what does your MUM regard as normal household practice that you DONT

[WilliamGray]

washing rice

turnign matresses

[lazarou]

Sometimes my mum does washung for us and my dhs undies always come back ironed and neatly folded.

[TheProvincialLady]

Your mums are all better than mine. My mum's essential must-dos that I don't follow include:

Filling the bin up right to the top so that the rubbish is sticking out the top and then leaving for a week
Leaving baked beans juice etc dripping down the bin for months/years on end
Having a really stinky bin

This is a symptom of her general household good sense. It is an improvement though. Until I left home she refused to use bin liners so the bin had ick stuck to the insides constantly [boak]

[cheesesarnie]

cleaning top to bottom daily.ironing everything-tea towels,pants etc.

i am lazy so any from of house work seems over the top to me

[lazarou]

everything always comes back smelling lovely too

[FrannyandZooey]

so what do you do with your doors to make them so mucky, hmm?

filther

[cyteen]

Not my mum, but my stepmum:

ironing
obsessive wiping/cleaning of surfaces THE VERY MINUTE they've been used
having the entire front of the fridge plastered with ugly fridge magnets
keeping the house stuffed full of rank and tasteless nicknacks
having net curtains
having a pantry full of kitchen gadgets that have been bought, used twice and boxed up never to be seen again
spending her life chained to the household chores but never doing anything other than moaning about it

[colditz]

Incinerating meat until it's inedible.

being at home for whatever ridiculous time my husband finished worked (I've never had one and now neither does she, so that didn't help, did it!)

putting oil in pasta water

[GordontheGopher]

Keeping food stuff in the cupboard for decades.

[colditz]

My friend and her parents had a stand off for 5 years - from aged 15 until she left home .....

It was her job to hoover, but the hoover didn't work properly. They said when she hoovered more often, they would buy a new one - she said when they bought a new one she would start hoovering again, SO NOBODY HOOVERED FOR 5 YEARS!

[PinkTulips]

ironing

dusting

cleaning to a schedule (ie upstairs gets

done every wednesday, downstairs every friday)

doing washing to a schedule (ie towles on a monday, darks on a tuesday, bedclothes on a wednesday, etc)

shoes off at the front door no matter what you might be carrying or how much of a rush you're in to run in and grab the keys you forgot i mean we don't generally wear shoes in the house either but fgs!

cleaning up as the mess is happening when my kids are there instead of waiting til they've finished eating.

hangs knickers out to dry on the line!

[jimjamshaslefttheyurt]

using polish

[taipo]

Puts honey in the fridge and throws out anything the second it reaches the sell by date

Other than that she's pretty relaxed really.

[PinkTulips]

gordon the gother.... my mom has trouble with BB dates too, she actually brought an jif lemon with her when she moved house that was 2 years out of date, then proceeded to use it a further 3 years later [vomit]

they have packets in the cupboards that are as old as i am!

[Anna8888]

Eating off solid silver cutlery at every meal.

Not putting saucepans and serving dishes in the dishwasher (though my DP is gradually convincing her, through lots of demos and leg-pulling).

Having lunch on the dot of 1pm.

Not throwing out herbs and spices when they have passed their sell-by date.

[WilliamGray]

handles doors and light swtches are sticky ehre
oh and controllers

[TrinityRhino]

ironing.....

[taipo]

Yep, we have sticky doors too. They get wiped every so often.

[Anna8888]

PinkTulips - LOL, my parents moved country 11 years ago and I still find the odd bottle of shampoo or a cleaning product that moved with them . Waste not want not blah blah blah...

[taipo]

How can you not hoover for 5 years?!!

[Anna8888]

Silver ornaments all over the place.

[GordontheGopher]

Pinktulips I can beat you hands down. My mum recently found a curry powder pot with an expiry date of 1984.

She doesn't cook much curry.

She also tried to give me paracetamol from 1995.

[mistypeaks]

My mum is a strange woman.
She irons pants/hankies/teatowels/towels.
She refuses point blank to have a mop and scrubs kitchen floor with a sponge ( I do it every so often for a deep clean, but every day )
Refuses to have a kitchen bin on hygeine grounds (uses carrier bags - eco friendly I suppose)
but
she never puts things back in the fridge. Mayo/butter/prawns left on top of the fridge overnight . Because apparently there is no room. Well if she'd take out the packets of lard that have been in there for years that would free up a little space. She has bottles and bottles of water in there (I am assuming one at a time would suffice really) She lives alone. I have DH and 2 kids. If I can fit our weeks shopping in our fridge why can't she?

[PinkTulips]

gopher even... ds is asleep on the arm that uses that side of the keyboard

[OverMyDeadBody]

sweeping the kitchen floor five times a day. Also washing it about twice a day.

Needing a clean kitchen before she can have her breakfast in the morning. Even if the mess id only from us lot having our breakfast!!!

Washing up nd puting away perfectly clean mugs that you've just got out and put by the kettle while you wait for the water to boil for a nice cup of tea.

Having white sofas with washable covers that get washed and ironed once a fortnight due to cats and grandson's sticky fingers (oops)