What do you do that nobody else does?

[Bigmallly]

I go Kitch**n browsing around 6am everyday.............I bet no one else does that.........

[alldigging]

I have a friend who used to pull her cooker out twice a year, and clean behind it!

I know someone who does it much more often than that.

[marchogaeth]

Not at all marchogaeth. I don't know any farmers who hoover their balers!

Farmers are (stereotyping I know) appalling at looking after their equipment correctly. We still make small bales and I don't want to think about how old our baler is but it was seriously second hand when we bought it 20 years ago. As they aren't made any longer and the lovely man who used to keep it alive has himself passed away, it is very precious.

[marchogaeth]

I think pretty much everyone's first Hoover was a Hoover Junior, which had a massive white bottom, a tubular handle, with a zipped bag hanging on the side. When you turned it on, the bag inflated. Only posh people had any other sort of vacuum, and so 'hoovering' became the norm for most.

An upright hoover. Man you were posh!

[marchogaeth]

Ah, Horse blankets/rugs... When I was a teenager, Horse 'laundry' was banned from our local launderette, and they put up a big sign pointing to the camera, so we'd think twice about washing them. Did it work?
No! We just took them in inside black rubbish sacks, and tipped them straight in the washer!

Which reminds me of our friend who was banned from the student union laundry when the caretaker found out why the dust trays were full of purple dust.............he was drying seaweed out in the wet weather when he couldn't do it on the beach. (He was selling it to Oriental restaurants to supplement is income.)

Sometimes I sweep the kitchen floor instead of getting the hoover out of the cupboard.

Isn't that normal?

PS Sorry I didn't multi quote as I went along til now.

[chris]

I scrub my kitchen floor tiles/grout so they look like new (downside of choosing a very pale grout with two young kids... d'oh).

I do the toaster thing too, clean the hob rings whenever I clean the kitchen (can't stand having my own hob being dirty), I wash my hoover and the central do dah bit - cyclone thingy? - the dyson cyclone thingy that inserts into the plastic bucket thing) and the filters. I scrub my outdoor bins out too, wash the tea/coffee/sugar pots out every other week (sometimes even put the contents in another container when I do it, and then put them back in afterwards..... ).

Probably a lot more too but can't be bothered to write it all down!

[mothhawk]

You put me to shame, Chris. My teapot only gets cleaned when the sides are so brown you can practically make tea in it without actually putting any tea in. Then it gets a thorough scrub with bicarb of soda. Mind you, it is in almost constant use. I make a full pot, then reheat the contents through the day till it's empty, and start again.

Ah, wait, we're talking tea caddy here, aren't we? That gets cleaned before it's refilled, so once a fortnight for me. Herbal/green teas stay in their boxes. Coffee goes in a bag in the fridge to keep it fresher, and I don't use a sugar bowl/pot, in fact if I have visitors who take sugar, if they are good mates they get the sugar bag, if less familiar I have to scramble around to find a bowl to put some sugar in.

[veggiechicken]

Chris - you must have the eebie jeebies when you come to my house - but if ever you want to show me how these things are done, please, be my guest

[chris]

I also do this once a month:



Then disinfect and put back together again.

The mouse too!


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[chris]

Chris - you must have the eebie jeebies when you come to my house - but if ever you want to show me how these things are done, please, be my guest

It's ok, I'm not one to judge!

[veggiechicken]

Chris - you're crackers
Just been thinking of you actually - as I washed about 10 kitchen floor tiles!
What i do that maybe nobody else does, is scrub a few kitchen floor tiles after I've done the washing up. My floor is too big to do all at once (by the time you've moved furniture to get to hidden bits) and the dogs leave their muddy foot prints in the same places every day. So I wash off the grubby bits whenever I have some hot water but never attempt to do the complete floor at once.

[chris]

Likewise, I just thought of you too - I wanted to pinch some josta cuttings, only just remembered !

[veggiechicken]

Next time - when you show me how to dismantle the keyboard

[Bigmallly]

Chris, Have you ever considered seeing a Dr?...............I'm sure there must be some help out there...........

[veggiechicken]

Dr VC will help - but first Chris must demonstrate his problems - on my floor