our place tidy due to procrastination and my better half being art/crafty, but we've got worse after both ending up with long covid, which often means prioritising what gets done due to energy levels.

I try to use our Henry vacuum most weeks, or at least spot clean with our lightweight rechargeable vacuum and handheld.

 

[wafter]

I try; as I've got older I've become increasingly aware how my immediate environment affects my mental health - while it's it's a welcome / useful outlet for my OCD-like tendencies and sometimes one of the few productive and rewarding things I can manage when my head's up my arse.

I can, to an extent stay on top of a reasonably ordered space but am easily overwhelmed by mess / clutter / enormous levels of filth; which is one of the reasons I find being at the homestead so hard as making it anything other than a complete state seems utterly insurmountable.

The flat is somewhat of a blank canvas in this regard and currently seems manageable (being a small space with little in it) although I do need to crack on and actually sort out some infrastructure - three months in and my "bin" remains a pile on the sideboard.. (there's no space for conventional bins and in-cupboard types are a rabbithole all of their own).

I've been researching vacuums dilligently and am actually enjoying amassing decent, non-consumer cleaning products (raw materials bought in bulk in the interest of cost and minimal packaging - such as vinegar and isopropanol). I've always had a problem with dusting, although having grown up in a house where literally every possible surface is covered in random pointless shite I'm hoping this can be made a lot more manageable by a considered and minimal approach to household decor..