AIBU to expect that parents keep their children’s pushchairs and prams clean?

[Nevergotdivorced]

Our local FB page had someone posting to see if there was a pram/pushchair cleaning service locally.

To my amazement there is!

£25 a single pram, £35 a double and £50 for a travel system.

AIBU to expect that parents would just keep on top of this?

My dog gets showered by us. Others take there's to a groomer.

Some people get a wash and blow dry at the hairdressers every week. I only would if I was going to a wedding or something .

We clean tidy our house and car ourselves othes pay someone to do it. Different people have different finances and priorities. Can't get excited.

Well you could apply that logic to anything then in that case:

Don’t get a cleaner
Paint your own nails
Clean your own car
Dye your own hair

Services are based on supply and demand so there is obviously a market out there. And to be honest with a two year old and an 11 month old I would happily pay £35 for a deep clean of their double pram!

Oh dear, I really have heard it all now lol 😆

Why the crusts, snot and other stuff build up to such an extent you need to pay someone to do it? A quick wipe, get the hoover on it whilst vacuuming, it really doesn't take much.

Have you never spent money on something you could do yourself?
A taxi? A meal out? A car wash?

I also pay to have my car cleaned and I could easily do that myself. And my windows. And my house. And my oven.

How completely bizarre that you would have any expectations of how complete strangers keep their prams clean. How does it impact on you in any way at all??

This is genius, next time anyone at work asks me to do my job, I'll just tell them to do it themselves!

They'll definitely do a great job of my specialist skill, have no problem using the specific technology, and I'm sure the state will look after me rather than I get paid to do work.

Of course but having your pram cleaned is another level 🙄 Though i jet wash my car myself so keeping a pram clean isn't difficult.

“Another level”… of what?

No one said it’s difficult. You’re being weird.

What if you haven't got a jet washer or heaven forbid mobility issues?

We had our oven cleaned last week, and they did an absolutely amazing job - we paid £50 to have the oven and hob done, and I’d recommend it, @ExtraOnions.

@Nevergotdivorced - keeping the buggy/pram clean doesn’t sound like a big job - but there are just so many demands on the time of parents of young children, and maybe this one is the final straw. Or maybe they’d rather spend a bit of money on this, so they can spend the time playing with their kids instead. Many young parents are working and genuinely don’t have the time for these kinds of jobs.

Or you just want to get it professionally
cleaned despite being as fit as a fiddle and having a kick ass power cleaner!!

Loads of things aren’t “difficult”

I still pay others to do it… cleaner, window cleaner, professional carpet cleaner, car valeted, online grocery shopping etc.

Another of level of what exactly?!

No, it’s not difficult. Still would rather someone else did it though.

Yes, I’m waiting with bated breath @Allonthesametrain

I wish I'd known of a service when I had a pram. PITA cleaning them.
Do you think we should get rid of house cleaners? Car valeting? Dog walkers/groomers? Window cleaners?

This attitude is exactly what I was talking about in my earlier comment. Sometimes, without a tad of empathy, we can't imagine why things might be easy for us but difficult for others. Someone's who's child's been sick in the buggy who lives in a flat with no garden/nowhere to store a jetwash may need a deep clean. A mum with two older children, twins, a part time job, no childcare-living in a small top floor flat may not be able to carry her kids and the buggy up to run a hoover over it easily. Poor mental health, disabilities all make things difficult for people. Try having sympathy instead of sitting in judgement.
And why does it have to be a shameful thing to pay to have you buggy cleaned in any circumstance?

Not really, i don’t have a jet wash and am in the military so move every couple of years and inherit used bins.. its a great service.

We live in a world now where even 'ordinary' people outsource just about every household activity - Cleaning the car, walking the dog, cleaning the house, mowing the lawn, painting and decorating - all jobs that back in my younger years only rich/upper classes would have been able to afford to outsource. So the fact that cleaning the pram/pushchair is a service that someone is now offering does not surprise me in the slightest and I'm sure there'll be plenty of takers.
We are becoming a nation who will have no/very few household skills. Not sure where the next generation of such service providers will come from!

Also - deep cleaning prams is a really good idea if they’ve been in storage between kids.

Lol, my pushchair had whole colonies of bacteria living their best lives among the cracker crumbs, crushed daisies, plum stalks and odd shreds of soft toy.

It was red when I got it, but it certainly wasn't by the time I got rid of it ...

I can clean things, I just don’t want to.

Oh my. When mine were young I’d have appreciated a high-chair cleaning service. Yes, a wipe after every meal but unpopping the padded cushion from the frame, dealing with that gunge, the gunge under that, getting a toothbrush to work around the buckles & the webbing straps that were designed to retain muck. Just misery when you’re knackered.