#laundry sweep!

[kedreeva]

Alright, I'm dragging you all into doing tasks with me today.

I've gotta do a bunch of laundry and dishes and clean floors and stuff, and I hate working alone, so here's what we're gonna do!

When you reblog this and tell me your completed task, I'll add it to a tally and update periodically with a progressive total. Before I go out tomorrow, I'll grab a final count, and that's how many whole food "treat" pieces the birds will get when I get home (a mix of fishies and crickets and mealworms and blueberries and nugget treats and banana pieces etc, all stuff that is a good part of their diet). Tasks can be anything you need to do, but it would make me especially happy for folks to do things they've been putting off or are hard to find motivation to do alone, so the birds can help you back.

So! Let's get to work together today!

Do it for her!

#I'm at 7/30 tasks so far! #bug the peahen #chores #i really mean it #taking medications #going on a walk for your mental health #dishes or laundry or sweeping #throwing away the trash in your main existence area #drinking your water #looking after your animals #making that phone call #reblog and tell me the things!

[eddiediaaz]

if you could mention your age and what were the chores in the tags that'd be fun too! i was talking about chores with someone and i'm curious to see how it was for people.

#tumblr polls #tumblr poll #poll #polls #for me: daily + weekly chores from when i was a kid #daily chore was the dishes with my sister (we didn't have a dishwasher) #and weekly chores were mopping/sweeping the floors and some laundry #and a lot of other random outside things i was asked to do depending on the season

[zahri-melitor]

Okay.

I am being super, ultra cautious about how I'm wording this, but am going out on a limb here.

As someone who literally helped to care for her much younger brother (I had solo custody of him one night per week during his teens, I fed him, supervised homework, did his laundry, got him ready for school, made his lunches, all that jazz) I am just slightly familiar with what it's like to step in to be a guardian for a younger relative.

I'm reading Reborn. I'm reading basically all of Dick and Damian's appearances. I'm...not seeing a parent-child relationship here. I see mentoring and supervision, yes. I appreciated the "I was trying to have a night off" moment in Streets of Gotham. But a lot of this is just big brothering or vigilante mentor stuff.

I fully, 100% believe Dick and Damian bonded during their period together. I also believe they had a little family unit going on between Alfred, Dick and Damian. I respect people reading whatever interpretation they want to read of this material.

But from what I see on the paper? I think calling it parental is a stretch. Damian's in kincare, folks. On paper? Damian's physical needs are being provided by Alfred, his vigilante mentoring is being provided by Dick, as far as I can tell he's not even in education, and we get precious few insights into what's happening during daylight hours. (Especially, ESPECIALLY as I really have not seen Damian receive, well, boundaries outside of the field. Or consequences for his actions. Or...really, any active parenting)

Dick's looking after Damian, sure. But he's not Damian's parent.

And that's perfectly ok, not everything has to be reduced to a simple traditional nuclear family ideal.

#z canon read throughs #Also notably when something serious DOES happen to Damian - the spinal injury - Talia sweeps in and takes over medical care as parent #(yes she had an ulterior motive but she also got to make the call on that occasion) #if there is stuff later on in nu!52 where Dick is actively parenting I'm happy to be corrected! #But as someone who has lived the dynamic I don't see the parental thing #Was Dick parenting Tim during Prodigal? I do not think so #and I saw Dick doing way more homey stuff with Tim there (the laundry! the sweeping! the cooking of food! the worrying over his injuries!) #batman reborn

[us-the-voices-and-more-voices-2]

actually good cleaning hacks from someone who’s been through some shit

Get a steam mop I don’t care how much it is or cheap, just get one

if you have a pet invest in a wet dry vacuum, you will thank me.

get cleaning cloths you actually like the feel of, if you hate microfiber get a cheap set of tea towels and use them instead. Or chop up a dead tee shirt and use that.

plug in vacuums are 2x more powerful than non-plug in vacuums. You trade sucking power for mobility with cordless, so think that over when you get one.

buying a cheap mop every time one gets moldy is cheaper than having to deal with any mold you get from using a moldy mop.

invest in disinfectant/antifungal/antiviral/antibacterial liquid for your laundry, because that stuff makes getting rid of moldy musty musky shit easy. And it cleans your cleaning cloths without getting them greasy or soapy.

to fix “I accidentally left my clothes in the washing machine too long now they smell like mold” thing, you will need antifungal laundry liquid and the literal sun. Wash your clothes on the hottest setting you can with your clothing materials in mind, add the antifungal before you start, let it go for like 2 hours. And put it in the sun to dry. Repeat if it still smells moldy, until it doesn’t anymore, works like a charm!

to clean crystalline dog piss, you will need water, a steam mop, a wet dry vacuum (depending on if it’s in a carpet) dog cleaning spray or vinegar. Basically , rehydrate the piss, clean it up with dog spray or HOT vinegarish water, grab a steam mop and steam it (if not on carpet) and viola it should be okay now.

If it’s in the carpet you will need to rehydrate the piss, then just dowse the piss with water, use the wet dry vacuum to suck up the water, repeat until water comes up clean. Use whatever pet cleaner that’s good on your carpet to get the smell out, Patch test it in the corner of the carpet before you do it on the piss spot, soak up and remaining water from the carpet until it’s dry or blow dry it if you have to. And tada you have a cleaner carpet! The same works for dog shit too.

drain snakes are your best friend if you don’t remember to get the hair out the drain.

have one sponge for wiping down the sink and one for washing your dishes, because sometimes it’s easier to use a sponge to wipe down the sink than a cleaning cloth.

You can put sponges in the dishwasher and it cleans them REALLY WELL, do it everyday if you can.

Invest in a good glass cleaner for glass because when it gets greasy it’s hell.

Koh cleaner will literally cut through grease and oil, and fat. Like it wasn’t even there, if you don’t have the money white vinegar and bi-carbs does the same thing. Though be careful because it’s reactive and might destroy your countertop or pots, just invest in koh your life won’t be the same. (I can clean all the grease off things, that’s how good it works. Plus it doesn’t smell!!!)

Replace your toilet cleaner every 3 months, or make sure you don’t let it fester. That’s more of a hassle than replacing it every now and then.

Get a good dish soap, because you can use it for everything because of how mild it is.

After mopping always steam mop otherwise it will always be streaky or tacky, idk why but steam mops fix this 9/10 times.

there’s more, but I;m too tired.

#-pop #disability #I’m disabled and these hacks have saved me so much suffering and pain #I’m always in pain after cleaning but this way is way easier to clean shit up #STEAM MOPS FOR LIFE #if you have no money for a vacuum there’s these fancy sweeps 🧹 that have 2 discs that move and collect the dust and crumbs they #Are SO WORTH IT #cleaner #cleaning #laundry #cleaning tips #decluttering #mental health stuff #activism stuff

[emmmmmmmys]

the dunmeshi opening makes me want to do a lil irish jig anytime i hear it

#makes me want to start churning butter #start hand washing my laundry #sweep the dirt floors of my cottage with a broom made of straw #dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #bump of chicken

[tanunigans]

Some Clean Sweep for my random obscure shipping needs

Sometimes all you need is a ✨hand ✨

#tanu art #smurfs #smurf #the smurfs #les schtroumpfs #laundry smurf #sweepy smurf #clean sweep #My random ship that makes no sense except in my brain #I love these two tho.

[tuna-core]

#tunapost #chores #household chores #sweeping #mop #mopping #sweep #dishes #dishwasher #laundry #vacuum #vacuuming #trash #garbage #dust #dusting #wipe #wiping #cook #cooking #bathroom #toilet #shower #sink #clean #cleaning

[inaris-mage-of-storms]

It's funny how big a difference a small change can make. After a couple weeks of being able to do household chores at my own pace in my own way, instead of needing to do everything Right Now and In The Right Way, I'm... actually kind of enjoying it??

I'm enjoying doing laundry. On my birthday. Who even am I lmao.

#laundry has always been the absolute worst chore for me #I've always hated it and put it off for as long as possible #but just knowing i can do laundry and dishes and sweeping and all of that a little at a time #and it doesn't have to be magazine perfect #takes away SO much of the stress #apparently if you give me implicit permission to half-ass things #i will in fact *cease* to half-ass them #who knew #file: storm has thoughts

[crimeronan]

okay over the past two hours i have:

cleaned a mountain of garbage in one of the bedrooms

vacuumed said bedroom and the hall

did so many dishes

some were moldy. like. Really moldy.

filled the sink with an entire new sinkload of dishes to soak. (none moldy this time. WIN)

discovered Rotting Spaghetti In Drain (horror movie)

put away 8 bags of groceries still on the floor (all non-perishables)

(aside from one unfortunate onion which had long since become worm food. it was yucky but after the spaghetti it did not faze me at all.)

took out 4 big bags of trash

took out 7 smaller bags of recycling

tidied the kitchen

threw out 6 old and very frightening sponges

threw out many old and frightening cat food cans

scooped the litterbox

what's still left to do:

oh god.

but. it is now possible to walk thru the kitchen without tripping on grocery bags. and also said kitchen is no longer full of mold. so. i'll take it i guess.

#i have not even touched my bedroom or the laundry or the living room or the bathrooms or basic sanitizing/sweeping/maintenance #other things i will have to sink Several Very Long Hours into. #but for now i take break and lay down. bc i have been cleaning for 2 hours and am physically disabled. #why for the love of god are there so many cleaning things to do all the time forever JUST to exist in a state of BASELINE SANITATION #whine complain moan. etc

[endreal]

My nesting partner's schedule isn't set like mine is so he'll unexpectedly be home for half my workweek. On the one hand I'm delighted because our very different work schedules mean we don't get to spend as much time together lately as we had been. On the other hand I'm kinda dreading it because when I'm alone (I work from home) I'm at my most capable of doing house chores and even if he sequesters himself away to work on personal projects most of that time the knowledge that he's here makes doing common chores x10 less approachable

#My apologies to the washing up and laundry and hoovering+sweeping

[toadsrbutch]

love having a physically AND mentally draining job. my coworker said he used to work construction and that was easier lmao 🫠

#walking 6-8 miles a day & worrying about all the animals in your care is A Lot #and constantly scrubbing and dealing with RJM dogs and carrying things and doing dishes and laundry and mopping and sweeping etc etc etc

[evilsexy]

#obviously asking for permission first #like sweeping dishes laundry etc #it bothers me so much to be in a dirty house that i do this like a lot lmfao

[ripplefields]

KICK THEIR ASS TEAM SWEET

#deltarune #deltarune chapter 2 #deltarune sweet #deltarune cap'n #deltarune k k #digital art #splatoon 3 #< does this count . does it . uh #anyways SWEET SWEEP GET THEIR ASS #DO IT FOR FRYE DO IT FOR SWEET #KILL!!!!!!! KILL!!!!!!!! #GETTING ON ONCE I FINISH PUTTING AWAY LAUNDRY #also the hat on edge was inspired by fanny fricktics design <3 i heart its frye sweet design #safeutdr

[actual-corpse]

Putting off doing chores because KY heat is a special kind of hell.

#i have to #clean the litter box #do dishes #do laundry #take out the trash #sweep #put away clothes #brush my teeth #shower #all before dark (because im afraid of frogs and they come out at night unless it rains) #and its noon... the HOTTEST part of the day #i also have to battle my cat because she gets in the way

[spookridjer]

about to do so much cleaning please pray for me

#started a load of laundry #i have to clean teo bathroom sweep the house n wash dishes

[tanunigans]

Some of my favorite obscure ship for my own shippy needs Clean Sweep ~

Laundry totally made Sweepy clean himself up so they could share a couple of kisses and be lovey-dovey ✨

#tanu art #smurfs #smurf #the smurfs #les schtroumpfs #sweepy smurf #laundry smurf #clean sweep #I love them..........