Page 7 | To think it’s not normal to have thick grey dust on skirting boards?

GosPort · 2023-09-06T16:30:12+00:00

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?

littleblackcat27 · 06/09/2023 19:54

GosPort · 06/09/2023 17:46

Wow - thought this was the one place I wouldn’t be greeted with this kind of response.

Could never live in a grotty and grimey house! How do you never clean your bathroom? That’s a room literally full of s*!

Yup - get over it lady. Maybe you're the one full of sh*

rollonretirementfgs · 06/09/2023 19:56

Get over yourself!

whatkatydid2013 · 06/09/2023 19:57

I think it has to be something to do with the style of the skirting or the amount of dust in the environment. We might have wiped them down in May when we last had a spring clean. Certainly haven’t since and I just took a picture & genuinely think they seem fine.

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

littleblackcat27 · 06/09/2023 19:57

Onelifeonly · 06/09/2023 18:57

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.

Totally agree with this post (and the poster's name!)

A lot of our house is clean with the washing up done every night, the hoovering every 2 to 3 days. We have clean and dry clothes to wear etc etc

If there is dust on a skirting board or the top of a picture frame, I'm not going to lose sleep over that

rc22 · 06/09/2023 19:59

Throwncrumbs · 06/09/2023 19:43

I have a little brush that fits on my vacuum clear that does skirting boards…it’s fantastic!

I go round the skirting boards with the hoover nozzle.

Hooplahooping · 06/09/2023 20:25

Peachpicklepie · 06/09/2023 19:07

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"

I’d categorise myself as someone who takes joy in small achievable things. Like matching socks - and clean skirting boards 😆. Not everyone’s cup of tea, but a clean tidy space makes me calm + happy - and I’m happy to do it 🤷🏼‍♀️

RichieMcAl · 06/09/2023 20:27

If you’d have visited yesterday my kitchen skirting boards were disgusting, if you pop in now they’re fine. My house is too big to keep everything dust free all the time.

longwayoff · 06/09/2023 20:28

You went to your brothers house and found fault with the cleanliness. He's obviously idle. Why not trash him on MN and give his poor wife a rest? I bet she loves your visits.

Notmollybutdolly · 06/09/2023 20:42

Totally agree. I would die if I saw that much dust. Yuck. My sil and her husband are exactly the same. So rich they could afford a cleaner every day but they’d rather sit in their own dust. I’m talking when you sit on the couch a cloud of dust throws up. YUKKKK

Meowandthen · 06/09/2023 20:56

Notmollybutdolly · 06/09/2023 20:42

Totally agree. I would die if I saw that much dust. Yuck. My sil and her husband are exactly the same. So rich they could afford a cleaner every day but they’d rather sit in their own dust. I’m talking when you sit on the couch a cloud of dust throws up. YUKKKK

You’d die? From seeing dust?

How ridiculously dramatic.

Notmollybutdolly · 06/09/2023 20:58

Meowandthen · 06/09/2023 20:56

You’d die? From seeing dust?

How ridiculously dramatic.

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I would truly pass away. Dead. Gone. Forever.

BIossomtoes · 06/09/2023 20:58

NeverDropYourMooncup · 06/09/2023 19:07

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.

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When you’ve achieved as much as Conran I’ll accept your criticism.

TrishTrix · 06/09/2023 21:04

You don't have to live there.

Don't come to visit me. You won't like it.

GodDammitCecil · 06/09/2023 21:05

GosPort · 06/09/2023 17:46

Wow - thought this was the one place I wouldn’t be greeted with this kind of response.

Could never live in a grotty and grimey house! How do you never clean your bathroom? That’s a room literally full of s*!

Don’t you do your thing in the loo and then flush it away?

How is the room ‘literally full of shit’…?

Have I been doing it wrong all these years………………?

Hbh17 · 06/09/2023 21:10

Grubby skirting boards are completely normal - people have better things to do than continually scrub their house from top to bottom - they don't live in operating theatres.

Parlourgames · 06/09/2023 21:10

Is it just sil or is there someone else living there? I always think these threads are a bit sexist blaming women for not cleaning enough

WonderingWanda · 06/09/2023 21:15

My house is not as clean as I would like it to be but I usually run hoover over the dusty bits of skirting board I can see, you'd be horrified if you looked behind the sofa though.

WhileMyGuitarGentlyWeeps · 06/09/2023 21:58

GosPort · 06/09/2023 19:48

Clean skirting boards in a house I don’t live?

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YES. YOU are the one who has a problem with them being 'dirty.' YOU clean them!

WhileMyGuitarGentlyWeeps · 06/09/2023 22:01

@Notmollybutdolly

Totally agree. I would die if I saw that much dust. Yuck. My sil and her husband are exactly the same. So rich they could afford a cleaner every day but they’d rather sit in their own dust. I’m talking when you sit on the couch a cloud of dust throws up. YUKKKK...

Obviously taking the pee to mock the OP? I hope so anyway!!!

BeeEyeEnGeeOh · 06/09/2023 22:06

9outof10cats · 06/09/2023 18:01

You have obviously hit a 'nerve' with some people (the ones with dusty skirting boards) 😀

I am not fastidious about housework (can go weeks without doing a proper clean - apart from the kitchen and toilet) but I do hoover my skirting boards when hoovering the floor - it takes seconds.

I know a couple of people (one a relative) who simply don't clean their houses and they are pretty grimy. Not a way I would choose to live - but each to their own.

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It doesn't take seconds as you have to change attachments before doing it.

Ponoka7 · 06/09/2023 23:44

Snittle · 06/09/2023 19:31

The room my rabbits live in is dusty within about ten minutes of it being dusted. There is constant dust / fine fur floating around in the air. It is genuinely impossible to keep on top of even though they’re cleaned every other day. It wouldn’t take many days for it to get how the OP describes.

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I was an indoor and outdoor rabbit keeper. I know how quickly the dust etc builds up. I wish that all the rabbit forums told the truth that to keep rabbits humanly they are more work than a small dog. You have to consider the amount of cleaning before you get any pet.