Memo to a former homeowner.

[theweaselking]

Dear former homeowner,

While I appreciate that your cat had kittens, and kittens are not the brightest of bulbs at the best times, you are a human. As such, when the kittens miss the litter box, it is your job to clean it up.

And sometimes you won't notice for a day or so that the little darlings have missed the litterbox. I understand this, too. However, when you picked up the litter box to move it out of your house, and it stuck to the floor and left a *ring* of dried, sticky kitten piss around where it was sitting, did it not occur to you to perhaps clean that shit up?

Yours truly,
John

PS: Several of your esthetic decisions were mindblowingly hideous.

Comments

[kookiemaster.livejournal.com]

We need pictures of the "esthetic decisions" in question :)

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

I think we threw out the three-dimensional molded lightswitch plate in the shape of a rooster.

We've still got the Cookie Jar Of Doom, though.

And the Thing What Came From The Linttrap gets a post of it's own, as soon as we find the USB cable to get the pictures off the camera.

[mhoye.livejournal.com]

I so totally, totally feel that pain.

Two things that have significantly improved the quality of my life in my new place were:
- Having the ductwork professionally cleaned, and
- renting a professional carpet cleaner from Home Depot.

_much_ better, afterwards.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Professional ductwork cleaning is in the plans, along with a chimney replacement (at Totally Not Our Cost) and some new blinds and assorted other stuff.

We brought our own carpets. And yeah, they could probably use a cleaning, but I'm not really worried about that.

[atlasimpure.livejournal.com]

"PSS:We're totally planning on having sex in the same space in which you formed numerous deep and meaningful life memories."

[torrain.livejournal.com]

That totally helps, weirdly enough.

[corruptedjasper.livejournal.com]

Well.. if the house has already sold..

Buyers after all invariably put down new flooring and repaint the walls no matter what you do with them, so vigorous and exhausting cleaning work on their behalf seems redundant.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

This was one corner of the lovely new-last-year hardwood floor, which was one of the selling points of the house.

I was not pleased.

But, hey, I've got experience with cat piss. A little Nature's Miracle(tm), a little time, some Lysol, and some scrubbing, and it's clean.

[corruptedjasper.livejournal.com]

That does rather make a difference compared to "the vinyl/carpet you're going to throw out anyway".

The main problem with cat piss (/vomit/poo/etc) on hardwood floors is that you get teh dark discolorations from the moisture that are hard to impossible to get out -- the ones that don't go away after drying out typically require sanding down to bare wood, and might not come out then.

[singingnettle.livejournal.com]

I do feel for you. Even though I'm laughing.

I am reminded of a fabulous, unique house we almost rented some years ago...until we realized that the former residents' male cat had been peeing into the heating vents.

Not possible to clean; it would have required actually replacing all that tubing that connects the things, and cleaning out the furnace. It's amazing, how one small furry animal with stupid owners can make a $600,000 piece of property uninhabitable.