What is your cleaning pet peeve?

ericbomb@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 44 points –

I've realized I am really bothered by passive voice in cleaning with people I live with. "I am going to do the dishes tonight" - great "Eric, would you take out the trash tonight please?" - that's fine! I probably would have taken it out if I had realized it was full. I'm an adult and this is my house, I try to keep it clean. "We need to clean up around here!" - What does that mean? Do you want me to clean? Are you going to clean? I thought things were pretty clean, is there something specific that needs cleaning?

Also me and my mom can't live together because we do dishes differently. I am a "fill and start the dishwasher" person and she is a "Empty the sink" kind of person.

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Maybe passive voice is the wrong term, but talking in a passive way about cleaning. Don't do an open ended complaint without an obvious solution. Either ask me to clean something specific, or say if you intend to clean somethings specific.

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