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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When I did a homecare job years agoI saw some sights, but the worst were always the alcoholics.
They're not called 'pissheads' for nothing. Advanced alcoholism destroys bladder control, so that the drinker pisses everywhere.
Either they can't help it or they don't care - makes no difference, their home soon starts to stink, and they're the only one who can't smell it.
One elderly lady I had to visit had a younger alcoholic 'lodger' who filled her sheltered housing flat with the familiar ronk.
As their flat opened onto a shared corridor they weren't popular.
I soon sussed that other carers hadn't done much, so in the couple of hours I had there every week I set to and scrubbed the place out.
Over a couple of months I had pissy carpets and a mattress replaced, bleached the bathroom within an inch of its life and removed and washed every scrap of fabric in the place, watched by the drunk in the corner who occasionally grinned and raised a can of Super-T in greeting.
The smell receded noticeably and the couple's neighbours became friendlier towards them and each thanked me personally.
I eventually moved on to another job so no doubt it all went back to normal in a few weeks. Ah, well.
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