I am a domestic slut

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When my 71 yr old dad comes to stay with us, he always cleans out our oven !- I thought it had tinted glass but apparently that was just grime!!!

Also when I did the post-student thing and went to Australia..i asked for my lovely winter boots to be sent out as it was MUCH colder thatn I had expected....sure enough my dear Dad posted them over..having first got them re heeled and resoled!!

Janz - all my bras have underwire and I've never hand washed any. Maybe because they are over the shoulder boulder holsters and not petite delicate little things. I never even put them in a laundry bag. I do have a laundry bag but never use it in the laundry. In fact I used it to put all ds's toys in for the long flight to Oz we were going on. Much better use and now I use it when we are going out for the day for his toys etc. I never wash delicates separately and all jumpers etc get thrown in the wash. If they come out OK fine if they don't then less to wash in the future.

Susanmt - I hope this doesn't mean you are going to get pregnant every couple of years so either your mum or MIL come to visit and clean the oven.

Our crappy kitchen (as mentioned earlier) has alwful tiles as a work surface so all the grout is mouldy. This is due to the people we bought it off honest. Naturally I don't clean it but I make my cleaner scrub it every week and little by little it is disappearing.

I think reading this thread is enough justification for anyone to get a cleaner. If not, you know what level of filth you need to get to in order to get dh/p/b to get you one.

yoghurt pots and socks i find under everything i think they breed

You've just reminded me of the socks I found behind the radiator. I thought the washing machine ate them but apparently it is the radiators.

I found a container of very mouldy ham in the fridge today. Opened it up and it had furry black mould on it. I think that's the grade up from the green mould.

Batters

That's brilliant! - made me really chuckle

meanmum RODFL

the D stands for dirty of course

batters I applaud you

Ninja,LOL-I like it!

If a dirty oven is God's way of telling you you need a new kitchen...what does that tell you about why I had to have a new extension built 18 months ago?

Good luck Batters - maybe you could hire one of those dinky 'Outbreak' style biohazard suits from a returning soldier?

O.k i know i'm asking for it, i'm a cleaner. I clean for someone 6 hours a week and clean my own house pretty regular too. I actually get pleasure from making a tip into something clean and tidy. Right you can all tell me how sad i am now!

oh linzoid youre not sad,id love to be like you but it`s against my religion

Linzoid - you may be sad but you are our godsend. Watch how many offers you get of desperate mumsnetters wanting you to work for them.

I love this thread! Meanmum, out of curiosity, just how many hours does it take after your cleaner has left for your house to return to its slut-like status again?

I've still got flowers in a vase that I was given on Mother's Day, they are rotting away nicely, thanks. And my freezer badly needs defrosting but I can't be bothered - I just get the chisel to it when I require some peas.

linzoid, you'll probably have everyone queuing up for your email address to ask you to help clean their pits!

Good luck, Batters. It was nice knowing you...

I do get pleasure from turning a tip into something nice - I simply can't be a**ed! I love my house when it's tidy, it just happnes so rarely and when it does, I blink and somehow it's deteriorated!

Batters, that's impressive! As is Tinker's tin of Sheen lasting 7 years, blimey, I thought I was bad. Bobbins, we've got The PC version of Sims. IKYWM about sitting surrounded by yukiness while your Sims live an immaculate life! The maggots are pretty gruesome too.

Think i may have got my tidiness from my mother, when i was young it was "A place for everything and everything in it's place"! I find myself saying that sometimes too (eek more like my mum every day, strange how that really does come true).
Funny thing is since my mum left my dad 2 years ago it seems like wev'e reversed roles(thats another story)
Anyway, come september my youngest will be at school and i'll be looking for extra work...so anyone in the manchester area needing a good but slightly stressed cleaner..speak now!!!

I'm happy to report it takes me a few hours for our house to return to its slovenly state once the cleaner has left. Admittedly that's because we're all out of the house until the end of the day when we get back from work/childminders.

Once we're in the door it's a matter of seconds.

Underneath the cushion covers is pretty disguisting. Small toys, hairs, bits of biscuits and old cereal. Never any significant money, always just coppers.

We have mice in the house and finding their droppings in various choice places is not amusing. The cat is hopeless and will only catch and kill them outside. Had to stop using soap as they ate that. But we do use liquid soap instead.

dh is renovating our house and ds loves to play in the sawdust except sometimes he has an accident and so has wet trousers with sawdust stuck to them - lovely!

Does your dh take the covers off the power points and then leave them dangling for your ds to play with. Mine has. Very safety concious in our house.

Don't send the health service around.

Batters - hire a cleaner soon, and then give them the dishwasher to unload as their first job (evil grin)