For those of you who live with men...

[kherrmann3]

I've had it with living with guys! How can anyone else do it? I am getting sick of their piggy ways! I don't have any brothers, only half-sisters, so I've never had to really live with a guy with the exception of my dad.

What's mainly bothering me is this. How do you guys deal with all the little hairs and fuzzies in the bathroom? It seems like every time I clean, more little fuzzies find their way onto the floor or on the side of the bathtub. Is there any way to remedy this, or do I just have to keep wiping it down? How is it possible that men "shed" so much!?

Ugh! It's gross!

 

[Luv-bunniz]

How to get them to keep the bathroom clean?
Tell them to clean it themselves. It will be spotless guarenteed.

 

[kherrmann3]

Will sees the dirt when I make him clean it, but it's never as clean as when I do it. Our roommate doesn't ever think it's dirty (because I clean it all the time). I got fed up and let it go for a month (I clean up the fuzzies at least once a week normally), and neither of them did anything about it. I finally gave in after a month and a half because it looked like the corners of our bathroom were growing fur. I couldn't handle it anymore lol

I should rephrase my question, how do you keep a bathroom clean when your roommate is blind and your boyfriend is too tired to do anything after work? lol

 

[Flashy]

Use positive reinforcement so that when they do the bathroom they get good things like food.... or other stuff, and they don't get anything unless they do it Works with kids.

 

[kherrmann3]

Kids don't know how to make Ramen. These two do lol Will could live off Doritos if I let him.

 

[Luv-bunniz]

kherrmann3 wrote:

Will could live off Doritos if I let him.

:bunnydance: Doritos, yum
How about digging a hole in the ground and telling him thats there toilet?
Hey, it might stay cleaner!

 

[kherrmann3]

Ha! It probably would! Then I could have the nice bathroom all to myself, and if their bathroom runs out of toilet paper, they're screwed! lol

 

[Luv-bunniz]

kherrmann3 wrote:

Ha! It probably would! Then I could have the nice bathroom all to myself, and if their bathroom runs out of toilet paper, they're screwed! lol

Put it outside by a nice tree. They can use leaves :laughsmiley:

 

[kherrmann3]

Would a pine tree work? lol

 

[Luv-bunniz]

Well, I think they would be far from happy :shock:

 

[kherrmann3]

I'm far from happy having to clean up their fuzzies lol

 

[EileenH]

*sigh* I know what you mean. I hate the bathroom.

There was a fabulous episode of Two & a Half Men, where Berta(housekeeper)was really mad that Jake (the kid) was p'ing out of the toilet. She tried to talk to the father (Alan) and all he kept saying was "he's 11 years old!"

So, one day when she was watching Jake, she made him clean the bathroom - really scrub the toilet, the walls, etc. He was disgusted.
A little later in the show, they were all having breakfast and Jake got up and said he had to go pee. As he walked out of the room, Berta just cleared her throat. He turned around, left the room, came back with a mop & a bucket and went to the bathroom.
By the end of the show, he knew how not to miss the toilet, since he had to clean it up.

Of course, it's doubtful you'll get a husband to do this

 

[kherrmann3]

Maybe I should just beat them.

It doesn't seem to hold true with the "things learn better by getting it right and being rewarded...". Why can't guys be as easy to train as a rabbit is?

 

[BethM]

Sometimes I can get Jason to clean the bathroom, but it's never as clean as when I do it. He will do the basics, but he always misses the little places that seem to collect the most fuzzies. The little ledge at the top of the backsplash on the counter, the tops of all the things that sit out on the counter, the part of the toilet where it's attached to the floor. One of his excuses is that he doesn't think it's necessary to have a nice little container for the q-tips, he'd just toss the whole boxup there if it was just him, so he doesn't feel it's necessary to clean the fuzzies off thestainless lid.

But he will stand in the shower for hours with the bleach pen drawing over the mildew in the tile, which I can get just as clean with a squirt of cleaner and a quick scrub. *shrug*

 

[kherrmann3]

Haha! Why can't they just listen!?

Our "problem areas" are along the floor where the wall meets, behind the toilet, behind the toilet seat/lid, and the top of the tank. Those are the most obvious spots to me!

 

[Bo B Bunny]

Men are pigs.

ok wait

MOST men are pigs.

 

[pamnock]

The only way to get rid of the "man mess" is to get rid of the man.

They put up with our PMS, I guess we have to put up with their M E S S.



Pam

 

[kherrmann3]

I shouldn't have to lol I'm the princess here (well, aside from our roommate when he's feeling "pretty"). lol

 

[NZminilops]

I'm the one that makes ours a mess, Mathew doesn't use it often enough to mess it up :huh.

 

[kirst3buns]

The only way to get rid of the "man mess" is to get rid of the man.

:biggrin2:I agree. I've been married for 20 years now and as good as my husband is about doing a lot of household chores, he just doesn't "see" dirt in the bathroom. Since I'm the one that cares about it, I'm the one that cleans it. The martyr route didn't work and it's much easier to just wipe everything down every couple of days than to get him to "see" the mess. I just get even by not "seeing" when the garbage needs to be taken out:biggrin2:.