Things about the house noone knows but you

[MandaMe1986]

no one in my house would know that my dish soap and dishwasher doap are environmentally friendly along with my laundry stuff, or that my washing mecain is set to wash all the cloths on cold.  Or that I drain the laundry water in the summer to water my garden.  Cause no one other then me dose any of that stuff. Haha.

[jbeany]

If you plug the space heater in in the bathroom and and then try to blow dry your hair, it blows the fuse.  In the house I grew up in, in my bedroom closet, the kid that lived there before had signed their name and the dates they moved in and moved out. So when I moved out, I did it too. No one but me knows about it because it was up over the door on the inside and you had to get up on a chair to see it.

Made me think of this. . .
My parents bought a restaurant in 93, and I moved into the living quarters in the building.  When I started painting the closet in the living room, I found that the shelves were simply sitting on the wood brackets, not nailed down, so I popped them out, set the stool inside the closet and climbed in to start painting.  I dragged my work light in with me, and then noticed the sign over the door on the inside of the closet.  "Men's Room".  Heaven only knows how many years ago it was remodeled into an apartment instead of a restroom - that part of the building had been standing for over 100 years.  I left the sign and just painted the rest of the closet.  Wonder how many more years it will before someone else finds it!

[kitkatz]

I wonder where the Ladies Room sign is?

[paddbear0000]

That's really cool jbeany! I am fascinated by old building's histories.

[twirl]

Apparently no one in house knows how to replace a toilet paper roll but me! 

yes, but the sure know how to use it and listen to them yell when they need it and it is not there 

[cherpep]

Underneath the Pergo flooring in my kitchen is the ugliest linoleum in history.  Seriously!  It's made of yucky golden-brownish colors, the pattern is so busy that if you dropped something on the floor - you lost it, and if you looked closely at the pattern you would see the complex pattern was actually a combination of cornstalks, onions, and other vegetables.  UGLY!

[paddbear0000]

Underneath the Pergo flooring in my kitchen is the ugliest laminate in history.  Seriously!  It's made of yucky golden-brownish colors, the pattern is so busy that if you dropped something on the floor - you lost it, and if you looked closely at the pattern you would see the complex pattern was actually a combination of cornstalks, onions, and other vegetables.  UGLY!

OMG!! That sounds exactly like the linoleum that was in our kitchen when i was growing up! There were even tiny little pumpkins. Thankfully Mom decided to cover it up with stone tiling about 6 years ago.

[jbeany]

When we got our second-hand trailer, I bought a ton of primer paint - the kitchen and bath were both done in that horrible 80's brown and orange bamboo print pressboard.  Ewwwwww!  There's still a little patch of it behind the stove, but you can only see it when I pull the stove forward to clean behind it.

The 70's and 80's have a lot of fashion crime to answer for.  Wonder if the 90's will look as bad to us in a decade or two?

[harley08]

I have to agree with the roll of toilet paper that no one else knows how to replace, but if by chance you do get a person to wash a dish after they use it why is it that the silver ware is not included in the cleaning ritual??

[cherpep]

I'm the only one who knows the secret that it is less work to place a dish in the dishwasher than it is to put it in the sink. 

[twirl]

I think that is a well kept secret
only the woman of the house knows

[jbeany]

I think that is a well kept secret
only the woman of the house knows

I use the 7 second rule - if it takes less than 7 seconds to do it now, don't procrastinate.  And it takes less than 7 seconds, by the time you've walked to the kitchen sink, to also open the darn dishwasher door and put the dirty dish away!

[paddbear0000]

I'm the only one who knows the secret that it is less work to place a dish in the dishwasher than it is to put it in the sink.

Not in our house. Our dishwasher is so crappy, you have to scrub the dishes before putting them in the dishwasher! If it wasn't for the fact that we have no counter space around our sink and dishwasher, I would just hand wash everything. There's just no room to let stuff dry (and no, I will NOT dry them as well! I don't have that kind of energy).

[kitkatz]

Oh boy me too. It is just easier to do it by hand!

Have not figured out why Victor thinks it is okay to reuse a styrofoam bowl after he has made oatmeal in it? He leaves it sitting in the sink filled with water.

[MIbarra]

Okay this is bad and I know it, but... My cat was a very furry long haired cat and a while after we had to put him to sleep, I was vacuuming the living room and spotted some of his fur at the bottom of the recliner where he used to rub himself. I couldn't vacuum it up. I left it there. It stayed for a long time. I guess it just fell off on its own. I am scared to move the couches and find his furballs back there.  =(

[cherpep]

Towels in the bathroom!!!!  I was getting tired of picking up the towels after everyone, so I just left them there to see if anyone else would bother.  Of course, we all know that nobody else did.  I left them there for over a week!!!  I know that's bad, but I was trying to make a point.  Not surprisingly, we ran out of clean towels.  The worst part is that I don't think those towels all over the bathroom bothered anyone but me.  I told my kids to go pick them up and wash them themselves.  My daughter carried 20 towels down to the laundry room yesterday. 

[twirl]

Mibarra   I understand
I am dealing with fur from Zuko and Sad Sack

cherpep --- I think our houses have a lot in common 

[willieandwinnie]

Mibarra   I understand
I am dealing with fur from Zuko and Sad Sack

cherpep --- I think our houses have a lot in common 

Do I know what you are talking about with pet hair. Our Mouse had long hair and she had been pretty sick for about 6 months. I am cleaning and doing laundry today and her fine long hair is in everything. I miss her so much but I won't miss all the shedding. 

[jbeany]

I'm the only one who knows the secret that it is less work to place a dish in the dishwasher than it is to put it in the sink.

Not in our house. Our dishwasher is so crappy, you have to scrub the dishes before putting them in the dishwasher! If it wasn't for the fact that we have no counter space around our sink and dishwasher, I would just hand wash everything. There's just no room to let stuff dry (and no, I will NOT dry them as well! I don't have that kind of energy).

My dishwasher stopped working, at least working well enough to bother to start it anymore.  I ran a last rinse cycle to get it clean, and now I use it as a giant dish strainer - all my washed dishes sit in it to dry.  It saves me from having the giant strainer sitting on the counter, and I can just close it if I don't want to put them away immediately.

[paddbear0000]

My dishwasher stopped working, at least working well enough to bother to start it anymore.  I ran a last rinse cycle to get it clean, and now I use it as a giant dish strainer - all my washed dishes sit in it to dry.  It saves me from having the giant strainer sitting on the counter, and I can just close it if I don't want to put them away immediately.

That's a great idea! I think I'll start doing that once I get up the energy to actually do the dishes.

Towels in the bathroom!!!!  I was getting tired of picking up the towels after everyone, so I just left them there to see if anyone else would bother.  Of course, we all know that nobody else did.  I left them there for over a week!!!  I know that's bad, but I was trying to make a point.  Not surprisingly, we ran out of clean towels.  The worst part is that I don't think those towels all over the bathroom bothered anyone but me.  I told my kids to go pick them up and wash them themselves.  My daughter carried 20 towels down to the laundry room yesterday. 

Cherpep, that's awesome! I'll have to remember that for when I finally have kids!

[cherpep]

My son used to have a problem with his socks.  He was probably about 10 years old.  I would find his socks all over the house - middle of the family room, stuck in a couch cushion, in the bathroom - wherever he took them off, he left them there.  It drove me crazy, finding dirty socks all over the house.  Of course, I complained about it all the time and had him pick them up, but I continued to find them. 

Then, I became a genius!  After several days of not griping about the socks, I told him that I would give him $.50 for each dirty sock he found at that moment lying around the house.  He came back with enough socks to earn him $4.00. I asked him if he was sure that was all he could find (I know that means he found 8 dirty socks, but I knew there was more to be found).  He said yes, and I gave him $4.00.  Then, I told him that from that point on, for every sock I FOUND, he would owe me $.50.  He promptly paid me $3.00 for the socks I brought him right away.  After that, he no longer left his socks around.  I tell ya - it was a moment of brilliance!

[kitkatz]

I took care of the Legos around the house by simply warning my girls I would throw out any foot bombs I found.  It worked like magic after I threw a few hundred out!

[jbeany]

My son used to have a problem with his socks.  He was probably about 10 years old.  I would find his socks all over the house - middle of the family room, stuck in a couch cushion, in the bathroom - wherever he took them off, he left them there.  It drove me crazy, finding dirty socks all over the house.  Of course, I complained about it all the time and had him pick them up, but I continued to find them. 

Then, I became a genius!  After several days of not griping about the socks, I told him that I would give him $.50 for each dirty sock he found at that moment lying around the house.  He came back with enough socks to earn him $4.00. I asked him if he was sure that was all he could find (I know that means he found 8 dirty socks, but I knew there was more to be found).  He said yes, and I gave him $4.00.  Then, I told him that from that point on, for every sock I FOUND, he would owe me $.50.  He promptly paid me $3.00 for the socks I brought him right away.  After that, he no longer left his socks around.  I tell ya - it was a moment of brilliance!

Hahahaha - very nice way to handle it! I hate little dead socks.  I can be half dead and still I will walk back to the bathroom to put socks in the hamper.
My best friend in high school shared a room with her little sister, who was the ultimate slob when it came to her clothes.  They landed everywhere but the hamper, the closet or the dresser.  (My friend was a neatnik, so all her stuff was stowed away like a Marine's gear.)  After endless fights over it, their Mom went in the room with garbage bags one day and packed up everything that wasn't in the dresser, closet, or hamper.  She hid it all in the attic.  When the girls came home from school, she told them she had taken it all to the Salvation Army, and little sis could wear only what she had managed to put away or was wearing at the moment - no borrowing from anyone.  Two weeks wearing the same stuff over and over (in high school - the ultimate teen girl's nightmare!)  and Mom finally got the stuff back out of the attic. 
Their room was always spotless after that.