Cleaning What Is Not Used
By Angie
@andriaperry (117146)
Anniston, Alabama
December 18, 2019 1:02pm CST
I remember the days I worked cleaning houses on the side, I worked for wealthy people for the most part.
This one couple had a large house, 5 bedrooms, living room and den, breakfast nook and formal dinning room. Each bedroom with its own bathroom and a half bath by the living room.
They used and lived in one bedroom, one bathroom, den and breakfast nook that was by the kitchen.
Each week I cleaned the main living areas first, then I was instructed what to clean that was not dirty.
Why have such a big house and never use it? Seems like a waste of money paid on power and heat. Oh, and someone to clean it.
I have to say, all of my home is used and all of it needs cleaned, right now.
Got any thoughts?
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@DianneN (247184)
• United States
18 Dec 19
You are talking about our home. We have 5 bedrooms, two family rooms, a living room, etc., but we love all the roominess. They are there in case we need them for the kids and grandkids. Money isn’t an issue. If it were, we’d downsize.
I do have a cleaning lady and she’s happy for the work.
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@andriaperry (117146)
• Anniston, Alabama
18 Dec 19
See you have family and friends that come all the time, that is a huge difference and that you are wealthy enough to have someone else clean is the plus.
I am still collecting my wealth.
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@shaggin (72262)
• United States
18 Dec 19
Maybe they bought it or were given it when they had a large family. Once the kids grew up and moved out the house would be big for just the couple. Usually that’s when people will downsize to another house.
3 of us live here. There’s one bathroom and three bedrooms.
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@shaggin (72262)
• United States
18 Dec 19
@andriaperry growing up our house was very big but 4 bedrooms. It had a giant playroom and upstairs bathroom. There was many rooms downstairs. My parents still live there as well as my sister and her 4 kids. They put a large addition on when her two oldest were little so now there is an additional bathroom, bedroom and living area/kitchen. The house is giant and costs my father a fortune to hear it. It used to cost them around $9000-$15,000 a year for oil to heat it so they switched to what I have which is forced hot air and only pay about half that amount per year. They used to have the old radiators when it cost so much more.
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@andriaperry (117146)
• Anniston, Alabama
19 Dec 19
@shaggin What is forced hot air?
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@andriaperry (117146)
• Anniston, Alabama
18 Dec 19
No, she had one boy and adopted another, big difference in age with those 2 also. I just always wondered why.
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@andriaperry (117146)
• Anniston, Alabama
18 Dec 19
OMG! I lived in one and I had no me time.
I am now in a 1700 sq. feet home and its big to me.
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@andriaperry (117146)
• Anniston, Alabama
18 Dec 19
I am going to have to downsize sooner or later.
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@thelme55 (77164)
• Germany
18 Dec 19
@andriaperry I am downsizing already here in Germany. 
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@LindaOHio (181794)
• United States
18 Dec 19
Maybe they had family that would come to stay. We have 4 bedrooms. 3 are filled with "stuff"...I clean it out, hubs brings more in. :-)
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@andriaperry (117146)
• Anniston, Alabama
18 Dec 19
I lived with hoarders, never again, I am totally minimal, or I will be again. Tony hoarded somewhat.
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@LindaOHio (181794)
• United States
19 Dec 19
@andriaperry I keep donating stuff to Goodwill. I'm trying to get ahead of him!
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@andriaperry (117146)
• Anniston, Alabama
19 Dec 19
@LindaOHio LOL.... You go Girl!
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@andriaperry (117146)
• Anniston, Alabama
18 Dec 19
That is how I want my life, minimal, again.
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@GardenGerty (160978)
• United States
19 Dec 19
I need to clean. Usefulness was what I had in mind when I bought this house. It still needs cleaned, however.
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@andriaperry (117146)
• Anniston, Alabama
19 Dec 19
Mine does too, always needs to be cleaned in one area or another.
@andriaperry (117146)
• Anniston, Alabama
19 Dec 19
You lived up there while they redid the bathroom, right?
@JudyEv (342171)
• Rockingham, Australia
19 Dec 19
@andriaperry That's true. There isn't much of our house that doesn't get reasonably regular use.
@andriaperry (117146)
• Anniston, Alabama
19 Dec 19
But you do have people coming all the time.
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@andriaperry (117146)
• Anniston, Alabama
19 Dec 19
I feel the same way at this point in life.
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@andriaperry (117146)
• Anniston, Alabama
19 Dec 19
I need to save money so I will downsize again, sooner than later.
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@EeWhan (183)
• United States
19 Dec 19
I use to do that kind of work, too, and you are right....why are they in it? lol.. I use toalso do new-house cleaning and that was a challenge! Construction peeps leave and I went in to clean things up for the new owners to move in.. that was a job!! and I often wondered why they would want some of the stuff they had built!
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@wolfgirl569 (108196)
• Marion, Ohio
18 Dec 19
I dont want a house that big. It would be fun at first.
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@andriaperry (117146)
• Anniston, Alabama
18 Dec 19
I tried one out, rented a huge house, after a month of keeping it clean I was not happy.
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@1creekgirl (41752)
• United States
18 Dec 19
I wonder if they ever downsized. I'm happy with our small home (the less to clean, the better.) But I would love to have another couple of bedrooms for when the kids come home.
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@Marilynda1225 (83103)
• United States
19 Dec 19
I'm thinking I should clean too!!
Every square inch of my house is used too
Every square inch of my house is used too
@Mike197602 (15512)
• United Kingdom
19 Dec 19
Imagine cleaning this place back when it was a house
It's called wentworth woodhouse and is supposedly the largest private house in the UK (royal residences are not prvately owned they're essentially state owned sort of
)
I doublt all 300+ rooms were ever used and I bet it's a money pit to heat
It's called wentworth woodhouse and is supposedly the largest private house in the UK (royal residences are not prvately owned they're essentially state owned sort of)
I doublt all 300+ rooms were ever used and I bet it's a money pit to heat
@JohnRoberts (109846)
• Los Angeles, California
18 Dec 19
Even if I won a big lottery, I would not want a big place.
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@andriaperry (117146)
• Anniston, Alabama
18 Dec 19
Me either! I would want a small 2 bedroom place in Florida, California, Montana, New York..... LOL.
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@thislittlepennyearns (62930)
• Defuniak Springs, Florida
19 Dec 19
Yeah I've never understood why younwould want such a big.house if you weren't going to use it
