How clean is your house right now?

meritaten

mine is clean - tidy is another matter!
sorry but I could not live with 'showhome' perfection. I have neighbours and friends who have houses like that - and frankly - I don't feel comfortable there. my own mum is like that. family are not allowed in the 'living room', as its all cream carpets and furniture, so we all squeeze into the diner part of the kitchen, fight over seats, and still dare not drop crumbs on the floor. it makes us feel we aren't 'good' enough.
Clean is good - Tidy is good - but not always at the same time. you have to LIVE there!

aklmatthews

mine is not too bad but dishwasher needs emptying and refilling all windows could do with cleaning and most cupids need cleaning and tidying. Just two adults in the house most of the time but when adult daughters and two grandchildren are here it is a bomb site. I hate clutter but not always as good as I should be at keeping things tydy.

midnightraven3

if you had asked me 2 weeks ago, i would have said "its clean, its tidy and I feel like i am never done "footering" as my gran would have said, constantly picking up, wiping, putting away to keep it like that

last week, last remaining student son was away at summer school
husband was away working
and for the first time in 20+ years, i was alone

so when i got up in the mornings, everything was as i left it
no breakfast crumbs to tidy away
no shoes left lying at the back door
no errant empty wrappers
no piles of washing to be done
no dinners to prep
you get the idea


our children are all grown
and while its lovely to see them all achieving & living life
the nest sure feels mighty empty

make the most of it all
the dust will still be there LONG after any of us are
make up stories to tell them, about the spider who made the cobwebs
and enjoy the baking that made the crumbs rather than worry about vacuuming them up

on the plus side?
there is a little girl moved in next door
her & I are becoming firm friends:T
her mum cant understand how i have hours to chat about daisies and fairies and show her how to plant flowers, make bracelets and dye t shirts:rotfl:

PenniesMake£s

Boo hoo it is soooo messy and not clean. I need to tidy up everywhere, clean the bathroom, Hoover upstairs, wash dishes, put dishes away, fold and put away laundry, wipe surfaces in kitchen and Hoover downstairs. Right....ready, steady, here I go.....

Islandmaid

A bit like Camelot, we have the builder,s in - well Hubby and his lad,s..... We,re without the main bathroom, even floor joists have been removed, and DS,s new room has been battoned and re insulated, due to have plasterboard and a skim this week coming.

Hallway littered with said plasterboard and bags of plaster and dust film over every surface in the house - these are the last 2 rooms in a major refurb, so I am trying to 'chill' and will have a mega clean down when the hordes of biscuit eaters (builders)have gone ..... (Approx 10 days)

I,m not a clean freak by any stretch of the imagination, but would like it to be less like an elephant has sneezed in a flour factory........

Sally_A

I'm a big believer in having it not overly clean and tidy; it hacks me off big time when others don't help though and just dump stuff everywhere.

On the plus side...no allergies or OCD have had the chance to flourish.

....and I haven't managed to give food poisoning to them yet.

I would love a pristine house..but it ain't gonna happen.

Uneven_income

PenniesMake£s wrote: »

Today, the house is a mess and needs a good clean too. I decided last Tuesday that I was going to treat Tuesday as the day I would have "the cleaner" in. "The cleaner" being me . So what would I do the morning the cleaner was coming? I'd need to make sure everything was put away so "she" could clean. The dishes would need to be washed and put away. "The cleaner" would not answer the phone if it rang or open the post or stop to reload the washing machine, "she" would just get on with the jobs. I would want her to wipe the kitchen countertops, bleach the sink, clean the microwave, dust, Hoover and mop everwhere and clean the bathroom and change the bedding (I don't think cleaners usually do this but this is my made up cleaner:p). So I did this last Tuesday in 2 hours and was exhausted but the house was lovely at the end of it. So I'm going to stick with this plan. On a Monday I'm going to catch up on all the laundry knowing that I will have all the bedding to wash on tuesday after "the cleaner" has been.

So being Saturday today the house is a bit messy. I will tidy away the toys, sweep the floor, try to get my husband to put the dishes away and empty the bins. That's just downstairs, I will tidy upstairs tomorrow as I feel like flopping on the sofa this evening and watching some tv.

And leave the big cleaning jobs for "the cleaner":rotfl:

Thank you for such a brilliant idea. I am going to do this! :T

MandM90

I love tidying and like you have completely decluttered my house, so very tidy. However, I'm not so keen on cleaning so someone extremely anal would probably be unimpressed by the dust on tops of things, unsecured skirting boards etc. I'd say our floors get done every three days, sheets changed once a week, kitchen wiped down twice a day. I think my house looks nice and clean but I certainly don't spend much time doing housework. And I don't do ironing!

Purplesky_2

My house is in a bit of a state.

My partner has taken up woodwork in my living room! :mad: There's sawdust everywhere, there was a pile of wood and a couple of half finished projects. But I'm a nice gf and I'm making it so that he can do that most of the time, and we can have a living room, should it ever be required. This is involving a lot of trial and error, and reusing/re-purposing furniture, but it's getting closer!

So, at the minute we're sort of forced to do everything in the dining room. And I'm getting books ready for selling/donating. Cardboard boxes and piles of books and computer games. But it'll all be sorted by the end of the week, I think.

He's also decided that I'm not doing enough steak/gammon/pork and potatoes. Fair enough he loses weight rapidly if I don't keep him properly fed with a fair amount of fat (ridiculous metabolism!:mad:), but the week before all my washing up was easy, and this week it's been a pigging nightmare!

My bedroom's looking great apart from the wall stereo that we really need to put up.

And I'm off ill with a lot of pain and some pretty hefty drugs. So sometimes all I can do is sit and sway. Bless him, he's been really good about occasionally having to buy take-out/do the washing up because I haven't done what I expected to do in the day and in the evening I'm too spaced out to be any good/safe in the kitchen.

He came from a 'perfect' house. There's almost no mess ever and his Mum just takes care of it all. (Although they also have the luxury of a dishwasher and a dryer. I would dearly love a dishwasher, but we simply don't have room in the kitchen. I'm seriously debating moving the washing machine upstairs into the bathroom, just to make room for it), so him being ok with the mess that I'm making/not cleaning up efficiently is a very big step for him. I on the other hand know that my house, even in it's current state is better than my parents house was when I was growing up, so I can take some solace in that.

Phew, that got to be a long post. Thanks for letting me get that out. :T

greensalad

I used to have such a good method for cleaning. We only have a 2-bed flat. Every night we would do a "ten minute tidy". Put the clock on the oven on, and tidy as fast as we could until it dinged.

After about a week, I found we were just running out of things to tidy. So instead, I'd spend 10 minutes mopping the bathroom floor and giving the toilet a quick scrub. Or I'd hoover one room. Or strip the bedding and get a new set on, etc. It worked great.

Need to get back into it. We had friends to stay and the house was a bomb site yesterday which I am still working through. Have cleaned up the kitchen, hoovered and dusted the living room yesterday but today's task is to get the bedroom back in order (make-up, clothes, hair things everywhere).

Just trying one room a day! I want it to be pristine when we go on holiday next week.