What housekeeping habits gross you out?

It always comes back to the dishwasher. You can’t just let shit fester in the sink for a day and then just stick it in the dishwasher and pray it clean. The dishwasher is a fancy rinsing machine for after you already manually scrubbed your dishes.

Cleaning up cat vomit is gross.

Cleaning gutters is really discusting.

People are weird. I love cleaning gutters. But perhaps because I love cleaning with a end. With gutters you start in a place and end in a place. It is easy to judge your progress. Like mopping. There is a end…

Dirty dishes used to gross me out, but I’m a lot better now. Stop, I hate when piles of dishes or pots and pans are in the sink and the food left in them is wet and slimy. Ugh.

Add in that garbage disposals can be really gross. One woman I know who is married to a plumber is annoyed her husband won’t let her have a garbage disposal. I super clean the drain/rubber part before the garbage disposal by pouring a little Drano on it every 2–3 months. Just the littlest bit so it eats away anything that might be there. How many people actually really clean that part of the sink? I wipe down my sink, but not that part on a daily basis.

It’s supposely a fact that the average kitchen sink is way germier than the average toilet.

My MIL will plug the kitchen sink and bathe veggies in there to clean them. It takes everything in me to ignore it and eat the food. Since all those veggies get cooked it keeps us safe I guess. Thank goodness she has a salad spinner. I don’t let her do it in my house, I tell her she should assume my sink is poison. She just thinks I’m nuts.

I’ve never seen piles of dirty, stinking shoes, or steamy ones for that matter.

@adagio, you are lucky. Imagine a family of 5, all with dirty athletic shoes, the parents with their every day work shoes, the kids with extra sports activity shoes (some covered with mud, most stinking with sweat) lying
In a heap at the front entry.

When the towel I’m supposed to dry my clean hands with is wet, likely growing bacteria.

When food is set directly on the counter – not even only because of the bacteria, but also because many cleaning agents are toxic.

When the same rag is used for days, to wipe counters, to “clean” dishes and who knows what else.

When dead frogs are found in the back of the oven.

Cruddy toilets! There are people who will let all kinds of mold, moss and what-have-you grow in the toilet without lifting a finger to clean it.

Nothing really grosses me out about housekeeping except for cleaning carpets, simply the amount of dirt we live with and can’t really see is staggering.

BTW- we keep our shoes in the entryway, but ours neither stink or steam, they are laid said by side neatly and we keep them fairly new. Old shoes go in the closet for a romp in the woods or when seasons change.

People who haven’t cleaned their bathooms for months, or microwave, or fridge, or stove. Walls.

Oven frogs? Yeesh.
I can’t stay here. It is depressing me.