Thursday, August 27, 2009

Self-cleaning house

I've got a self-cleaning house.
Yep I do

How did this happen?

Well, let me tell you.

I live in a 2 story/3 bed house with two bathrooms with my 20 yo son and my 40something brother. We all work (well some of us more than others)

But somehow its become my responsibility to do the cooking, cleaning, gardening and laundry, because if I didn't well nothing would get cleaned.

It made me wonder, do males actually notice dirt. They keep telling me the house isn't dirty, that pile of dirty clothes on the floor does not smell, those dirty dishes piling up in the sink, nothing wrong with that, and gardening what is that?

If I left the toilets uncleaned for a week, would they even care?
Is it just me who has a problem?

In my mind I know that the world is not going to fall apart for lack of a clean toilet, but I don't know how men do that?

Should I just ignore the mess and live like a pig myself (hah, as if thats gonna happen)

I recently went away for 12 days, and when I got back they were pleased as punch with themeslves that they'd managed to get it cleaned (according to their standards) before I walked in the door. But when I looked around, the house was dirty, the bathrooms were a mess, the vacuuming hadn't been done and they'd obviously had a rip roaring party while i was away, because the evidence was lying all around the back yard.

As soon as I got back I started cleaning, and I was so grumpy they hid away from me.

They just couldn't see what the problem was. why was I not pleased with them.
In their minds the house looked beautiful and clean, in my mind, it just looked dirty.

I'm not OCD or overly fussy but sheesh, is it so hard to clean guys?