So, this weekend I plan to clean under the stove.
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So, this weekend I plan to clean under the stove. I've bought some tile glue and a replacement tile in anticipation of the floor being so bad it needs to be replaced in that area. I'm ready.
However: Can I ask a question please?
How exactly is one supposed to keep the area under the stove and fridge clean? You know, in the ideal world? Are we meant to move it every month?
Why are there so many designs that are not sealed off OR open enough to fit a mop?
I am sitting here filled with guilt since in like 17 years I've only cleaned under the stove and fridge like four times. Gross right?
Yeah, but I need help to move them. This is bad planning. I have been set up to fail and feel gross.
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I am sitting here filled with guilt since in like 17 years I've only cleaned under the stove and fridge like four times. Gross right?
Yeah, but I need help to move them. This is bad planning. I have been set up to fail and feel gross.
@futurebird I think cat toys, being knocked underneath, start to form a natural barrier to keep dirt out.
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@futurebird I think cat toys, being knocked underneath, start to form a natural barrier to keep dirt out.
This is disturbing me because you may be correct.
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So, this weekend I plan to clean under the stove. I've bought some tile glue and a replacement tile in anticipation of the floor being so bad it needs to be replaced in that area. I'm ready.
However: Can I ask a question please?
How exactly is one supposed to keep the area under the stove and fridge clean? You know, in the ideal world? Are we meant to move it every month?
Why are there so many designs that are not sealed off OR open enough to fit a mop?
@futurebird oh that's an easy one: you just don't look. then it's just as clean as when you move the fridge / stove in
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@futurebird oh that's an easy one: you just don't look. then it's just as clean as when you move the fridge / stove in
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So, this weekend I plan to clean under the stove. I've bought some tile glue and a replacement tile in anticipation of the floor being so bad it needs to be replaced in that area. I'm ready.
However: Can I ask a question please?
How exactly is one supposed to keep the area under the stove and fridge clean? You know, in the ideal world? Are we meant to move it every month?
Why are there so many designs that are not sealed off OR open enough to fit a mop?
@futurebird in the ideal world, i would have actual movable refrigerator risers instead of the makeshift planks my fridge is on.
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@futurebird in the ideal world, i would have actual movable refrigerator risers instead of the makeshift planks my fridge is on.
Do any of these design people think about these things? Like at all?
I bet most people have a gross "crumb and soon to be sentient dust bunny" zone under there. You can clean a few inches in with a mop, and use a broom to get the cats toys out... but it's gross.
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I am sitting here filled with guilt since in like 17 years I've only cleaned under the stove and fridge like four times. Gross right?
Yeah, but I need help to move them. This is bad planning. I have been set up to fail and feel gross.
@futurebird the real friend is all the time and energy we've saved by *not* regularly cleaning under fridges and stoves and other heavy things.
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So, this weekend I plan to clean under the stove. I've bought some tile glue and a replacement tile in anticipation of the floor being so bad it needs to be replaced in that area. I'm ready.
However: Can I ask a question please?
How exactly is one supposed to keep the area under the stove and fridge clean? You know, in the ideal world? Are we meant to move it every month?
Why are there so many designs that are not sealed off OR open enough to fit a mop?
@futurebird I clean under a fridge only when I'm moving elsewhere.
In German we have a word for these cuddly cute well-rounded textile/hairy stuff you often find behind furniture, especially sofas: Wollmäuse = dust bunnies (in German wooly mice).
They are social creatures, need not much food. An artist has a dust archive: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsches_Staubarchiv He has political dust as well as culinary dusts.
So, why design if you can have art? 🤭
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@futurebird I clean under a fridge only when I'm moving elsewhere.
In German we have a word for these cuddly cute well-rounded textile/hairy stuff you often find behind furniture, especially sofas: Wollmäuse = dust bunnies (in German wooly mice).
They are social creatures, need not much food. An artist has a dust archive: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsches_Staubarchiv He has political dust as well as culinary dusts.
So, why design if you can have art? 🤭 -
@futurebird I clean under a fridge only when I'm moving elsewhere.
In German we have a word for these cuddly cute well-rounded textile/hairy stuff you often find behind furniture, especially sofas: Wollmäuse = dust bunnies (in German wooly mice).
They are social creatures, need not much food. An artist has a dust archive: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsches_Staubarchiv He has political dust as well as culinary dusts.
So, why design if you can have art? 🤭@NatureMC @futurebird
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@NatureMC @futurebird
Makkuroske!@ohmu @NatureMC @futurebird norwegian: hybelkanin, implying students are less tidy and the dust balls breed like r as rabbits https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hybelkanin
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So, this weekend I plan to clean under the stove. I've bought some tile glue and a replacement tile in anticipation of the floor being so bad it needs to be replaced in that area. I'm ready.
However: Can I ask a question please?
How exactly is one supposed to keep the area under the stove and fridge clean? You know, in the ideal world? Are we meant to move it every month?
Why are there so many designs that are not sealed off OR open enough to fit a mop?
@futurebird wondered that myself after having lived with several Small Very Tall cats like Dazzle, and the most missed orange Mango, both of whom liked to knock every toy under the stove
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@NatureMC
In French we call them "sheep" (moutons)
@futurebird@elduvelle I would never kill them! @futurebird
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@elduvelle I would never kill them! @futurebird
We don't 'kill' the wollmäuse! How could you suggest such a horrible thing. I am going to "re-home" each and every wollmäus. We have a nice farm, it's in upstate New York, and there is a big barn there filled with beds and stoves and many wonderful places for the little wollmäuse to frolic and play.
edit: apologies for managing to butcher the German language in an English language post somehow.
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We don't 'kill' the wollmäuse! How could you suggest such a horrible thing. I am going to "re-home" each and every wollmäus. We have a nice farm, it's in upstate New York, and there is a big barn there filled with beds and stoves and many wonderful places for the little wollmäuse to frolic and play.
edit: apologies for managing to butcher the German language in an English language post somehow.
It is a very real farm that very much exists.
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@ohmu @NatureMC @futurebird norwegian: hybelkanin, implying students are less tidy and the dust balls breed like r as rabbits https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hybelkanin
@JosteinSN But they are fluffy!
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@JosteinSN But they are fluffy!
@ohmu @futurebird... and sticky...
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We don't 'kill' the wollmäuse! How could you suggest such a horrible thing. I am going to "re-home" each and every wollmäus. We have a nice farm, it's in upstate New York, and there is a big barn there filled with beds and stoves and many wonderful places for the little wollmäuse to frolic and play.
edit: apologies for managing to butcher the German language in an English language post somehow.
@futurebird @NatureMC @elduvelle (singular of "wollmäuse" is "wollmaus"
).In Danish they're called "nullermand" ("lint-man") ... and in Norwegian they're called "hybelkanin" ("hovel bunny").
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We don't 'kill' the wollmäuse! How could you suggest such a horrible thing. I am going to "re-home" each and every wollmäus. We have a nice farm, it's in upstate New York, and there is a big barn there filled with beds and stoves and many wonderful places for the little wollmäuse to frolic and play.
edit: apologies for managing to butcher the German language in an English language post somehow.
@futurebird @NatureMC @elduvelle English is butchered German. ... and butchered French and butchered Dutch and ...
