How clean is your house?"Part of my kitchen floor are thick with dust, grease, part of a broken mug, a few mummified oven-chips, a desiccated used teabag and a couple of pieces of cutlery", says Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic. To most people, that's filth. To some of us, that's dinner. Tell us about squalid homes or obsessive cleaners.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 25 Mar 2010, 13:00)
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A story wherein all the hard work is undoneIt would be fair to say that whilst I'm not the cleanest of people, I do enjoy living in a clutter free environment. I get squiffey if people leave condiments out after a meal, and get awfully annoyed when someone makes a mess after I've tidied up.
This means I've never really had to do a proper full scale tidy up until I left my first flat.
In order to ensure that the entireity of our deposit was returned, my girlfriend and I cleaned our entire flat from top to bottom before moving out. This was a mammoth endeavour, and I was awfully proud of the results afterwards. We got the windows professionally cleaned, I cleaned the whole oven with Oven Pride (thus proving the slogan), used a toothbrush to clean the skirting boards and window sills, washed all the marks off the wall, shampooed the carpets and even used bicarbonate of soda to clean the beds. In short, we made the flat cleaner that it had been when we moved in.
Come the day of the inspection the buzzer goes, and the two friendly chaps pop in with their clipboards...
...and trail mud all over the carpets.
5 minutes into the inspection one of them turns round and notices it, picks up some on the end of his pen, looks at us. It was at this point my girlfriend said (in a way that would have any grown man grovelling) "it was you!".
We passed with flying colours.
(and the current tenants have a dreamcatcher in the window, I bet they're making a mess of our hard work!)
(, Tue 30 Mar 2010, 17:58, Reply)
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