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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I'm pretty average.Our house isn't spotless, but you won't fear for your life if you sit in our lounge for five minutes. Any story from personal experience I have about cleaning is a bit of a yawner.
My friends, however...
One had fairly well off parents who hired a cleaner when he was young. The cleaner quit because the house was never left tidy enough for her. They weren't dirty people... so surely the point was that she would do the cleaning?
Another friend lives in a house with his brother that was vacated by his deceased parents. They weren't brought up as pampered kids - far from it as they know very well how to fend for themselves, but they never clean. One time I visited and noticed a cat had brought in a dead bird. "Oh yeah" said he. It was still there a week later the next time I visited. I haven't been back since but I suspect I know what I'll find - and that was a few months back now.
Finally, a work related one. As anyone who works in IT will know this can be a grotty business at times what with all the dust bunnies, crawling under tables and patch panels in cabinets which haven't been touched in years. Chief amongst these delights is the dirty keyboard. We all know they're not hygienic but we put up with it. Not so a colleague. For years now he brings in a sparkling keyboard each Monday to last him the week. Each Friday he takes it home and sticks it in the dishwasher. Sometimes it survives and sometimes it doesn't. If not he has a £6.99 PC World replacement waiting in the wings.
I daren't tell him about the grime which accumulates inbetween the buttons of the average mouse.
(, Sat 27 Mar 2010, 18:54, 2 replies)
.Does your colleague who replaces the keyboard every week get sick much? Everyone who I've met who has been that compulsive about cleanliness gets sick an awful lot because their immune system is completely buggered up. I'd love to do a study of hygiene versus the number of times you get sick in a year. I bet that the people who only wash their hands after taking a dump or handling raw meat get sick far less than the people are compulsively clean. Actually, I know this will be the case. What I Really want to know is what is the optimum level of filth?
(, Sat 27 Mar 2010, 20:19, closed)
What about those who don't wash their hands after having a poo?Do they get sick even less?
(, Sun 28 Mar 2010, 11:33, closed)
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