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

[WilliamGray]

washing rice

turnign matresses

Blink, probably a generalisation but who really had a career? (as opposed to job that they gave up upon marriage?) Great new thread mehtinks....

MmeBovary - were you around when there was a thread on "what did your grandparents do for a living?"

It was WONDERFUL - worth having a look in archives for, or reviving.

my mum thought filth everywhere was acceptable, as a result i lived the same as a teen my room was a pit.

then i realised and now try very hard never to be like that.

my gran on the other hand - well she dusts everyday...dusts WHAT??? theres no dust after one day surely

My mum:

irons everything in her path and then comes to my house to do ours;

washes kitchen floor at least 3 times a day;

waits on my dad hand and foot;

pegs her washing outside and is careful to alternate colours on the line so it looks nice;

spends all of Sunday baking and roasting;

thinks I'm a complete waste of space...

I'm glad there are a few other people on this thread whose mums are slatterns. I always thought it was just mine. My mum's kitchen floor makes me want to barf, and I'm not the clean-freakiest person myself. Love her to bits though

My (lovely) mum also has a somewhat slapdash approach to cleaning. And I love her for it. Even though ds's socks are filthy when he comes home!

She is tidier than me, but, well that's to be expected when no children living at home. But my house is cleaner. [smug]

My brothers and I are fit as fiddles with no allergies. I do put it down to some extent to the healthy exposure to dirt from an early age. (and mental note to stop blardy cleaning because dd and ds may now have scarlet fever and have generally had one thing after another since dd started school in Jan).

Cleaning the windows inside and out every week.
Washing nets and curtains every week. In fact she has two sets of nets and tab top curtains per window and two sets of net wires, all the net wires have different colour tape around the end so she knows which window they are for. (she will take nets and curtains down, clean windows and put up fresh straight away) she will then wash and iron the nets and put them on the wire and hang them in the spare wardrobe.
She cleans the cooker every week.
She washes inside every cubpoard and wardrobe every week.
She washes all wood work down every week.
She has always done this since the day she got married, despite at one point raising two kids and working full time.
She changes for my dad getting in from work/when she gets in from work, in too something pretty.
She paints the whole house inside and out every year.
I am sure she has adhd.

Oh, (I have just seen the, 'did they have a job' bit) my mum has just retired, she was a doctor who worked nights in A and E for years, as well as doing a Family Planning session every week.

And my mum (slattern) stayed at home until I was 15, and then only had a very part-time job.

Just goes to show. Or something.

Hang on a minute.......I wash my rice (and rinse it with boiling water once it's cooked - thought you were supposed to) and I wash my dishcloths and tea-towels after they've been used once and I constantly straighten throws and cushions. Was about to think I was adomestic goddess til I realised the rest of the house looks like a pig-sty. Ho hum

I don't wash rice - but I do rinse, it in a sieve (with water from the hot water tap) once it is cooked, and then stick it in a low oven for 20 minutes to dry...

The way my (paternal) grandmother did it

Sorry to go soppy but:
Whatever your Mums do - don't do - make sure you love and appreciate them

I still miss my mum after 12 years - esp as she has never seen dd -- Aww

My Mum always had the petticoat and american tan tight thing, her house was always tidy and clean but she wasn't anal about it. Bizzarely she always had about 15 types of biscuit in stock and several sweet things in the freezer even though she wasn't bothered and lived alone, also several packs of half eaten things in her fridge that had curled up. She used to do a mean spread for a party tho, even though it was only about 3 kids and 6 adults. God I shouldn't have read this thread.

Ditto daffodil this thread has had me in floods.

Putting plates on the floor for the dog to lick the scraps off. Yuck.

Wow - I feel slightly better for having a housework obsession now!

Its not that I want to be a slave to the hoover - I just kind of feel compelled to keep an immaculate house and even a few bits of grated cheese or rice on the floor after lunch really niggles me. I feel like any guest coming into my home would spot it straight away and 'tut' inwardly at my slovenly ways!
And because I have a 2 and a half year old DS, a 6 week old DS and a husband, I'm always spending all my time cleaning / tidying / filing / sorting etc.

I complain (and am turning into my Mum) by saying 'I'm just going round in bloody circles after you lot'

However, in MIL's house she:

• Remakes a bed after you have already made it (something to do with apple pie corners

• Hoovers the WHOLE house EVERY day

• Washes up EVERY item of crockery immediately after use (ie one coffee cup is treated to a WHOLE sink of hot soapy water

• Has EVERYTHING written on the 'Family Calendar' (even her daughter's predicted 'time of the month' dates (TMI I know but I've always thought this VERY strange and unsettling and just had to share it!)

The list goes on (and on and on).

The woman makes me feel like a lazy harlot if I don't bleach my teaspoons every other sodding day and if she is on the phone to me around teatime, she will (EVENTUALLY) say:

"Right I'd better let you go and get (DH's) dinner ready - he'll be exhausted after his hard day at work"
Ha!! His work life is a breeze compared to being an entertainer / chef / snot-covered cuddle giver all day (although I LOVE it!).
She also refers to any household appliance / room / chore as mine (as opposed to 'the family's hoover / bathroom / tidying etc, if you see what I mean? (ie My name) needs to get HER hoovering done / (My name needs to get HER bathroom cleaned etc)

I am worried though because I have been giving SERIOUS thought lately to covering my dining chairs seats with plastic! They ARE cream!! And I do love to be organised and I have a bit of a thing for storage!!

Phew - didn't realise I had to get all of that off my chest!!

wow, and i thought I had a pathological need for approval.

Haven't read the whole thread but my mum uses my dad's old pants for cleaning shoes.

A large pair of white Y fronts covered in brown polish is not a good look on the kitchen table.

my mum says, on her tombstone it will read

"A great person, and loads of fun"

not

"Bloody clean house"

Needless to say she doesnt believe in housework,as she says, why rush, it'll still be there tomorrow!

Just does not keep it clean. Especially re. cats ' hair everywhere and uncleaned bath, basin and loos.

my mums housework practice that i do not do has to be that she does

NOTHING she thinks i am mad, my house is no palace but it is clean underneath all the toys etc that the children have out in the day. she thinks i'm mad as i wont have a bin in my kitchen.
i hoover several times a day, she does several times a year.
i wash my rosating tins after every wash hers are done- whenever she tres to get me to go for dinner i usually concede once or twice a year and dep clean the kitchen before starting. i kick her out on pretence its ok you've been at work all week i tell her.
i wash my kitchen floor every other day again hers gets done when i go and do it- yuck
i could go on for ages but that'll do just to give you a snapshot

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Yay! Am going to mum (and dad)'s for the weekend.

Am still at the thought of 'spare wardrobe' ^^^ where is that and can I drop round with some of my clothes?

I've only read the first few posts and I'm amazed I thought my Mam was the only one odd enough to iron towels and pants and socks and she's soooo busy and she stays up sooo late doing these crazy things???