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.

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? 🤭

@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
Makkuroske!

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?

@NatureMC
In French we call them "sheep" (moutons)
@futurebird

@elduvelle I would never kill them! @futurebird

@NatureMC @elduvelle

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.

@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!
@ohmu @futurebird

@NatureMC @elduvelle

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.

@NatureMC @elduvelle

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 ...