Behind the bed😱😱😱

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🤣 or a burglary

Two strong son's come in handy every couple of months I would be lost without them.

I couldn't make up the spare bed never mind clean beneath it.
So I moved it to a different part of the room I may have had help with that
Now at least I can reach both sides.
It is solid wood, made by a carpenter but by golly, if I knew it would be so heavy to move, I would have declined his offer.

I met my neighbour out dog walking and she didn't have her teeth in and embarressed to talk. Found out she dropped them behind her bed and couldn't get to them and asked me to help her. Went round pulled the bed out easily (it was on casters) and there her teeth were in a very large pile of fluff, ear buds, dust etc. That bed had not been moved in years! Think her cleaner got extra work that week.

Mishy that made me smile, luckily I had my teeth in

I too have beds with drawers underneath and I usually move them about once a year, with help. My husband’s cousin ( who never liked me ) came to stay and one morning she said “ I’ve moved the bed to reach the plug for my hairdryer” I was mortified about her seeing all the fluff. I have a feeling she may have done it on purpose, as there was a double plug next to the dressing table.

We bought a lightweight rechargable Morphy Rchards with hand held attachment.It has lights so shows up dust etc.Our little Grandson loves it and hoover's every time he visits."I'm just doing the stairs Nanny" I here him shout.Bless him.

Dust is not too bad. Hate thought of having moth settling in carpets behind bed. Best to throw some sachets etc there!

Quentin Crisp, English Raconteur: .. "There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse."

On my hall shelf is a framed cross stitch sampler I made of a quotation from Rose Macauley: "Better a house unkept than a life unlived."

I can move my bed but I still don't move it very often. It really doesn't bother me if there is dust under it - there's plenty of dust on the venetian blinds if I feel like dusting

Our bed is a heavy wooden one and I can’t move it on my own . It gets moved about 2 a year and hoovered .
When we moved from our last house 28 years ago . The removals guys moved our bed and found a Dutch cap underneath 😳 I wondered where it had gone 🫣

When buying new furniture I am trying to buy it on castors. My office furniture now comes from the educational suppliers.

When we cleared out Mum's house we got a company in to deep clean the whole place before sale. My Mum had kept the place fastidiously clean but we knew dust lurked on all the skirting boards and behind furniture, hence the clean.

The cleaners called us upstairs to show us what they'd found behind the bed - a neat row of four perfect skeletons of mice! No flesh at all, just clean skeletons - Mum would have been horrified!

Which G tech do you use?

Just an idea - if you undress the bed, can you take the mattress off and out of the room - then is the bed base moveable?

I see dust as a protective surface 👍🏻😀

My favourite poem by Ellen Bailey

No particular suggestions about cleaning, just a confession.
Years ago, we had two new kittens and we had been trying to train them to use the litter tray. There was a bit of a funny smell in our bedroom but we couldn't find the source. Eventually it stopped, the kittens decided they preferred to go into the garden and we thought no more. But when we got a new bed - oh dear, dried up little kitten turds underneath. I didn't know whether to laugh or cry, but no real harm done.

We have a Shark Duo Clean, the handle bends, so it can clean under the beds!

All you cobwebby ladies.... Take heart

Many years ago I read that cobwebs trapped viruses and those who lived in cobwebby houses rarely caught colds

It seems to have worked here

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All you cobwebby ladies.... Take heart

Many years ago I read that cobwebs trapped viruses and those who lived in cobwebby houses rarely caught colds

It seems to have worked here

I haven't had a cold for many years!
The castors on my drawer divan are stuck so I just don't clean under of behind.

My late Mother in Law used to say that no one ever lay on their deathbed and said I wish I’d done more housework!

We clean as far as we can under the bed but when it has been moved, it doesn't seem to be dusty anyway: the base is very close to the ground.
Behind the bedhead is a different matter! I prefer to gather the dust using a long handled static duster, much less likely to damage the wall or skirting board.
I confess that upstairs is not cleaned regularly as my cleaning lady fills 3 hours each week just doing the downstairs!

Behind the bed is a foreign country, once in a while, a year or so I may endeavour to reach it to hoover up the so called ‘dust’ aka dead skin!

Oh thank you everyone for lots of laughs on this thread. I feel so much better, now, about the fluff blanket I cleared last week when I had a new bed. My mother would have been mortified. She was of the pull- it- out - and - clean- behind- it- every - week mindset, and I'm more of a clean-behind-it-the-day-you-move-house kind of girl. However, I found no cat poo, mice skeletons or dead seagulls, so I'm obviously a better housekeeper than I thought!😁