Post by dragonfly08 on Nov 21, 2013 14:21:24 GMT -5
I sweep the kitchen, family room and foyer floors daily.
Carpets get vacuumed once/week unless there's a reason to do it more often. But we don't have a pet or wear shoes in the house, so usually that's not an issue.
to follow up on my once a month answer--I will say that by the end of two weeks, the house really needs it. There are hairballs drifting down the hall or kicking around the corners of the bathroom and Andy's scattered Cheerio crumbs throughout the area rug in the living room. But this was one thing I had to let go of when he was born and I started commuting 3 hours a day. Somethings gotta give, yknow, and while I stay on top of clutter, vacuuming/dusting just isn't happening as often as it needs to. It is what it is.
A shepherd/lab mix would be a big shedder. 4x per day still sounds obsessive-compulsive to me.
It could be OCD if I was washing my hands over and over or turning the lights on and off all day. All that hair makes my house feel dirty and I don't like seeing dog hair on everything we own. It literally takes less than 10 minutes to vacuum the first floor of our house. It's not like I am going over it with a fine toothed comb. It's just a quick thing a few times a day to keep the hair from building up.
This makes me convinced you do have OCD and are trying to rationalize it with a basic understanding of OCD. For the record, with OCD, the obessions can be ANYTHING and the compulsions can be ANYTHING
Ugh, yeah. That I the one thing I hate about my floors. Every tiny crumb or fluff shows up and I can't stand looking at it.
I'm now thankful for my multi color carpet. I have no idea what's down there but at least I can't see it!
Haha. I was just telling my h that I always hated carpet, but at least I could never see the crumbs. But on the other hand, if I can see every speck of dirt on these floors after vacuuming twice a day, it makes me wonder what was in the carpets when I would go weeks between vacuuming. Lol. No win situation.
My dog sheds a ton too, but I only get around to vacuuming 1-2x per week. During the week, I'm usually only home (and awake) for like 3 hours a day and it's hard to get motivated to spend a good chunk of that limited time vacuuming. I have a robot vacuum on my wish list for the holidays.
Post by sawyerthedestroyer on Nov 21, 2013 14:30:06 GMT -5
We only have carpet in the bedrooms so I sweep more often than vacuum. Our room and DS's room are vacuumed every other week on average. The guest room is usually only vacuumed if we're having guests. DS, the dogs, and I spend most of our days in the sun room so I sweep that room the most often, usually every day for the dog hair and dirt that gets dragged in from the backyard.
It could be OCD if I was washing my hands over and over or turning the lights on and off all day. All that hair makes my house feel dirty and I don't like seeing dog hair on everything we own. It literally takes less than 10 minutes to vacuum the first floor of our house. It's not like I am going over it with a fine toothed comb. It's just a quick thing a few times a day to keep the hair from building up.
This makes me convinced you do have OCD and are trying to rationalize it with a basic understanding of OCD. For the record, with OCD, the obessions can be ANYTHING and the compulsions can be ANYTHING
Really? I had no idea. Thank you Dr. Jennistarr1 for diagnosing me with OCD because I don't like to have tumbleweeds of dog hair blowing through my house.
So, assuming you are home all day, and sleep 8 hours at night, that means that you vaccum every 4 hours. Every single day? And the fact that you are just doing it quickly. Is it like, you see a little speck of something and just have to run it one time quickly? And then, in a couple hours, you see another speck and feel like you have to run it again?
to stay on top of ozzys shedding you'd really need to vacuum every twenty minutes. As soon as he lays down on a freshly vaccumed rug, its covered in hair again. And he gets brushed/furminated. Each time the equivalent of another dog in hair is removed yet he remains unchanged in size. It baffles me.
This makes me convinced you do have OCD and are trying to rationalize it with a basic understanding of OCD. For the record, with OCD, the obessions can be ANYTHING and the compulsions can be ANYTHING
Really? I had no idea. Thank you Dr. Jennistarr1 for diagnosing me with OCD because I don't like to have tumbleweeds of dog hair blowing through my house.
your response just seemed kind of weird to me...like "as long as I don't wash my hands or turn on/off lights then I must not have OCD" and I was wondering if it was something you were worried abou having
Once a week. However, I vac the kitchen/dining room/Freddie's high chair once a day because there are Cheerios and Goldfish everywhere and my goddamned dog won't eat them anymore. Jerk.
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to stay on top of ozzys shedding you'd really need to vacuum every twenty minutes. As soon as he lays down on a freshly vaccumed rug, its covered in hair again. And he gets brushed/furminated. Each time the equivalent of another dog in hair is removed yet he remains unchanged in size. It baffles me.
But, but... he is so FLUFFY!! Every time I see your sig pic, I just want to squish your big, fluffy dog. Oh my god, the fluffiness.
The cleaning lady vacuums every other week. Sometimes DH vacuums the week she is not coming. He sweeps under the DR table most nights. I never personally vacuum.