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I actually only make sure the kitchen is spotless when guests are due to arrive. First impressions and all. Once they’re in residence, I tell them I’m not the kind of person who jumps up and washes the dishes immediately after I eat- I basically let a sink full pile up on the counter and wash them all at once (I don’t have a dishwasher). And I’ll often tell a guest, if I already have a pile there, to just leave their dirty coffee cup with the rest, one more thing isn’t any big deal. Sometimes guests will wash mine if they’re washing a meal’s worth of their own. I get pretty relaxed guests who tend to behave more like good roommates.
I stay more on top of it if I have a guest who likes to cook a lot, so they have a clean kitchen to work in, than if it’s a guest who eats out all the time and only uses the kitchen to keep some beer in the fridge, make coffee, or get some water.
Yes, those little almost transparent ones pack a big wallop. There are those type and larger brown ones where I live. I got stung on the base of my thumb by a little one a couple years ago and it took 4 months for the feeling to work its way back up to the tip of my thumb. It was totally numb for about 2 months.
Spot on. My slogan for cleaining is “Clean like new”.
Does it look new? No? Then its not clean.
Particularly something like a toilet. Most are very easy to clean like new. Porcelain ones anyway.
But I also have to say, there are some people that simply cannot see dirt. They will clean a bathroom and leave toothpaste droppings on the chromework, spider webs around the cieling and mold in the shower.
