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Life&Gwen
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Spill it: what's the dirtiest your house has ever been?
Why did it get to that point? How long did it take you to recover to some state of order? Mostly, how much arguing went into the recovery process? x-( Our house is definitely there. It's just gotten too far, my aunt came by unexpectedly today, and we hung out on the porch, I didn't even invite her in. What kind of housework horrors have you girls lived through??
Re: Spill it: what's the dirtiest your house has ever been?
Usually in the winter. Now matter how many rugs I put down in the entry way, we still track snow and dirt everywhere.
The upstairs bathroom is pretty nasty usually too. We are the only ones that use it because we have a guest bath downstairs so I never think to clean it. Usually its my hair that is everywhere...yuck
Dirty - not that bad (of course, in need of dusting, cleaning, etc.).
CLUTTERED, yes!!!
I am constantly getting rid of stuff. The worst was when ds was born. We actually rented a dumpster to take everything away. Since then, I have cut down on what I buy!
My darling was hospitalized for a week. I had to call the ambulance to take us away as he passed out from diarhea while on the toilet. This was during a blizzard. I stayed at the hospital with him for the next three days. I came home to clean up that mess of the bathroom and the 3 day old dinner dishes. After 3 days, the hospital sent me home under threat of admittance to the psych ward. We weren't married yet and it was the scariest point in our relationship. If you aren't married, your rights are limited.
The docs could not figure out what was causing the spasmodic vomiting. He was on IVs and major drugs to keep him unconscious.
Even back home I could not sleep. I stripped the beds and laundered everything, aired the house out and went on a mad scrubbing spree for the next four days. It took the docs a week to figure out what was wrong and get him on the mend. I stopped sleeping for the week and the manic cleaning was what I was doing from 11 to 7 am. From 8 to 6, I was with him and from 6 to 11 I was talking with family all over the country giving them updates.
The diagnosis finally was viral vertigo causing spasms in the inner ear. Once they figured it out, they got him on drug therapy first then physcial therapy and we had not had a repeat of this. (Thank you God!). When we finally got him back home, we both collapsed for 24 hours straight.
For the record, I do not recommend airing out the house at midnight in January.
When we moved in, we had the chisel dirt out of the toilets and our bedroom rug was literally black (in reality it's light tan). We had to steam clean the whole house 4 or 5 times and I still refused to walk around barefoot for a few months.
Those people were disgusting.
It is usually very decent and I do general picking up/spot cleaning daily, and whole house cleaning each weekend. But I have 2 young daughters, and when they got very sick, and I got very sick, and DH got very sick...for several days...well I could barely find the energy to use the bathroom let alone clean the house. So dishes piled up, laundry piled up, floors needed sweeping/mopping/vacuuming, counters needed wiping, every room needed de-cluttering...but I literally could.not.do.it.
The dirtiest our house has ever been was the day we moved in. I honestly don't think the previous owners maintained or cleaned anything well. Granted, they had 2 kids and 2 dogs, but it was disgusting. I had to thoroughly clean everything when we moved in. There was piles of dog hair and dog food pieces behind the frig, stove, washer & dryer, you name it. The walls were filthy and I swear had ketchup on them. Then, my DH noticed some of the air conditioning/heating vents didn't seem to be blowing air. He cleaned them out and in the living room one we found a sippy cup, a ball, and other random stuff.... nasty. Don't even get me started on the bathrooms. For several months after moving in, I would find dog hairs blowing out of the vents and in corners that I'd cleaned several times... I guess it took awhile to work it's way out of everything.
On the other hand, for our old house we sold, I cleaned really well before putting it on the market... which helps. I also cleaned really well before we moved out since I didn't want the new owners to have to clean up after us.... I wish everyone thought like that.
IVF #1 w ICSI in July 2010 = BFN
IVF #2.1 in Oct 2010 converted to IUI = BFN
IVF #2.2 w ICSI in Dec 2010 = BFN
Met with new RE in new city on 1/31/11.
IVF #3 w ICSI in April 2011. HPT on 5/9 = BFP!
Beta #1 on 5/10 (10dp5dt) = 99.4. Beta #2 on 5/12 = 284. First u/s on 5/26. = Fraternal TWINS!
Twin boys born & lost on 8/16/11 at 18w1d due to PPROM & preterm labor.
IVF #4.1 in Jan 2012 converted to IUI on 1/7/12 = BFN
IVF #4.2 w ICSI in Feb 2012. Lupron on 2/10. Stims on 2/18. ER on 2/29- 7R,6F
ET scheduled for 3/5/12- nothing to transfer
Dh seeing new MFI uro & Dh starting meds- June 2012.
IVF #5 in Dec 2012 = BFFN.
IVF #6 planned for Spring 2013. Praying for our take home baby/ies.
**P/SAIF and P/SAL always welcome!**
Right now it's really disorganized. I just finished up a grad program and work full time, so my husband has been doing day-to-day cleaning, but each room needs to be deep cleaned and organized. As in I need to pull out the furniture and mop, wash the curtains and slip covers, dust everything, wash the baseboards, clean out my closet and dresser, clean out and wash the fridge, deep clean the bathroom, change out the AC filters. The good stuff.
Um, as far as the worst failure I've ever had keeping house: we have/had a problem with these weird flies in our pantry. I feel awful admitting it. We may have it mostly solved now, but we've tossed a lot of stuff and done a lot of cleaning. The problem started about 6 months ago.
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I am so sorry you were put through that, the staff should have been more respectful and sensitive of your position in his life, married or not. But about your midnight cleaning, dittos, we hit a manic cleaning streak at about 9 on Monday night, and cleaned until about 4am... Tuesday was no fun, needless to say. I hope everyone's recovered fully
Don't feel awful--we have an old house and if we didn't sweep the basement floor, walls, ceiling and stairs monthly we'd all be run down with spiders. We had that problem and didn't know it until was startled awake one night by our cats hunting two spiders that had gotten into our bed... my skin still crawls.. but since we've been trying the last week of "we each have to give 30 minutes a day" it's been better... Just keep attacking the pantry as you are able, our county extension once advised me that "bugs eventually get the idea and move on if you disturb "their habitat" enough"