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Original poster

...to think I'm not a 'repressed, tragic, obsessive, saddo drudge'...

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FatAssPantaloons · 09/12/2013 20:04

...just because I vacuum every day. My cheeky DSis says I am. Apparently vacuuming the downstairs of my house every evening (I do the upstairs once a week) is a 'gateway drug to OCD madness like those oddballs on Channel 4' and, if I can't keep my fondness for a clean floor in check, I will soon be 'polishing the underside of my toilet with a toothbrush at 3am every day'. Confused

I say I don't have a vacuuming problem and can stop any time I like Grin. There is, I'll admit, something a bit neurotic about how much I feel the need to vacuum as soon as I see a crumb on the floor, but I hardly ever dust and never clean my oven. So, on balance, I'm more slattern than OCD cleaner.

So can I tell her to fuck off Grin?

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DeckTheHallsWithBoughsOfHorry · 09/12/2013 20:18

Does it need it? The rug in our front room is usually covered in bits within an hour of being hoovered so although it needs doing again the next day it looks no worse if left for another day or five two Grin

Latara · 09/12/2013 20:19

Before you tell her to fuck off please can you come round my house and vacuum up the cat fur every day. Thanks.

formerbabe · 09/12/2013 20:19

I hoover my downstairs everyday...it doesn't take very long and it needs it. You are not ott

Taz1212 · 09/12/2013 20:27

I sweep up my hallway every day. It never ceases to amaze me how much dirt/dust/unidentified objects gather over the course of a day given that everyone is banned from wearing their shoes inside the house!

Finola1step · 09/12/2013 20:28

Nowt wrong with clean floors. I give mine a good sweep every night (wooden floors) and Hoover weekly. I have an old fashioned carpet sweeper for rugs - flipping marvellous. And not to mention the carpet washer. I luvs it Grin

Idespair · 09/12/2013 20:30

I vacuum my downstairs most days. It takes about 2 or 3 minutes. Carry on op!

MrsGarlic · 09/12/2013 20:31

I'm a slattern and probably vacuum no more than once a week. But I don't think there's anything wrong with doing it once a day and in fact wish I was more like that!

LondonInTinselBoots · 09/12/2013 20:33

little and often - means you don't need to get am industrial cleaner in one a yearGrin

I should hoover daily. I do not.

LolaDontCryOnDogTails · 09/12/2013 20:34

Here let me help you feel better, I vacuum the entire place everyday, two times.
We have carpet everywhere except the bathroom & kitchen & a dog.

I think I am a bit excessive but I'm ok with it.............I think

Original poster
FatAssPantaloons · 09/12/2013 20:56

Thankyou for the reassurance. I will righteously turn the other cheek next time she accuses me of 'having a stick up my arse'.

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PointyChristmasFairyWand · 09/12/2013 20:58

If it's something you feel the need to do and have the time to do why not? It's no worse than my personal need to untwist telephone cords and wash other people's stagnant mugs in the office. We all have our quirks.

TwoTearsInABucket · 09/12/2013 21:01

Is she completely the opposite and trying to make herself feel better? I'd love to have the will to Hoover once a week! I hate it. Dh does it.

Iamsparklyknickers · 09/12/2013 21:01

We had a flea infestation the once and I religiously vacuumed the whole house every day for two weeks on the advice of google (and indorexed - but fleas are just ick!)

I was amazed I was still getting anything out of the carpets by the end of it.

It wasn't incredible enough to keep it up though - I now vacuum when either the (black) cats start looking dusty or the carpets looking black Grin

BrianTheMole · 09/12/2013 21:04

I do it twice a day. It makes me happy Smile

Thisisaghostlyeuphemism · 09/12/2013 21:06

I'm with your dsis ;)

pianodoodle · 09/12/2013 21:08

I vacuum the whole house every day (although it's a bungalow so pretty easy!)

It only takes a few minutes but it saves the carpet getting too grubby as it's a light colour.

PansOnFire · 09/12/2013 22:21

I try to do it every day, but every other day is fine. It irritates me when people don't clean but as long as I don't have to sit in their filth then they can do what they want. YANBU.

superstarheartbreaker · 09/12/2013 22:29

Does she have small children? If not then she has noooooooo clue about how messy carpets can get.

stubbornstains · 09/12/2013 22:33

I must say your Dsis has a fine turn of phrase.You must think up some similarly pithy insults about her (presumed) lackof domestic hygiene...

ZombiePenguin · 09/12/2013 22:38

I vacuum rarely. I do like sweeping kitchen floors though. Tell your DSis to stop being so disablist, we aren't oddballs and it isn't OCD madness, as an OCD sufferer. How o you have the time to do it? Although I'm lazy, I admit, and the noise is annoying. My DParents are horror struck that I dust so much and meticulously make clean the little lines between floorboards. And polishing. I think I polish too much Hmm Grin

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