House: and you think you have seen it all!

Shuffleboard, two side-by-side jacuzzi tubs, tons of playboy magazines...maybe they liked to entertain?   To each his own!   . What icks me out most is the carpet in the bathroom!

More importantly, did you come away with any great estate sale finds?  

Shuffleboard is fun! No ick to that. It's the other stuff, but most especially carpet in the bathroom. 

I admit, carpeting in bathrooms always baffles me simply because I just don't understand how one prevents gradual damage to the subfloor.  

Maybe it's just us, but our bathroom floors always seem to need to be dried for one reason or another.  And that's with everything working properly.

One of my friends just bought a house. The listing said the house was “fully carpeted” and he didn’t think anything other than the fact that he hates carpeting and will eventually be replacing it with vinyl planking. He went to see it and the house has carpeting in ALL rooms, including the bathrooms and the kitchen! Can you imagine a carpeted kitchen? I am way too messy of a cook for a carpeted kitchen. I asked if it was stained. He said it was, but he liked the layout, location, and price and bought it.

My sister’s first house had a carpeted kitchen and bathrooms. Ick is right! Then in the house they moved to next, the kitchen was tiled but the bathrooms were both carpeted and their DD flooded the upstairs bathroom not once, not twice but THREE SEPARATE TIMES by turning on the water to fill the tub, walking away and forgetting the water was on until it was literally pouring out the door. I’m sure that was fun to clean up. 

Now I can get forgetful as I am getting older, but I prepare for that by putting a hair tie on my wrist or setting a timer on Alexa.  Some little trick to jog my memory.  But flooding the bathroom THREE times??  I would have made her bring a chair and a magazine into the bathroom to sit and monitor that tub.  I can imagine how much that carpeting smelled when it was drying out.  I would have pulled it and lived with bare wood on the floors rather than moldy gross damp carpet.

It was a nuthouse for sure.

Well, I guess the silver lining would be that at least it wasn't the toilet overflowing?   Which has happened to me in 3 different houses I've lived in so far.  Thankfully none of those bathrooms were carpeted.

Reminds me of those Cialis ads where he and she are in matching, claw-footed tubs.

I married young and didn’t really use much hairspray before having my own home to care for and clean.  I quickly learned about the overspray you are describing on the new tile floors and started standing in the shower with the door closed to spray my hair, which wasn’t a daily thing anyway, and it made the overspray a simple thing to clean up by turning the shower on for a quick minute to hose down any residual.  It was an easy fix.  

A few years after I started doing this fix, a couple we were out to dinner with were arguing over his daily use of powder on his body.  He was a welder and said he got so hot and sweaty and found using an unscented powder felt better and kept his clothes from sticking.  But his wife insisted he stop because the powder remnants ended up all over the bathroom floor for her to clean up.  And they had a small son that was of crawling age that came out of the bathroom with powder all over his hands and legs from crawling through it.  I suggested that he step in to the shower, close the door, and powder as much as he wanted, but that he needed to remember to hose it down right away so it didn’t cake up.  They just looked at each other in a why didn’t we think of that way. I was shocked when they sent me flowers the following week as a thank you for solving their daily battle.  I told them it was just born out of laziness because I didn’t want to scrub the bathroom floors daily.