‘Heaven is a spotless kitchen with a perpetually restocked fridge’: In a chaotic world, cleaning videos give us a sense of control over our lives

Creators online have built careers filming a simple household task: Cleaning. As viewers, we spend countless minutes watching rugs be vacuumed, toilet bowls drowned in a rainbow of products, and even women reviving old, neglected gravestones. The internet has long celebrated the mundane, but cleaning videos have an especially soothing effect for some viewers. This …
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Daycare teacher refuses to feed 2-year-old applesauce because it’s ‘too messy,’ doesn’t tell mom until she confronts them about it: ‘A part of me understands. Another part of me feels like this is kind of lazy?’

Little kids are the messiest monsters that ever lived, and there’s nothing you or I can do to stop that. I do not expect a two or three-year-old to be able to fully cut their chicken parmesan and eat it without transferring at least 40% of the bird onto their shirt, and neither should you! …
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25+ Spring Cleaning Memes Organizing Their Closet for 30 Minutes Before They Get Bored

The weather is warming, the sun is shining, and we’re figuring out what to do with all those miscellaneous cords knocking around our house. Maybe just throw them away. Spring is for a few things: drinking green beer at the beginning, eating marshmallow peeps, staying out of the rain, and cleaning our houses.  We’re shedding …
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Wife refuses to allow her in-laws to stay over after they snooped in her private things and called her house «messy» the last time they stayed over, husband gets angry: ‘He may say he’s going to clean, but he won’t’

It’s so much easier to have friends or family visit from out of town when they’re not staying at your house. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve had many houseguests sleep on my couch, and spending an entire weekend with them has been buckets of fun. However, their staying at your house the whole time necessitates …
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Working wife leaves cleaning duties to her unemployed, stay-at-home husband, finally caves after he doesn’t clean for a whole year: ‘Our house is disgraceful and I’d be mortified if anyone came to visit’

There is much online discourse about the damage of parentifying young kids, wherein youth are given adult responsibilities such as disciplining their younger siblings or being forced to watch after them for developmentally inappropriate amounts of time. Even if you’ve never been parentified, you can immediately tell that there’s something off about it. If a …
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32 Chores Memes for Domestic Dudes With Dirty Dishes and Laundry to do

The saying goes that everything in life is temporary except for death and taxes. I’d like to add one more forever concept to that list: household chores. I feel like the guy who came up with the «death and taxes» saying probably had his wife doing all the chores for him because, to me, that …
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Dad threatens to kick out pregnant 22 year-old daughter-in-law for refusing to help clean: ‘She isn’t giving birth to Jesus’

I’d wager that a good majority of household disputes are spurred by the issue of cleaning. Someone isn’t cleaning enough, someone isn’t pitching in, someone’s work goes unappreciated, or someone microwaves fish in the middle of the night. Cleaning the house is a bigger job than it seems at first, especially if you’re sharing the …
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‘In 20 years that I own the property, have not seen such mess inside!!’: High-strung landlord scolds tenant for having a mildly messy apartment

There’s a vast difference between your apartment being mildly messy and being at risk for bugs and mice. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with leaving clean clothes in the laundry basket for a few days or leaving the book you’re reading on the ground. As long as it doesn’t rub up against the people …
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Visceral Video of Gross College House Inspires Reactions and Debate on Twitter

Oh, to be a 19 year old college student again. That frontal cortex is so beautifully underdeveloped. So many bad decisions are yet to be made, partly because the next drink is always around the corner. Also, it’s a horrifying revelation how many people the same age have apparently zero idea about cleaning up after …
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Bemused Couple Shares All the Surprises Left Behind by Previous Owner of Their New Home

Moving house is one of the most stressful things that a person can possibly do. Packing up your entire life and transporting it to a brand new place is enough to test even the most even-tempered soul, and that’s before you get around to settling things with realtors, landlords, and all the other millions of …
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