“When my downstairs neighbour first moved in, I thought we would be friends,” says our submitter in Montreal. “We go to the same school, we’re around the same age, and we both love pets. (I have a cat and a dog, she has four cats.)” And yes, she says, “Every day — after 10 a.m., before 8 p.m. — I vacuum my house. She can have fun with all her cat-hair dust bunnies — I’ll stick to my cleaning schedule, thanks!”
Like our submitter in Montreal, I’ll admit that, as the owner of a dog who sheds quite a bit, I also vacuum pretty much every day. So if that makes me a “FILTHY DIRTBAG,” I guess I prefer that to becoming like “Dirty Lady #2.”
related: I’m dirty and I love it
84 responses so far ↓
#1
Bruce MacFarlane
That’s the trouble with housework.You do it and six months later you have to do it all over again.
Mar 12, 2013 at 3:10 pm rating: 169
#2
ZB
Because filthy dirtbags are really into their vacuuming. Everybody knows that.
Mar 12, 2013 at 3:11 pm rating: 106
#3
Roto13
She should start doing it every night at 2:00 AM just to show the notewriter what a *real* bad neighbour is like.
Mar 12, 2013 at 3:13 pm rating: 52
#4
ali j
anyone else fap to this?
Mar 12, 2013 at 3:20 pm rating: 3
#5
Hannah
I was going to say that my neighbors hate me as with two toddlers I am always vacuuming. Then I realized with two toddlers vacuuming is the last thing my neighbors probably get mad at us for.
Mar 12, 2013 at 3:33 pm rating: 62
#6
bob loblaw
The language laws being what they are in Quebec, this sign should be in French.
Fine coming.
Mar 12, 2013 at 4:27 pm rating: 38
#7
Ace of Space
I used to vacuum daily because I loved to see the lines left by the rollers. Of course, my family would stroll through and ruin my masterpiece. So I ripped up the carpet and refinished the hardwood floors underneath. That’ll show them!
Mar 12, 2013 at 4:28 pm rating: 23
#8
ani
I own a roomba and I run it pretty much on a daily basis while I’m making dinner…and every day it picks up new dust and cat hairs. I love it.
Mar 12, 2013 at 4:44 pm rating: 12
#9
H for Toy
Why don’t you vacuum
EVERY DAY?!
Are you such a FILTHY DIRTBAG that you let that mess sit around forever???
I haven’t heard you vacuum for months.
GIVE IT A TRY! (Before you attract pests)
HAVE SOME COMMON DECENCY FOR YOUR NEIGHBOURS!!!
Mar 12, 2013 at 6:11 pm rating: 59
#10
JoDa
I would be sweet justice if, when the note recipient moved out, a hoarder moved in and accumulated so much stuff that the ceiling collapsed on the note writer.
What *is* it with people who live on non-top floors? NEWS FLASH: if people live above you, you’re going to hear them. If they’re blasting Dre at 2AM, you have a legitimate complaint (but only sort of…the good Dr. is highly preferable to some other options). If you’re nice and request reasonable things (like not putting cell phones on the floor on vibrate at late hours…oh, and in person, after bringing over a pie or bottle of wine or whatnot and a list of “things to know” about the neighborhood and building – like the best restaurant and the *one* dryer that works well, not a copy of the rules – to ACTUALLY welcome the new neighbor), you’re likely to get it. But if you don’t want to hear vacuuming or walking or other normal life activities, then MOVE TO THE TOP FLOOR! (I write this as someone who has lived on a lower floor for the last *7* years, and ALWAYS gotten reasonable accommodation from my upstairs neighbors)
Mar 12, 2013 at 6:13 pm rating: 33
#11
nunavut guy
That’s not a vacuum,it’s my automatic blow job machine.You should be happy that I’m over 40 or you would be hearing it at least three times a day.
Mar 12, 2013 at 6:55 pm rating: 27
#12
havingfitz
It’s very possible that the upstairs neighbor has severe allergies and pretty much has to vacuum all the time to keep them under control. Or they could just like vacuuming. They want bad neighbors? I shared a bedroom wall with a couple who played the song Sweet Dreams full-blast almost 24 hours a day. They just kept it on repeat. Compared to that, everything else seems trivial.
Mar 12, 2013 at 7:27 pm rating: 19
#13
Ely North
My upstairs neighbor used to get crazy drunk and then violently vomit every night around 3 AM. Woke me up every night. I should’ve just written a rude note and taped it to his door. That would’ve solved all our problems!
Mar 12, 2013 at 8:25 pm rating: 13
#14
linda
Too funny!
Mar 12, 2013 at 9:32 pm rating: 0
#15
ano
I vacuum pretty much every 2nd day, note writer will probably hate me too…and every 2 months or so I bring out the carpet cleaner. Holy shit that is loud.
Which is why I always try to do the vacuuming well into the afternoon when people will be awake and night workers would have gotten at least some sleep.
I also mow every 2 weeks.
I’m guessing I must be a dirty slob for cleaning…so often….I think I lost the note writers thought process there. Team vacuuming when I need it*
*which, with 2 shedding rabbits, a shedding cat and a very large, shedding dog, is every other day. It’d be every day but we’re lazy.
Mar 13, 2013 at 7:39 am rating: 8
#16
Dane Zeller
Thirty-three comments, and no one is curious why the word “vacuum” has two “u’s” in row?
Wasted keystrokes, I say.
Mar 13, 2013 at 8:41 am rating: 3
#17
SweetPea
My only guess as to why the note-writer could possibly be upset would be related to the time of the vacuuming, which, I’ve noticed, the submitter left decidedly out of the background information.
If they vacuume at a reasonable hour, then I say vacuume power all the way!
Mar 13, 2013 at 9:19 am rating: 3
#18
yolanda
I installed a central vac. Much quieter, and it does such a fine job I’m only vacuuming every two days with a bit of pickup. My roomba sometimes does the job but it’s battery is shot already again. Don’t buy ‘em, folks, they just cost too much for the battery lifespan!
I live with two parrots, three dogs, and two rabbits. We put that central vac through it’s paces! Visitors assure me my house isn’t smelly.
Mar 13, 2013 at 10:25 am rating: 2
#19
nurgleth
“I’ve been listening to you vacuum for months” – what is that supposed to imply? “You should be finished by now”?
Mar 13, 2013 at 12:55 pm rating: 11
#20
Poqua
I don’t know how to feel about this. Of course the person gets to do what they want at reasonable hours. And depending on your life situation, vacuuming every day might be normal or necessary. At the same time I know I wouldn’t like to listen to it every day, and I personally have no reason to vacuum often.
Probably a case in which I would simply quietly move out at the end of the year, without saying a word about it.
Mar 13, 2013 at 3:05 pm rating: 1
#21
Kacie
I once had a neighbor who vacuumed constantly. No pets, that we could hear (or the landlord saw on monthly visits spraying for pests) and it was a father and son who worked alternating shifts at Walmart. I complained to my friends, who laughed until they would come over and hear the vacuum upstairs at least once an hour. It’s been years since I’ve lived there, and we still wonder what the hell they were doing to need to vacuum that much…
Mar 13, 2013 at 3:59 pm rating: 8
#22
Mom of Three
Three dogs. Two cats. Three kids. Every. Damn. Day.
Mar 13, 2013 at 9:57 pm rating: 6
#23
Heather
If the vacuuming occurs at reasonable hours, as with this case, there’s really no reason to get so upset about it.
However, I live on the bottom floor with someone above me who vacuums at *least* twice a day, and *always* after 10pm and/or before 7am. I have problems sleeping anyways, so getting woken up at 6:30am to a loud vacuum? NOT fun.
(And no, we can’t just “move to another floor!” if we don’t like the noise. My mom is handicapped and cannot climb stairs.)
Mar 14, 2013 at 1:42 am rating: 3
#24
Fnord
so they have FOUR cats? how big is the place? depending on the breed of cats, I don’t see anything wrong with daily vacuuming unless it is during indecent hours.
whoever wrote this note seems to have a selfish outlook.
Mar 15, 2013 at 12:42 pm rating: 1
#25
silence the voices
I have to vacuum everyday in order to silence the voices in my head. I chase them down with the vacuum cleaner and they go away. I have to vacuum again when they return.
xoxoxo
Mar 15, 2013 at 4:26 pm rating: 4
#26
Raichu
If she does it quickly then no, vacuuming once a day is not that big of a deal, jeez. And it’s definitely something you can just talk to her about directly.
Oh, and quit being an asshole, thanks.
Team submitter.
Mar 15, 2013 at 4:41 pm rating: 2
#27
Jeremy
I’m willing to give the benefit of the doubt here that there’s possibly more to it. I live below an older (well 60s) lady that vacuums every morning around 4:30 a.m. and yes it gets pretty aggravating.
Mar 21, 2013 at 10:56 pm rating: 0
#28
Bonnie
I live below an elderly lady who does laundry at 7:00 am EVERY F&CKING MORNING. Seven days a week. There are no words.
Mar 22, 2013 at 10:58 pm rating: 0
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