How often do people typically clean their basements?

[tigereye]

Poll question: How often do people typically clean their basements?

Let's just say mine is in need of some serious attention. :D

[KitchenWitch]

1. What basement?

I miss having a basement.

[tigereye]

4. ah, good point! In a lot of places there aren't any....

Should have been a poll option.


So where do you put all your junk? :rofl:

[kentauros]

7. Yeah considering the water table is often only four feet down

in Houston. A basement would remain perpetually flooded here :P

Unfortunately, the whole apartment is storage for all the junk and mail I haven't gotten around to stripping out all of my name and adress info...

[KitchenWitch]

9. We have a two car garage that only one car parks in.

:crazy:

[datasuspect]

2. when the stank of putrefaction becomes overpowering.

[Critters2]

3. No, that's when you close the door. nt

[tigereye]

5. ha!

:rofl:


Fortunately mine isn't that bad.

[Blue Diadem]

6. I usually do it every 6 months and it's due big time.

We pick up and dust some in between but every 6 months in when we organize what hasn't been put away and clean the nooks and crannies of their spidey webs.

[tigereye]

20. it's seems no sooner do I roust out all the cobwebs, then there are more!

Maybe it's just that I wish one could clean once and then it would stay clean! :crazy:

[Blue Diadem]

24. Mine get worse in warmer weather.

We get ants coming in around the basement windows and the granddaddy longlegs will start. I usually take care of those a couple times a summer.

I'll take granddaddy longlegs over wolf spiders. My son gets those in his basement. They hide in his waterproofing system.

[fizzgig]

8. that reminds me that i have to go clean my dad's basement

x(

his entire basement has become nothing more than a storage unit for my sister and i and it resembles one of dante's levels of hell. we told my dad we'd clean it as a christmas present and we haven't done it yet :blush:

[tigereye]

11. I just can't believe how much crap ends up down there!

:hide: ie, stuff that should have been thrown out or sent to the Goodwill long ago...

[SacredCow]

10. It would have to be never....

as they don't really exist in Louisiana. Pesky water table...

[tigereye]

12. I should have a separate poll for folks in the South/ Southwest, etc.

ie, where do you put all the junk that would ordinarily go in the basement...

[SacredCow]

14. What goes in a basement?

Every time I visit friends up north, I marvel at the massive space that is a basement.... What I couldn't do with a big-ass room under the ground!

[tigereye]

21. a big ass room under the ground

:rofl:


When I lived in a group house in grad school, that was where the bands practiced, and various substances were smoked...

[SacredCow]

22. Sounds perfect to me.....

I want one!

[XemaSab]

15. It's why people out west have 8-car garages

For your junk. :P

FWIW, we have two garages and a carport.

The cars are in the driveway. :)

[tigereye]

19. we have a 2 car garage with a large space on top, but there's not much

junk in there.


It's so funny how folks keep stuff in their garages, but not their cars!



(Just read the State of the Bird report- great reading! ) :hi:

[BarenakedLady]

13. When packing to move

and selling the house.

[KitchenWitch]

16. That is the only correct answer!

:D

[Inchworm]

17. Hehe

:rofl:

:thumbsup:

Hi!

:hi:

[tigereye]

23. you should have seen the trash pile before we bought this house!

Trash pile from the duplex we lived in then, and trash pile that had to be hauled away before we moved in here. I can still see the realtor's brain exploding when he saw how much crap was in the basement before we were going to close on this new house. He was really mad.


It was shocking! And there were only 2 of us at the time. I am betting that the trash guys hated me!

[Left Is Write]

18. That depends on what the basement is used for.

In my old house, we had a fully finished basement with laundry room, office, bathroom, family room, and bar. We used it all the time as living space, so it got cleaned as regularly as the rest of the house.

We don't have a basement where we live now. Water table is too high.

[RebelOne]

25. What basement? I live in a mobile home.

At least that is one room I don't have to worry about cleaning.

[tigereye]

26. hmm, there are no compulsively clean basement votes...