I spent 30 minutes of this gorgeous day inside cleaning our shower. I got out the Mr. Clean Magic Eraser, got out the clorox (sp?) shower cleaner, and even got the old toothbrush out to scrub the caulking. It needed it, but I hated doing it. In fact, cleaning is always something I am glad I did but never enjoy doing.
In honor of my sparkling (kind of) clean shower...here is the circle game question. Format is different. It's fill-in the blank this time.
"I'd rather kiss a pig than clean _____________________."
For me...I'd rather kiss a pig than clean my refrigerator. It's messy, cumbersome, and it never seems like a good time to do it.
P.S. As a side note...I badly burned a pot this week for the first time in my life. I didn't put much water on the green beans and then covered them with a lid. 30 minutes later when I dished out the beans the bottom of the pot was BLACK! We were able to scrub off the charred mess, so the pot looks normal. Is it still safe to use? I didn't melt off any protective covering that will poison us or anything, did I?
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Gutters... sorry wifey.
the dishes
about the sidenote....i'd have to assess the pot to see if you and T are safe or may, in fact, pass on some sort of infection to your unborn children.
i'd rather kiss a pig than clean a toilet. or a shower. or the kitchen floor. or the bathroom floor. or dust the baseboards. or my car.
i don't really like getting my hands dirty cleaning, but like you, i enjoy the end product.
I don't mind cleaning things, so I am going to alter your fill-in-the-blank a little....I would rather kiss a pig than powerwash and stain the deck.
I'd rather kiss a big than clean the bottom tile-area around a toilet. You know, where the hair and other "stuff" collects? Blech.
C. and I have decided, dear friend, that you MUST know about the Scrubbing Bubbles shower cleaner. You know the one that's in the stores for $20? BUY IT. We got one as a gift last July and have not HAD to clean our white tiled, white grouted shower since then. It.Is.AMAZING.
I have a little different perspective since I cleaned many people's houses for them for the last year and a half. So, I don't mind the normal cleaning stuff and actually quite enjoy the feel when everything is done.
I would rather kiss a pig than clean - anything having to do with pets. (Hair, poop, pee, puke, etc.)
Had to do it WAY too many times. Encountered 40 piles of dog poop in one house at one time. HOW DO PEOPLE LIVE THAT WAY!?!?!?
Ick. Ick. Ick.
dri - let me get this straight - there was THAT much dog poop in one house? out in the open....as in people were stepping around the "business", going about their business? i'm beside myself.
but, having a pug that sheds TONS of hair, i'm with you on this one. i HATE dog hair.
I hate dog hair, too.
Good call.
And Dri, that is disgusting. You should have charged on a "pile" basis that day. :-)
The couple had two dogs in their house and apparently they didn't use their living room very often. They told Daryn and I not to clean it, but we had extra time one time. Daryn went in there and found (and counted for the purpose of story-telling) FORTY piles of poop. Apparently they didn't take their dogs out. Yuck. Because they told us not to clean that room - we DIDN'T. We probably should have just because that's disgusting and no one should live that way. But, we didn't. (Are we bad people?)
I cleaned up countless piles of cat poop and puke at one house throughout the year and a half, though.
Have I said lately how much I appreciate my new job??? :)
The bathroom in the clinic at our school. I don't even like looking at the clinic door because I'm sure that some sort of weird kid germs will seep from the bathroom, through the well bleached clinic into my eyeballs and kill me momentarily. Elementary kids can be a little groos to begin with and I don't even want to think about what they do behind the clinic bathroom door!
-Cuz
Dri - I am absolutely amazed that someone would leave 40!!! piles of dog poop. I can claim that I am the tidies person in the world, but that seems wrong to me.
Cuz - I would definitely stay far, far away from the bathroom clinic.
Boxes of paper... somehow I convince myself that I have made some sort of de-cluttering strides by bulldozing papers into a box (TO BE SORTED). Of course, I can't just throw away the box... because I'm certain that there is probably something really important mixed in with everything. I'm even reading a book about it ("Clutter's Last Stand") AND honestly made some progress over the weekend.
Actually, now that I think about it... I changed my mind. I have had actual FARM experience with "piggers" (sorting from one pen to another). If it boiled down to the choice of getting THAT up close and personal with a hog, BRING ON THE CLEANING, BABY!!
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