oh joy. cleanliness

it seems i have picked up the cleaning bit of ocd. im now going around sanitizing everything i can. especially doorknobs and light switches. anything people touch. everything seems so gross and infected. uggh i dont want to touch anything. or even breathe. lovely.

Yeah, that cleaning crap will wear you out. I obsess about people touching things, where things are placed, what touches what, etc. I seem to mostly be concerned about dust, which is a huge stress creator, because no matter how much you dust, it comes back quickly. I know the reality, that there's dust everywhere, but that doesn't get me to "accept" the dust and lose the urge to clean. I HATE how people try to argue logic with me like that. They act like, "Hey, if I tell her the facts, which she obviously doesn't know, she'll have an epiphany and think, Wow! I don't have to clean like crazy anymore!"

I'm not dumb, I just have OCD.

hah, maven i know exactly what you mean
"They act like, "Hey, if I tell her the facts, which she obviously doesn't know, she'll have an epiphany and think, Wow! I don't have to clean like crazy anymore!"" i KNOW!!! oh my god!!!

I got some powerful aircleaners... lol.. they are for my asthma.. but side effect... no dust.. maybe that might help... and yes.. I do suffer as we've talked with my own OCD.. problems...just a thought.. it helps to keep the house cleaner..

Do they really keep dust away? Like, if something sits and isn't dusted for several days, it will remain dust-free?

Yepper they do... no dust... but they are the big ones.. like I have a large one in each room.. lol..

But NO dust!!!!!

And how much do these awesome inventions go for?

Thanks!

Actually, thinking on it, I wonder if they'd help with my eye allergies? I don't know if dust is the problem (my eye doctor said it's "the cost of living in South Jersey"), but dust getting in my eyes certainly aggravates the problem.

hey...

these handy little gadets.. the ones that truely work go from 150-250 dollars.. they are Hepa - that is what you look for,, and yes.. I hate dust so I get one that does a big room - and put it in a little room - so that it really cleans the air..re-circulates and cleans the air several times an hour.

Another trick someone taught me.. to buy cheese cloth.. and put it on your vents.. then you can either wash.....or toss - depends on how you feel. This traps dust.. before it circulates.

Actually when I went to pick up the cheese cloth.. a woman at the store pointed me at some.. other material kinda like you would "stuff" in pillows.. but it is in long "sheets"..

I can use this during the winter - for the heat because the furnance has enough blower power to go thru that material... but for air conditioning.. I use the cheese cloth.

I also had my duct work cleaned out by professional.. and put the cheese cloth on the air intakes to the furnace.

You do have to be careful..... do not put any type of cloth that the air cannot easily get thru.. OR you will overheat the blower on the furnance. and burn it out......

But it does help.. alot.. and the cheese cloth is cheap.. traps alot of the dust and such before it goes in the air..

ahhhhh to the dust free home.. joy.. pure joy..

Getting rid of blinds.. is another thing I did.. so that I could take curtains down and wash.. and I eliminated carpeting..only wood flooring..and ceramic. (hey I did the refinishing myself..)..

I don't use a comforter.. I use a pretty sliky kind of coverlet..
and then I put that up for the night and use blankets that can be washed.. no bedskirt - the coverlet goes down to the floor..

all in the quest.. for relief from allergies and asthma..lol

Yes, I know when you rent .. you can't... do alot of these things..
take care...

I've already mentioned to my bf I might want an air filter. You have no idea the stress dust causes me, with my OCD. It's hell. I have a bunch of plastic containers I need to dust, and when you factor in my OCD (dusting isn't so simple, and when I dust, I worry about getting it on me, even if it's just a little dusting, and I have to shower afterwards, but also, I have to wipe down almost everything in the area with Clorox or other disinfectant wipes, plus change linens and things), it's going to be hell. Makes me procrastinate, but that, of course, makes the dust worse. I have a lot of tissues and paper towels on my floor (don't feel like explaining now, but it has to do with my OCD, not laziness), and they desperately need to be picked up and thrown away, but I also freak about the dust just from doing that, and thinking of all the tedious wiping down I'll have to do. I have to figure out whether I wipe surfaces down first, or pick up items and wipe those first, and how to wipe them, and it's very detailed and stressful.

Anyway, this air filter could be really helpful to me. I ask my bf to spend way too much on me for my OCD, but I don't know how not to.

I don't have blinds. I have one sheer curtain. Apparently, you're supposed to buy this particular curtain in pairs (it doesn't come that way in one package--how weird is that???), my bf found out later after we'd gotten it, but it covers my window, and I feel no need to spend the money for a second one. It's very sheer, and I don't have a blind, but I'm ok with it. I can see out the window (which is slightly tinted, probably because the previous owners had a baby in this room), and people can probably see in, but I'm not too worried about it right now.

That's great that you did the refinishing yourself. My problem with wood flooring is, we have it in the living room and kitchen, and it hurts my feet. I found improvement when I got house shoes to wear, but there's still pain. I don't mean the bottom so much, but the bones where the foot joins the leg seem to feel like they're bending, almost breaking. Very painful!!!

I don't have a comforter at the moment...might get one for winter. I have a soft cotton blanket that seems to work pretty well for now. What bugs me is, my loose sheet and the blanket often end up hanging onto the floor, and that drives my OCD crazy!!!

We don't rent, so that's not a problem right now. Well, I rent, pay rent to my boyfriend, but we don't have a landlord or lady to worry about.