I’m super organised and my house is always tidy.AMA

[Kitchenbattle]

Off the back of another thread I realised am ridiculously organised and my house is always tidy, always ready for visitors etc didn’t realise how tidy I was until I started commenting on and reading the other thread. So just a fun, or nosy AMA.
maybe there’s nothing to ask 🤣 thought it might be interesting though…

NO ONE needs clean pj’s every night

AMEN!

No one needs clean pyjamas every night, but some people prefer that and it doesn’t effect anyone else, so I can’t get annoyed about it.

id love clean, ironed, fresh sheets every night. Maybe if I win the euro millions!

Very true.

if I won the lotto I’d get a chauffeur first…HATE driving 🤣🤣 then I’d consider the fresh sheets each night 🙌🙌

Yup. It doesn't matter how tidy you are if your beloved life partner is a "drop and go" type. My DH is wonderful in many ways, but tidiness is not his thing. I'm not super great at it myself, but part of that is learning to let it go. When he's away the house is so much tidier 😂

My DH thinks he’s really tidy, but isn’t. He’s just made himself some lunch and left everything out. He doesn’t even notice. He’ll then tell me all the cleaning and tidying he does without realising I’m often going around behind him picking stuff up. I do explain to him that I just don’t mention half the time all the bits and pieces I do. And he wears his bloody shoes in the house! He’s now located his slippers so that’s something.

Are all the manky pj wearing people wearing their pants underneath? Do you put clean pants on at bedtime? I’ve never understood how that works

I wear pants underneath yes…most of the time I put fresh ones for bed yes.

Yes, knickers under the pyjamas, always.

i do sometimes wonder if I should have some time sans pants to air the area, but I can’t sleep naked.

Is it manky to wear pyjamas 3-4 days a go?? I'm not going to bed sweaty. I shower before bed too because I want to wash the dirt of the day off of me.

It's odd how, in a space of a generation or so, we've been so conditioned to what "clean" is that we wash our stuff constantly at a cost of a huge carbon footprint. If it looks and smells clean, it's fine to re-wear. I wear a lot of wool and usually just air them out. Sometimes I do freeze them too! But my woollens get washed usually only if they are actually stained.

Agree, it’s mad! I put clean pjs on last night after a shower and they still smell like fairy so I’m not putting them in the wash today. I don’t think people would be washing them this much if they had to do it all by hand 😂

Oooh the same with mine! I love having a clean and tidy home for the very rare, brief times he’s away. I honestly don’t think I’d have a problem with being tidy and organised if I had a partner who was the same

I’m that ridiculous.. mine are usually washed the day after they’ve been worn… ready for the next night. So, no, we don’t have seven pairs of PJs in a four person household.
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Please respond kindly… I know already it’s completely ridiculous and unnecessary.

I completely 100% agree with this. You have to both be on the same page, both be naturally tidy and clean and/or willing to make the effort to keep it that way.

My response wasn’t an unkind response it was more a response of wonderment. I didn’t call anyone ridiculous.

Are you washing bedding and towels daily or something?

That's more important than love for a lasting relationship, same approach or level of cleanliness and tidiness

So judgemental. You might stink after a week but everyone has levels of cleanliness and hygiene that works for them. Once a week used to be the norm for all households before labour saving devices were invented and even then took all staff and all day.
I just air my bed properly before making it again and wash as needed. Same for clothes and towels. Airing things and spot cleaning should be used more.
Over washing skin and fabrics are bad for you and the environment.

Growing up in the 80s beds had sheets and a duvet or blankets in our house. Flat sheets not fitted. So you’d have a bottom sheet, a top sheet and then a duvet in a cover or a quilt etc. once a week the pillow case was changed, the top sheet became the bottom sheet and the bottom sheet was washed and you’d have a fresh top sheet. Duvet covers were washed once a month, blankets or quilt would get aired and a wash periodically.

No they are both full time jobs in themselves really

@Bunnycute23 im sorry I missed this post and I’m so so sorry for your loss. Unfortunately I’m not a gardener in any way(neither is my DP) so I have very little in the way of advice except for maybe planting things like heathers that require very little work. We have a small back garden that we my DP mows, could you afford a robot mower? That would take a load off.

@Doone22 no, just once a week for each of us (adult bed and 2x kids beds). Bath towels weekly too, hand towels daily

This is like someone writing a blog about how to do the perfect sleep / nap routine when they have an easy baby who follows it, and doing an AMA. If they have a higher needs baby who doesn’t comply - or an untidy, semi-hoarding husband - you wouldn’t be able to do this. You’d have to either accept more clutter (his) than you want or spend your time stressing and tidying and trying to “ train” your husband.

Your partner is as tidy and as organised as you so it’s far easier.

I’m not knocking what you’re advising, and some households will find it helpful but please don’t underestimate the huge advantage you have

I can see what you are saying, it definitely helps that my partner is tidy too. That being said, this isn’t the first partner I’ve lived with, and my house has always been organised even in past relationships/situations. It’s just the way I naturally run things, though of course it feels somewhat smoother when both people are on the same page.

This is true.

Mr Morph is a hoarder with eleventy million “projects” on the go at any one time. And he’s never happier than in the middle aisle of shite in Aldi or Lidl.

And he can’t even be trusted to load the dishwasher anymore 🤣 so it’s all down to me. And I just can’t do things like I used to be able to.

I used to have a cleaner but then we got this place and thought we would do it up for our retirement. And that went a bit fucked. But hey ho.

And we have a dog (who I pay the wee lad next door to walk). But that means mud.