Hate Cleaning!

[Michaelangelo]

Blah,

It always seems like a big deal to get things cleaned up when people come over.  And most of the time it's a last minute, oh we gotta get it cleaned now.   That's what I'm going through right now.

When I'm home alone my room stays clean, when I have company over, be it friends or realitvies my room becomes a mess and the mess always seems to just grow.  I spend 90% of the time in my room just sitting here at the computer, so I know I don't do this to my room.  But it always feels like when it's time for the cleaning, I end up being alone for it.   

I really hate cleaning...  wouldn't be so bad if my arm wasn't so evil.

[Leonardo the 2nd]

Maybe you should tell your visitors to help you cleaning THEIR mess. I do the same: When my three friends are in my room and eat pizza or so I always tell them to put the dishes away again.
While eating, we sit on the floor and of course at the end there are lying crumbs or something else. I tell them to clean it again.

What really goes on my nerves is, when these people begin to nag about the mess (I don't always see that there was something on the floor) the next day, because they didn't notice they made the mess themselves.
For luck it was the first and last time, one of my friends nagged about my PC-keyboard for example. There were some spots and, HUUUUH how scary, some rests of my rubber in it. I can tell for sure that I am not the only person sitting at my pc. My friends are sitting there also and mostly have dirty hands, because they eat here very often. So why can't she clean it herself again before leaving my room and beeing disgusted the next day?

Additionally her room looks as if there exploded a bomb some time ago, compared to my own that looks very clean and neat, and she was disgusted by some little spots and rubber rests on my keyboard??? *lol*

My friends help me clean my room now and maybe yours would do it also.

[Michaelangelo]

I have so tried that.... like really the people visiting yesterday was people who haven't been here since the 60's... which is why I tried so hard to clean.  I'll admit when it's my normal friends who do make messes, I don't try as hard to get this place cleaned up.  Phoenix can vouch for me here, she's seen this room clean and this place like a tornado has hit.

I do ask for friends to help clean up, and stuff normally happens right before they leave so that everyone leaves in a rush and stuff don't get done.  I wanna bap my head so many times when I look around.   Now yes I do make messes from time to time myself, like getting ready for a trip and trying to find something ad the last minute. 

You know what was bad, a cleaning mess is really a breaking point in a friendship I've had since 1991.  In 1997 I needed help cleaning, this friend along with a few others was over all the time till I started to try and do this cleaning task.  It was because Fanatical was coming over and I needed help going onto the loft to turn it into the sewer.  Once I started cleaning they stopped coming by, though would call daily, asking how I'm doing but as soon as I mentioned that I'm cleaning a fast subject change would happen or it was getting off the phone... two weeks of that went on.  And this is a friend that I've helped clean her house many of times, even when she lived at her parents house I came over and helped her clean her room.  So this was hurting...  I than got the news that I won my law suite, I came over to my friend's house and told them that I won and brought them food... though when I said they should come over and see how much I got done another one of my friends there said "Tell us when you're done, we'll be there with bells on, when you're done" and that was the beginning of the down fall... I left hurt, but didn't say anything... but the next day when my friends called saying how great a day it's been... "playing video games, going for a walk to taco bell, and just relaxing all day... a stress free day" I mentioned how I wish my days were stressfree and the friend bluntly asked "What do you have to be stressed about?"  we fought big time that weekend.... and than didn't talk for a few months afterwards.

I can't believe cleaning would do this to a friendship, but these were friends that helped make the mess.  The one who said "She'd be here with bells on" lived in my room for 3 months with a 2/3 year old here, part of the mess was her's.  The other friend makes a mess anytime she comes over, and it's very hard to get her to clean up after herself.  So both of these friends were part of the mess and really could of helped out.   What hurt most is they both knew I was handy cap, had a deadline and was trying to clean up this mess all by myself.   It was hard, my sister came in on week 3 and really helped, she's the one who got the sewer going.  We got some other friends who don't live as close to come in and help as well. 

Now at least one of the two friends who blew me off regrets it (the other one has yet to say sorry), but she's still one of the ones that leaves a mess in my room when she visits...   though I know when she sees that sewer or hears me talk about it, she really feels bad.  She's an artist and really wishes she could of taken part in the creative side of the project.  Though the people who helped build the sewer also helped with finishing cleaning up the mess.  And we had fun cleaning the mess when it was a team, we didn't treat it like a chore we laughed and talked and made games out of some of the cleaning.   The room stayed clean after that big clean up till I started having friends come over again (that was about 2 to 3 months of a clean room.), which is why I know for sure that it's not me doing this to my place. 

Getting friends to help clean is NOT easy around here... lately esp after the robbery I don't have friends over nearly as much which is why I think if I work on it slowly I can get this place back cleaned up.   Hopefully after my surgery I'll be able to keep up with the mess again and keep this room clean.

[Leonardo the 2nd]

Oh, that's not good to hear. I am sorry for such "friends" of yours. I am sure that you have many friends all over the world because of the love for the turtles that we all share, but it's important to have some you can talk to directly; when sitting infront of them, some you can trust. I hope you have those?!

[Mindy]

I dislike cleaning, too, and I really try hard to pick up after myself so that I don't spend an entire day picking up everything. It's just me and my husband so I don't know why we always have such a mess.

Dishes are the worst! I want a dishwasher and not just my two hands, lol.

[Lady Mew2]

Ur not the only one, Mikey. I hate it too. I alway have clean mine's /Aunt's room, wash dishes, wash my clothes, & even hang them out to dry.