One cup of disappointment, hot.

[supermouse]

So, I came home after two weeks. The house is a shit hole; the kitchen bins are both full and there's rubbish on the kitchen sides. The dishwasher is full, but the pots in it are dirty. There is another load of dirty pots on the side. The fridge is packed full, including out of date food. There are no clean small plates. The whole place looks

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[supermouse]

I've cleared it! I got angrier and angrier as the clearing went on (and on) but it's done now and I have a reasonable home to relax in.

[supermouse]

The boxes aren't a problem, I expected boxes. The 'I'm moving house' things didn't bother me at all.

It was mainly the fact that the two bins had overflowed to the kitchen sides, it just made me see red, especially when it was early morning when I woke up, so I couldn't do anything about it without waking everyone up. Hence building resentment as I try to live around the mess, and a whiny passive-aggressive LJ post...

[supermouse]

*sguh*

It's all clear now. Calm has been restored.

I think my period is about due, which doesn't help my mental state. I'm going to spend the day doing Happy Things. Television, hieroglyphs, soothing Pol (who got woken up suddenly by me crashing around) and possibly crafts or redoing my gaming sheets.

[cat63]

It's horrid to come home to a mess and I'm sorry you had to :-(

I think if it were me, I'd be inclined to leave the mess to be cleaned up by the people who made it, but then I'm grumpy like that...

I'm also amazed that four people and a cat regularly generate so much rubbish that you need to empty two kitchen bins every day, but then I'm spoilt with my compost heap :-)

You get the Totoro icon, as like me, he's a large thing who doesn't really understand what's going on but has a general wish to be helpful :-)

[supermouse]

Thanks. I was getting the impression that leaving the mess to be cleaned up would have led to more mess, and it being older and that much more ground-in.

The main kitchen bin is tiny, really small and fills in about a day and a half. The recycling bin takes a few days to fill, or one evening if people drink a lot of beer. The paper bin holds quite a lot but not an infinite amount, and needs emptying about once a week. I've been away two weeks.

[cat63]

I was getting the impression that leaving the mess to be cleaned up would have led to more mess, and it being older and that much more ground-in.

Good point.

The recycling bin takes a few days to fill, or one evening if people drink a lot of beer.

That explains it then - beer consumption in our house is maybe one bottle a month, so I wasn't factoring that in at all :-)

Also we have bags for paper and we shred anything with the addres on it which then goes into the wormery, so that's less of a problem. of course, with four odf you there's going to be at least twice as much snail mail spam, which I probably hadn't thought of either.

[supermouse]

I don't drink, and neither does Pol, but even so, the beer bottles do mount up amazingly quickly, and then there's tins and foil trays and plastic bottles and so on. The two bins are only just too large to use carrier bags as bin bags.

[kelvix]

I hated house shares as a student for exactly this reason. Now I live with just one adult and a toddler, it's fairly easy to divide tasks into his n hers groups. And ones which either can/should/would do, like the dishwasher.

Dishwashers are fantastic though. I love mine to bits.

[supermouse]

Generally it's not too bad, but then generally most of us keep on top of it and a cleaner comes in once a week if we can't - apparently she hasn't been in either, or rather no one was in to receive her when she was here, poor woman. I'll be giving her a call to apologise and explain, later, and pay her for wasted time this Wednesday, if she still even wants to come after that.