This post was inspired by Domestic Sluttery which is a great site I’ve recently come across
I am lazy.
So, so lazy.
I’m writing this post in my pjs.
Yet I am also organised and like to keep my house relatively……. clean and tidy. So sometimes what I’m interested in is shortcuts. As well as the usual kind of shortcuts everyone takes (chucking mess into cupboards and hastily shutting it away before guests come round, not cleaning enough and then just chucking bleach everywhere), there is also stuff I do that I think of as being quite weird. Let me know if you think I need to seek treatment or if this is all like, totally normal.
- I vacuum the kitchen counter rather than touch the gross crumbs with my hands. Weird huh. I will also vacuum : inside the fridge, oven, basically anywhere there’s crumbs. I have lifted Henry up before to vacuum atop my coffee table, in the bath, in the sink, in cupboards and more. Thats how much I hate those little crummy bastards. And how lazy I am.
- I have squirted fairy into my washing machine before in lieu of washing powder, and I’m currently using fairy tablets as dishwasher tablets
- I often give the bathroom a little clean with baby wipes. Wipe the toilet seat, sink and around the shower and things almost look clean…. (to anyone too grossed out reading this to ever come to my house again – we do also clean the bathroom properly, but sometimes you need a little quick fix!)
- I may also have been known to use make up wipes to remove makeup and then double-team them to do some cleaning too! Often I’ll give the windowsills or dressing table in my bedroom a wipe after I’ve taken my makeup off!
- I use nail polish remover as a sort of cure all cleaning product for any stains that I can’t remove…. its a marvel!
Huh. Is any of that normal? As well as all that, I have a sort-of phobia around sleeping in a bed where the duvet and the duvet cover aren’t properly aligned – so when you’ve got empty duvet cover syndrome. When this happens, I jump out of bed like a madwoman and start flapping the duvet until the problem is rectified. Poor Lee.
Do you feel happy when your house is clean, or is a clean house the sign of a wasted life to you? What other cheating cleaning/tidying tricks do you use? What stuff can’t you stand? Let me in on your secrets!
Emma says
July 31, 2011 at 12:25 pmMulti purpose wipes all the way!
Cait's Plate says
July 30, 2011 at 2:23 pmI’m a HUGE cleaner. I feel like my whole life falls into order once I clean my apartment. Haha. It causes me actual anxiety when my place is a mess.
kerrycooks says
July 30, 2011 at 2:40 pmI know what you mean – I find it interesting how being in messy surroundings can make you feel more stressed and out of control! I can put up with *quite* a bit of mess but then at some point I just snap and start cleaning like a mad woman
Sue says
July 30, 2011 at 12:32 pmI think you get the duvet thing from ur mixed up Mama, as I am obsessed with same thing!
Wet wipes are good!!!
xx
Emmyw says
July 30, 2011 at 11:21 amI am definitely one of those…”chuck bleach everywhere and hope for the best” types 🙂
Strangely enough I’ve always liked mopping floors though and me and my sister used to fight over who got to do it!
Cleaning doesn’t have to take long if you know how to do it effectively and put a good CD so I don’t think its a sign of a wasted life at all!!!
kerrycooks says
July 30, 2011 at 2:41 pmLol thank god for bleach, what would we do without it!
catladeh says
July 30, 2011 at 10:48 amI definitely feel happy when my house is clean, it makes me feel like the rest of my life is in some kind of order! I don’t think its the sign of a wasted life – but only because I cheat too! I clean pretty much everything bar my dishes and and clothes with multi-surface wipes (always lemon, never lavender). I can usually have the house looking good in about 30 minutes that way and I can get on with the important business of sitting around in my duds watching boxsets and playing with the cat. I hate sweeping and mopping in my house, the laminate’s really old so it never looks clean. Yurrhgh.
kerrycooks says
July 30, 2011 at 11:00 amHa I completely agree! Those wipes were a genius idea. I think cleaning the floor with them is totally better than mopping anyway as I don’t think mopping ever really does anything!
kerrycooks says
July 30, 2011 at 11:01 amPlus how messy are cats!?