Tropes dealing with cleaning and cleanliness, from the characters who perform it to the methods that are used.
Compare Bathing Tropes. Contrast Filthiness Tropes and Disgust Tropes.
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- After-School Cleaning Duty: Being made to clean up after school.
- Ascetic Aesthetic: A setting that is very clean and simplistic, which is meant to be ominous.
- Cathartic Chores: Cleaning as a way of dealing with frustration or stress.
- Children Do the Housework: Children who do most of the chores.
- Cleanup Crew: Characters whose job it is to clean up incriminating evidence.
- Creepy Cleanliness: A clean area is meant to be creepy.
- A Day in Her Apron: Someone incompetent has to do the cleaning when the one who usually does is out of commission.
- Dirt Forcefield: Dirt simply does not stick to some characters.
- The Dreaded Toilet Duty: Someone is forced to clean toilets.
- Ear Cleaning: Using a stick/swab to clean your own or someone else's ears.
- Fanservice Car Wash: Washing a car for Fanservice's sake.
- French Maid: A sexy female housekeeper who uses Gratuitous French.
- Househusband: A married man who does most of the chores.
- Housewife: A married woman who does most of the chores.
- Janitor Impersonation Infiltration: Using a janitor's disguise to get past the guards.
- Kids Hate Chores: A kid hates having to do chores.
- Laundromat Liaisons: Having a conversation at a laundromat.
- Lazy Husband: A man lazes around the house while his wife does all the cleaning.
- Living in a Furniture Store: Someone's house is always tidy.
- Meido: A cute (not in a sexy way) female housekeeper.
- Men Can't Keep House A man's house will be a mess without a woman to clean it.
- Musical Chores: Singing while you clean.
- Neat Freak: Someone who wants everything clean at all times.
- Obsessive-Compulsive Barkeeping: A bartender who cleans glasses a lot.
- Red Sock Ruins the Laundry: A deep-colored piece of fabric stains the whole load of laundry with its color.
- Robot Maid: A housekeeper who's a robot.
- Romance-Inducing Smudge: A smudge that leads one person to clean it, which in turn leads to romance.
- Scullery Maid: A maid who is considered the lowest-ranking of the servants.
- Shrunk in the Wash: A piece of clothing gets smaller when washed.
- Soulless Bedroom: Someone who lacks emotions has an unnaturally clean bedroom with few or no personal possessions.
- Spit Shine: Cleaning with your own spit.
- Spring Cleaning Fever: Cleaning up and treating it as Serious Business.
- Sprint Scrubbing: Mopping the floor with a wet towel while running.
- Sweeping Ashes: A corpse's ashes get swept up.
- Swipe Your Blade Off: Making a swiping motion to get blood off a sword.
- Toothbrush Floor Scrubbing: Scrubbing the floor with a toothbrush.
- "Wash Me" Graffiti: A joke where someone writes a message on a dirty surface to ask that it be cleaned.
- Washy Watchy: Watching the laundry spin in the washing machine is treated as great entertainment.
- White Glove Test: Using gloves or a cloth to check if something's clean.
