Behind the bed😱😱😱

I have this little poem up in my house. All those that know me know the house will be clean and tidy when they visit but dust behind their beds is not always going to be removed before their visit 😜

Eufy robot vacuum is brilliant for doing under the bed if you've a gap between base of bed and floor

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I'm also a rubbish housewife, but as I live on my won there's no one to complain. However, I do nos possess a Shark vacuum cleaner and although it's an upright cleaner it has this long wand that can reach into difficult areas.
However, as no one can see under your bed, why worry?

Auntieflo

Try a robot vacuum. Ours goes under the bed easily.

hmm

They do say that dull women keep immaculate homes.

I am not a dull woman.

Housework is on the back burner with DH unwell. I just push the Shark round occasionally without moving any furniture.

Behind the bed gets done about once a year if that. The bed has drawers, a high headboard and is very heavy. Occasionally I push it one way then another and hoover where I can, and use a long handled duster for tricky places.
I moved a chair yesterday and found all sorts of debris behind it. I put it back. Just keeping the place tidy is all I can manage at the moment.

Include dirt under the sofas in the conservatory😲. Just pulled them out this morning. Blimey.

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!😁

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!

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!

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!

widgeon3

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.

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

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

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.

My favourite poem by Ellen Bailey

I see dust as a protective surface 👍🏻😀

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?

Which G tech do you use?

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!

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

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 🫣

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

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."