You've mentioned anxiety before, are there other things you do that YH/others think are excessive?
Nope. I just don't like my home and kids covered in dog hair. My previous dog was a non shedding dog, so all this hair bugs me to no end!
Honestly, I'd LOVE to sweep (all hard floors so I don't vacuum) 4x a day and I have a 70 lb coon hound and a 15 lb min pin and they shed like crazy. I have three kids and I hate when everything seems to be covered in dog fur, so I sweep as much as possible but I just don't have the time to keep up with it all.
I do have OCD, but I don't know if this is a function of OCD. I have recently just tried very hard to come to terms with the fact that even the minute I am done sweeping, I could go back over all the floors again and get another pile. Someone (five people and two animals) is always walking around doing something so the hair just tracks all over. And the animals constantly shed even though I finally bought the furminator.
It seems excessive but I can really understand your doing it, I'm wishing I could pull that frequency off, it would just be at the expense of other chores
FTR: I vacuum as little as possible so every few weeks but we don't wear shoes in the house and the dogs don't shed. Also, we rinse their paws off after any long or messy walks.
Probably decided GBCN was too much of a time commitment and would take away from vacuuming. It can be a time suck (that was meant to be a vacuum related pun there )
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.
In all fairness though, I do have OCD but I do not wash my hands constantly nor do I turn the lights on and off.
But I obsess over the cleanliness of my home that other people in my life do not see the "dirt and mess" that I see. They see a normal house that is lived in and kept up well enough, I see omg there is so much dirt and mess everywhere how can you not see it and want to spend every second of every day scrubbing?!?!
So OCD presently differently in some people than it does in others.
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.
In all fairness though, I do have OCD but I do not wash my hands constantly nor do I turn the lights on and off.
But I obsess over the cleanliness of my home that other people in my life do not see the "dirt and mess" that I see. They see a normal house that is lived in and kept up well enough, I see omg there is so much dirt and mess everywhere how can you not see it and want to spend every second of every day scrubbing?!?!
So OCD presently differently in some people than it does in others.
Nope. Sorry, Dr. Deactivatedovervacuuming, MD would say that you clearly do not have OCD, as you do not wash your hands or mess with the lights.
Confession: I lived in an apartment with 5 guys, and no one owned a vacuum. We went an entire year without vacuuming. Sometimes, we would sweep the carpet.
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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.
this is a spectacular dog! omg What kind is he?
He is a Bernese mountain dog. Magnificent beast! Despite our house constantly looking like a hair factory, I do love him.
Post by daisyheadmaizie on Nov 21, 2013 17:49:17 GMT -5
Who knew that vacuuming was such a hot topic? I feel like it is a good day when we can drive someone off over something so mundane. Good work.
I vacuum 2x a week. Occasionally, the vacuum needs a quick vacuum one more time depending on how destructive the kids are that week. I sweep the kitchen most days, because the crumbs are out of control from the kids' eating. Some day they will learn to eat over the damn plate or how to clean up after themselves.
I just replaced all the carpet so it's the same color as our dog, that way it's like it isn't even there. Boom. Problem solved.
We did the same thing when we moved into our current house.
Dog colored carpet works well. I made a mistake with my car interior color - should have gone with the tan. Dark blue couches show tan and orange pet fur
If I vacuumed 4x I would traumatize my poor dog. She sheds more when she is nervous it would be a horrible cycle. I just need a roomba (couchba?) for what she does to her spot on the couch.
In all fairness though, I do have OCD but I do not wash my hands constantly nor do I turn the lights on and off.
But I obsess over the cleanliness of my home that other people in my life do not see the "dirt and mess" that I see. They see a normal house that is lived in and kept up well enough, I see omg there is so much dirt and mess everywhere how can you not see it and want to spend every second of every day scrubbing?!?!
So OCD presently differently in some people than it does in others.
Nope. Sorry, Dr. Deactivatedovervacuuming, MD would say that you clearly do not have OCD, as you do not wash your hands or mess with the lights.
Right, lol. I need to tell my doctor he's doing it wrong, this doctoring thing.
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