you could drink off those floors

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aaargh yuck. i just walked out into the kitchen barefoot only to step in a freezing puddle of fridge juice that had accumulated beneath offending ice box machine. i went 'aaargh yuck' and then just kept walking, got my snack on, wiped my foot on a rug on the way back here. this is not an unusual occurence in our house, actually we have many unhygienic things going on full-bore. for example there is a half consumed bowl of laksa in my room. the rest of the room is slightly week old laksa tinged now, smell-wise (other elements in the bouquet: old socks, dust). i'll stress that this is but the tip of a big garbage iceberg. remember when you were at school and you didn't put something away? and the teacher said "would you treat your house like a rubbish bin like that?". yeah, i would. would you?

― minna, Sunday, 28 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

hey, i will clean it up eventually.

― minna, Sunday, 28 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ew. I'm a neat freak with my room and between us housemates the kitchen and shared areas never get too gloppy.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 28 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i generally resist cleaning because it just gets dirty again. to illustrate: a friend wrote my name with his finger in the dust on my dashboard, and it eventually filled back in with dust. (I do make more of an effort in the apt, but it's so small if i dont it gets too smelly)

― Ron, Sunday, 28 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

When it comes to obvious stuff like fluff, cat fur, chunks of dirt and bits of rice on the floor, I tend to make sure that stuff is cleaned up reasonably swiftly. But my kitchen floor (and indeed, all floors in the house) haven't yet seen a mop since I moved in three months ago. I had to clean up some spilled cream last night and the kitchen paper came up a nice shade of grey/brown from the floor. Eew. I shall be mopping that darn floor tonight..

― electric sound of jim, Sunday, 28 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You are a dirty one

― mike hanle y, Sunday, 28 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I dunno, Honda's apartment seems to make lots of sudden leaks....showers and sinks overflowing into the kitchen and whatnot. My fridge was leaking a while ago...but that's because the pipe that ran water to the ice maker was cracked and leaked whenever it tried to make new ice. However it does tend to vibrate suddenly by itself...

But really, my room is really neat?

― jen, Sunday, 28 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Its ok to live in filth if you sleep in a clean area.

― mike hanle y, Monday, 29 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

We seem to have a high tolerance of non-biodegradable mess (ie. piles of records, old phone bills, books, newspapers, empty CD cases) in our flat. I still choose to call myself a clean person by putting this in a whole different category to dirty dishes/mouldy coffee/orange peel/soiled knickers. But speaking of fridge juice, we are using a spare fridge as an extra cupboard, which I am wondering about. Should the fridge be turned off, thus emitting odd smells/juice/potentially harmful chemicals, or kept on, thus wasting electricity?

― Archel, Monday, 29 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My roommate vacuums and I don't, so it's very easy to tell where the dividing line of our room is.

― Vinnie, Monday, 29 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I define clean in the same way as Archel, but my flat is definitely not clean, in that respect. I have neglected the washing up for ages. The hoover don't work proper, and frankly, I cannot be bothered to clean. The fridge smells. Everything is grubby. It's funny, because at work I am a cleanliness freak.

― alix, Monday, 29 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I missed an hour of Hollyoaks doing the washing up on Sunday!!!! Gah!!! And now it is horrible!! Again!!! Waaah! I dream of our bigger kitchen.

― Sarah, Monday, 29 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

And as for cockfarming flatmate who cooks NINE MILLIONG THINGS AT A TIME and then LEAVES THEM for AGES and then makes sarky comments when he sees me doing the washing up well he can just BOG OFF!

― Sarah, Monday, 29 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

three months pass...

I spend most of my time at home. I also enjoy my home and it rarely gets messy... Lol It is quite lived in though.

― Gale Deslongchamps (Gale), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 23:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Wow, Starry, did you move into one of my old places? [Favourite incident: badass anarcho-punk flatmate smashed up a teevee set and left it in the downstairs hall for at least the 3 weeks i lived there, which was fine and dandy till he also broke the upstairs toilet and we had to walk through a broken-glass minefield to use the other one]

Our flat currently has lingering male-flatmate room mustiness at one end, wet dog at the other, and the vague odour of left-to-congeal roast chicken carcass in the kitchen. Kinda bad, i guess, cause we need a new flatmate by the end of next week.

― petra jane (petra jane), Wednesday, 28 August 2002 06:10 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm messy by nature and overcompensate with excessively anal cleaning, a trait inherited from my mother who was a bleach fiend when I was growing up. It does go in cycles of mess to extreme tidiness, but the cycles are never longer than three days. I clean properly every week, without fail. Especially the kitchen floor, the bathroom, and the fridge. Also, the more chaotic everything else (usually, the worse the thesis is going and the more the office/desk is turning into nothing but huge piles of not-done work and 'filing' (ha)), the more assiduosly I clean.

― Ellie (Ellie), Wednesday, 28 August 2002 08:45 (twenty-three years ago)

I wish I knew what hoover bags we should buy. Our house is not so bad, apart from aforesaid lack of hoover now leading to front room carpet ERROR. Oh, the bog is broken and the washing machine doesn't work either...

― Sarah (starry), Wednesday, 28 August 2002 08:56 (twenty-three years ago)

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