something i hate about the cleaning service...

groovygrl · October 2012

has nothing to do w/ the cleaning service & everything to do with us---

I hate when I come home to an awesome cleaned house, and then I proceed to cook dinner, the kids eat, and I clean up and suddenly 2 hrs later it is as if they were never there. Sigh.

lovebug33 · October 2012

I'd love to have a clean house that I didn't clean for at least two hours.

groovygrl · October 2012

Yes yes sorry geez. Everyone on here posts about cleaning service all the time and it was just an eye roll at myself. Relax. I wish I had some of the problems that other ppl post about on here as well...I'm pretty sure like 80% of the posts on this entire site are first world problems (yes 80% is an exaggeration but quite a decent number are really not 'major' issues in life. )

groovygrl · October 2012

LibraryChica:
groovygrl:

Yes yes sorry geez. Everyone on here posts about cleaning service all the time and it was just an eye roll at myself. Relax. I wish I had some of the problems that other ppl post about on here as well...I'm pretty sure like 80% of the posts on this entire site are first world problems (yes 80% is an exaggeration but quite a decent number are really not 'major' issues in life. )

LOL. I'd say more than 80%. I'm fairly certain that the Bump markets itself to the "first" world, we live in that world and by definition ALL of our problems are "first world problems." And, I'm going to rant a bit here, I'm tired of this whole idea that we must have deep and serious problems to complain about them. Yes, it's a minor problem, it may not even qualify as a problem, but there's nothing wrong about expressing a little frustration every once in a while. Sheesh.

Groovy, yes, that is frustrating. I especially hate when I or someone else spend a great deal of time organizing the kitchen and then I destroy it in an hour of enthusiastic cooking and have to do it again!

LOL thanks. I was like, seriously, it was a silly post. I think we could respond "first world problems" and "I wish I had that problem" to so many posts on here. But I get it and my work has always focused on much bigger problems in life & communities that the cleaning service so I really 'do' get it if not from a personal standpoint right now but just was like UGH when I posted that.

LoCarb · October 2012

Yes, our house is messy by the next morning too.

jennyelf · October 2012

groovygrl:
has nothing to do w/ the cleaning service & everything to do with us---
I hate when I come home to an awesome cleaned house, and then I proceed to cook dinner, the kids eat, and I clean up and suddenly 2 hrs later it is as if they were never there. Sigh.

I think that's how my husband feels too after I get home. He cleans, then I arrive home with LO in tow and before bed, the place looks like a zoo again... Poor guy.

Printergirl · October 2012

2 hours, that's so sweet. Ours lasts about 15 minutes. :-)

groovygrl · October 2012

Printergirl:
2 hours, that's so sweet. Ours lasts about 15 minutes. :-)

HAAA.

Thanks all for making me smile a little more this morning.

Got me thinking though, 80% is really not an exaggeration if you think about what a first world problem truly is... I was thinking of my 'first world problems' beyond the material type things... access to a wide variety of child care options, the whole food/natural food/what daycare feeds my kid thing, should I move to be closer to work, commuting, even certain health issues...I'll give examples from my own life- was my son's plagiocephaly treated w/ DOC bands a first world problem? what about my daughter's slight strabismus treated with patching every night for the last year? these are not serious or life threatening issues and ones that would not be addressed in third world nations by any means. They can both lead to more serious problems if untreated or if they progress but in the grand scheme of 'first world' vs 'third world'...hmmm. ( FWIW I am not comparing these to the cleaning lady or cleaning the house as equivalents, just going off on a side topic.)

So now I'm curious, what non material things do you experience that are stressful but likely a 'first world problem' in the grand scheme?

DaisyJanie · October 2012

I don't have a cleaning service (YET) but I know what you mean anyway. I hate when DH or I do a really good cleaning of the kitchen and then minutes later it's time to cook again. Hate putting dishes in the nice clean sink!

Feel free to complain about first world problems all you want. I get cranky when my daycare's webcam goes offline for a few minutes, that's a real first world (and 21st century) problem

dmartin726 · October 2012

Here's my trick. Stay out of the house as long as possible. Haha. If we come home, it lasts about 5 seconds. I barely get a whiff of the clean house smell before it gets trashed.

I make sure to have a couple of nights dinners ready to go because I always find that if I have to cook dinner that night..well it may have not even bothered being cleaned. Here's to picking up a pizza!

And I'm sure I sound like a bratty first worlder when I complain

NJinAustin · October 2012

No cleaning lady but...... Here's a sampling of what i do sometimes to keep my sanity.. At least in the kitchen!

....one pot dinners.. I buy Bertolli frozen dinners as a base and add more pasta, chicken and fish.. To a big spaghetti pot.

... Eat off paper plates and with plastic utensils

... Cover everthing with tinfoil, including the stovetop if you know stuff is going to splatter.

.... We joke that we wish we had a dog to "clean the floor"

... I put down either paper towels or dish towels on the kitchen table to catch crumbs, spills, etc.... Then use these to clean up after... Not precious to me like a tablecloth so, i don't care if they sain

ras26 · October 2012

NJinAustin:
.... We joke that we wish we had a dog to "clean the floor"

Uh, no cleaning lady here, but I totally let the dog "clean" under the high chair after LO eats. Embarrassed

groovygrl · October 2012

ras26:
NJinAustin:
.... We joke that we wish we had a dog to "clean the floor"
Uh, no cleaning lady here, but I totally let the dog "clean" under the high chair after LO eats.

I wish I had one I could borrow just for after mealtime. Esp on days when muffins or rice are served. Ugh.

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