Dust Bunny and Used Kleenex Temples
OMG
YSS asked if he could swap rooms with OSSs now that we have two off to college. It makes sense and gives us more privacy since he’s next to us now.
To be nice and just to get it done and the rooms clean since I also know it will take forever for DH and YSS to get this done, I decided I would get it done before YSS is back again.
I stopped. After stepping on cornflakes and putting my hand on a second used Kleenex buried under something, and all the swirls of dust bunnies, I felt like I had bugs crawling on me and stopped. I can smell mold. Because DH has given me grief on having the skids keep their rooms clean to my level of clean, and he “handled” it both are pig sties. I pointed this out to DH and that he saw me clean DSs room and it was easy and fast because DS had been held to a higher standard. (Also noticed that a window in one of the kids rooms is rotting out because they never open their curtains. Expensive to fix.)
DH actually admitted that I was right to be disgusted, right to make YSS finish, and that had they been made to clean their rooms properly they wouldn’t need so much work now.
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When we were pretty sure
When we were pretty sure Spawn was never coming back, I packed up her stuff because I knew DH never would.
Poopy underwear
Bloody underwear
Used pads and tampons shoved along the side of the bed
Prescription pills (not sure what it was a mix of pills)hidden in some knee pads
Lunchables rotted from years before in a purse
A gigantic hairball of her own hair stuffed in one of the drawers.
I boxed it all up and told DH he owed me big time.
We had to throw away the mattress because it was covered in blood stains.
Ew
I didn't mention the dirty clothing that I tried to avoid touching completely (and that DH admitted he had no idea what on the floor/bed/dresser/other object over which it was drapped was clean or dirty), or the nasty, smelly blanket I found buried under other stuff that from the smell the dog had slept on but never been washed and now had made my chair (a nice, white chair I had brought with me from my previous house and had kept pristine for years) a nasty, smelly mess that I cannot even unearth yet since there's so much stuff (including some sort of exercise equipment piece) on it.
Old socks everywhere. Just nasty. I'm surprised there aren't any ants (there were a few years ago). I threw away the prescriptions a few weeks ago. No one has noticed yet.
At least I didn't have some of the monthly trash to clean up like you did. That's just nasty. How did you manage to survive cleaning?
I rage cleaned and shoved all
I rage cleaned and shoved all of them in the boxes along with her stuff. I figured they were hers to deal with. I was thankful I had the forethought to wear gloves. When it was all said and done I showeredand made my DH get me a bottle of wine, lol.
And THAT
is why I LOVE living in a rural area. Two words:
Burn Pile.
Sounds like you have to go in
Sounds like you have to go in with a hazmat suit in order to clean the room out. I'd put everything in boxes or garbage bags and either throw it out or leave for him to do what he wants. After all is said and done your H now realizes that had he been in their @ss to clean, this wouldn't be an issue. Hopefully this is a lesson learned for him.
Nope. See my next post...
https://www.steptalk.org/blog/itb2012/who-responsible-dirty-room-256649
I don't have people over because the backyard looks like we just had a tornado the day before and haven't gotten to cleaning up the wreckage yet. And that's all on DH. His person is neat and tidy, his space is chaos. It's weird. His parents aren't like that and the siblings houses I've been to are not like that either.