Signs that standards are seriously slipping.

This is truly the best post I've seen in ages. Almost wet myself laughing.

My mum wasn't too keen on housework and used to say she would just spray the cobwebs silver and gold and a bit of glitter at Christmas. She was only joking of course.
I once had a neighbour who used to do gardening with her knickers on her head - dont know if she dusted with them first.

Yes, standards are slipping. I don't think I did any housework last week, apart from the loos of course. It got to me on Saturday and it looked much better for a scrub. Not actually dusted with the underwear though!

That seriously made me laugh - why not!!

Not sure I'd want to touch a surface that had someone else's used knickers wiped over it

‘Don’t’, not ‘doing’

I’ve always dusted (infrequently) with whatever comes to hand from the laundry basket. Our shoe cleaning bag contains several pairs of old pants- they doing get used very often either ?

Thanks for all the laughs.
I watched a programme on tele about cleaning your house during the covid crisis. I was horrified. I came away with the impression that you would have to clean everything as soon as you'd touched it. I felt even more of a slob after that but I'm not going to change. I don't go out because I'm locked down for another 9 weeks (maybe) and there's only me here. My most exciting trips out are to the bins and sitting in the sun on my balcony. I thought all old knickers and vests were destined for dusters anyway.

I wonder if that’s a school science project for DS - ‘how many bacterium can you grow from a pair of knickers’?

Brilliant thread. You are being eco friendly not using those very eco unfriendly wet wipe! And building immunity for all those apparently terrible bugs on your knickers!

Oh dear, must be honest I have done this at times!

Knickers have ecoli on them? Have there been scientific studies on this?!

Oh Ninarosa you have given me a very entertaining half hour reading your thread.
I must admit that I succumb to the odd bit of dusting with my drawers on the way to the washing machine. I feel that one should get as much use as one can from ones drawers.
Hope that you have all had a lovely easter.
Carole.??

I quite enjoy doing a bit of Spring cleaning, but am thwarted at the moment by the hand surgery I had in January. It’s my dominant hand, and despite the physiotherapy I do every day, the recovery is slow, so I can’t clean very much, or do quite a lot of day to day tasks yet. Luckily I’ve got a husband who can’t stand sitting around too much, so he’s picked up all the tasks I can’t do. We haven’t dusted with our drawers yet, but he does like old underpants, clean I hasten to add, for using as rags when he’s working on the car or garden.

Beanie, love it!!! Lol.

That is funny Ninarosa, I did exactly the same yesterday xx

That is disgusting. Urgh, the bacteria you are spreading from your dirty knickers onto surfaces - ecoli for one. Gross

Well I must admit this is the funniest line of comments for a while I love it. Read them to DH and he was absolutely mortified and made me promise that I would never do these things. I got a pair of his pants from drawer and proceeded to clean windows, he was in front garden. I knocked window as a neighbour passed, dropped cleaning cloth on floor and proceeded to wave his pants in one hand and window spray in the other. I have never seen him move so fast I side. It was so funny, but he didn't find it so. As I told him if he doesn't help with the cleaning he has no right to comment.

Standards slipped?
Mine are so far advances they have slipped under the bottom of the door, and made a bid for freedom....

Lclaytonuk555 - that's funny. I take the Quentin Crisp attitude to dusting, it does work. Although NEVER move the ornaments.

what is this dusting

And there's the rest of the world trying not to spread germs. It didn't make me laugh, it made me feel sick.

While showering this morning I couldn't be bothered putting shampoo on my hair. I just wet it and left it. First time I've ever done that.

I'm so pleased that so many of you are not slaves to your home. It makes me feel very normal!

Sorry to ask, but what is this ‘dusting’? ?