Aibu to feel like the dirtiest person in the world

[Panandthegang]

After reading this article??

www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html

I wash my towels when they get up and walk to the washing machine themselves

Having read this I had to check I'm not dead because I ought to be if it's as essential as they say it is

These recommendations are nuts. Yes, by all means if you have a dust mite allergy make sure you do as much as possible to negate the effects of the mites. But it is absolutely nonsense to think that you need to be cleaning anything at all daily, apart from actual plates and cups and cutlery! I mean, I suppose I might give the remote a wipe if for instance my child had a cold and had been cuddling and coughing on it all day but I am willing to bet that the only people in this country wiping a TV remote with anti-bac every day without fail are probably those who have issues around cleanliness and germs. They need help and no TV remote needs to be wiped down every day. Bonkers.

Once a week is fine for my toilet.

I feel quite virtuous as we do almost all of those things.

Don't think the tv remote has ever been cleaned though.

Cant post anything, have died from virulent disease caught from dirty remote control.... RIP

I almost died laughing at that article

A lot of those things I've never done in my life so my family and I must be some sort of medical miracle to still be here.

The only thing I haven't been doing is cleaning the tv remote every day,so I've just done it now

Teatowels and sponges are washed every day,the bathroom,toilet and toothbrush holder are cleaned every day,the beds are aired every day and the bedding is changed every friday,the inside of the fridge is given a wipe every day when I clean the kitchen and it's given a proper clean once a week,the sink is cleaned every day when I clean the kitchen and the bins are emptied and cleaned inside and out every day.
The hand towels and bath towels are washed every day(I replace the hand towels twice a day in the bathroom because there's 7 of us they get used alot)and PJ's are washed after 1 wear.

Cushions and the throws are washed 2-3 times a week,5DC and 3 Dogs and I like the house to smell fresh,the carpets and rugs downstairs are steam cleaned once a week and the one's upstairs are cleaned once every 2 weeks.

I'm surprised about the toilet and the sink,surely they'd look minging if they were left that long.

I raze my house to the ground every morning and then start from scratch

I raze my house to the ground every morning and then start from scratch

I hope you wear gloves when you light that match bloody standards.

ohtheholidays

Teatowels and sponges are washed every day,the bathroom,toilet and toothbrush holder are cleaned every day,the beds are aired every day blah blah blah blah

Do you have fuck all else to do?

It is the Daily Mail, peeps. Do the complete opposite of what they say and you will be about right.

To the people who wash their bath towels every day - do you clean the loo with them or something?

Me, I use them to dry my very clean, just showered body...

It is the Daily Mail, peeps. Do the complete opposite of what they say and you will be about right.

So that means I didn't need to flaunt my curves and slip my endless legs into a pair of figure-hugging shorts on a deserted beach in Marbella while laughing and pointing at an imaginary boat AFTER ALL?!

I tossed my glossy mane for NOTHING?

FFs. Now you tell me.

ohtheholidays
There arent enough hours in the day to do all that plus cooking and working and school run and every other sodding thing I need to do/organise!

5 days might be ok if you have a new loo with a shiny inside surface and soft water - if I left mine that long, I'd need to do it with the nuclaer strength descaler stuff. Mind you DH doesn't seem to understand that you can actually flush the toilet at night. And he gets up every single night for a wee.

I tell you what gets mental dusty though is the house phone. I understand with the television as there is static involved - but does the phone have static? Why is it dusty every time I look at it? (and no, it isn't because I didn't dust it between looks :)
I guess if we ever actually used it, that might shake the dust off.

I am definitely a dirty slob. :)

I do things a lot more regularly now all the kids have ( more or less) left Home. Got a lot more time on my hands.
How did those kids survive through the years of week old hand towels, unwashed bins and filthy showers?

I wouldn't take anything like this seriously anyway, but I can't get past the spelling mistake in the headline.

Barbara - which one is that?? Where?

DorisDangleberry

No I fucking don't because I'm disabled!

Willow2017 I didn't say you or anyone else should have the time to do it.

I don't work now because of being disabled and I can't do the school runs anymore because I can't drive because of having become disabled.

But before I was disabled I did do all of the above and went to college 3 days a week and worked P/T and was a single mum to 4DC but it never took me very long,I presume because I did it alot so things never really needed a deep clean,they didn't go long enough I suppose to get really dirty.

c75kp0r I've found that with our house phone,I thought it was just in our house and it does get used quite alot especially by me and the oldest 2DC,maybe it is something to do with static.

c75kp0r I've found that with our house phone,I thought it was just in our house and it does get used quite alot especially by me and the oldest 2DC,maybe it is something to do with static.

c75kp0r I've found that with our house phone,I thought it was just in our house and it does get used quite alot especially by me and the oldest 2DC,maybe it is something to do with static

"Well, if none of us have been doing all these things for years and we have survived, then they're obviously not all essential!!"

^^ That.
No idea how often I clean these things & don't care either.