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Spring is in the air, which means it's time for some spring cleaning - or putting off spring cleaning, depending on who you are. So for all the procrastinators or cleaning fiends who need a break from washing, dusting, organizing, and other household chores, Bored Panda has compiled a list of hilarious cleaning memes that would make Mr. Clean proud.
From the endless "soaking" required before you actually get around to washing dishes to getting distracted by all the interesting treasures you found while cleaning out the depths of your closet, these funny memes are too relateable - maybe even Marie Kondo. So scroll down, and don't forget to upvote the best memes!
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#1
So. Many. Distractions.
VERONICA POTEET 3 years ago
Ooh look, I forgot I had this... 2 years later
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Foxxy 6 years ago
I am a huge procrastinator and get easily distracted. A 5 min job turns to a 1 hour job.
Getting motivated to clean or even do the dirty dishes is sometimes as difficult as getting motivated to go to the gym - but that's not all they share in common. Did you know that cleaning for two hours can burn 200 calories? That's right you can pump your favorite music and clean your place in place of cardio day! How's that for killing to birds with one stone?
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#2
It's THE Chair
Sun&Bananas 6 years ago
OMG really? did you sneak into my house for this post panda? I actually tried to get rid of the half way chair but it just turned into a halfway floor pile... the chair is back.
Alice Laughs 6 years ago
Loool the "halfway" chair, for clothes waiting to reintegrate into the closet after undergoing a cleaner life
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diane a 6 years ago
I have 2 chairs - or I used to. Not seen one for a while, but sure it is under there somewhere...Lol
Carol Emory 6 years ago
That's wrong..the semi clean clothes belong on the treadmill, not the chair...lol
#3
Stubborn Dirt
holo it's me 6 years ago
Oh my god, finally someone said it! These kids need to stop being such priveleged snowflakes... back in my day we didn't have tongues to lick it up! We managed!
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Paul K. Johnson 6 years ago
Get the big stuff with the dust pan then switch to a piece of paper for that last little bit.
Traditional gender roles are being turned on their head from the workplace to child-rearing, but when it comes to cleaning the numbers show that men are seriously slacking. Apparently the average woman cleans for 12,896 hours in her lifetime, while the average man cleans for only 6,448. That's a difference of 6,448 hours. So please ladies hand the men in your life the vacuum they have some hours to catch up on.
#4
Gathering The Strength
notinterested 6 years ago
Put a phone in its hand and that is exactly what I'm doing right now.
Theninjakity 6 years ago
i find small toys or gadgets, and play with them until i finally ready to get up.
#5
Treacherous Spoon
Keep sneezing from all those dust particles? Well you are the one to blame. No, no not because you haven't dusted your room since last winter, but because roughly 70 to 80 percent of dust particles are made up of dead skin cells. So before you judge your cat or dog for all the shedding, just remember you aren't as clean as you think you are!
#6
Dust Bunnies And Twinkling Stars
#7
Everything's Better With Music
Pamela24 6 years ago
Oh, yes. And cleaning wearing high heels is for some reason also better than without them (for me at least).
Sun&Bananas 6 years ago
hahahaha sounds weird but I'll give it a go, at least I'll feel sexy 😂
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Our beds are our sanctuaries. Sure the floor may be covered in clothes but at least the bed is usually clean - wrong. When you cozy up to your pillow at night, your head isn't the only thing weighing it down. Roughly 10 percent of a pillow's weight is made up of dead mites and their droppings. Sufficiently grossed out yet? According to specialists your pillow should be replaced every one to two years.
#8
...or Vacuum Cleaner Cleaner?
sfg4life515 6 years ago
Lol..have a SIL who wouldn't pick small things up before she vacuumed, then would act mystified when it didn't work anymore...can't recall the number of belts I had to replace. She'd just vacuum up anything and everything, leave the bag full and the belt busted, after doing only her room. Then I'd hear her blaming me when telling her mom "we need a new vacuum, mom! *whisper* Stephanie broke our vacuum." No, I am not well-liked, simply because I'm with the only male in their family. Not like they gave a rat's a*s about him when he was growing up.
Vic 6 years ago
I had to re-read that.. the first time I read: 2 dogs, 2 long haired husband's.. 😂😂
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#9
Signs You're Getting Old
Sill Marien 6 years ago
No, it doesn't, because for me the old one was too used and torn, but the new one is too stiff before you use it a couple of times :D
Kenny Kulbiski 6 years ago
I always thought you were supposed to keep them until they dissolved on their own.
Cinderella had the birds and the mice to help her with her laundry, lets hope that all the characters at Disney World are just as helpful, because the magic park washes an average of 285,000 pounds of laundry every single day. To put that in perspective It would take you 44 years to do that same amount if you washed and dried one load of laundry every morning.
#10
Just A Couple Days More
Dawn Baik 6 years ago
lol!! I can one-up you there - found pot with seafood soup leftover in fridge (oh it was BAAAAD), so filled with water and put on deck "to soak" so I didn't have to smell it. Remembered it after 2 months when the snow melted...wasn't any better
Xandra 6 years ago
Yep, been there, done that! Different soup, but just as bad. Cleaned it with a bandana sprayed with perfume over my face. A sight to behold...
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Symbole Simple 6 years ago
Hum... I'm not comfortable with this one, it hits to close to home!
Louise Brigance 6 years ago
Ans there's no law against dumping out the stinky dirty water and replace with clean water to soak some more!!
#11
Neat Freak
SirPatTheCat 6 years ago
My friend fractured her pinky doing this (holding something, ran full speed at it with arms out). I wanted to say something sympathetic, but it came out as "HAHAHAHAH WHAT ARE YOU A PIGEON"
Pan Narrans 6 years ago
From someone who's still got the scars: put a bird sticker on those glass doors, at kids height!
Reilly Beryll 6 years ago
I ran into a glass door when I was little and flew back about a yard. I also knocked out a screen door. Incredibly cautious now ;)
Foxxy 6 years ago
Haha, We moves to a house with a glass sliding door and on the first day we were there we said to our daughter a couple of times to watch the door. Well later on she was running through the house and went to go outside but hit the door. The bang was so loud and she went flying back about a metre and slid on the tiles with a loud thud. She was fine, lucky she didn’t go through the door. It was f*****g hilarious.
Pam Belmont 3 years ago
😆 I believe that people will be able to see that, I am a clean freak 😜
#12
Define 'Clean'
PickleRick 6 years ago
As a cleaner with a wife, I say they can be just as infuriating lol
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Foxxy 6 years ago
Omg my hubby says he can clean in a much quicker time than me and yes he can but the quality is s**t. He should know by now that when you wash dishes you also have to wash the underside and not just the side we eat off.
m. b 6 years ago
My husband seriously washed dishes for the first time. Needless to say, he broke - by that I mean squeezed in his hand or slipped out of his hand- a few plates. But finally, as we run out of plates he got it right. I just threatened not to buy any new plates u till his skills would improve.
StinkyMonkey 6 years ago
This is my fiancé with me. His mother is a clean freak, mine was happy if she managed to vacuum once a week. We are both very much ike our mums. Also I used to work as a cleaner which turned 'I don't like cleaning' into 'I hate cleaning with a passion'.
Coco 6 years ago
So we should be grateful for a man helping, and if not, we are bitches?? SERIOUSLY????
Hugo Raible 6 years ago
No, you should stop complaining the whole day because he doesn't do everything as perfect as you think you are.
Load More Replies... Susan Gardner 6 years ago
My husband offers but I usually decline. When someone hates to do something as much as he does, it will not be done well lol. I don't want to have to re-do what he cleaned
#13
No Way I'm Doing Them Now
KCN 6 years ago
SO ME, ESPECIALLY when I was a teenager. I would tell myself, okay, at the end of the chapter I'll get up and do the dishes. INEVITABLY, Mom would yell DO THE DISHES and I would nope nope nope nope.
TomTomuan 4 years ago
If people washed only the dishes THEY used, there wouod be little to no cleaning. Or even better, assign each family member a set of dishes. If they didn’t wash them or lost them in their room - they have a problem eating. There would also be a set for guests that’s locked away and only 1 person (preferably mom) has the key and hides it well.
sfg4life515 6 years ago
I volunteer to help ONE time, and it become my permanent status in the family. And gracious? No, never.
#14
Relationship Advice
Elizabeth 6 years ago
I would argue about the sanity of those women, even if they aren't cleaning exactly right they are cleaning and that should always be encouraged
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Kevs Build 6 years ago
Yeah right, a woman can start an argument with you without you even being there.
Foxxy 6 years ago
If my hubby did that he would be getting lucky that night for sure. Forget the flowers and chocolates. Give me a sponge and a duster.
Guido Pisano 6 years ago
that is actually untrue: mine complains because of the wrong moment (hint: it is ALWAYS the wrong moment)
Louisa E Johnson 2 years ago
nah bc my mom was just saying the other day that no one helps her around the house, and then my dad offered to help with the dishes. While he's doing them she walks in and is just like "no, you're doing it all wrong" and then proceeds to do it all herself and push him away from the kitchen. I'm sure that in a few days she'll be complaining about the same thing again
Sandra Pierre 5 years ago
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#15
Have Mercy, Please
tuzdayschild 6 years ago
Better than leaving it in the sink after I'm finished. I WILL DESTROY YOU!!!
Bobbi Newell 6 years ago
Yes! Bring your strays while I'm there to take care of them and not after I've finished! Only thing worse is to leave them stranded in the den/office/bedroom for 3 days 🤬
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JessG 6 years ago
I always feel bad about that, but it's better than keeping the fish until they're done washing right?
#16
A Productive Member Of Society
Louise Brigance 6 years ago
And bright yellow cheese dandruff...all around your mouth!!
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Michelle Dodson 6 years ago
I spent 4 hours in the kitchen on Easter Sunday - BEFORE we went to my brother's house for dinner!. He loves my carrot cake and specifically requested it (with cream cheese frosting). Yeah, not doing a 2 layer version again.
Stan Chung 6 years ago
I'm happy with 3/4 most of the time. cleaning is always delayed after cooking. sigh
#17
My Room, My Rules
✎Kinda_Scarlett 6 years ago
Me: *Cleans room* Mom: *Dumps laundry on floor making a mess* Also Mom: CLEAN YOUR ROOM
#18
Nasty Water
Elizabeth 6 years ago
Shh, you're sharing the secrets of people who are good at cleaning. Gloves make the whole process so much more bearable
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Bored Fox 6 years ago
I have worked as a dishwasher at some restaurants so I have learned to touch disgusting piles of food waste. Most disgusting was probably that time when some people had rented a huge amount of tableware and oven pans for a huge party and they returned those over a month later and those were really dirty and moldy. And I had to wash them all.
Carrie de Luka 6 years ago
Dishwashers!! Fab things. My parents had a washing up bowl but I don't see the benefit.
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#19
Or Better Still - Don't Even Come Home
Amaranthim Talon 6 years ago
I've tried to institute the "No shoes in the house" rule- it ain't going over...
Load More Replies... m. b 6 years ago
I tell them to move out. At least for the next few hours or meal.
Load More Replies... TomTomuan 4 years ago
When I clean the floors, I literally make them take off their shoes outside so the first step inside with shoes on doesn’t contaminate my whole house. Or if I took out the trash bag out of the trash can, put it next to it and went to do something quick like take out the trash from bathroom trash can, I expect them to throw new trash in the old trash bag that’s placed next to the trash can instead of “starting” the new one.
sfg4life515 6 years ago
Question is: will they? Answer: no...we have a Stephanie to clean up our messes.
#20
Silently Dissolving
sfg4life515 6 years ago
Ha! I did my dishes from 15 or 16 on. I was a better child to my parents than my mother liked to think.
#21
Clean Before Cleaning
Analyn Lahr 6 years ago
I have an aunt like that. Also her maid didn't do blinds or windows. I was thinking "you're rich, you can afford a maid that does everything."
Rebecah Ozuna 6 years ago
NOPE! It's her job. My mom once said to let the maid deal with the roaches.
Luna Moonwatcher 6 years ago
My parents do this ALL. THE. TIME. This is a fraction of why my room is so dirty.
#22
Multitasking 101
Michelle Dodson 6 years ago
Yeah, that did look really stupid. Watch "5'2" on Netflix. A documentary about how she became "Gaga". It's really good and lets one see who she really is. I've never been much of a fan, but after seeing this, I truly admire her.
#23
Crumbs, Crumbs Everywhere
Mr. Bean 6 years ago (edited)
Until you crave cheese balls/cheetos/takis. :p
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Ben Steinberg 6 years ago
This. This is why I don't clean. What's the point? It's just going to get messy again... /s
Hannah Ingram 6 years ago
Me: *spends half an hour vacuuming kitchen* My Mum two days later: "you didn't vacuum the kitchen. There's rubbish all over the floor."
#24
There's Messy And Then There's Messy
Arkeen 6 years ago
Why on earth would anyone store logs *within* an unused fireplace ? I mean, if it is unused then .. you ... you don't need to store logs ... right ? But even if you want to use it, you can't because ... there is a pile of logs. It ... it just ... doesn't make ... sense ... at all .... why ? WHY ?!
Louisa E Johnson 2 years ago
fr one of my friends wouldn't let me see her room bc she had like one pen and a few shirts on the floor
Eric Lambrecht 6 years ago
Ive never seen anything as disgusting as that photo....I mean, they put unused logs IN the fireplace!
#25
Expectations vs. Reality
Andrea Delden 6 years ago
When my oldest daughter was a teen, she said that all she needed in her room was a mattress on the floor and 3 laundry baskets.
Amaranthim Talon 6 years ago
My son- always- that and the laundry basket sitting in the living room on a chair...
Susan Gardner 6 years ago
Right. Dirty ones are in the washer waiting to be washed and remaining clean ones are still in the dryer lol
#26
Proud Achievement
Dear Veronica Peggy Mell 6 years ago
But then she says it's still dirty and you are left alone to sob in your room because you will never be good enough.
Theninjakity 6 years ago
my mom would find SOMETHING like a speck of trash just so she can be right.
Michelle Dodson 6 years ago
My son. Totally. (He has 2 nicknames for ME - Lady MacBeth & Psycho with a Dustmop). Love that boy ~
Michelle Dodson 6 years ago
Totally my son. He is just as much of a neat freak as I am. His SISTER, on the other hand ...
#27
You Can Do Better
Theninjakity 6 years ago
notice how half of the time when your parents tell you to clean their room but their closet looks like a junkyard of stuff.
Louisa E Johnson 2 years ago
nah they always be like"WOOOOOWWWW WhOS ROOM IS THIS???? ITS SOOO CLEAN!!! IT CAN"T POSSIBLY BE OUR DAUGHTER'S"
Lily Leavitt 6 years ago
Yrue, I had one cup sitting on the clean counter and my mom flipped out and made me recelan the entire kitchen. And scrub the floors. By hand.
#28
It's A Piece Of Room Decor
SadieSummers 6 years ago
I once tried to iron something. Once. Long story short, I melted the ironing board a little, and never attempted to iron anything again.
Foxxy 6 years ago
On my wedding day my hubby said “you know what WIFE stands for, washing, ironing, f*****g etc.”. My reply was “sorry, I don’t do ironing”. I have kept to that promise. I have not ironed in over 13 years, we have been married for almost 11 years. My hubby irons though, he irons my hair with our clothes iron, hair straightener takes too long and hurt my arms.
Elizabeth 6 years ago (edited)
switch over to a steamer - it's faster, less likely to ruin clothing, and you don't need the ironing board. Admittedly an iron does a better job - IF you use it
Bumblebee 6 years ago
I had to use a steamer when I worked in a clothing store a long long time ago (feels like a lifetime ago!). I seriously hated that thing with every fiber in my being! I do not like to iron, but I'd rather iron than steam! And I agree, an iron does a better job!
Load More Replies... Louisa E Johnson 2 years ago
when something wrinkles i just put it into the washing machine and hope that it magically un-wrinkles itself
#29
Rookie Mistake
The Girl on Fire 6 years ago
My brother likes to eat peanut butter WITH HIS FINGERS while playing games on the computer. You bet that keyboard gets cleaned.
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Eden-Rose Huntsman 6 years ago
I just use the sticky part of a sticky note to get all the dust out.
the Lemon Queen 6 years ago
well I use a laptop meaning I can never clean my keyboard >:'D its so dUSTY between the keys!
John Kamau 6 years ago
Then the computer says "NEW PASSWORD ACCEPTED"... and You can never switch off your computer any more...
sfg4life515 6 years ago
lol, yep. If only others knew to not eat whatever they eat while hovering over the kb... find so much between keys.
#30
Saving Both Water And Time
Valerie Lessard 6 years ago
i'm more concerned about washing dishes in dirty bathing water..
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Cheesecake Queen 6 years ago
I hate touching the food particles in the sink. I hate the dirt particles in the tub. WHY WOULD I COMBINE IT?!
PandaLover 6 years ago
Uhhhh, if that's the case, I'm totally comfortable with living in 2017.
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Xandra 6 years ago
Sooo...I'm here reading stuff about cleaning, instead of...guess what? Yep, my place is a mess.
Milena 6 years ago
If I wash my apartment windows or the car, it WILL 100% rain within the next 24 hrs! Foolproof! ^--^
LOttawa 6 years ago (edited)
Haha, every time my boyfriend washes his truck, the first thing I'll say is: I guess it's going rain tomorrow (and it does).
Load More Replies... Lara L. 6 years ago
I am amazed how normal it still is, that the woman cleans and the man does ... i don' know what the man does in the world of "only woman can clean properly".
Jace 6 years ago
If you have kids, and any of them are male, start instilling cleaning habits in them.
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April Simnel 6 years ago
When I was growing up, I got the belt if my aunt/guardian saw any dust or dirt on her white gloves. Yes, she'd run a white-gloved hand over the furniture and mantels to make sure they had been properly cleaned. :|
KCN 6 years ago
Laughed out loud at so many of these things, threw up a little in my mouth at the last one. Urrgh.
A Rose Among Thorns 6 years ago
Sometimes i can see the dust particles floating in my bedroom so i vacuum the air like it's actually going to do anything
Xandra 6 years ago
Sooo...I'm here reading stuff about cleaning, instead of...guess what? Yep, my place is a mess.
Milena 6 years ago
If I wash my apartment windows or the car, it WILL 100% rain within the next 24 hrs! Foolproof! ^--^
LOttawa 6 years ago (edited)
Haha, every time my boyfriend washes his truck, the first thing I'll say is: I guess it's going rain tomorrow (and it does).
Load More Replies... Lara L. 6 years ago
I am amazed how normal it still is, that the woman cleans and the man does ... i don' know what the man does in the world of "only woman can clean properly".
Jace 6 years ago
If you have kids, and any of them are male, start instilling cleaning habits in them.
Load More Replies... April Simnel 6 years ago
When I was growing up, I got the belt if my aunt/guardian saw any dust or dirt on her white gloves. Yes, she'd run a white-gloved hand over the furniture and mantels to make sure they had been properly cleaned. :|
KCN 6 years ago
Laughed out loud at so many of these things, threw up a little in my mouth at the last one. Urrgh.
A Rose Among Thorns 6 years ago
Sometimes i can see the dust particles floating in my bedroom so i vacuum the air like it's actually going to do anything
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