10 Confessions

[bertine]

1. I don't really dust very often. No where as much as I should with three cats around.

2. If Zach wasn't around I would eat ready made food all the time. Or I would eat my parents house every night.

3. We got a second litter box because I don't clean it daily.

4. I hate folding clothes so I hang everything instead. Since we don't have a dryer we just hang clothes on hangers to dry.

5. I rarely get gas until the light is on.

6. I eat candy for breakfast about half the time. I tell myself I make up for it by eating oatmeal the other half of the time.

7. Emotionally I would rather have something and not need it than not have it and need it. I combat this by trying not to buy things until I really need them.

8. I hate taking the recycling out because we need to go down three flights of stairs so sometimes I just throw away recycling.

9. I also hate washing dishes that have had oatmeal in them so I just use paper cups.

10. I'll renew library books not because I am not done with this but because I don't want to take the time to go to the library to return them.

Comments

[sterlingphoenix.livejournal.com]

You should have more litterboxes than cats. I have 4. You should still clean them daily. It's not that the cats 100% need that, but it's one of the best ways to catch problems early. Which is kinda gross but hey.

I hate washing oatmeal off dishes too. It's like industrial glue sometimes...

[bertine.livejournal.com]

There is no place for 4 litter boxes in my place. Two is hard enough to find space for. Until Emerson got older and more fussy I only had one catbox for 3 cats and never had an issue. I know about checking for problems but feh.

Even if you wash the dish right away it is annoying! I just decided to stop doing it.

[sterlingphoenix.livejournal.com]

Oh I'm saying I heard that's the general guideline, and that I have 4 (for 3 cats), I didn't mean you personally.

Oatmeal is one of those things where washing right away is almost WORSE. I think letting them soak in hot soapy water for a few hours is better. Possibly cause then someone else could find and wash them. Hey I'm an optimist. And a jerk.

[bertine.livejournal.com]

Yeah, one day we will have a house with a basement and I can put a litter box there. Right now both our boxes are next to each other. However, they are really big cat boxes.

No one is going to come wash my dish at work!

[pen-grunt.livejournal.com]

I can relate to... #1, 2, 6, 9 and 10. :)

Cannot remember the last time I dusted, I would starve if D didn't cook, I'm eating candy right now, I deal with the oatmeal problem by eating it at work where the CFO has a strong paternal instinct to clean up after all of us, and I will renew library books over and over and over for this reason.

I only escape the recycling quandary because St. Paul sorts it for you--so you CAN just throw it in the trash.

[sterlingphoenix.livejournal.com]

I got four of those Clever Cat litterboxes... and they all HATED THEM so I had to throw them out and get regular ones ):

Oh work doesn't count, do whatever. (:

You can always say you're saving the crazy amount of water and soap you'd need to clean oatmeal.

[avecvu.livejournal.com]

If you just let the oatmeal cup/bowl soak for a little while it becomes really super easy to clean. I hate washing dishes period, though, so they tend to pile up in the sink.

Whenever my landlords go on vacation or away for a weekend I haul all my dishes upstairs and run them through the dishwasher.

I can empathize with most of this list. I put all of my recycling into paper bags and bring it all upstairs every so often. We have single-stream recycling in Cantabrigia, so at least I don't have to sort it.

I can one-up you on the laundry thing: I have a dresser but I don't use it, and my closet is full of crap. So I end up leaving half of my clothes in the laundry basket and the other half (all of my merino clothes) get hung from the pipes that line my (basement) apartment. Dirty clothes usually go directly from the floor to the washing machine.

I'm not a neat person at all. :(

[bertine.livejournal.com]

We have a tiny sink at work (where I eat most of my oatmeal) and I just don't feel like dealing with it. I should have added that my soup bowl will sit unwashed on my desk for days.

We have a trashcan that we put recycling in but once it is full I don't deal with it for a long time. We also don't have to sort it.


Oh, here is another one. Despite having a basket for dirty clothes in the bathroom, I tend to leave my clothes on the floor.

I am sometimes neat but usually not.

[bertine.livejournal.com]

You can just throw it in the trash trash and they will sort it out? Or you throw all your recycling in a bin separate from the trash.


A friend wrote a list of things she felt she needed to be doing everyday and it made me think about this list of stuff that I do that isn't the way we are pressured to do things.

[avecvu.livejournal.com]

Oh, work sink. I usually bring a bowl with me, rinse the bowl when I'm done eating, then bring it home and wash it properly. (Wash it properly = stack it in the sink.)

If you just put it in a paper bag, you can bring it downstairs when you're leaving the house and toss it in with the rest of the recycling. This is easier said then done, but you don't have to bring a barrel back upstairs.

I have never ever ever been neat. My mom was obsessively neat. I think it's a recessive gene.

[phaedie.livejournal.com]

Dusting? People really still dust?
I'm a clean freak and suspect ocd about quite a lot of this but dusting is not something I have time for.
Ever, that's like ironing, nope not doing that either. ;)

[annablume.livejournal.com]

I have been known to toss out perfectly good recycling because I hate sorting it. This is one of the reason I am so excited for single sort!

Do you have a garbage shoot?

My worst, worst habit (well, besides smoking at current) is blowing my nose and than throwing my used tissue on the floor. The other day, I hit Sam in the head with one of my snot rags.