I hate changing the oil in the hydraulic sex toys, and you need to do it every 200 hours for reliable operation, so you never really get a break from this job.
I replaced all the wood and carpeted floors in my house (2200 square ft) with new resilient (fake wood plastic planks) like THIS.
Sure it doesn't look quite as good as real wood, but it's near impossible to damage, it's very hard, you can get it as wet as you want and it's really easy to clean. With all the dogs I have running around here, it's been a godsend.
I bought one of those Roomba robot vacuums a few years ago, but was disappointing with it's ability to clean my old wood and carpet floors, so I threw it out. I bought one again after I got these floors and it really does a good job on it, and it's always ready to work with enthusiasm.
I for one welcome our new robot overlords. I need one to do laundry.
Bags - My next home will have those vinyl wood plank strips. The best ones are actually linoleum, which is far more durable than vinyl, and looks more wood like.
I saw them recently on hospital floors where the have to take a log of wear and abuse, and they looked very good.
I was most concerned with durability, as my old oak floors' finish would get worn out in traffic areas. What I did to choose a floor material was to attempt to scratch each sample in the stores with a key until I found the one most tough. This Allure floorng was the only one that would not scratch with key. From the looks of the samples in Home Depot, everyone must do this.
April: "Looks great in your house, Bagoh. Perfect for the dogs. I like the idea of a wash and wear floor."
I've seriously considered linoleum throughout. With large carpet pieces ending a foot from the wall. That way the carpets are semi disposable after a few years. Drain hole, eh? I'll have to mull that one for the bathroom :)
If I were raising boys, they would learn how to clean. They would learn how to do their laundry, scrub the toilet, wash the dishes, clean and vacuum, iron shirts etc...
The idea that cleaning is for women only is old fashioned bullshit. and I'm no radical leftwing feminazi.
What needs discussion is the proper attire for a maid when performing her duties. I like my Roomba to wear absolutely nothing but a tiny powder blue ribbon atop her short but well-rounded frame. I also love the way she pretends to ignore me the whole time as she glides past me again and again, sometimes gently bumping into me or coming ever so close and just letting the static build between our bodies as she slips past pretending it's inadvertent. Such a tease, that one.
I have a similar experience when I call the male stripper-house cleaners. Often they send out old man porn stars and it's a bust, but sometimes I get lucky with the cougar-ready gym pushers.
I've seriously considered linoleum throughout. With large carpet pieces ending a foot from the wall. That way the carpets are semi disposable after a few years. Drain hole, eh? I'll have to mull that one for the bathroom :)
Yep. & water-proof indoor-outdoor furniture.
Linoleum and cork flooring have made a bit of a come-back. cork can be problematic. It's a bit touchy when you go to clean it.
I use some area rugs when people visit. You can roll them up when you aren't expecting company, and so they stay clean. When they do get dirty, you can take them outside to scrub and hang them up on a clothes line for rinsing and drying, or replace them.
I will never have carpet again. Whatever falls on the carpet stays in the carpet to some degree. Very quickly you live on a Petri dish.
I hate cleaning the showers and bathroom in general. Tip on that is to do it more often and it won't become such a chore. We spray the shower floor and the corners every third day with a cleaner that contains bleach to keep the mold and mildew at bay and once a week scrub the glass with a soap scum buster.
The easiest way to clean the bathroom is to get nude, cuz you are gonna get all wet anyway.....scrub everything and then take a nice long hot shower in your clean bathroom. :-)
Something that worked well for me while I did it (cause I'm a terrible housekeeper) was to get one of those small pressure pump sprayers and fill it with a weak water-bleach solution. If about twice a week I sprayed the shower and tub, and then set a small fan toward it to dry, it stayed very clean.
Cleaning house? The words you use are strange to my people.
But seriously, I have vinyl flooring in my kitchen and bathroom, and since I live in the land of red clay, the dogs track in mud that, apparently, chemically bonds with the vinyl. Chickie could explain the cross linking and electron sharing and whatnot.
Finding a mop that works has proved frustrating. I stopped mopping over at my old house - the vinyl had failed in places and the subfloor showed through. No amount of Mop 'n' Glo is going to spruce up that plywood, just sayin'.
So, while I can starch and iron a shirt to perfection, I need to find a mop that works. I will listen to any and all suggestions.
OBTW, we were taught Roman Numerals in school, but I got my practice reading them by watching old cartoons such as this one from 1937.
"How about a thread about how to properly iron a shirt?"
Before there was such a thing as permanent press fabrics. My chore was to iron my father's work shirts.
Sprinkle or spritz the shirts with water. Roll up in towels to keep damp. The routine was something like this: Collar. Back. Fronts. Sleeves. Cuffs. Shoulders. Button Placket. And Collar again. Spritz with spray starch or more water if needed to iron out the wrinkles.
Ironing was a chore that I didn't mind. It was fun to listen to music while doing the ironing.
We had one of those steam roller type ironing machines when I was a child.
Appropriately called a "Mangle" at our house because that's what it would do to any hand haplessly caught in it or so I thought at the time.
Didn't have the wiki to set me straight back then. The Oxford English Dictionary dates the first use of the word in English from 1598, quoting John Florio who, in his 1598 dictionary, A World of Words, described "a kind of press to press buckram, fustian, or dyed linen cloth, to make it have a luster or gloss." The word comes from the Dutch mangel, from mangelen "to mangle", which in turn derives from the medieval Latin mango or manga which ultimately comes from the Greek manganon, meaning "axis" or "engine".
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Least: Stepping on a broom handle and having it whack me in the head. Just like Betty.
Bst: The invention of the Swiffer. Strap on a baby wipe and go.
I hate changing the oil in the hydraulic sex toys, and you need to do it every 200 hours for reliable operation, so you never really get a break from this job.
Floors. Most of the floor in my home is maple. Vacuum or sweep, mop with distilled water and vinegar, clean up streaks if needed.
I do identify with Grammpy, though. Old dude still has it, driving a convertible and dating a younger woman.
I replaced all the wood and carpeted floors in my house (2200 square ft) with new resilient (fake wood plastic planks) like
THIS.
Sure it doesn't look quite as good as real wood, but it's near impossible to damage, it's very hard, you can get it as wet as you want and it's really easy to clean. With all the dogs I have running around here, it's been a godsend.
I bought one of those Roomba robot vacuums a few years ago, but was disappointing with it's ability to clean my old wood and carpet floors, so I threw it out. I bought one again after I got these floors and it really does a good job on it, and it's always ready to work with enthusiasm.
I for one welcome our new robot overlords. I need one to do laundry.
Bags - My next home will have those vinyl wood plank strips. The best ones are actually linoleum, which is far more durable than vinyl, and looks more wood like.
I saw them recently on hospital floors where the have to take a log of wear and abuse, and they looked very good.
Looks great in your house, Bagoh. Perfect for the dogs.
I like the idea of a wash and wear floor.
I was most concerned with durability, as my old oak floors' finish would get worn out in traffic areas. What I did to choose a floor material was to attempt to scratch each sample in the stores with a key until I found the one most tough. This Allure floorng was the only one that would not scratch with key. From the looks of the samples in Home Depot, everyone must do this.
I've always wanted a polished concrete floor with a drain in the middle and a hose bib on the wall.
I'm all about the low maintenance, which is the whole point of this post. Ain't nobody got time for dat.
April:
"Looks great in your house, Bagoh. Perfect for the dogs.
I like the idea of a wash and wear floor."
I've seriously considered linoleum throughout. With large carpet pieces ending a foot from the wall. That way the carpets are semi disposable after a few years. Drain hole, eh? I'll have to mull that one for the bathroom :)
Cleaning toilets. Get stoned before doing any chore you hate, or love for that matter.
I love it when the ladies talk about household chores.
How about a thread about how to properly iron a shirt?
If I were raising boys, they would learn how to clean. They would learn how to do their laundry, scrub the toilet, wash the dishes, clean and vacuum, iron shirts etc...
The idea that cleaning is for women only is old fashioned bullshit. and I'm no radical leftwing feminazi.
What needs discussion is the proper attire for a maid when performing her duties. I like my Roomba to wear absolutely nothing but a tiny powder blue ribbon atop her short but well-rounded frame. I also love the way she pretends to ignore me the whole time as she glides past me again and again, sometimes gently bumping into me or coming ever so close and just letting the static build between our bodies as she slips past pretending it's inadvertent. Such a tease, that one.
I have a similar experience when I call the male stripper-house cleaners. Often they send out old man porn stars and it's a bust, but sometimes I get lucky with the cougar-ready gym pushers.
I've seriously considered linoleum throughout. With large carpet pieces ending a foot from the wall. That way the carpets are semi disposable after a few years. Drain hole, eh? I'll have to mull that one for the bathroom :)
Yep. & water-proof indoor-outdoor furniture.
Linoleum and cork flooring have made a bit of a come-back. cork can be problematic. It's a bit touchy when you go to clean it.
@Bagoh20: Did Roomba ever tell you that her job sucks?
I use some area rugs when people visit. You can roll them up when you aren't expecting company, and so they stay clean. When they do get dirty, you can take them outside to scrub and hang them up on a clothes line for rinsing and drying, or replace them.
I will never have carpet again. Whatever falls on the carpet stays in the carpet to some degree. Very quickly you live on a Petri dish.
No Chickie, that's the beauty of a non-English-speaking maid. All you have to know is where the button is to get complete cooperation. Just sayin.
I hate cleaning the showers and bathroom in general. Tip on that is to do it more often and it won't become such a chore. We spray the shower floor and the corners every third day with a cleaner that contains bleach to keep the mold and mildew at bay and once a week scrub the glass with a soap scum buster.
The easiest way to clean the bathroom is to get nude, cuz you are gonna get all wet anyway.....scrub everything and then take a nice long hot shower in your clean bathroom. :-)
LOL chick.
Trooper:
"How about a thread about how to properly iron a shirt?"
My mom taught me to iron a shirt well when I was a teen, but my drill sergeant had a more logical order, which I adopted.
Mom's was collar, sleeves, front, back, front.
DS's was collar, back, front, front, sleeves.
Agreed, DBQ :)
Something that worked well for me while I did it (cause I'm a terrible housekeeper) was to get one of those small pressure pump sprayers and fill it with a weak water-bleach solution. If about twice a week I sprayed the shower and tub, and then set a small fan toward it to dry, it stayed very clean.
Cleaning house? The words you use are strange to my people.
But seriously, I have vinyl flooring in my kitchen and bathroom, and since I live in the land of red clay, the dogs track in mud that, apparently, chemically bonds with the vinyl. Chickie could explain the cross linking and electron sharing and whatnot.
Finding a mop that works has proved frustrating. I stopped mopping over at my old house - the vinyl had failed in places and the subfloor showed through. No amount of Mop 'n' Glo is going to spruce up that plywood, just sayin'.
So, while I can starch and iron a shirt to perfection, I need to find a mop that works. I will listen to any and all suggestions.
OBTW, we were taught Roman Numerals in school, but I got my practice reading them by watching old cartoons such as this one from 1937.
"How about a thread about how to properly iron a shirt?"
Before there was such a thing as permanent press fabrics. My chore was to iron my father's work shirts.
Sprinkle or spritz the shirts with water. Roll up in towels to keep damp. The routine was something like this: Collar. Back. Fronts. Sleeves. Cuffs. Shoulders. Button Placket. And Collar again. Spritz with spray starch or more water if needed to iron out the wrinkles.
Ironing was a chore that I didn't mind. It was fun to listen to music while doing the ironing.
We had one of those steam roller type ironing machines when I was a child. I had to run countless shirts through that monster.
Looking back, that seems kind of excessive. Really, automated power tools to iron shirts? We weren't even Chinese. Yet.
"How about a thread about how to properly iron a shirt?"
Stay tuned......
We had one of those steam roller type ironing machines when I was a child.
Appropriately called a "Mangle" at our house because that's what it would do to any hand haplessly caught in it or so I thought at the time.
Didn't have the wiki to set me straight back then. The Oxford English Dictionary dates the first use of the word in English from 1598, quoting John Florio who, in his 1598 dictionary, A World of Words, described "a kind of press to press buckram, fustian, or dyed linen cloth, to make it have a luster or gloss." The word comes from the Dutch mangel, from mangelen "to mangle", which in turn derives from the medieval Latin mango or manga which ultimately comes from the Greek manganon, meaning "axis" or "engine".
I just posted that to cause trouble as usual.
Thank you for the thoughtful responses.
Every man should learn to cook because it is a survival skill.
However cleaning is woman's work.
Or Mexicans. Just saying.
"I just posted that to cause trouble as usual."
No!
Not yet you aren't. Give it time.
Why are we whispering. You go tell Lem. He's right over there.
Good-night, my dear :)
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