I hate that thing where you spend time dusting all over and then a few days later there's already dust all over again
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This is why I never dust. Not trying to be Sysiphus
Dusting’s for chumps
I often struggle to figure out what products or chemicals work well for cleaning certain things. Anytime I search Google, everything is just "baking soda or vinegar" which never works for fucking shit.
Have you tried soap and water?
People who are way too lax with washing crockery and cutlery, including not rinsing off the suds
Unpopular opinion maybe, but my peeve is when men stand to pee. It gets everywhere and is so disgusting. Every weekend when I’m bleaching the walls and everything in the “splash zone” it irks me that guys won’t also just sit to pee.
But the SPEED.
How is it faster?
I.... I don't know. But my brain says it's faster?
Never peed standing up on a regular toilet. Its disgusting. Just sit your ass down.
That my family will never have any conception of cleaning as you go. They're like that episode of Futurama where Fry had to teach everyone how to litter.
Gravity. Why does everything fall on the floor?
It sure beats everything getting stuck on the ceiling. That thing is way harder to clean!
Not if you design your room for deceleration with all the furniture on top.
If the floor becomes your new countertop, everything starts falling into place.
@ericbomb had roommates in college to whom mopping was just rearranging dirt on the floor.
Step 1. Get the mop wet in the bucket
Step 2. Mop the entire first floor
Step 3. Move to the next floor
No rinsing, no emptying/refilling the bucket (because hey, it never got dirty!). All grime just got wiped up, and moved around to the kitchen, living room, entryway, hallways etc. God forbid we had a party and beer got spilled in the basement. I'd be smelling it upstairs by the bedroom for weeks.
But... but where did they think the dirt was going if you don't rinse it off in the sink or bucket?
@ericbomb they didn't 🙃🥲
Honors college students, too. I have a few stories like this from my time living with them that still bring a 🙃🥲 to my face lol
They were taught to mop, but not how/why to mop I suppose!
The lack of cleaning, really. When someone makes a mess and just leaves it. I live in a small apartment with 2 other people, and those other two people are slobs. I am the only one who ever cleans up anything in this damn place. 😡 FFS, it's so small there is no reason, even laziness, to justify not throwing away your garbage when there is a trash can within reach of your chair.
Leaving trash around is so gross.
Especially rotten food! I just got rid of someone I was renting my basement out to and they had left rotten food all over the place. Like, having an empty amazon box in your room is one thing, but rotting left overs just sitting out? Disgusting beyond reason.
A cup used once for water. Come on guys!
Are you team just reuse it, put it in the sink, or just rinse and put it away?
Reuse it. If you drink one cup of water in the morning chances are you will drink at least one more before bedtime.
As in, it annoys you when people don't wash it?
Just use it more than once.
Oh yeh that's fine, if not expected imo.
You have no idea what passive voice means.
But I have gotten into trouble for dishwashing habits. My wife lives 70 miles away, which is probably why she hasn't strangled me over the last 15 years.
I'm totally guilty of using the dishwasher for storage. She and my (adult) kids have chewed me out for this. "But I was going to put away," followed by a kick in the ass .
I've no recollection of where I first read this: Get yourself a second dishwasher. Never again do you need to put away the dishes.
Always have one clean one to take dishes from while you're filling the other with dirty dishes. Once the other is filled turn it on and now the status is reversed.
This is a remarkable solution. Maybe I just need to get a second house They're really hard to steal though.
As an appliance salesman I approve this method
Maybe passive voice is the wrong term, but talking in a passive way about cleaning. Don't do an open ended complaint without an obvious solution. Either ask me to clean something specific, or say if you intend to clean somethings specific.
Visiting a friend's house.
Him: you want some espresso?
His espresso machine:
No, dude. I don't want dysentery, thank you very much. Clean your machines after every use. The product it makes is a foodstuffs! Blech!
Great now I can have a new fear of people growing a colony of something in their espresso machine.
There'd better not be dishes in the sink and Laundry left in the dryer 2 days later
OMG my sister would do this on purpose when we were teens. She would put clothes in the washer/dryer, knowing we would "push" them through the system as we did ours. Cause if something is in the washer that is wet when you need to use it, you just move it to the dryer, if something is in the dryer, you put it in a laundry basket and fold it.
But me and my mom realized the flaws in our system when we would fold entire loads of my sister's laundry, but would never find any of ours done! She thought she was slick and would only put her clothes into an empty washer/dryer.
she is a "Empty the sink" kind of person.
What does this mean?
You have a sink full of dishes. OP loads the dishwasher with as much as he can fit and runs it and considers the chore done. His mom doesn't consider the dishes done until the whole sink is empty.
I am team mom.
Okay but the trouble rose because my sisters took advantage of this system. We would take turns, and my sisters would "empty" the sink when it would only fill the dishwasher up to like half. Then it would flip to my turn. Then shenanigans would happen to make sure on my turns the sink would be extra full. So I would either need to hand wash a ton, or do a second load in the dishwasher, which would give chance for people to put more stuff in the sink.
If the system was "Your turn is up when the dishwasher is full and running" then there is far little room for silliness when it comes to turns.
I use the word pet peeve on purpose, should I care "that much" about it? Especially now as a 29 YO adult that owns his own home? No, clearly not.... and yet.
So it turns out my pet peeve is when people misuse the phrase “passive voice”. Huh, who’d have known?
Put the dirty dishes in the sink, not on the counter.
Put the utensils aside so bowls and plates can stack.
Don't put anything sharp, wood, or very fragile in the sink though.
Leave my sink empty!