To think it’s not normal to have thick grey dust on skirting boards?

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Went around to SIL house today and I’m by no means a neat freak but just thought it was unacceptably dirty. Not cluttered, just nothing was cleaned. For example her skirting boards had thick grey dust on them, on top and falling down like snow. Paw marks on them from the rabbits as well so it was so obvious. And the hair that had built up on them too was visible and a bit gross.

AIBU to think you should regularly clean and dust your house if you are inviting others into it?

In my dream world my house would always be sparkling clean. In reality it isn't. I rarely set to for a good clean but try to do it as I go along - kitchen and bathroom, plus sweeping / hoovering floors. Other than that, the washing is done. Occasionally I get 'into' it and do a reasonably thorough clean of one room. That sometimes (rarely)includes dusting skirting boards and surfaces.

I could say I don't have the time but I don't think that is strictly true - I don't have the energy or inclination mostly. (I could be doing some cleaning now to be honest!) Everything gets messed up or dirty again a day or two later- it's relentless. On my death bed I don't think I'd feel great satisfaction for knowing my house was always spotless - there is more to life!

By the way, Ddd you check her light switches OP? I noticed recently lots of ours were sticky and dirty, so cleaned them but normally I don't think about it.

I have never thought about my skirting boards. Nor my picture rails.

Don't think I have ever gone into anyones house and looked at their skirting boards

Rabbits?

If your bathroom gets covered in ahit you might want to Google how bathrooms work to see where you're going wrong

It's not "literally full of shit" though, is it. Unless you've not been using the toilet and never, uhm, empty the bathroom?

I wipe down my surfaces and skirting boards regularly and the next day if i run my finger across it , there is dust there again, less than 24 hours

that may be because I always have windows open, I have a cat, the air circulation is bad , I live near a main road and above a carpark, theres trees and plants outside my window that blow in all kind of things, the heating you have also effects the dust , if you have storage heaters that blow air , it creates dust
im not wasting my time frantically wiping up dust the moment it falls

and there are people who never wipe down their skirting and have zero dust build up
so there is no point judging anybody, its not very kind, and a bit sad

I wouldn't take much notice in other's houses but I run round all of mine with a feather duster every couple of weeks. It bothers me if there's any visible dust on skirtings and it takes maybe 5 mins to do the whole house if there's not much to deal with.

I know people often say they can't remember when they last did the skirting boards but I know mine look bad if left for more than 2 weeks and I've never noticed that in these supposed slatterns' houses 😆

It is just as well you are coming nowhere near my home. I can't say I never clean skirting boards - I will hoover them and give them a wipe maybe once a year - but they certainly wouldn't pass muster with you. Our kitchen work surfaces are the favourite resting places of our 4 cats (though not when I am cooking usually) and the bathroom gets done once a month, if I am really on my game.

I don't consider our house a health hazard. Maybe not guest ready at all times, but that suits me.

Your username combined with that last sentence 😂😂

To be fair, the OP hasn't posted a name and address!

Meh. I file people who dust skirting boards under the same category as I do people who wear matching socks - "people who don't value their time"

TBH, Shirley Conran also made a living out of graphically describing the rape and abuse of children, using goldfish as sexual props by a swarthy foreigner (incest added on as an extra plot twist) and thinks that girls don't do Maths because 'maths books were hopeless. Even the fun ones wouldn’t appeal to girls because they’re full of creepy-crawly things like spiders and caterpillars'.

Her outsourcing fungal duties to somebody else whilst trying to be oh, so entertaining in the Daily Mail, doesn't really do it for me in terms of female empowerment.

If I go to visit a friend the first thing I do is inspect her skirting boards. If they have a speck of dust on them I leave immediately.
There is no excuse in this day and age for living in filth.
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My skirting /cobwebs get cleaned when I'm on a phone call to my mum. Win win I've had an hour speaking to mum and allll the cobwebs have gone.

Toilet cakes in shit is different to dust

i think you’re doing that thing when someone makes it out way worse after because no one agrees with them 😂

It's just dander and hair from the rabbits and their bedding. I mean it's not ideal but it's hardly the end of the world. My house isn't as clean as I'd like but that's what I get for sharing my life with animals, who I adore.

You've clearly not got a very good aim if that's the case. I'd concentrate on your coordination and less on judging others.

I’m have a dust allergy so wouldn’t be visiting again, but I wouldn’t say that to them, nor would I care there house is dusty, because mines not and that’s all that matters (to me).

You sound like the elder auntie jees from my community, with a strong obsession about skirting boards, they don’t talk about other womens’ lack of xyz ability out of concern but to score points with others and bitch about the woman (never the man who lives there too!) maybe offer her some support if she needs it but then that’s not the auntie jee style, there would be nothing to gossip about then

So you don't clean your loo for a month? Surely not!
That is definitely a health hazard...loos are done daily in my house.

Our house is very dusty, more so than any house I've ever lived in (lots as a student) or seen (friends). My mum says their current home is the dustiest too. Even then I only clean skirting boards twice a year.

Did you run your finger over the mantlepiece and look at it meaningfully? And then talk about the state of her nets over the garden fence? Judgemental. Don't go into other people's houses if you can't deal with a grimy skirting board.

I don't think you're using your bathroom correctly.

i agree!