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

I’m disabled, not lazy and I don’t own a jet washer.

Why does it bother you? If there was an advert for a service that you do not require then you just ignore it. Not be shocked that such a service exists or that anyone may or may not want to use it?

I’d rather be a lazy fucker paying £3 aweek to have the bins cleaned than faff about with a jet washer.

The extra bonus is they bring the bin back from wherever the binmen leave it as well.

Well worth its money.

How long do you think a quick blast with a Jet wash takes?

You “expect?” WTF? Why would any adult give a shit what you expect from them?

Most people don't have a jet washer. Lots don't even have a hosepipe.

FWIW my bin is clean as it's bagged rubbish only and we don't eat meat so it never gets stinky.

Lots of people are time poor, especially if both parents work and they have small children. Outsourcing a range of chores gives more family time.

Bit bemused that anyone would have an expectation about whether someone wants to perform a mundane task or pay someone else to do it.

Also yes, Team Professional Oven Clean here! The firm I use are amazing. They take the panel thingy out.

I don't see the issue. Have you ever:

Gone to a car wash
Got clothes, carpets or upholstery professionally cleaned
Used a dog groomer
Used a gardener/window cleaner
Used domestic cleaner

Even if you haven't to the above, plenty of others do. How is this different?

What an odd post. Do you take issue with people paying for other services like washing their car, cleaning their home etc?

Don’t be. Yours can’t be worse than mine has been. Best money I’ve ever spent is oven cleaning.

I want to get one of those companies in to clean my Oven, but too ashamed of the state of it.

You shouldn’t be. I’ve done it more than once. They’ve seen it all before, and worse, and they want your business!

My late dad used to pay someone to clean his wheelie bin-he was a physically disabled fucker….would that meet with your approval?

I have a machine washable yoyo - it only goes in like once a year - I think I’ve only every washed the wheels once cus they had dog poo on them - but other than that I’m not cleaning it tbh - it’s been 5 years it’s on its second kid and it’s grand 🤷‍♀️

Sounds like a great service. I've got a pushchair that's been in the garage a few years, would love to get it deep cleaned before the next baby arrives! I don't even know which bits are washable. It's not filthy but would be nice to feel it's like new again.

There’s so many services available to us that we could do ourselves and we just don’t. Eg car washes, cleaners, ironing services. If people want to pay for someone to clean the pushchair, that’s entirely up to them!
my sons pushchair was a weird material with little grooves and it was really hard to keep clean. Someone took it off me in the end, but that could have done with a professional clean with the right little brushes to get into those annoying grooves.

Yes, they should be in a reasonable state, I guess that’s why this service exists. Great idea really, especially if it was in storage between two children and needs a proper refresh. Out of interest OP, why do you find it strange to outsource pram-cleaning but not other cleaning/house jobs such as cleaning the oven/fridge/bathroom/windows, doing ironing?

Parents should keep them serviceable of course, but no harm in using a company to do a deep clean now and again!

We used a similar service to clean a wooden highchair. Obviously we wipe it after use, but the company take it all apart, steam clean the wood and put it all back together, it was like new afterwards.

It's no different to people paying a car wash or having a cleaner or taking the dog to be groomed. I could cut my own hair, but guess what?!?! I pay someone else to do it! And I'm not even a millionaire!

I would absolutely pay for this. It saves time and effort and I’d rather pay someone else to do it

Same! My oven is shameful. I take ironing to the dry cleaners. Life’s too short to do stuff you hate. I did keep my prams sponged down though but I don’t think they had a cleaning service when my sons were small x

To be fair, that sounds a pretty smart bit of kit.

I’d much rather pay to get my bins and prams cleaned to piss off handwringers on MN

Some people’s lives revolve around policing other people’s cleanliness and industriousness.

Doesn’t sound like much fun to me.

Who owns a jet washer tho?

Also, so we really need to clean our wheelie bins? :s

Unless you live on a very crowded terrace in a very crowded city, where everyone’s bins are out the front, and washing your bin with a hose would just end up splashing passers by with bin juice & there’d be nowhere to slosh the dirty water away.

Everyone where I lived used a wheelie bin cleaning service - it was about £20 a month and they cleaned every time the binman came so nobody had stinky bins in the summer. They have a machine on the back of their lorry that picks your bin up and hoses it down upside down so nobody gets splashed.