Bleaching door frames anyone?

[Omega16]

As I was ironing the tea towels and dish clothes this morning I thought of the thread a while back. One poster just casually mentioned bleaching door frames as a weekly chore. Everyone was WTF!

So do you do any random pointless chores?

I hoover the skirting boards every week. DH says it's entirely pointless, and in my rational mind I agree but I just can't stop. We have a ridiculous amount of cats and children who are at football, rugby, cricket and all sorts so the house is always being traipsed through by dog walkers, sports gear, sweaty teens etc, and I just love my fresh, clean skirting boards in the middle of the madness.

Or washing walls!

I do scrub my door frames not weekly though but my kids can't walk through the door without leaning touching swinging ing the doorway!

Most pointless chore putting the cables away they literally come right back out

I used to do a mostly a full house clean every week, with the logic that if I did it all that regularly I'd never need to do a spring clean or spend that long doing it. Then I realised that each time I did it, I would find more to do and it just didn't really ever get any shorter. Now I do all the floors downstairs and bathroom once a week, more if the dogs are shedding, kitchen surfaces every day and then the dusting (inc skirting boards) and windowsills every other week or so. Carpets get hoovered when needed but there's only 2 of us. Dogs don't go upstairs and we both work full time so there just isn't that much traffic.

I do jobs like ovens and cleaning out random spaces when I really need to.

I agree that the skirting board thing is what makes me feel I've made an effort and I enjoy the most. I like the house to be tidy, but I am able to leave it be a bit... really just depends on what we've been up to and how much time we've spent in the house. I don't do it out of want, more need now. I've never bleached my door frames - I had no idea that was a thing!

I have no small children or pets which I’m sure makes a difference but things like my skirting boards and door frames get cleaned about once a year! I was truly amazed to see how many people on here do these things weekly! I don’t wash walls either. If I think they’re starting to look grubby I just redecorate! Lol.

I've yet to convince the cleaner that skirting boards need dusting.

But isn't that bad for the paint on the door frames.

omega16 I couldn’t get past you ironing tea towels and dishcloths.... I’ve failed as a housewife

Erm. This ironing dishcloths and tea towels. Are you being serious or taking the piss. I genuinely can’t tell on a thread about bleaching door frames. All of these things seem entirely pointless to me!

Ironing anything.

An ironed dishcloth

Why in God's name would you iron a disposable dishclothOP ?

I loved the typo in the OP, I envisioned Omega16 ironing dresses and suits that all the crockery wore

what?!?
bleaching door frames?!?
would only happen here if someone with ebola coughed over them.

Caaarrrl why would you throw away a re-usable dishcloth?

Regardless of the rights and wrongs of reusing dishcloths. In no universe do they need ironing! Sorry OP.

I always wash them and they just look neater in the drawer if they are ironed. I accept that I am barking.

I don't even own bleach. Whats it actually needed for?

Our door frames are oak, I'm not sure adding bleach to them would be a good idea

Iggley and littlebear
I’ll just leave this here...

I wash all my gloss paintwork (not with bleach, with a flash magic sponge) and wipe the walls, probably once a month. You’d be amazed the grime that comes off where children have been walking upstairs or swinging on door frames.

My pointless task is to buff all my chrome (eg door handles, light switches etc) - no one but me would ever notice how shiny they are.

@Etino swoon

Full disclosure: I’m a shocking housekeeper, but there are 2 tubs at the church hall where I run a playgroup; the deal is you grab a handful regularly and return them the following week, there are at least a dozen groups who use the hall.
One week the clean tub was empty and the dirty one full and stinky. I took them home and the following day ironed all 60 watching the Royal Wedding. I even got caught returning them, so my virtue didn’t go unnoticed! 😂

So glad I found this! I always felt I didn’t do enough. Turns out that apart from tea towel and dishcloth ironing I’m on top of things! (Not that you’d tell with 4dc and a dog! Still looks a state.)

My DM used to iron all the tea towels and the dishcloths (cotton, in those days) to sterilise them. Every month or two she'd gather up all the face-cloths and dishcloths, chuck them into the biggest saucepan with some washing soda and boil the hell out of them.

I don't.

@thenewaveragebear1983 do you not find it’s stripping the paint every time?!