[BlindTlk] House Cleaning

[Ericka]

I understand your Pam about the floors. Also countertops. There’s usually no crumbs on my countertops because my hands find things. Then again it’s not necessarily a blind thing. My husbands totally blind and just goes over it with a cloth it doesn’t check anything. Annoying but I don’t want to say too much. Just glad he helps!

This is a little off topic but you know I went to public school in my life and my husband went most of his life to public school but for high school he went to the state school for the blind. He felt he benefited more from being at the state school because he was with people who could understand. I told him I was grateful that I went to public school in my life because eventually we all had to swim in the same pod so to speak. I learned the weirdness of sighted folks early. I was the only one in my public school and in my family to have any kind of vision impairment. It kind of forces you to listen to what they say and do. I think my husband kind of regrets I learned so much. He always keeps saying “for someone blind you sure don’t miss anything!“ You bet! You got to be a student if you want to live in the cited world. As you so nicely pointed out they don’t tell us the obvious stuff we should know about. I’m grateful my mother actually did teach these skills you talked about just buy not letting me get out of chores.

Ericka Nelson

> On Jul 19, 2021, at 2:38 PM, Pamela Dominguez via BlindTlk <blindtlk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> I asked, when I took skills of daily living at the center we could go to here, that you go to every day, why they don't teach you to fully clean a house, and they had no answer.  All they taught you was how to quickly run a vacuum over a rug.  Nothing about washing windows or floors or walls, etc. Anything I learned, I had to teach myself.  It's interesting how sometimes, sighted people don't see things you can feel.  My mother would tell me my kitchen floor was beautifully clean, and I would say I could still feel dirt.  The thing is, when the floor is wet, it feels like you got everything, but when it dries, it dries with stuff on it.  Pam.
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> -----Original Message----- From: Jamelle via BlindTlk
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> Jen,
> I'm living in my second apartment and I have a sighted person who cleans my
> apartment twice a month.
> I've heard of some independent living facilities that teaches blind
> individuals how to mop etc. But I've never attended those classes.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: BlindTlk <blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Jen via BlindTlk
> Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2021 5:26 PM
> To: Jim Portillo via BlindTlk <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: Jen <spiderweb1 at sbcglobal.net>
> Subject: Re: [BlindTlk] House Cleaning
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> Floor sweeping, cleaning windowsills and dusting. Is it even possible for a
> blind person to keep an immaculate house, or is sighted assistance always
> needed?
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> On Saturday, July 17, 2021, 05:02:19 PM EDT, Jim Portillo via BlindTlk
> <blindtlk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> 
> Hi there,
> I think you're going to have to be more specific. There are certainly
> techniques, but what are you wanting to clean or have look nice?
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: BlindTlk <blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Jen via BlindTlk
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> Cc: Jen <spiderweb1 at sbcglobal.net>
> Subject: [BlindTlk] House Cleaning
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> Are there alternative techniques for cleaining what you can't see so the
> house is immaculate? Thanks.
> 
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