I'm miserable :-( Neighbour came round & saw how chaotic my home is & I'm ashamed...

Mics_chick

Thanks all of you loverly peeps I always know I will get a great reception at MSE :A

lally666young

Anyway you could always go and live in a house like my mothers!!! So cold and Clinical!!!! Ewww, thats why I always hang in the kitchen when I am there. And its boring and nothing is out of place. It bugs me. Its almost as if she never had us and that really sucks in my department!!!!!!!!

grannytwice

There is a big difference between a house and a home you obviously are a very caring and full time mum you may find that this lady becomes more of a friend because she doesn't have to put on a show for you.

BitterAndTwisted

I people want to judge you by the tidiness of your house rather than the content of your soul, they are not people worth knowing.

You and you OH sound like people who are more interested in things that go on outside their homes and there's nothing wrong with that. And a lot that's right. Carry on doing whatever it is that you do, Tidy and clean up if you feel like it and have a lounge on the sofa with a cuppa if you don't.

Life's too short to worry about a bit of clutter and a few specks of dust. People who obsess about them probably need a hobby.

chewynut

My older brother likes to bring his girlfriends home with little warning. You can usually guarantee that on that evening, the kitchen will be a mess (that he never helps clean up, might I add), the living room will be covered in dog hair and toys and chews and the hall will contain everything we can't fit into the kitchen at that time.

But since there are usually knickers and bras and who knows what else drying on radiators, the mess is never noticed

Only people who have nothing better to do with their lives have squeaky clean houses. We actually live in ours so...

Hardup_Hester

Hi MC
Hubby & I had one room, DS & his GF had another, DD, her hubby & thier baby had the 3rd bedroom & my stepson had a bed in the study. When hubby's brother arrived for a week, he had the couch!
Hester

DianaMattos

If you're coming to see me, pop in whenever. If you are coming to see the house, make an appointment!

charlies-aunt

Clean enough to be healthy and dirty enough to be happy! :j

Life is too shot to be stressing over whether the house is clean/tidy enough - the dust will still be there when I am dead and buried so why worry and waste your precious time trying to keep an immaculate house.

My MIL has spent the last 30 years keeping her flat immaculately clean and tidy - her grandchildren were made to play in the hallway outside the flat door when they visited as she was concerned that their shoes might scuff the carpet and the paintwork would get finger-marked . . . . sadly they don't visit now they are adults - guess its because they were never made to feel welcome as children.

There are much worse things to be than being untidy!

icecreamdogpark

Sambucus_Nigra wrote: »

Sorry - what's the problem? You have kids and a life. No-one lied on their death bed worrying about being a neater person. If you want to be tidier do it for you, not for someone else.



You messy mare.




Joke.

quite agree

Living_proof

I have long thought that it is all down to your genes. Some people are orderly to the point of obsession and the rest of us are pretty easy-osey. Maybe some of us have a stronger tribal memory and can associate with living in caves, who knows? I can almost always think of something more interesting to do than clean and tidy, but I have to confess that the sun streaming through the rather dirty windows this week has revealed the dust on the dust on the dust. Thus far I have purchased a few cleaning cloths! I think that the fact that the OP has been so upset about it maybe suggests that she would get a huge satisfaction to see her house clean, tidy and welcoming. The problem is, as we all know, that sort of thing only happens for 30 seconds at a time, and in the movies!