The housekeeping equivalent of wearing clean knickers in case you're run over...

[JackieNo]

If we ever go away overnight, or on holiday, I find myself tidying up the house, not just because it's much nicer to come back to a tidy house, but I find myself thinking about what would happen if we had a terrible accident and never came back. How embarrassed I'd be to think of police/relatives having to look round our messy house. So WTF am I thinking that for (if I'm not coming back, I'm not going to be able to be embarrassed), and am I alone in my morbid thoughts?

I'm like that even when i'm in the house. I think what would happen if someone broke in, or worse, and then I think of the police coming round to take photos and them being all over the news......

oh SO yes

bleach down loo

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Hadn't even thought of that iamapieceofcheesecake. Oh god, the photos!

Yes - know what you mean poisson. But still often don't manage to keep the place tidy nevertheless.

HAHA...I'm like that.Paranoid about skid marks in the loo.

lol
have told dh if i die in freak circumstances he is to

1. delete ALL msg on here ( pleasedt hat for me gals incase gutterpress get story of my freaky death)

2. NOT release a picture of me at my wedding to the local paper

3. HAve someoen GORGE to do my crimewatch reconstruction

Speaking of which. Where's the bleach?....

Can't we sell our story to the papers poisson - 'My time with the fishy one, and how it all went bad'?

(sorry - was that tasteless?)

this should probably be another thread on it's own ,but do you use a loo brush,or use your hands...bleurgh!

Hate thst loo brush gets all manky and stained,but don't want to pay a small fortune for those disposable duck thingys'

I just coat the whole thing in bleach and then flush next time I go to the loo. Hey presto, no mess!!

lol at jackie

use your hands???

A friend's ILs' house was burgled when they were on holiday and it was the friend the police contacted about it; they said, very sympathetically, "the place has been completely turned over" and my friend was forced to tell them it always looked like that

well I mean with gloves on and scrub it like ladees on how clean is your house!

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Disposable duck thingies here, and toilet brush, neither of which get used as often as they should be.TMI?

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JanH - that'a exactly what I'm scared of. Or bereaved relatives having to sort out DD's manky knickers that she's left in a heap on the floor of her bedroom.

God I hate cleaning. Especially when the weather is lovely and its a crime to be indoors.

clean kitchen surfaces

and loos at least flushed (this doesnt always happen with a 3.5 year old)

dd's room looks like the burglars have just left.

DS's room looks like the burglers went through it and decided there was nothing worth taking.

you lot are obsessed - until I read this thread I had never given a thought to this at all

in fact, it would probably take me a couple of hours to even realise our house had been burgled