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How messy is your house right now

107 replies

Guruel · 03/09/2024 16:18

Just curious if I’m good, bad or average.

My house is tidyish but not overly clean imo. I go through the motions but can’t say my house is perfect.

As most of the cleaning falls or me I don’t allow dh or kids to have crap floating around. Clutter got to me a few years so I created a system where I put any clutter on the dining table if I see it. At the end of the night if it hasn’t been put away it gets chucked. So the rooms never get crazy as I have bins and storage for almost everything.

But the woodwork could do with some hot soapy water, the grout could do with a steam clean and everything just needs a good old dust.

There’s a few jobs (hob, bin wiping and stairs) I’ve given up on as I’m hoping someone will have the initiative. They haven’t funnily enough. Washing gets done but I’ve stopped folding and just put them in piles on stairs and scream for owners to take up.

Id give myself a 6.8/10.

What about you?

Love hearing how normal other people are as SM would have you believing otherwise

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CruisingDuck · 03/09/2024 18:19

I'm mocked all the time for having a show home house. It's not. It's very clean, tidy and not cluttered. Everything has a place.

When toddler is in bed, toy baskets are put away and I light a candle as it makes it makes me relax at night. I can't handle mess. I grew up in a messy house. I'm the same on holiday, the hotel room has to be tidy, same with work desk etc.

UserNameOfShame · 03/09/2024 18:18

Terrible. We have just come back from holiday so have open cases in the kitchen while trying to get through the washing.
No idea how the house is as u tidy as it is we have only been back 2 days and the DC have made a mess.
It's surface clean but needs a really good deep clean everywhere. Skirtings etc are dirty.

DH and I both work FT and with 2 young DC there isn't enough time to keep it clean. I would get a cleaner but too embarrassed at this stage

Justcallmebebes · 03/09/2024 18:16

Clean and tidy but I'm a neat freak, hate mess and clutter and like everything to be in its rightful place. Life feels chaotic if my living space is a mess

UpUpUpU · 03/09/2024 18:12

Quite good at the moment. I have managed to get into some good routines over the summer holidays so it is mostly clean and tidy. Ask again come Sunday and it may be a completely different story!

tobee · 03/09/2024 18:04

Incredibly messy as pp. everyone is (diagnosed or likely to be truthful) adhd and some are autistic.

ChallahPlaiter · 03/09/2024 17:56

Incredibly messy. Everyone is autistic.

rainbow1902 · 03/09/2024 16:48

My home is spotless.