I don't know about you, but I would not win awards for my housekeeping. I clean what needs to be cleaned enough so that everything is kept under control and tidy, and if company is coming then that is great motivation to really get in there and do a good job, but there are other tasks which go undone for a long time! Those areas that don't get seen by other people's eyes tend to suffer. Today I hauled the vacuum upstairs and gave our bedroom a good going over, took all the little thingys off of the tops of the dressers and bedside tables and did a thorough dusting. I even dusted pictures on walls and chair rails. That's what I mean about if nobody else sees it. It's just us. I'm the cleaner in the family and husband NEVER complains, so it gets done when I feel I want to do it. However, I am glad to have it done properly now. (Don't worry, toilets also got scrubbed). How would you rate yourself as a housekeeper: Surgically clean, Fastidious, Pretty good, O.K., Hit and Miss, Best not to Ask, or "At least I'm not a Hoarder!"
To end this compelling post, I leave you with chickens on bench and a wrapped up cat at the pool.
Your description of you describes me perfectly lol.
ReplyDeleteSo I'm not alone!
DeleteWe could So be good friends, LOL
DeletePictures of chickens and cats... 2 of my favorite subjects. Both my daughter and a dear friend raise chickens for the eggs. But they both have to fend off predators...mainly coyotes and rat snakes. I'm guessing you haven't had a problem. Now as for your question about house-keeping- definitely not surgically clean or fastidious, possibly somewhere between pretty good and OK. And I too love rice pudding!
ReplyDeleteAs long as we close up the coop at night, we are usually fine.
DeleteScrew the house, you make homemade rice pudding!
ReplyDeleteI'm what you can call a casual housekeeper. Sweep and vacuum when I see dog hair, dust if someone has written "Hi Nana" in it. When I do clean though, I have a cart with everything I need, I turn on Pandora to James Taylor, Doobie Brothers or Kaleo station, start at one end of the house (kitchen) and move through until I get (finally) to our master bath.
Then I make The Guy take me out to dinner for three nights so we don't get anything "dirty"!
That's a good way to get it done!
DeleteI'm in the "Hit and Miss" category (today I cleaned one toilet that was pretty disgusting!). Did the cat fall in the pool and need to be dried off? Any eggs yet?
ReplyDeleteOh goodness, no. My son was just having fun with the cat, he definitely did not go in the pool (although we've seen him drink from the steps - it's a salt water pool so probably not great for him). Yes, we get six eggs a day.
DeleteAt the moment I'm in a foot cast and a knee scooter, and cleaning isn't on my bucket list. I'm usually proficient at cleaning ceiling fans and toilets. I hate to see dust, and will take my feather duster through the house for the 'hit and miss' part. I used to be a nut about cleaning, and my own kids (grown now) would joke about Mrs. Neatnik. Not so much now....
ReplyDeleteI knew someone who had to use a knee scooter. Poor you! I have cleaned my ceiling fans... a while ago.
DeleteI love ironing and am guilty of making my own cleaning products and am probably mildly OCD about the stuff inside cupboards - shop-style folding, clothes arranged by colour, labels front in fridge, alphabetised CDs and my own version of the Dewey System etc - but am rather relaxed about what the world actually sees. So long as the bed's made, loo & basin is clean and things are more or less tidy, I'll faff about with the 50s housewife stuff in my own good time.
ReplyDeleteI iron very rarely. There's no right or wrong when it comes to keeping a house clean. It's up to each person and their own personalities, I think.
DeleteAt the moment I am in the big job zone so housework is kinda hit at miss just now.
ReplyDeleteNormally I am between pretty good and OK.
Homemade rice pudding cooked in the oven....heaven.
Hugs-x-
Unfortunately, the rice pudding was a dud - not creamy enough. I won't be using that recipe again. (Still ate some, but it really wasn't great, sad.)
DeleteYou sound like a better housekeeper than I am. Today was going to be clean-the-cottage day before I go home tomorrow or Friday. Rick will be coming up without me for a few days before first a friend arrives to help him with painting and then I come a day or two later after some appointments. You know -- clean sheets on the guest bed, vacuum, sweep, dust, clean the sinks and toilets. All not done!
ReplyDeleteBut it's August. I don't want to be cleaning. I want to be enjoying August. And I am. You too, I see! Yay!
August is a nice month to enjoy. I certainly don't love housecleaning. With your cottage, you have two houses to clean, don't you?
DeleteThe therapists are all upset about what I do at home. My granddaughter was here, and volunteered, "She doesn't do anything!"
ReplyDelete"Not true! I dust!"
Credit where credit is due.
But with which hand will you dust, Joanne??
DeleteI have a serious THING about clean counters and toilets, but the rest is very hit and miss.
ReplyDeleteIf the sun is shining the housework doesn't get done here. Love rice pudding but haven't had it in years. No raisins please!
ReplyDeleteDon't ask! Life is too short to dust curtain rails or clean windows. I get the grandchildren to slide around under the beds and get rid of some dust bunnies.
ReplyDeleteWho cares.
Dust on dark furniture does annoy me but a duster in the morning brings another layer by evening.
I do keep bathroom and kitchen clean, dont want to die just yet lol
Do like to keep it today though. Can't stand piles of clothes and miscellaneous rubbish.
Rice pudding...yes.
Go and sit on your porch with that coffee and listen to those crickets while you can
Linda above said it all for me. Life's too short for worrying about a bit of dust here and there. Beams get dusty very quickly, spiders webs and all sorts. I just leave it until it gets in my face and I have to duck. Then out comes a duster on a pole and I do what I can.
ReplyDeleteI'm in the 'pretty good' category. Sometimes I go above and beyond that, but usually prefer to be doing other things. Life is too short to spend it pushing a vacuum :) Now that we're empty nesters, housecleaning is very easy. The two of us don't make any real messes. If it wasn't for the cats, even the vacuum would take lengthy breaks.
ReplyDeleteThe chickens and the cat! Love the photos :)
I use to be better. But as I get better the house gets better care.
ReplyDeleteI am pretty good plus! lol Since we are moving to a smaller place this month I expect I will be BETTER than pretty good. lol I am sorting and purging as I go...so much work! xo Diana
ReplyDeleteThere is a cricket camped out below my open bedroom window. I am tempted to let the chickens into the rhubarb just to put an end to the noise! I like August, too. And September, even more. I am always thrilled when company is due and it's a gloomy, overcast day. Gloom hides so much...
ReplyDeleteHmmmm...I'd say I'm 'pretty good' but that's my space upstairs, not my daughter's space downstairs. I refuse to go down there and clean her pigsty. Every now and again I break down and vacuum the steps leading down there, because heaven forbid she ever would! But my upstairs which is 'my zone' is always pretty clean. I do the floors every weekend, unless other obligations keep me from them. I dust when I need to...the kitchen counters are cleaned multiple times a day. The fronts of the cabinets and appliances need a good wipe down now, but they will probably have to wait until after harvest season!
ReplyDeleteI think I'm pretty good...considering I also have the cottage9 months of the year 😳
ReplyDeleteEnjoy your evening...
Cheers!
Linda :o)
I LOVE all of these comments!! Funny that women have opinions about housework.
ReplyDeleteYour cleaning philosophy sounds much like mine!
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