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Spring cleaning
Uriel
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It sucks but it's gotta get done.
I am getting an allergy attack from all the dust and cat hair behind the furniture today. But we're getting rid of loads of old clutter and organizing things better to clear out space so that's rewarding.
What's your most and least favorite things about spring cleaning? Or do you somehow keep everything clean and organized all winter? It so tell me your secrets.
I am getting an allergy attack from all the dust and cat hair behind the furniture today. But we're getting rid of loads of old clutter and organizing things better to clear out space so that's rewarding.
What's your most and least favorite things about spring cleaning? Or do you somehow keep everything clean and organized all winter? It so tell me your secrets.
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I have no idea what it goes with at all.
Also for some reason we still have the collectors edition books from warhammer online age of reckoning.
My son has a graphing calculator that uses the mini b. We just bought the thing last year, who is still using those? Then we lost the charger and the only thing we could find that had the same cord was an old external hard drive enclosure that was hooked up to his Wii.
We donate or discard Things we don't use anymore, vacuum and dust everything every week
I guess we're both children of hoarders, so that's a good motivation
But, if you wipe that thing down once a week? Well it never gets particularly gross, and it takes five to ten minutes, then you're done.
Apply that to your whole living space, and you can do around three things per day, regularly, and keep your whole space clean and livable. Also makes getting ready for company to come over so much easier.
We're selling, donating and tossing so much stuff because having a toddler during a move really motivates you to downsize.
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
But yes. Once you get it clean, it's much easier to keep it clean. A fact I love dwelling on is that dust isn't static. It's actually made up of cells and detritus.. and over time, that shit breaks down and becomes a gloopy mess that is harder to get off things. So get it off it early!
While this is sound advice, cleaning is competing for time with getting high and playing video games.
Aside from furniture, what I have now could fit in my small car. And I like it that way.
It's not spoiled as shit to recognize that this is a wedge issue you two cannot agree on and that trying to fix it is necessary for the relationship.
Destigmatize paying people to help with stuff you can't do on your own.
Yeah I just get really torn, I've been extremely fortunate in many, many ways. From my own and my parents background the idea of hiring someone to clean for you is just...ludicrously bougie. And ideally these people coming to clean would have even better jobs. But I'll do what I can to make sure they are treated well. I'm just super uncomfortable with the dynamic of me being the person with power through pay, even if I strive to do well with that.
Do you feel the same way about bartenders, waiters, artists, plumbers, electricians, contractors, etc?
yes. And I've been on the other side! Working fast food, as a bus boy, or construction was all "eh it's a job, I don't mind at all when a friend comes in, I'm happy to help them" but I was always DEEPLY uncomfortable when it was my friend as my server or similar. Basically I want to get to the automatic luxury gay space communism already so I don't feel weird about others doing things for me.
I also hate being a guest at..anyone's really, because I don't want others doing things for me in general. It's a whole thing, I know. My shrink knows too, it's just further down the list.
Regular cleaning is definitely key. I spend about an hour a day picking up things that are in the wrong places, wiping surfaces, sweeping and doing a load of laundry. Then vacuuming and cleaning toilets are once every 2-3 days and deeper cleaning is for the weekends.
Bins and boxes are also really helpful. Just keeping the floors clear goes a long, long way to making everything look better. In a pinch I can spend 5 minutes picking up and throwing it all into a basket to sort later.
In Jan we finally tackled our closet - that was one thing we had never done since moving in - and now that we have an actual system it’s been so much easier to maintain.
My goals now are to try and tackle the boxes in the closet and also to organize papers. Our paperwork is a messsssss.
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
Do you want me to post pictures of my mess again? Because I'll gladly post pictures of my mess again...
A) kids
Like, I can't put anything into the garage because the garage is a workshop. The linen cupboard is a frame skeleton. The cupboard under the stairs has no lining, and the floor has patches of some kind of industrial construction adhesive. So I still have boxes and boxes of stuff piled up my wife would like me to unpack and put away, but I'm like ”where am I supposed to put it between then and now?".
And it looks great for a short while but it rarely lasts
And old stains don’t really come out no matter what is promised (even by professionals)
I hate carpet. One day I hope to have no carpet in the house...
Fun fact:
A friend of mine owns a local rug cleaning company!
So he posts videos of them cleaning rugs on Facebook all the time. It's... mesmerizing.
I tend to leave the house while they're working, partly from social anxiety, partly (now) for an excess of Covid safety. And I try to vet the company we hire as much as reasonably possible to (hopefully) make sure there's no exploitation going on or whatever. They come by for a couple hours every two weeks, and as far as I can tell, everyone is better off for the transaction.
I found one of those a couple weeks ago and was wondering the same thing, then I realized it was the cord for my PS3 controller
I currently spend somewhere between 12-18 hours a week on housework and having someone deep clean the bathrooms and whatnot would probably be worth it to reduce some of that load.
Okay.
I've still got time.
In California spring ends April 1stish, then begins first summer and summer prime begins around June 20. August through Sept is fire summer, then October is late summer.
then hot winter starts
I meant officially. Or astronomically. If I was going by the weather I would've said that spring ended last week when the temps hit 30C.