A clean bike is a happy bike.

Just found out today that my bike fits perfectly into the shower , no more excuses for not cleaning it.

I hope the wife isn't on these forums

You must have a large shower!  My bike barely fits into the bath.

my first wife once came home and found the gearbox from our Chevette HSR in the bath, covered in gunk

The dishwasher, there's an idea. Recken the cassette, chainrings and derailers could easily go thru there.

I always had a rug in front of the gas fire.

It covered the place where the MG flywheel left oily tooth marks on the carpet

There is a car valeting place near our's them keep letting me use the big water jets for free saves tons of time and I can play witth the water gun thingy.

get an ultrasonic bath - superb way to get your cassette and other bike bits clean

Just be careful of using detergent and salt on aluminium parts

On a similar front, I took to using our baby bottle steriliser kit to keep my own bottles bug free.  Mrs D never liked me doing it mind...

Pic here

This is all fine as long as your remeber to clean the bath/shower/dishwasher/steriliser aftweards. Which is where you all seem to go wrong.

Also I don't recommend leaving a chain in something on the stove in a pan to boil dry. That's a smell I shall never forget.