I go visit my two older boys for a week every month. I stay with them in their room at my ex’s place and one complaint they have is that I never wear slippers when walking around the house. I go barefoot at home and can’t get used to it. But it’s a valid complaint because they have not washed their floors since I can remember and walking on it makes the bottom of my feet black.
I’m going to break tomorrow and wash the floors get down on my hands and knees with a round metal scrubby thing all purpose spray and a microfiber towel and scrub the damn floor clean. I was going to do the kitchen today but I got a little overwhelmed after cleaning most of the fridge (the veggie drawers have to soak a bit.).
The kitchen has a little nook for a table but instead of the table there are bags and bags of clothes and piles of dirty clothes on top leaving a thin walkway by the counter. There is absolutely nothing I can do about this. I even had to move a bag just so I could get the fridge open to clean it.
The sink is full of dishes but there are no cabinets to put them or even a strainer to let them dry. They have to pile them on the counter. There are barely any dishes anyway and only one butter knife. They have a good set of frying pans that I bought them and some pots and pans and a strainer I bought them and a giant brownie pan I got them,kitchen utensils I got them and some pot holder and gloves that I got them.
The bathroom is even worse. The outside of the toilet hasn’t been cleaned in God knows how long the bath mats are a plastic outdoor mat with large plastic bristles and a shedding welcome mat that smells like cat pee. The floor is muddy all over.
Their bedroom is fine but the floor is not washed. I don’t know about his bedroom and the living room has a large air mattress half covered in clothes and surrounded by bags. The strip of tile showing is also dirty.
I feel overwhelmed by the mess and clutter every time I come here but they have no cleaning supplies and their mop is so dirty… I’d never had enough stuff to clean it properly before but now I do and right now I just don’t want to fucking do it. Probably because I’m tired. Probably because it’s overwhelming thinking about it and probably because I only have a week and have a hard enough time cleaning my own less cluttered house.
My Gordian Knot 