Page 7 | I’m super organised and my house is always tidy.AMA

Iloveeverycat · 30/08/2025 09:23

Reanimated · 30/08/2025 07:25

I think we must have different kinds of households. Laundry isn't just a pop a load or two in on Saturday morning job here, it's a load a day or system meltdown.

This. I wouldn't be able to get in my kitchen if it was done once a week. Then it would take a week to get it through it. At least 1 load a day if lucky

Iloveeverycat · 30/08/2025 09:26

If I had a 5 bed house it would probably be tidy all the time. I have 5 adults living in a 3 bed house with one bathroom. The reason it is not very tidy is that I have nowhere to put anything. Don't even have a garage.

JMAngel1 · 30/08/2025 09:26

See I clean the bathrooms and kitchen regularly but my house never feels “clean”. I never seem to get round to deep cleaning - everything is just superficial surfaces and floors. I can never find time for mirrors, windows, skirting boards, behind furniture, under the seats of the sofa etc. And our bedrooms seem to always be lowest priority.

Gobsmacked at how little laundry you do - we’re a family of 4 and I do a minimum of 12 loads a week.

Nannyfannybanny · 30/08/2025 09:28

I'm like the poster, except I had a standard,3 bed semi and 4 DKs,cats,dogs, chicken and some. I worked ft nights, sometimes had a day or evening job as well ,tidy house and cooked from scratch. I look back and marvel at myself!

AngelinaFibres · 30/08/2025 09:31

Kitchenbattle · 30/08/2025 07:15

Interesting, my head can be a mess at times. I’m an overthinker/worrier about things that involve my dc…and interactions with people in work.

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My routine is just like yours. My house is immaculate at all times. I cannot cope with mess unless its because something is being made or we have the grandchildren over. I have an ADHD brain and chaos around me makes me feel uncomfortable . If my environment is organised then my brain is calm. I also worry and over think. Organisation calms that down.

Allseeingallknowing · 30/08/2025 09:32

Daisydoesnt · 30/08/2025 08:45

I’ve come to the conclusion that if ‘home’ is really important to you (it really is to me), then we all make compromises to make that version of home work best for us. As well as being a neat freak, I’m also a maximalist: it’s not possible to have too many patterns, colours, throws, cushions, rugs, pictures, lovely objects, flowers. That makes keeping everything clean much harder, but that’s a compromise I’m willing to make. Not having a dig OP, but I couldn’t live with your style it’s much much too minimalist for me. It would make me sad.

Likewise, I can live with just spot cleaning the kitchen floor during the week and then it gets vacuumed and washed on a Friday. But I could never not wash and iron my bed linen every day! We each have our “musts” and our “it’ll dos”.

Why do you wash and iron your bed linen every day? It’s not necessary, takes too much fuel and time!

Iloveeverycat · 30/08/2025 09:36

Allseeingallknowing · 30/08/2025 09:32

Why do you wash and iron your bed linen every day? It’s not necessary, takes too much fuel and time!

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This, I have never ironed bedding. Then again I don't really iron anything. Maybe a shirt if going to a wedding.

Daisydoesnt · 30/08/2025 09:38

Allseeingallknowing · 30/08/2025 09:32

Why do you wash and iron your bed linen every day? It’s not necessary, takes too much fuel and time!

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Ha ha that serves me right - I meant every week!

snemrose · 30/08/2025 09:42

Re the pjs dc and I can’t bear to sleep in any - we are all naked sleepers so pjs are worn after a nightly shower and removed before bed so that helps ever so slightly with washing.
PP saying about clean bedding everyday reminded me of GetOrfMyLand - a poster on here years ago who changed her bedding everyday - I would love to be arsed to do that!

I think a lot of how we are is obviously in our upbringing. I lost my mum in my teens and I didn’t know how to do anything so I have always been determined that if something were to happen to me then, even jn grief, my kids would know how to use the washing machine, pay the bills and cook a healthy meal. It’s probably a trauma response - I want them to not need me as much as possible should the worst happen so they could cope with practicalities and to be fair - they pretty much could. Oh, and when it comes to my boys I want any future in laws to love me and not moan about me on mn 🤣

Makehaysunshine · 30/08/2025 09:47

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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Just saying that flushing wipes is a no no, even ‘biodegradable’ ones from an environmental viewpoint.

FiveBarGate · 30/08/2025 09:47

I'm quite organised and also know where everything in the house is.

My undoing is all the stuff they bring home from school, brownies etc.

Do you have some sort of system for this other than it lies there long enough for them not to be upset when it goes in the recycling! I suppose a separate playroom would help.

And what about cushions? In my house they end up all over the floor constantly or the kids snuggle up with the throws. How do you avoid that because I am ready to forego all soft furnishings at this point in time 🤣

Sodastreamin · 30/08/2025 09:49

😆😆😆😆 What on earth made you think this thread was acceptable, OP?! You cannot possibly be this pigheaded surely to god

MyrtlethePurpleTurtle · 30/08/2025 09:49

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…

Do people judge you (negatively) for this?

MyrtlethePurpleTurtle · 30/08/2025 09:51

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 read this and I feel a little sad. But each to their own

sundayfundayclub · 30/08/2025 09:56

Gobsmacked at how little laundry you do - we’re a family of 4 and I do a minimum of 12 loads a week.

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I love the competitive washing loads, double figures now!

Makehaysunshine · 30/08/2025 09:59

Daisydoesnt · 30/08/2025 08:35

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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I have to change bedclothes weekly. Every three weeks is rank.

MyrtlethePurpleTurtle · 30/08/2025 10:00

Kitchenbattle · 30/08/2025 08:36

Very little ornaments.

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Nice wooden floor!

Rivertrudge · 30/08/2025 10:00

JMAngel1 · 30/08/2025 09:26

See I clean the bathrooms and kitchen regularly but my house never feels “clean”. I never seem to get round to deep cleaning - everything is just superficial surfaces and floors. I can never find time for mirrors, windows, skirting boards, behind furniture, under the seats of the sofa etc. And our bedrooms seem to always be lowest priority.

Gobsmacked at how little laundry you do - we’re a family of 4 and I do a minimum of 12 loads a week.

This isn’t meant as criticism of you as we all have our own priorities but I’m constantly amazed at the amount of washing/clean clothes some people feel is necessary.

The idea of needing clean all-over clothing, bedding and towels every day seems crazy to me. Clean socks and pants yes but if everyone showers every day, unless a person suffers from uncontrollable sweating or has a heavy manual job or has actually got dirt/spills on their clothes I don’t understand why there’s a need for clean ones every day. It’s a very modern idea that has only come about with the advent of automatic washing machines/dryers.

Clean pyjamas and all bedding every day - why? (Unless you suffer from night sweats)

As for clean towels every day - how can that possibly be necessary when all they’ve been used for is to wipe clean water off clean bodies?

IMO not only do some people get unnecessarily obsessive about this, and even boast about their cleanliness as if the obsession is something to be proud of, but it’s really bad for the environment to waste so much water (and makes clothes wear out more quickly).

sundayfundayclub · 30/08/2025 10:01

@Rivertrudge it's fucking batshit.

Bunnycute23 · 30/08/2025 10:01

My husband died in June. He was only 55. It was a real shock. I've kept on top of the house. But not the garden. I work full time and have kids. I'm down to a single income. Is it possible to stay on top of the house and garden as a single parent?

Bunnycute23 · 30/08/2025 10:03

I mean, super happy for you. But not really my priorities currently.

MyrtlethePurpleTurtle · 30/08/2025 10:06

TitaniasAss · 30/08/2025 08:59

I have no idea why some posters seem to passive aggressively 'out snide' each other and try and pick apart every thing an OP says. It's weird and it's happening on just about every thread just now.

It's because to quite a few posters what OP is posting reads like someth8 g posted by someone from a different culture or species and they're trying to understand more about the life and habits of this strange and exotic creature 😀

MyrtlethePurpleTurtle · 30/08/2025 10:06

How many tea towels do you have?

howshouldibehave · 30/08/2025 10:07

mainly because Saturday I have few electrics so I make the most of that!)

I don't understand this comment. Do you have more electrics on other days of the week?

Bunnycute23 · 30/08/2025 10:12

What do you about kiddy mess? Ice creams and lollipops? Broken Darlek toy shattered in shovey bit at back sofa? In laws come round in two. Need much help fast!