July 10
Friday,July 10, 2009
Hi Internet!
It is Friday, and I am nosy.
Since I have been busy in my mud room one excruciatingly long day forever, and I showed you the horror that was underneath my washing machine, I have to know…
How long has it been since you have moved your washer and cleaned under it.
Bonus question~~if you moved it today, what would you find under there?
Friday,July 10, 2009 at 7:53 am
ummmm…you’re supposed to move them and clean? I never knew!!!
Friday,July 10, 2009 at 7:54 am
I got a new washer and dryer about a year and a half ago so that was the last time that I cleaned under them. I think the only thing that you would find is lots of lint…I am constantly sweeping my laundry room (since it’s also the entry room from the garage) so there doesn’t seem to be lots of stray things on the floor.
Friday,July 10, 2009 at 8:04 am
Um, let’s see, we moved here four years ago. So four years.
I do not want to know what lurks behind or underneath!
Friday,July 10, 2009 at 8:05 am
We live in an apartment and can’t really move ours. But if we did, I’m sure I’d find enough lint to knit a sweater!
Friday,July 10, 2009 at 8:27 am
MOVED the washer????????????
Friday,July 10, 2009 at 8:28 am
If there was dirt under my washer, you would find dirt/dust/lint and socks. And maybe some undies too. However, since we’re on a well and don’t have a proper filtration system, we end up with icky sediment in the hose leading into the washer – which I need to clean out periodically to even get water to flow into the machine. And sometimes, if I don’t reattach the hose properly, and then go to turn the water back on, water sprays EVERYWHERE! So, cleaning up water from under that damn machine is a 3-4x/year activity. Not enough time for lint/dirt/dust to build up. Grrr. I’d much rather have the lint/dirt/dust uner the damn machine than water!
Friday,July 10, 2009 at 8:33 am
Euhm…. about 2,5 years….. since it was moved to the spot it lives in now.
Under my washer would be dirt and probably some spilt soap…..
Friday,July 10, 2009 at 8:38 am
I live in a townhouse…the attached house next door flooded in January…thank goodness water did not get under the washer & dryer…or should I say I wish it had so I could clean…nope! Besides…it is too much work to move those darn things. Right?
I don’t even want to think about what is under there!!! icky
Friday,July 10, 2009 at 8:39 am
We just moved into our house 2 weeks ago and the washer came in it so there’s no telling what you’d find. I’m guessing some dead roaches the size my head though.
Friday,July 10, 2009 at 8:42 am
We moved ours last November and it wasn’t too bad under them.
Friday,July 10, 2009 at 9:03 am
a land of dust bunnies
Friday,July 10, 2009 at 9:08 am
Clean under the washer and dryer? We’re supposed to clean under there too?
What would I find under there? Well, hopefully all the socks with no matches. Where DO they go anyway?
Friday,July 10, 2009 at 9:19 am
I used to move mine around periodically and vacuum under because they were in a back room with dogs ick… but you know whats super gross moving your fridge after its been sitting there for oh say 6 yrs. Not pretty!
Friday,July 10, 2009 at 9:31 am
We just moved to a new house, so I guess that the dust bunnies are only starting to form. When we moved out of our apartment though, we found a baby diaper (amoung other things) under the drier.
Friday,July 10, 2009 at 9:35 am
We moved ours a few months ago, had a leak under the washer. Was quite dirty. But i know it needs moved again to be cleaned under. Now under the stove & fridge, that is a different story!
Friday,July 10, 2009 at 9:54 am
Mine is too heavy to move, it has concrete in it for counter-weight and the dryer sits on top of it. I use a wrapped yard-stick to clean under it.
Friday,July 10, 2009 at 10:04 am
We just moved ours a couple months ago. I had looked down the side for a wayward sock and went eeeeek! So we pulled it all out and scrubbed and vaccuumed.
I know there are at least two clothes-pins under there right now.
Friday,July 10, 2009 at 10:17 am
Well, I don’t qualify for this question because we just moved into our house a month and a half ago. But normally, I try to pull out the washer and drier once per year and sweep/mop under it. It usually has alot of dust/pet hair and silly little odds and ends like a pencil, small rubber ball, or a broken hanger. Oh, and don’t forget the sock that I’ve always been looking for forever.
Friday,July 10, 2009 at 10:23 am
Did I miss the memo that says you are to move your washer and clean?? Oh my goodness. I suppose you might find the million dollars I buried there a long time ago, keep forgetting that I buried it there!
Friday,July 10, 2009 at 11:07 am
the slacker in me is ashamed to admit it, but I clean under my washer and dryer a couple times a year. But I do have an excuse, there isn’t good ventilation behind it, so I need to move and clean the dryer in order to have it dry well, and as long as i’m back there I push the washer out too. Usually there are socks, soap, countless cat toys and small boy things. Plus enough soap to make me wonder if it actually ever gets into the washer. Once I found a cell phone that had disappeared a month beforehand.
Friday,July 10, 2009 at 11:21 am
It’s either I don’t recall or I plead the fifth. Uhmmm, what might I find? Same stuff I find in the sofa cushions and maybe all those missing socks. Wonder if John’ll help me move it this afternoon…
Friday,July 10, 2009 at 11:26 am
Well, the good news is that the repairman was here just a couple of months ago and pulled everything out and I DID get a chance to clean. The bad news? We live in an old, mostly falling apart house, and there was evidence that we are NOT alone.
*shudder*
So I know for sure that there’s a mouse trap or two back there, but that should be just about all!
Friday,July 10, 2009 at 12:12 pm
Huh? …are washing machines made to be moved? I thought they were bolted in when delivered…
What you’d find under? Hummmm… probably all those socks it’s been digesting for years!
Friday,July 10, 2009 at 12:18 pm
My wife makes me clean under there & the stove and fridge once a week…. she told me that was normal!!!!!!!!!!
Has she been snowing me or what????
Friday,July 10, 2009 at 12:20 pm
Oh…it is normal…I’m just not.
Friday,July 10, 2009 at 12:38 pm
I haven’t moved them since they arrived 5 and a half years ago. If I moved them today, I’m sure there’d be lots of dust, tons of lint, a hanger or two, and a few socks that match the ones I finally threw away.
Friday,July 10, 2009 at 1:28 pm
We moved here three months ago. It hasn’t been long enough to move it and clean under it. Maybe in 5 years or so. When you get old like me you don’t see a whole lot of dirt and stuff. ( convenient at times! )
Friday,July 10, 2009 at 3:47 pm
We had a graduation party for my daughter recently and I cleaned under/behind the washer/dryer, stove AND refrigerator. Of course, the previous cleaning had been a VERY long time before that.
Despite the recent cleaning I’m sure there’s already dust and lint beneath both. Cleaning is like dieting I think, it takes for ever to do it and it’s a pain in the butt and it’s WAY to easily undone by just a little neglect.
Friday,July 10, 2009 at 5:14 pm
The last time was when the old one was taken out and the new one put in, that would be about 5-6 years ago
If it were moved today I would say that there would probably be a lot of dog and human hair under there plus a sock or two that fell, maybe a washcloth.
Friday,July 10, 2009 at 5:19 pm
I last cleaned it in Dec the night before we left on a trip. I had washed some down filled coats and I had water everywhere!
All we found was dust and some lint. I was surprised!!!
Friday,July 10, 2009 at 8:25 pm
er… I’m pleading the fifth.
Friday,July 10, 2009 at 11:29 pm
I don’t clean under mine… because you’d find a dirt floor under it. And I don’t clean hard packed dirt floors!
Crumb, I rarely go down there as the hubby and kids do the washing. I can’t stand that room, lol!
Saturday,July 11, 2009 at 5:01 am
I moved mine when my old washer was leaking and there was water all over the floor and obviously they were moved when I got new ones. As the movers took out the old ones I took a vacuum back there and tried to clean it as best I could in 2 minutes.
I found some change, a thong belonging to a previous owner of my house (I assume), some socks (also not mine), a whole bunch of dust and some hangers. Yuck.
Saturday,July 11, 2009 at 7:41 am
It’s been about a month. We had to buy a new washing machine and had to move the old one out. It wasn’t too bad under there BUT we won’t discuss the mess I found under my stove when I moved it out to clean.
Must accelerate the under-stove cleaning schedule.
- Suzanne
Sunday,July 12, 2009 at 10:13 pm
WE ARE SUPPOSED TO CLEAN UNDERNEATH OUR APPLIANCES???
Wednesday,July 15, 2009 at 12:22 pm
I suspect the world underneath our washer is a strange and mysterious place suitable only for cockroaches. They can have it. Hey, Old Buckeye. Were you once married to my mother-in-law?