Grumpy Old Man
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My grumpy old man rant is this: when you are having guests over, why is it desirable to present your house such that it looks like nobody has ever set foot in it? Even the most minor relative coming over is now cause for the type of cleaning that I only thought took place at a crime scene once the detectives have finished.
I have two young children. Are we to believe the guest thinks we actually live in this state of absolute cleanliness? Surely not, so why live the lie, even for a few minutes.
I'm all for cleaning things off the floor and getting the couches looking nice, but making the beds? Vacuuming the study? We're having them for a cup of tea, not a rental inspection. And the stress that comes along with it makes the joy of entertaining basically redundant. You can never make up for the hours you've lost.
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@barbarian said in Grumpy Old Man:
Surely not, so why live the lie, even for a few minutes.
You shower groom and put on cologne before meeting people right? Same thing, but for sheilas right...
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@barbarian we have to clean for the fucking cleaner...
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If I had to receive a colonic irrigation before meeting guests, I don't think I want to meet the guests.
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@barbarian said in Grumpy Old Man:
My grumpy old man rant is this: when you are having guests over, why is it desirable to present your house such that it looks like nobody has ever set foot in it? Even the most minor relative coming over is now cause for the type of cleaning that I only thought took place at a crime scene once the detectives have finished.
I have two young children. Are we to believe the guest thinks we actually live in this state of absolute cleanliness? Surely not, so why live the lie, even for a few minutes.
I'm all for cleaning things off the floor and getting the couches looking nice, but making the beds? Vacuuming the study? We're having them for a cup of tea, not a rental inspection. And the stress that comes along with it makes the joy of entertaining basically redundant. You can never make up for the hours you've lost.
When the girl was selling her place and we had to get the place ready for open homes......fuck me dead. Every Sunday morning every speck of dust, fluff or whatever needed to be vanquished. Not to mention chasing the cat and getting every single bit of fur that had moulted.
It's just as bad when ANY visitors announce they're coming too.
No one wants to live in a student flat with skiddies on the toilet and flies gathering around the dishes piling up but surely theres a happy medium ?
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@MN5 said in Grumpy Old Man:
No one wants to live in a student flat with skiddies on the toilet and flies gathering around the dishes piling up but surely theres a happy medium ?
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@nostrildamus said in Grumpy Old Man:
@MN5 said in Grumpy Old Man:
No one wants to live in a student flat with skiddies on the toilet and flies gathering around the dishes piling up but surely theres a happy medium ?
When it comes to weird ferners you are in a class of your own.
Please don't ever change.
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@Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:
@barbarian we have to clean for the fucking cleaner...
This.
Checking the toilets before the cleaners arrive is one thing, vacuuming the carpets or sweeping the kitchen floor something else.
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@MN5 said in Grumpy Old Man:
When the girl was selling her place and we had to get the place ready for open homes......fuck me dead
We're looking to move and just do a quick tidy-up. An uber-tidy and clean house is a bit of a turn-off for us when we're viewing houses. Want to see a house not a show-home.
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Yeah what guest and/or potential buyer is genuinely put off by evidence of life/living? I've never walked into a house for a cup of tea or a meal and thought 'Christ the spare bedroom had a lot of stuff on the bed.' Or 'I can't believe there was a bit of loose dust on the kitchen floor.' Or worst of all 'I was shocked at the presence of toys on the floor of the kids toyroom'.
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@Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:
@barbarian we have to clean for the fucking cleaner...
yeah this level pisses me off the most in our house too
and then will still complain that the cleaner didn't do a good job, like its a CSI audition
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Bonesetta's dream kitchen is bare surfaces with all appliances away in cupboards. She of course, does fuck all in there apart from boil a kettle and dish up the dog's food. How infuriating is it when you put down your knife then when you come back it's been washed?
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@Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:
How infuriating is it when you put down your knife then when you come back it's been washed?
Cooking Christmas dinner. Had all the packaging for stuff like Pigs in Blankets, various sauces, etc all lined up so I could easily read instructions/cooking times. Go to grab a glass of wine and when I come back, they're ll in the bin and the worktop wiped down.
Or when you need to take two trips to get stuff from the fridge and you have to open it again as she's immediately closed it.
Drives me fucking nuts.
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@Victor-Meldrew to be fair, removing evidence of reading instructions is probably just catering to your manhood.
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Look after a small village hall charity - annual income and expenses of about £24k. We don't run any events but simply manage bookings and maintain the building. Just doing our Annual Return to the Charity Commission and these are the policies we now have to have in place and regularly reviewed:
- Complaints handling
- Complaints policy and procedures
- Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
- Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
- Diversity Policies and procedures
- Financial reserves policy and procedures
- Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
- Internal risk management policy and procedures
- Risk management
- Safeguarding policy and procedures
- Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
- Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
- Social media policy and procedures
- Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Important stuff like Fire and Safety? Nah
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Random 'people' parked outside the bloody house with the cars running and they seem to be, what, sleeping in there with the motor on? It's not 40 degrees. I don't need the extra CO2 thanks mate. Time to get giant blowers on the front gate.
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@Victor-Meldrew you could report the very important incident of people attending your house and minding their own fucking business for a few hours/days on social media.
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@Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Victor-Meldrew you could report the very important incident of people attending your house and minding their own fucking business for a few hours/days on social media.
Mrs Meldrew would probably break the internet.
