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To wish people would stop filming themselves cleaning

31 replies

Tiredmumma89 · 30/04/2020 16:04

Omg every other Instagram account is some hinch wannabe putting love hearts in CIF on the draining board. Showing us a boomerang of their zoflora tipping in a bucket or telling us to tap their bed to make it.

Literally sick of seeing it. What is this craze! Also the chanel flowers on the hob. The soaking minky sponges in zoflora and showing us the gleaming kitchen. The fresh bedding. The flash bathroom spray.

I've unfollowed/deleted so many people lately for it. Even a women I knew from school is at it now. Letting people know on video what she's been up to and quickly showing her b&m finds.

Can this craze just go away please. I don't know how people find the time. But once we have seen you clean a sink once we really don't care.

Don't get me started on playing a song over you scrubbing your hob or hoovering. Why do we get care that you are hoovering and adding a song in afterwards. Lol

Oh my days

Ready to be jumped on. But I hate show offs.

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NamedyChangedy · 30/04/2020 16:06

Sounds really boring. Try unfollowing them perhaps?

Tiredmumma89 · 30/04/2020 16:07

Yes I am doing. But it seems everyone's doing it aghh

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NagaisAce · 30/04/2020 16:07

I LOVE a good cleaning video. Its motivational!!

Tiredmumma89 · 30/04/2020 16:08

I just don't get it. Yes Mrs hinch influences. But it's everyone else copying her videos and doing the same thing. It's just strange lol. Why do they like showing us CIF being squeezed lol ?

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ofwarren · 30/04/2020 16:08

I haven't seen this at all.

inwood · 30/04/2020 16:08

Nope I haven't seen anyone doing this.

rosieposies · 30/04/2020 16:09

Bloody love a tap to tidy.

Springersrock · 30/04/2020 16:10

Bloody love a tap to tidy

Me too.

Wish it worked in real life Grin

Tiredmumma89 · 30/04/2020 16:10

Haha they have too much time on their hands. I guess we all do right now. I just flick past so much cleaning crap now. It doesn't inspire me. My kids won't let me wash up in peace, let alone make a heart on the draining board and play some music over it

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NotSusanna · 30/04/2020 16:10

This sums up why I don't use Instagram. Too many pretentious self absorbed twats. I can't see the attraction in it at all.

Poodles03 · 30/04/2020 16:11

Who's doing that? God, what boring bastards.

Twigletfairy · 30/04/2020 16:11

You would think no one has ever cleaned their homes before the way some people go on. Wow, you've changed your bedsheets, what a novel idea. Look, a clean toilet, how inspiring.

CatBatCat · 30/04/2020 16:11

Instagram only shows you what you tell it to show you.

Tiredmumma89 · 30/04/2020 16:11

Like sheep in there. Stacey Solomon makes me eye roll so much now. She got deleted too. Sick Of her dancing with her mop.

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Chemenger · 30/04/2020 16:11

I have never seen this on Instagram. Just don’t follow them.

ChandlerIsTheBestFriend · 30/04/2020 16:12

I don’t see any of this- maybe it’s the people you are following? Try following different people who do things you want to see?

TheClitterati · 30/04/2020 16:13

not seen it! now I feel left out.
I just close my eyes and imagine I'm cleaning - house is still a bloody mess!

Tiredmumma89 · 30/04/2020 16:13

It's people from school. Celebrities and just random people you end up connecting with. I used to buy bows and things on there. Perhaps that's why I see alot of random cleaning. I have taken a few off today. I understand people enjoy it. But why do they not just enjoy it and keep it to themselves?

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Squirrelblanket · 30/04/2020 16:15

I can't stand 'tap to tidy'!

Umnoway · 30/04/2020 16:17

I hate tap to tidy too and unfollow anyone who does it.

ScrambledEggForBrains · 30/04/2020 16:18

@NagaisAce I love watching ClutterBug on YouTube😀 oh oh and don’t get me started on Mari Kondo 🤗 🤣

TheClitterati · 30/04/2020 16:19

I don't use IG a huge amount, but its surprising what rubbish I find on my feed from clicking on random/rash follows. I'm unfollowing every time I go on there

Herpesfreesince03 · 30/04/2020 16:23

@Poodles03 I think that’s the problem though. They’re all bored af

lastburritos · 30/04/2020 16:23

I have an irrational hate of the way they can only clean with one hand, because the other is holding the phone. It looks so awkward! Just put the phone down and clean with 2 hands like the rest of us!

PineappleDanish · 30/04/2020 16:38

You really don't need to watch this shit. It's easily avoided. I have an instagram account - never posted, not following anyone. I just use it to look at pictures of knitting, decoupage and tie dye...