National Blog Posting Month

Messy is an Understatemente

I only clean when my husband complains. I do my laundry, but I hate to fold. I'd rather leave it all in a bundle on th guest room bed. The dishes I have to do every night or the hubby raises holy heck, but I remember once upon a time when I only did the dishes when I ran out of clean ones.

There are so many things I'd rather be doing besides cleaning, and when I get away with it I am doing them instead of cleaning. -grin-

▶ Reply to This

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Sassy on November 18, 2007 at 11:13pm: Amen !

I thing if I clean (too much' my hubby will get used to it, expect it, and I'll be 'enslaved'. This way, I'm sure he always keeps his end of the cleaning bargain !; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Nona Morris on November 19, 2007 at 7:52am: Mine vacuums once a week and wants a pat on the head for helping that much.

I didn't do the dishes last night, asked him to and when I got up this morning they had all been put (still dirty) into a plastic bag on the kitchen counter. o_O

Maybe its HIM whos the messy one and not me.
...
...
Nah...its me.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Julie Zaccone Stiller on November 19, 2007 at 9:40am: aww man, that is some passive agressive BS if you ask me. If he has enough time to put the dirty dishes in a bag, he sure as heck has enough time to just put them in the washer. Goodness,someone needs to grow up! I suggest serving his dinner on a paper plate tonight.

Our rule on doing dishes has always been whoever cooks dinner gets a pass on cleaning up afterwards. Maybe that would be worth trying out??; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Nona Morris on November 19, 2007 at 11:41am: We don't use the dishwasher (often) because the hubby SWEARS it doesn't get the dishes clean. I sometimes run it when he's not home and take the dishes OUT of the washer and put them in the dish drainer to make it look like I washed them myself, and he's NEVER said they were not clean when I do that. Only when he KNOWS I ran the washer.

I hardly ever even eat anymore because I'm doing the slim fast diet and my mother in law usually feeds me the one meal I'm allowed to day, so all the dishes are HIS dishes anyway.

I thought about getting some paper plates and plastic sporks or something, but decided I'd rather wash the dishes than have that much more trash. I'm not living green, just green-ish. -grin-; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Sara Louise on November 19, 2007 at 3:59pm: When you do the dishes, stick em in the washer, when he does the dishes he can get his hands wet, simple as. If dishwashers didn't clean the dishes then people wouldn't keep them installed in their kitchens.

As for putting the dishes into a plasic bag! I'd take *my* dishes out, wash them, dry them, even put them away and leave his to start growing their own mould gardens in the plastic bag!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Julie Zaccone Stiller on November 19, 2007 at 9:37am: I'm messy, and really unmotivated about cleaning, there are a zillion other things I'd rather do than mop the floor,etc... Until it gets out of control and I can't find my stuff.
I recently had a house guest and wasn't too worried about cleaning up, until after she left. (???) And then I went on a cleaning tear, which was very overdue. We've been doing a whole house remodel for more than a year now, and the contruction dust and debris keep getting everywhere. Seems pointless to clean when wallboard dust will just be recoating everything once again. sigh. So I got out of the habit.

THere has to be a middle ground here, between complete slothful mess and hyper clean. I don't like to spend the little energy I do have on cleaning the house. And roping my two boys and husband into pitching in is a job in itself! I hate to spread the guilt trip on them, but they'll do stuff when I ask in a pitiful manner.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by BipolarLawyerCook on November 19, 2007 at 1:41pm: I don't do dishes. I figure doing the shopping and cooking is enough. I don't do laundry, but I only do my own-- he does his. And I occasionally swiffer, and dump shoes from the front of the house to my closet in the back of the house. That counts, right? But mopping the kitchen floor? Cleaning the bathroom? No thanks. I _do_recycle my junk mail when it comes in, though.

The hubby doesn't clean at all, except for the dishes when we run out. But he is better at keeping his mess confined to his side of the bed and his (smaller than mine) office.

Sigh.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by sara on February 15, 2008 at 2:31pm: hehe same here mine complains.i dont like to do dishes neither.laundry isnt something i enjoy neither.speaking of which i have a basket full of clothes that need to be put away but are still in there and have been for a couple weeks lol.; ▶ Reply to This