Cobwebs in the attic

I can't see any reason for cleaning an attic that is not used--other than not encouraging spiders that might migrate to other areas of the house. I need to clean the cobwebs from under the basement stairs. I keep putting it off--I even have a broom hanging on the basement steps that would be easy to grab on the way down but I still procrastinate. I'm good at that!

I hear you clearly with this as I have enough on my hands to do besides go into an area that perhaps in a year of not entered. Anyways what I try to do is get rid of things I no longer need and make sure not to accumulate an further stuff than I already have. When I go to parties and they are handing out little gifting nacks, I am one to refuse them as the last thing I need here is yet more dust collectors.

Yikes! I've never even been in my attic, much less dusted it! Who knows what's up there.... I don't want to know! I have enough trouble dusting my living room regularly. My daughter in law, though, dusts everything once a week (not sure about the attic!). She vacuums the drapes, dusts above windows and doors and all the corners of the walls. She has a four bedroom house with a den and three bathrooms, so that's a lot of dusting every week.

sounds like they have too much time on their hands! i guess for me it would be my craft corner. i am not a neat freak but i often to a project then go and misplace things so i am always tidying it up.

Wow.. I'm the opposite.. I sit in my bedroom being lazy and look up and say "I should really grab a broom and do something about those cobwebs" but I don't.

There's a part of my apartment that i don't frequent but i still clean it. It's the corner near where i put my shoes. I want it to be clean cuz i know if i leave it there unattended it'll accumulate enough dirt and it'll look awful in the future.

My daughter was telling me today that when her boyfriends mom was there the other day for dinner, she washed the dishes for her, that she appreciated very much but then started cleaning everything! They don't use their water dispenser on the refrigerator think it doesn't work not sure, but she even took it out and cleaned it! My daughter wasn't sure if it was just being helpful or an insult!

I am definitely not guilty of excessive cleaning, except for the fact that if I am going away, I want to wash up all the laundry in the house before I go. My mom always did this. For her, it was because we did not have very many good clothes and for me it is just habit. However this discussion is reminding me that I need to get after all the cobwebs in my house.

hi 3snugglebunnies well with me its self preservation if I dust anything that might be unseen. of course now I am in this very tiresomne retirement center I do not have to do any house cleaning as the housekeeping staff cleans for us. But yes I dusted when we had our own apartment as I am extremely allergic to dust and dust mites. I hink I may be one keeping Benadryl really thriving for all the pills I use and have bought.So that is why I used to dust anyplace where dust could gather. here it is not too bad but I had to stop the housekeeper from dusting all the electric cords going fromn my computer to monitor and modem and router. I yelled at her even in order to get her to realize those could be fouled up with her insistence on dusting everything.So many people who work here are Mexicans who no habla le anglaise. help.

I guess for your MIL it's not "out of sight, out of mind". I like things to be cleanly but only what can be seen by people and that's it. I won't go so far as to clean every nook and cranny unless it is well enough time for that to be done, such as spring / season cleaning.

Maybe I would get it cleaned once a year. But my mother was a great one for superfluous cleaning.Not only would she (in her late eighties) get down on her hands and knees and wash the base boards she would then go back and polish them!and she did this every week. She thought that I was a bit of a slob but I consider my standards to be on the high side

Your inlaws would go nuts if they visited our attic...there is all kinds of cobwebs in there I am sure! When I was little my dad used to make my sister go cobweb hunting and I would have to pick up specks that didn't get picked up by the vaccum cleaner. He would sit with a flashlight and say "speck" and I would have to bend down and pick it up. Oh gosh, the specks he would find. There we so incredibly tiny even I as a young girl could barely see them. My sister got the easier job of holding the flashlight while my dad got all the cobwebs and little dust bunnies off the ceiling. Of course our house was always so clean it was like a museum. Now that they are older I go over and help them with the cleaning and stuff. About 6 months ago I asked him (jokingly) if he wanted me to go speck hunting. He said "are you kidding, I am lucky to see the carpet let alone any specks". LOL I am glad they still have their sense of humor.