Comments on: Getting Started: The Pile Of Dishes From H-E-Double-Hockey-Sticks

By: Jasi

Jasi — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:26:17 +0000

True.

By: Judith

Judith — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:58:37 +0000

Golly, it’s nice to see we’re all so alike!
I hate dirty dishes in the sink and on the counter ….. even if my kitchen table is piled high with paper and stuff, if my counters and sinks and stove are clean, I’m okay. I’m ecstatic if the trash and recycling bins are empty (and smelling fresh) and the floor is clean!
For me, it’s kitchens and bathrooms first, then beds made, floors cleaned, coffee table cleared, and then laundry.
At least I know where to head first when the house is a wreck (like today, since I’ve been home sick for 2 days…..)
Off to load my dishwasher and handwash/dry/put away the rest!

By: Nancy

Nancy — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:29:48 +0000

Dishes always bother me the most, because they start smelling bad. Full trash cans and cat boxes also bother me, for the same reason. I try to sweep the area around the cat boxes also, to keep the cat litter from tracking all over the house.

By: Attila

Attila — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:51:08 +0000

Unmade beds. Yuk; horrible! A few weeks ago my cat brought a bird in and went under the bed with it; I was alone and can’t touch birds. My neighbour was out; the only man; the rest are elderly ladies or out at work. Then I saw the postman, so I asked him to be a hero and he was; crawled right under the bed, retrieved the bird and disposed of it. Off he went with huge thank yous and then I realised; the bed was unmade; not in that artistic, magazine shoot kind of way, but slovenly, really needs to be changed sort of way. Now every time this postman comes around, I hide!!!

By: Diaper Cakes Becca

Diaper Cakes Becca — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 05:09:50 +0000

Dishes I can handle. In fact I insist they are done before I hit the sack….nothing worse than dried on dinner that you have to sandblast off the next morning.

The bane of my existance is laundry. Even if all the dirty laundry is hidden (hampers, closets, etc.) all those empty hangers in the closets scream to me that laundry has to be done. Load after load to be done. Item after item to be folded or hung back up. I may be lucky enough to have empty hampers and baskets for a few hours….and then it simply piles up again so quickly. Ugh….

When we had a dog that was pretty gnarly, too. She would lose hair twice a year in amounts that made us wonder if there were high voltage power lines laying around somewhere in our yard (those huge hunks of black lab fur…..yuck!)

But, mostly……the laundry is what drives me insane. I hate doing it, folding it and watching it pile up again so quickly.

By: PollyS

PollyS — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 01:53:26 +0000

I couldn’t agree more. That is always my starting place. At least unloading and loading the dw and washing and putting away the leftover dishes and then wiping the counters until they shine. THEN tackle the other messes.
Do you remember one of the first scenes in the movie Apollo 13? After a party Tom Hanks and his wife drop into some lounge chairs. She says, “lets just move and leave the mess here.” I so feel like that sometimes! but after getting the dishes done, the mess doesn’t seem THAT overwhelming.

By: rachel-asouthernfairytale

rachel-asouthernfairytale — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 23:12:32 +0000

The dishes are way up there and then, there’s the laundry that seems to multiply if you just turn your back on it for a second. It grows and expands like aliving beast.

By: imabug

imabug — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 23:05:28 +0000

when i was in grad school, my roommates were pretty bad about doing their dishes. one time the sinks filled up with soaking dishes. i went away on vacation for a couple of weeks, and came back to the same dishes still soaking in the sink underneath a thick layer of gray goo.

since then i make it a point not to let dishes pile up for very long.

the bane of my existence now is dog hair. with two labs, it’s an endless supply.

By: Sher

Sher — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:39:02 +0000

Pet hair, smelly kitchen garbage, and overflowing wastebaskets! Just cleaned the house yesterday, and that was where I started . . .

By: gracie

gracie — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:25:03 +0000

dishes, and the living room floor – toys, laundry, dog hair — i’ve been down with an inner ear infection for the past week, so getting up to do anything is close to impossible, the world just spins

the children are past irritated at having to do dishes, laundry, let dogs in and out, make meals, and get stuff for mom – lol

but they’ve actually been really good about it — so i brought them an ice cream for the ice cream truck 1$ menu

now it’s time to try to get the house back to livable – sigh