Water Drips In The Kitchen - Clean Immediately Or?
Decorating By berryblondeboys Updated 14 Nov 2006 , 3:26pm by indydebi
When I'm working in the kitchen, I don't worry about water dripping on the floor or counter. It's just water after all. We're not talking floods here, just drips from my hands or a cleaned bowl, etc.
DH, though thinks I should stop what I'm doing and clean it up immediately or make sure things are completely dry before moving them to avoid drips. He says drips make mud.
What do you all do? Am I the only lazy one about not cleaning up a drop or two of water? (and BTW, I don't notice a mud thing happening as I do clean my floors regularly and we don't wear outside shoes inside.)
Melissa
I would say wipe it up, only because I tend to be clumsy and I would probably manage to trip in the one drip that landed on the floor...haha! 
Hey, if you don't mind, why should he, right?!?! Leave it there, if you feel like it
Lindsay
You know, I used to work barefoot or stockingfooted in my kitchen until one painful experiend about 11 years ago now. I was working ALL day on a quadruple recipe for four desserts for gifts. The next day when we were traveling, I had such TERRIBLY sore feet. I had bruised them and hurt my arch. I have really high arches and i just strained them too much. Since then I always have cork soled slippers or sandals for standing and workign in the house.
On another note - I've been known to just throw a paper towel on the floor and then use it with my foot to pick up miscellaneous drips - works for me!
Melissa
Seriously, he's concerned about a drip of water? If it's something messy definitely clean it up right away but if I drip water and I'm in the middle of something, the water can wait until I'm done.
You know, my DH is weird that way. Some messes he's oblivious to. For instance, he decided to organize his cassettes to decide which to pitch and which to record onto CDs. He got them all out about a month ago and put them on the dining room table. They are STILL on the dining room table- mostly unsorted AND we EAT at that table every day.
But... if there's a drip on the floor or a crumb, he has to get it right away. Laundry on the floor? Step around it... water? and it's a big deal and needs to be picked up right away? Hair left in the tub? who cares, using the wrong sponge to clean the tub - big problem! LOL Looks like some of his mom's neat freak ways rubbed off on him, but not others. I remember being a little worried when we first got married and he insisted we needed three sponges for the kitchen - one for dishes, one for table and counters and one for spills on the floor. I grew up with one sponge for everything, but we both saw what the other was saying, so we compromised - one heavy duty sponge for the floor and big messes, and soft/blue sponge for dishes, table and counters (since they are all dirtied by food only).
I guess we all have quirks! LOL
Melissa
Hun I would tell him to grab you some OLD bath towels out of the hall closet (or where ever 
) and everytime you go to make a cake or desert just drape a few on the floor and that way all mess is collected. Or you could use old bed sheets roll them up and tell the kids to take them outside and play parachute to shake them clean then throw in the wash That's what Paula Deen does!
Well, I have an issue with drips just because I usually wear socks in the house. When I'm cooking I have a pair of slip on shoes used just for that; cooking. I put a rag on the floor, if I spill something minor or drip water. I swipe it up. I really hate wet socks. I turn ugly 
really it should be a personal issue. Of course you could always make him the drip police & have him stand by with a rag in case of drippage. 
We have like 4 rugs in the kitchen and so if I drip its usually onto a rug that then just dries and we never see a wet floor. My husband is a very clean person but never really bothers me about a little drip of water but if it was a drip of food or something like that he would be on me like white on rice. He always wants the oven clean as well as the stove.
We have like 4 rugs in the kitchen and so if I drip its usually onto a rug that then just dries and we never see a wet floor. My husband is a very clean person but never really bothers me about a little drip of water but if it was a drip of food or something like that he would be on me like white on rice. He always wants the oven clean as well as the stove.
You know, I used to have rugs in the kitchen, but I found (for me) that it just made clean-up harder. I ALWAYS drop stuff and if it drops on the linoleum, I can just wipe it quickly with a wet one or a paper towel, with carpets, I can't do that. Yet, my MIL doesn't have problems with that.... hmmm... but she doesn't ever cook, so that explains that! LOL
Melissa
I keep a towel for floors and a towel for counters by me at all times. I can't stand water on the counter or floor. I have hardwoods in my kitchen and so I don't want to slip for one thing and then the counters sure as the world if I don't clean it up I will set something on there like a recipe and it will be all wet and ruined.
So my answer. I wipe it up.
I wipe up drips on the floor as soon as they happen. My reason is that I slipped ,fell and broke my back on one drop of water. So I get paranoid about it, actually I get frightened when I see any water on any floor and freeze where I am until it get's cleaned up. Now how anal is that? LOL
You know, my DH is weird that way. Some messes he's oblivious to. For instance, he decided to organize his cassettes to decide which to pitch and which to record onto CDs. He got them all out about a month ago and put them on the dining room table. They are STILL on the dining room table- mostly unsorted AND we EAT at that table every day.
But... if there's a drip on the floor or a crumb, he has to get it right away. Laundry on the floor? Step around it... water? and it's a big deal and needs to be picked up right away? Hair left in the tub? who cares, using the wrong sponge to clean the tub - big problem! LOL Looks like some of his mom's neat freak ways rubbed off on him, but not others. I remember being a little worried when we first got married and he insisted we needed three sponges for the kitchen - one for dishes, one for table and counters and one for spills on the floor. I grew up with one sponge for everything, but we both saw what the other was saying, so we compromised - one heavy duty sponge for the floor and big messes, and soft/blue sponge for dishes, table and counters (since they are all dirtied by food only).
I guess we all have quirks! LOL
Melissa
Did you steal my husband??
I'm not the best housekeeper in the world and my husband grew up with a mother who would work 10 hour days and go home and spend her whole evening cleaning so I drive him nuts. The thing I don't get though is that he leaves his stuff all over and I'm just supposed to clean around it, like there's any point in that. 
A couple weeks ago he was complaining about the state of our bedroom so I started cleaning and asked him where 2 things went, he told me he'd find a spot for them once I was done and one of the items is a 3ft box, the bedroom is still a mess because I'm not going to clean around it. 
Sorry, but I divorced a control-freak. He would empty ash-trays before our guests were done with their cigarette. After I did dinner dishes, he would "inspect" the kitchen and always find "something" that wasn't perfect, like the towel was hanging a little crooked. He complained that people walked on our carpet when they came to visit (our house was 100% carpeted, even in the kitchen, so someone figure THAT one out for me!) Our kids weren't allowed to have a glass of kool-aid on the front porch because they "might" leave the glass outside (which would make the porch look "not perfect"). I almost delivered my first child at home because he was busy doing his hair ...... after all, he couldn't go to the hospital and not look "perfect".
You're using the wrong sponge in the bathtub? This man has control issues.
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