Help with Housekeeping

[LizzieP]

My house cleaning routine will never be the same...Finnegan (10 mos) has taught me these very important things about appliances and general housekeeping duties:

1. Vacuum cleaners must be barked (high pitch only, please) at and run along side at all times.

2. Dusting must have been invented as another version of tug a war.

3. Sweeping is much more fun if you chase the broom, bark and scatter all the debris all over the room so you're upright can do it again...and again...and again.

4. Window washing is much more fun if you're upright has cleaned the inside of the windows and while she is outside cleaning, you run along and chase the paper towel from the inside (with dirty paws) and then really, really help when you try to lick the Windex sprayed on the outside from the inside.

Sigh...

[rileysmum]

Rebel agrees with Finnegan 100%, that is why he is outside when I clean.

[Eliz222]

Finnegan sounds like a true Cairn! I gave up on "Cairn height" windows a long time ago!

[tena]

The windows in our apartment have little mustache prints all over them

[kayharley]

Oh yes, the windows!

Yesterday I saw little breath marks on my living room window while Madison sat perched panting at our neighbors cat.

We find the dustbuster to be the worst...ours actually has teeth marks on it. These guys.....

[Scully'sMom]

LOL!! Boy can I relate to all of those - especially the tug of war with the duster. Scully loves the Swifter!! Now if I can only teach her how to dust.

[mrskti]

we're suppose to dust?????

[SARpartner]

Why dust, I just tell people it's my new "breeding program". When a dust bunny gets big enough you just name it. After all Dusty's full name is Dust Bunny Searching So Long.

[Teri9672]

I usually go a little mental while trying to vacuum or clean the tile. The girls usually have to go outside so Mommy doesn't go crazy.

[tlwtheq]

My house cleaning routine will never be the same...Finnegan (10 mos) has taught me these very important things about appliances and general housekeeping duties:

1. Vacuum cleaners must be barked (high pitch only, please) at and run along side at all times.

2.  Dusting must have been invented as another version of tug a war.

3.  Sweeping is much more fun if you chase the broom, bark and scatter all the debris all over the room so you're upright can do it again...and again...and again.

4.  Window washing is much more fun if you're upright has cleaned the inside of the windows and while she is outside cleaning, you run along and chase the paper towel from the inside (with dirty paws) and then really, really help when you try to lick the Windex sprayed on the outside from the inside.

Sigh...

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Got another one to add. Teddy goes balistic when Daddy Beas' retrieves a new plastic garbage bag for the kitchen can. Of course, Daddy inflames the situation by snapping the bag open...

[Kathryn]

Hey SARpartner!

You may be breeding dust bunnies in your house but in ours, we call them Dust Bison!

[TheScotts]

Add this to the list:

When mommy sorts the laundry into piles on the floor, root around in them, find smelly things to steal (take at least one sock under the bed) and also roll on smelly things. When mommy is folding clean laundry, pounce on the piles of clean folded things, it makes mommy shriek

[Anna_525]

In the morning with the sun shining directly on our sliding door, you can see paw marks...and on our window behind the sofa, there are nose imprints...

[CathyAnn]

Anna....we have perpetual "nose boogies" on our patio door.....

Cathy

[savannahsmom35]

Our nose marks look more like snail trails. Savannah never stays still.