Our house went on the market just before Christmas. We were happy with the photos having put in a lot of effort to make sure it was ‘show home tidy’. We have six dc so this wasn’t a small task but we managed it and still had cupboards that had space. My parents came to stay for Christmas and made lots of negative comments about the photos looking like no-one lived in the house and the house being “too clean”. My MiL phoned whilst my parents were staying and kept on making comments over and over again about “where did you hide all your stuff?” She then shared pictures of the five bed house that she is buying with her new dp. I hadn’t realised they were buying such a large house for the two of them and expressed surprise. I will concede that it’s absolutely none of my business and they can buy any size house they like. I hope they are very happy there. But the comments continued from both sets of parents about our house being too clean and tidy and how we didn’t have stuff on show as though we should be ashamed of this. We’ve now accepted an offer above the asking price for the house and this seems to have upset the parents. I don’t get it. Surely there is no such thing as ‘too clean and tidy’? The dc are allowed toys out. We just tidy up every so often.