AIBU to expect that parents keep their children’s pushchairs and prams clean?

I am a lazy fucker. Cannot be arsed to remember to get the jet washer put every 6 weeks on a Friday evening, attach it all, blast the wheelie bin, put everything away, go shower as blasted bits hit me in the face/neck/everywhere. Then cook tea/drink wine.

Instead...Darren drives around after the bin lorry every 6 weeks and does the remembering/blasting/cleaning/replaces bin in its home...for £3. Yep.

I'll be lazy.

Pushchair wise. I think I cleaned mine when I was going to sell it.

No need to be judgemental @Nevergotdivorced . Parenting is hard work and if both parents are working full time too then surely it's important to spend as much time as possible together as a family outside of working hours, so why on earth not spend some money reducing the amount of time spent on chores if there's an outsourcing option. It's perfectly possible to make your own jam and bake your own bread and grow your own vegetables too, as well as cleaning your own car and your own windows, but various families choose to utilise professional services instead, this is no different.

Sounds like a good use of money if you have it.

Not everyone has a suitable outdoor space in which to scrub clean a pram (or a wheelie bin for that matter). If you don't have a garden with easy access to a tap then what are you going to do, scrub it down in the middle of the living room?

If you have the time, the ability, the equipment and the space to clean your own stuff, then you can do it yourself. If you lack any or all of these then you pay for someone else to do it, surely?

The few things that go in the bin that might smell (eg bones) are wrapped up. Milk bottles, cans etc get a quick rinse. It’s not difficult or even time consuming.

Counterpoint: you’ve got to be a tighter than a duck’s arsehole to waste precious time dragging a jet washer out of the shed and hooking it up and arsing about spraying water into bins when a lovely bloke can come round and do it for less than the price of my Sunday newspaper.

I own a jet washer but why the fuck would I want to use it for a job someone else will do ten times as quickly for £3 a go? Jeez. I’d prefer to spend the £3 and have some joy in my life.

Lucky you if all you had to do was give the buggy a wipe to keep it clean.
A quick wipe doesnt get rid of vomit or explosive poo.
Dd2 had reflux and was always being sick usually an hour after a bottle so curdled milk everywhere. Despite hiring a carpet cleaner the carpet had to get replaced once she was on solids and had grown out of it. We also had to replace a buggy as it was wrecked.

LOL. Of course your bins never smell. I expect you also shit rainbows and piss Chanel No 5.

What a weird thing to be judgemental about. What difference does it make to you how other people clean their kids’ bloody prams?

I mow my own lawn but I don’t get my knickers in a twist because some people prefer to pay a gardener to do it.

It always baffles me that people are bothered by other people spending their own money on a service that they value. I couldn’t care less if other people want to pay to have their bins cleaned, for example. It doesn’t affect my life.

I don't understand why you would care about the services other people choose to pay for?

Are you comparing new with scrap

Some buggies and prams are the price of a small car. A service like this could bring it up as new. Makes sense.

Yeah.

It’s wheelie bin cleaning services that really make me wonder. I don’t think I have ever felt the need to clean my wheelie bins. They don’t smell either.

Maybe a kids been sick in it and they have a flat so they can't hose it down in the garden to get it properly clean or be able to dry it properly in a damp house? Maybe their mums just died and it's the last straw to clean a pushchair but it needs to be done thoroughly so it can be stored in the loft and not go mouldy for the next kid.
Who cares?
We have no idea what goes on in peoples lives and why they might need to use such a service.

Yes. My local one is great the buggy comes back good as new!

No worse than car washing and that's totally acceptable. For the record, I always clean my own car.

Me as well. It never got dirty. Just the wheels / frame, I’d give them a wipe down when muddy.

We used the same pram for all 3 kids, with a few years between each. We had it cleaned professionally before the birth of the 2 subsequent children because it had been stored in a garage, and we didn’t want a newborn going into a dusty pram. What’s the issue?

My parents probably never cleaned any pushchair of mine. Maybe that’s why my immune system is rock solid.

YABU to have any expectations about what other people do with their prams.

I was surprised that such a thing existed (it was advertised on a fb page years ago) mainly because I hadnt really thought about it.

There are lots of services that I didnt know existed until I moved to a more MC area (pushchair valeting, bin cleaning, dog poo clearing from garden, present wrapping, sewing cub badges, name labels etc) They wouldnt exist if people didnt use them so they must have a decent client base.
I dont use them but it doesnt bother me that other people do. Cleaning the car seat after the kids had vomited in it was one of my least favourite tasks ever!

I suspect the poster who said a lot of people getting a deep clean will be 2nd hand purchasers was correct. It makes sense.

No hope for me then. I.use:

Ovenclean
The window cleaner
Wheelie bin service
The jet wash man - who also does the gutters
Have a cleaner who irons
Have a gardener
Have a Pond man
Have the car valeted monthly
Have a man who puts up and decorates the christmas trees

I'd have had a pram professionally cleaned if I was passing it on.

YABU to “expect” this sort of thing, yes. Do you also expect people to not hire cleaners, or really anyone who does anything the person could do themselves but just doesn’t want to?

I wouldn’t pay someone to clean a pushchair, but I don’t care if other people do.