Signs that standards are seriously slipping.

You could slide down the bannisters in your drawers!

Housework and all the thrills of the fair in one!

(Is there one 'n' or two in banister/bannister?)

I actually did my skirting boards (the bits you can see) yesterday in the bedroom but must admit I used the towel headed for the wash.
My tiny bathroom floor is done every day and I’ll use a used towel to dry it off.

I am clearly a bit of a slob but I prefer to think of it as economical Labour.

I cleaned another worktop thoroughly while OH made cups of coffee. He took the coffee away and I looked proudly back at the worktop I had scrubbed earlier - yes it was splattered with coffee!

It's easier to not bother.

As I always do my cleaning before visitors arrive things have started to slide already! My flat will end up looking like Miss Haverham's house by the time lockdown ends!

Like Trisher, I have loads of knitting, crocheting etc. on the go. I have a big shopping bag at the side of my chair to stuff it all into.

I've decided to take my lazy self in hand and have started scrubbing everything in the kitchen. The kettle and toaster are looking good so far.

I'm choking on the smell of bleach though as I have given the worktops a good going over.

Gagajo. I do that with the face flannel, then every few weeks. as well as washing, it gets boiled and bleached, just to be on the safe side.

Anyone watch the hoarders programmes? I think that is my current aim, to be like one of them.

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But at least you’ve done some dusting!
Which is more than I have for quite a while. (Where’s the slob emoji?).
I do sometimes wish I was one of those people who actually enjoy cleaning, but there’s always something better to do, like curling up on the sofa with a good book - or at the moment, lying on a sunbed in the garden with a good book! And maybe a nice long G&T, if I can be bothered to go and make one...

It's not the dust that bothers me, it's the pile of books, papers, wool, crocheting, sewing etc steadily growing beside my seat. By the time lock down finishes they may have to dig me out!

timetogo2016. Not the crotch bit obviously. ( she says furiously trying to back-peddle ).

I have to say I always changed the sheets because that was one of the thing that was easy for the head housekeeper to check and for guests to spot

25Avalon and SirChenjin, I don't know if it's true or not, but I was always told to check the sheets on the bed in a hotel, to make sure they've been changed.

I often do that to the top of a picture frame half way down the stairs although I draw the line at the bannisters ?

I worked as a chambermaid as a student and I won’t even begin to tell you what we did. When you have 30 rooms to clean in a few hours let’s just say standards do slip.

I did laugh at that Ninarosa

When I worked as a chambermaid many years ago we were taught to wipe the bath and washhandbasin dry with one of the towels we were about to change. So next time you use the bath in a hotel make sure to wash it down first before getting in.

PS ,have not ahve.tut.

I ahve never thought of doing that and tbh i don`t like the thought of wiping my furniture down with dirty drawers.
But it did make me laugh out loud.

Love that idea SueDonim, sadly I'm not that nimble, tho the proportions of my derrière would surely make light work of it.

Now there’s an idea Suedonim ?

I frequently damp wipe with the flannel from grandson's bath before throwing into the laundry hamper. I have panelling in there with a ledge that is a dust catcher. We have wooden stairs so I also utilize the boys bathtime flannel to damp wipe down the stairs on the way down to put a load of washing in.

Yuk! Are you still wearing them and shining things with your backside?

I laughed too Love the honesty.

Yuck.

Yep been there too picked them to pop in laundry basket and had a quick swipe round on the way ?