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

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Kitchenbattle · 30/08/2025 07:01

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…

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londongirl12 · 30/08/2025 08:21

So many passive aggressive comments from people who are clearly jealous 🤣

I have a question about wiping down the bathroom daily. What type of products do you use? Disposable wipes? Where do you store them so you can just grab and wipe?

TitaniasAss · 30/08/2025 08:24

I would love to be like this. This week it's just DS (21) and me as both DD and DH are away. The house is super tidy at the moment because I had friends round last night, but it won't stay that way. By Tuesday it'll be 'OK ish' and it'll stay that way til the weekend until we tidy again. DH is much tidier than me so I definitely have become more tidy but I actually think I'm probably quite lazy if I'm honest. I get bursts of energy when I like to get everything done because I much prefer the house looking nice, but I seen to be caught in a never ending battle with dog hair too.

cornbunting · 30/08/2025 08:24

THISnewbeginning · 30/08/2025 08:14

I think the fact that there are two tidy organised adults in the house is the main thing here

Not many people have that i imagine. I am a single parent now. But previously my ex was extremely messy. My house is better now but I wouldn't say tidy and organised. Then again I have 6 dc so I dont expect it to be

For sure, I think life would be much tidier if DH (and DD1) wasn't the sort of person to just put things down wherever he happens to be 😂 I am no saint when it comes to tidying, but DD2 and I definitely tend more towards "put it away". Fortunately we all rub along alright and occasionally blitz the house when it all gets Too Much 🙈

RelocatingtoFrance · 30/08/2025 08:25

BusWankers · 30/08/2025 07:50

But when do you do bedding usually, you MUST do more than 2 loads a week?

Even a 10kg washer won't fit 3 sets of bedding.

Why does your daughter only wear 3 shirts a week at school and not 5?

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because, shock horror, you can actually wear clothes more than once, especially if you wash regularly and are not involved in manual labour

Hoolahoophop · 30/08/2025 08:25

Kitchenbattle · 30/08/2025 07:41

🤣🤣 I wish I was thinner, I’m 5’3 and I weigh 9.5 stone, I’m a solid size 10.

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Id take a size 10.and a tidy home! I'm always busy, never effective. Always playing catch up

Bananafofana · 30/08/2025 08:26

I’m intrigued you only change your bed sheets once every three weeks. I appreciate you’re showering, wearing pjs etc but don’t you find your pillowcases get a bit musty? If I go two weeks I find everything a bit stale, so I usually do weekly (or rather our cleaner does!)

SerendipityDiamond · 30/08/2025 08:27

I have things lying around on kitchen worktops so I don’t forget to do them. For example at the moment there are pet medications they need twice a day, some papers to read, sign and post back, a resistance band for some physio stretches I should doing.
How would you deal with these items?
Thanks.

snemrose · 30/08/2025 08:27

My house is tidy and clean. I do at least 1 wash daily. I honestly think the biggest thing is teaching kids. I have 4 (only 3 live at home with me now) and I work full time. Kids strip and remake their own beds once a week and tidy/clean their own rooms. They may the table for tea and clear away after tea automatically because they have always done it. Laundry gets taken straight up to their room and put away because they have always done that. If they eat in their rooms (lunch at weekends) or the lounge then dirty plates are brought straight into the kitchen and put into the dishwasher because that’s what they’ve always done. Youngest is 11. They’ve always done this sort of stuff so there is never any drama about them doing it - likewise in school hols and I am at work they will run the hoover round etc. It all takes minutes and keeps the house running like clockwork. I’m a single parent and I have 3 boys so I feel it is my responsibility that they grow up knowing this is what everybody has to do

MyDeftDuck · 30/08/2025 08:28

londongirl12 · 30/08/2025 08:21

So many passive aggressive comments from people who are clearly jealous 🤣

I have a question about wiping down the bathroom daily. What type of products do you use? Disposable wipes? Where do you store them so you can just grab and wipe?

Please tell us your aren’t flushing these wipes down the loo?? 😳

Unicornskies · 30/08/2025 08:28

I think the daily stuff like kitchen and bathroom sounds normal but what about dusting, cleaning windows, skirting etc? I find that kind of stuff takes ages, how often and when do you do that?

Where do you keep all the miscellaneous crap like cables, batteries, paperwork that needs some sort of action so you can't file it away yet but you can't quite do it that very minute? This is the kind of crap that accumulates in our house and makes it look untidy.

123ZYX · 30/08/2025 08:29

Are you saying you flush the bathroom wipes? Are you aware that causes huge environmental problems, even if they’re sold as “flushable”?

TomeTome · 30/08/2025 08:30

Do you have a car and a garden? When do they get done? Do you entertain or go out? Do you care for anyone beyond yourselves? Do you go on holidays or have pets? I guess I’m asking what you do with the rest of your time if you only work 4 days a week and the house seems to keep itself?
Most people I think change their bedding weekly rather than every three weeks but beyond that your routine sounds fairly average to me.

ItWasCalledYellow · 30/08/2025 08:30

Kitchenbattle · 30/08/2025 07:13

You see this is what I’ve realised. I don’t have a daily routine. I work 8-4:30 mon-Fri.
I tidy everything as I go, I don’t leave things out of place.
in terms of cleaning- I sweep/hoover, wipe down the kitchen after dinner each day.
shower screens get wiped down during/after every second shower or so.
bathrooms get wiped down pretty much daily as I’m getting ready/brushing teeth. So the sink and towel rail etc. toilets get washed once/twice a week when I’m using them. So I will go to the toilet flush etc and then I will use toilet cleaner to clean the inside and a bathroom wipe to wipe it down and flush again, wash hands and off I go.
I do most of this stuff without a plan as such though.
hoovering the house is something I just get up and do randomly. 🤣
saturday morning is laundry day (mainly because Saturday I have few electrics so I make the most of that!) laundry= wash, dry outside, fold/iron and put away so by Sunday eve everything is done. If the weather is bad, I’ll use the dryer and everything is done by Saturday night. I don’t iron everything so when I they are dry I sort them into a fold pile and an iron pile. I will iron everything and then put everything away at the same time.

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I do all of this too and my house never appears tidy and organised!

I think I need to de clutter a bit more to make it more effective!

BeenThereMyself · 30/08/2025 08:32

I’m the same as you OP except I do a load of washing a day, sometimes two.

My home growing up was neither clean nor tidy, and I think that’s why I am like I am. My children are grown now, but I didn’t ever restrict activities or put cleaning above spending time with them. I used to do a lot of my cleaning when they were in bed and because I did it so often, it didn’t take too long.

GentleJadeOP · 30/08/2025 08:34

I love this post, it’s really inspiring. I’m going to try tidying up as I go along. I remember years ago when we were selling the house we used to keep it tidy all the time as it was so much easier! Also cutting down on the washing by wearing things twice that are not dirty etc. I live a tidy house but find it so hard to motivate myself, this post inspires me to do so

Superhansrantowindsor · 30/08/2025 08:34

How do you deal with sentimental items? I have so many pictures, cards, toys, clothes from when the dc were little that I just can’t part with. Takes up a lot of room.

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Kitchenbattle · 30/08/2025 08:34

londongirl12 · 30/08/2025 08:21

So many passive aggressive comments from people who are clearly jealous 🤣

I have a question about wiping down the bathroom daily. What type of products do you use? Disposable wipes? Where do you store them so you can just grab and wipe?

I have sink units with drawers, the bottom drawer holds the wipes and stuff.

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Daisydoesnt · 30/08/2025 08:35

Kitchenbattle · 30/08/2025 08:05

We shower most days so I don’t feel the need to have fresh pyjamas every night. I change my pyjamas if I have any night sweats, obviously. But other than that, I wear a set of pyjamas from Monday to Friday and so does my DH. He showers every day in the morning and he showers before bed.
Bedding gets changed once a week, but as I said in another post one bed each week on rotation.
towels we probably get through 4 to 5 towels a week. We don’t use a towel once!

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Yew! You only wash your bedding every three weeks?!! That might be ok for small children but that’s really skanky for a married couple. Even as a student I washed my bed linen more often than that. It certainly takes me a good hour a week to strip & remake the bed, wash dry & iron the bed linen.

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Kitchenbattle · 30/08/2025 08:36

YourJoyousDenimExpert · 30/08/2025 08:20

I would love to be like this! I wonder if it’s too late (in my 50s). We definitely have too much stuff generally- and we seem to have ‘stuff’ on every surface. Please can you share whether you have ornaments / photos etc on windowsills, radiator covers etc- and if not where are they? The ‘dusting’ takes me ages….

Very little ornaments.

I’m super organised and my house is always tidy.AMA
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LidlAmaretto · 30/08/2025 08:37

snemrose · 30/08/2025 08:27

My house is tidy and clean. I do at least 1 wash daily. I honestly think the biggest thing is teaching kids. I have 4 (only 3 live at home with me now) and I work full time. Kids strip and remake their own beds once a week and tidy/clean their own rooms. They may the table for tea and clear away after tea automatically because they have always done it. Laundry gets taken straight up to their room and put away because they have always done that. If they eat in their rooms (lunch at weekends) or the lounge then dirty plates are brought straight into the kitchen and put into the dishwasher because that’s what they’ve always done. Youngest is 11. They’ve always done this sort of stuff so there is never any drama about them doing it - likewise in school hols and I am at work they will run the hoover round etc. It all takes minutes and keeps the house running like clockwork. I’m a single parent and I have 3 boys so I feel it is my responsibility that they grow up knowing this is what everybody has to do

Mine do their own rooms, beds and laundry and aren't allowed to eat in their rooms ( also they set the table and feed the dog) but I still have to remind them all the time! And my house is still a mess! How do you do it? Just persistence?

KarateSchnitzel · 30/08/2025 08:38

What cleaning products/items can you not be without? Do you have one of those cleaning caddies? Of so, what goes it in? Any cleaning tools that come in handy for specific jobs?

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Kitchenbattle · 30/08/2025 08:38

Bananafofana · 30/08/2025 08:26

I’m intrigued you only change your bed sheets once every three weeks. I appreciate you’re showering, wearing pjs etc but don’t you find your pillowcases get a bit musty? If I go two weeks I find everything a bit stale, so I usually do weekly (or rather our cleaner does!)

No I don’t find it’s musty at all, I open my windows every morning when I’m getting ready and air the bed. If I have night sweats I’ll change them and I would change things if they smell..but they don’t. I’m very nose sensitive. Our house is mechanically ventilated too so it exchanges air without windows being opened.

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NoNameisGoodEnough · 30/08/2025 08:38

Reanimated · 30/08/2025 08:04

I've got an 11yo who is modifying a nerf gun on the dining table and we're waiting for the paint to dry. I'm not sure he got the memo about being past arts and crafts.

I've got a 43 year old husband who has been doing that this week. He is definitely not past the arts and craft stage. This is why my house is never tidy. There is always a project on the go.

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Kitchenbattle · 30/08/2025 08:39

MyDeftDuck · 30/08/2025 08:28

Please tell us your aren’t flushing these wipes down the loo?? 😳

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Good god of course not! They go in the bin!

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Wowse · 30/08/2025 08:39

Does your house feel lived in? My mums house is like this and just a bit soul less. Don't get me wrong my house isn't untidy but it isn't hotel lobby, posh waiting room.