I am not the eager girl when it comes to washing windows. Now my new house has it in for me. I can’t avoid it because it’s so ridiculously easy: the windows can be opened back into the inside and the outside, as well as inside, easily cleaned.
I love my new house but this is just pure evil.
Pull your fridge out and clean behind it and then use the vaccume cleaner hose attachment on the coils.
Did you pull out 3-inch thick, jet black, clumps of ‘stuff’ like I did?
The refrigerator is moveable?
I don’t wash certain windows. My cats just put their noses against the glass from the inside and people walking by touch the outside, to see my kitties go crazy for attention. A day after they’re cleaned, they’re all spotty again.
Washing curtains is a lovely thing, even with all the ironing involved. Washing dishes I hate so much I don’t even like putting them away afterward. Currently going on day two with the machine still loaded with clean dishes.
I’m not a slob though. You really could eat off my floors, which you might have to do because I didn’t unload the dishwasher.
A good even layer of schmutz on the windows blocks harmful UVA and UVB and possibly even the deadly UBX rays from the sun. Since I’m a very concerned parent who doesn’t want her precious offspring to get skin cancer, I thoughtfully leave the window grime intact.
I have discovered that the best way to get the kitchen floor washed is to wait for maintenance to have to replace my stove or dishwasher or something. Then I go complain about the mess they left, and management sends a housekeeper over to wash it for me.
I want these windows with every fiber of my being. I swear this is going to be our next home improvement project. I’m too damn old to stand on a ladder twenty feet in the air to wash windows and I am not going to do it anymore until Marcie asks me to do it again.
Uh oh. I smell (no pun intended) a pit thread coming on:
Ya’all wash your own windows?
A couple years ago I contacted a window washer for a quote. It was the best $175.00 I have ever spent. Inside and out, window glass and storm window glass. We have a fairly large ranch home with quite a few windows and three sets of glass patio doors. We don’t have the fancy windows that tilt in either.
I wouldn’t wash these windows for $175.00 so it was a bargain to me.
Nonsense! The wonderful thing about dishwashers is the fact that they double as a kitchen cabinet. Why move dishes around twice, when once will do? Which is not to say that we couldn’t eat off your floors, but I’m not so limber anymore.
But what about the UB40 and U2 rays? Will they be blocked by the schmutz, or will I need red, red wine and huge sunglasses?
I’m slowly becoming an entropian, I hardly see the point anymore.
It’s such a redundant and pointless thing, maintenence.
It never makes you a good or better person, it just ties you to the wheel.
For the sake of an object I will not obsess and disintegrate myself.
I know, I’m lazy.
Well, not often.
Clean behind the fridge and stove, eh? I should put that on my list of things to do some day before I die.
Ashes, I think if you put enough of us half-assed housecleaners together, you’d get one reasonably clean house. I don’t mind doing the dishes and putting them away, but I don’t wash the floors nearly often enough.
Oops, forgot the <snip> in Ruby’s post.
Sure, if you’re a fancy schmancy type who has more than a square millimeter of counter space. Actually, that’s one of what I call my ‘perverse goals.’ Emptying an entire dishwasher without putting anything away first. And don’t worry about the limber thing. Once you’re down there, we can work on it.
featherlou, you are so correct. I’m looking for a man willing to do dishes and ironing, in exchange for my floor cleaning and dusting. Marriage made in heaven, that’ll be!
I have my copy of Steinbeck’s Tortilla Flat open before me.
"No curtains covered the windows, but a generous Nature had obscured the glass with cobwebs, with dust, and with the neat marks of raindrops.
‘It would be nice to clean that window with soap and water,’ Danny said one time.
Pilon’s sharp mind leaped to the problem with energy, but it was too easy for him. It did not require a decent quota of his powers. ‘More light would get in’ he said. ‘We would not spend so much time out in the air if it were light in here. And at night, when the air is poisonous, we have no need for light.’
. . . The window remained as it was; and as time passed, as fly after fly went to feed the spider family with his blood and left his huskish body in the webs against the glass, as dust adhered to dust, the bedroom took on a pleasant obscurity which made it possible to sleep in a dusky light even at noonday."
Firt of all, you can wash windows and floors with a water/vinegar solution. Safer and cheaper.
Check the bottom of the inside of your frig to see if there is a drip tray. Pull it out, retch at the mold growing on it, clean and disinfect. This will help keep your frig from smelling. I didn’t know these things existed till I read this tip in a book on natural cleaning.
And remember: Horizontol surfaces get dirtier quicker than verticle surfaces.
Ah. Yes. The drip tray. Maybe I’ll ask my husband to clean it.
No. Too cruel. Maybe I’ll do it in a couple of weeks.
Does anyone else hate putting things away, ever? Tidying is my very least favourite type of housekeeping, right after dishes. I hate doing dishes.
My husband I are both pilers. Any flat surface, pretty much. I have a tendency to like my stuff out - I probably have drawers around here that are completely empty.
Sorry about yesterday’s post. Sounds kinda arrogant but it was meant to be smartassy.
I’m not the best housekeeper but hubby and I are both pretty tidy. I can stand quite a bit of dirt but can’t handle clutter very well. My mom was a clutterbug so I think it must be a way to rebel.
The following was e-mailed to me by a friend. This is why my house never seems to get clean, even though I’m busy all day…