A Gardeners Forum Forums General Discussion The Banter Hall Household chores

Wow, the ringer ones must've been a pain in the butt!!!

I think I'd like laundry more if I were on a one level home....but you see I have to take it from upstairs all the way down 2 flights of very narrow steep stairs to the basement and back....gets old really quick. I keep trying to convince Mark that there's enough room for stackable washer/dryer upstairs in the hallway closet! I'd do it everyday if it were up there!

Actually I take mine down 2 flights also.......but they are wider ..
We take our really dirty clothes off down the basement so I arent complaining.
But maybe the middle would do???????

Never had a level house.

b

Me either Barb, every home I've lived in has been an old 2 story w/basement house.

I've fallen down the basement stairs a few times when I was carrying a lot, it's dangerous. Too bad I don't have room for a laundry chute, now I could handle that!

I too have to cart laundry down 2 flights of stairs to the laundry- 4 level house- love the house but it is getting harder every yr to do the baskets up and down- I have been known to throw the laundry down to the floor the laundry is on from upstairs- only when no one else is home though- don't want to drop that on anyones head... Wish I could figure out how to throw it back upstairs...Joe is good about taking it up though most of the time..
When I was a kid we lived in a huge old house in Juneau and it had a laundry chute.. laundry was in the basement- was a 2 story house with a street level basement- would be called a walk out here... that was nice... had a dumbwaiter too- house was 90 yrs old then and that was in 1961 or so..
Nana

When I was pregnant......I used to put the clothes into a drawstring bag and throw that down.......

Going up is no problem.....You could take up smaller loads or make everyone take their own up..LOL

I saw a documentry several years ago about bed mites,, AWEFUL,, Since then I made sure I cleaned my bed regularly and the night stands on both sides of the bed,, Dust mites also is a cause for Asthma, nasal allergies,, scabies,, and other illnesses,,


Euwwwwwwwwwwwww Check this out,,,,,,,,



http://www.uos.harvard.edu/ehs/pes_bedbug.shtml

ewwwwwwwwwwwww I know what we will be doing this weekend---I was not aware---

I told DH my house was filthy & so he said he would help me to clean on Saturday.

ewwwwwwwwwww again !!!

Oh why, Oh why did I look. I didn't want to see. I knew I didn't want to see.

I didn't click!

I don't think I've ever vacuumed my mattress.... maybe I need to do that!

No matter how much you clean it though there will always be dust mites unless you have a plastic cover on your mattress.

Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaak bak bak bak Chicken!!!!!!!!!!

I just got in bed and didn't want reminded of what's in here with me besides Mark.

plastic cover--now there is an idea--I wonder if the DH would go along with that idea??

I have enough cleaning without looking for MIGHTS.!!!!

Dodge--ya got a point--- :wink:

I didn't look either because I know I will be grossed out and I will think of it every time I got to bed! I am weird with things like that! I hear things on TV or the radio and it haunts me forever. So.....I won't look at that link but from what all of you are saying I better vacuum my mattress when I get home.

Plant queen;

FIrst off there is a tendency of somefolks to go to extremes in everything.
The news media are a bunch of wackos ......
If we kill off all so called germs and dirts and mites......How would our bodies develope an immunity to it?

When they give you a shot for the flu, it has flu in the shots so you can develope an immunity to it....

If we lived in a sterile world..We would all have to live our life in a test tube.

Stupid media........

Now don't go to the bathroom theres germs everywhere.. YOu toothbrush is coated thicker then you bed...

Yeah I have heard that and believe me...it grosses me out every time I brush my teeth!!!!

O.K. Dodge just explained why I'm so sick all the time

I always heard to make sure you shut the toilet when you flush because some of the bacteria will get out and land on your toothbrush!

So I religiously shut my toilet when I flush!

That is one of my weird things I always do.

I keep my toothbrushes in the cabinet. I scald it with boiling water once a week and replace it every month Good thing they're cheap at the dollar store.

Hey, I'm not as bad as I used to be.

I should probably clean mine with boiling water!

No more talk of cleaning before I give you all my OCD.

I wish some of it would rub off on me Tamara but it probably won't work! I will do a few things different but I don't think I will ever be OCD on cleaning!

Tamara and any one who is sick......
Were sick of being sick.........
Now if we weren't sick........we would tick.

How do the folks with outhouses go to the bathroom and brush their teeth?

Boy you guys are going deep.................

How about those folks with a dirty mind>>>>>>.Can you flush that?

Come on give me answers.....Mights or mite?

when we were moving into this house I wanted to put a towel rack on the side of the vanity--the side by the toilet. valarie said, no--her friends (1 is a Dr. the other is a PA) said toilet germs can jump 2 feet--I am guessing that is when you flush--so Loz, you are right to close the lid.

BTW: my towel ring is on the wall on the OTHER side of the vanity.