Serious case of OCD today...

[Yooper]

This is what Grandma's kitchen looked like at the halfway point when I 'cleaned' it:

 

[Yooper]

I had no choice. The final straw was when I found a can of Tomatoes that had exploded but I could still see a price tag of .22 on it.

I also found a box of egg noodles from 1938.

 

[swerve]

You're dad was probably thinking...

WHAT TOOK HIM SO LONG???

 

[GL]

you mad, passionate cleaning fool!

come here and kiss me!

well, once you wash the smell of industrial solvent off of ya.

 

[thewiz]

I'm going to be cleaning and putting up some shelves tomorrow...thank God it's nothing like you have there but if you'd like to put on your Martha Stewart apron and help, you can have dinner! lol!

 

[thewiz]

Hell...I'll give you a blowjob if you mop while I put up the shelves! lol!

 

[thewiz]

Well I've already got the dusting done and glass table tops cleaned along with laundry....so you get to use the new Swifter Jet thingy to make the hardwood really shine!

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

 

[SonOfSlobone]

That's not OCD, hon. OCD is if you clean all the exact same things tomorrow, and the next day, and the next day...

 

[SonOfSlobone]

So kinda like when I jerk off tonight. and the next night and the next night..... ???

Only if you jerk off exactly the same way, or at the same time, or watching the same porn...

 

[SonOfSlobone]

But anyway that's off-topic... good on you for doing something great for your dad! I had to do something similar for mine a couple of years after my mom died. I found spices in the cupboard that I know were there when I was a kid.

 

[SonOfSlobone]

Tell your dad, Since we're living together, I need my own territory. You're not allowed to use this part of the counter and this cupboard. Then keep some dishes in "your" cupboard so there will always be something clean for you.

 

[Fire]

I hope you took "before" pictures.

 

[star-warrior]

Any roaches, spiders, flies, moths, carpet beetles, silverfish, rodent droppings involved?

 

[hotdog1846]

When I inherited a bunch of household stuff from my grandmother, I had to soak and scrub each and every item to get off the greasy, caked-on goo that had accumulated from years of her not being able to see well enough to tell whether things were clean.

Funny thing is, she didn't know she couldn't see, and she was happy as a lark.

 

[rareboy]

Yeah, I just wish I would have help keeping it this way.

You can and you should.

Cleaning up the pigsty may help your father to feel like his life is regaining some order and control. If you are positive about keeping up the cleaning routine, I'll bet he'll come around.

BTW, if all you have to pay for rent is one meal out, I think you should do at least half the cleaning and chores for the household...not just think that you have only one room.

Start living like regular, healthy, organized adults.

You'll all feel better.

 

[dpnice]

rareboy is really quite correct. Two of you living in one house and no one doing the cleaning is a recipe for catastrophe.

I realise you are pleased with your cleaning marathon and that you didn't come here to be criticised but isn't this something you should be doing regularly rather than once in a blue moon?

You have now experienced the pleasure of seeing everything sparkling clean and can sit down and appreciate the effort. Wouldn't it be nice to experience that pleasure more frequently?

Dare I ask what the rest of the house is like?

 

[kevbo]

I never use the kitchen its a disgusting mess and the only time I go in there is to get a soda or a beer.

Speaking of that, did you enjoy the Spotted Cow I gave you in October?

 

[rareboy]

As for the kitchen and "cleaning up half the mess" I have no problems cleaning up my mess. However I never use the living room, yet that place is a sty. I don't clean up other people's messes. Nor should I have to clean a gelatinous mess of liquid from the counter that has been sitting there for 3 weeks when the last time I was in the kitchen was nearly a month ago lol.

I believe though, that this is the core of the problem. You are behaving as though you only occupy one room of the house. Why not use the rest? This idea that you only use two rooms in your father's house is not healthy. It is increasingly prevalent in the young, but it is not a good approach to life.

I put it to you that you hide away in your own room because you don't want the responsibility that living larger brings. I don't understand how children think they are entitled to a free room but then refuse to be part of the larger social environment in the home.

If you are getting shelter for the cost of one meal a week, I think you could be repaying your Dad by cleaning up around the house, even if it isn't your own mess. Along the way, explain to your father that although he is apparently domestically retarded and as lazy as a fencepost, there is still hope that you can get him trained before you leave him to fend entirely on his own.

And then, I honestly think it is time for you to grow up and move out of your father's house. Learn a greater sense of responsibility for your own place and let him slob out on his own.