How tidy is your house?

[StrawberryShortie]

Just that really!

Is your house always tidy (guest ready) or do you have a mad panic to get it all done before guests arrive?

I feel like all I ever do is tidy and mine is never guest ready

As I said uothrwsd, very clean and tidy.

Like others, I didn’t use to be when younger. Now very much so. I get so much pleasure from having a clean tidy lovely home.

Before I ever go away for the nights or on holiday, I do a spring clean! I just love coming back from being away, walking in and knowing all clean and tidy. It makes coming back from holiday much more bearable!

But it’s hard work. Single mum two children. I don’t stop moving it seems until they go to bed at 7, but then I flop as everything done

We are fairly tidy and have a cleaner every two weeks, but there are pockets of clutter. It would never be disastrous if someone arrived unexpectedly.

Mostly guest ready, except for DH"s office - which is visible if going to the garden or family room - and the kitchen if he has been cooking. He is clean, but really messy. It never fails to annoy amaze me how he can not shut a drawer or a cabinet door. Never. Not once. Always pushes them about 3 inches then gives up. What the heck is that about? It makes me want to stab him in the eyes. I know, that is slightly overboard, but still.

I grew up in a real pig sty - too small, too many kids, nobody participated - and have a horror of people knowing I'm really a pig. It is hard to see what my house really looks like, although I don't use the same critical eyes in other's homes. Very odd, I know.

I'd love the house to be always tidy, but we have a 3 year old and a 1 year old, so it's frankly a never-ending cycle of cleaning and tidying!

Absolute shit-pit. Have a 5yo who's into everything and a 1yo who doesn't sleep til 11pm, DH and I both work 4 days a week and neither of us are naturally tidy people. We definitely hoard slightly, and there isn't enough storage in our house. We do a mad tidy once a week before the cleaner comes round but there's so much clutter, it just gets moved from surface to surface. I hate it, I wish it was tidy all the time.

Mine is usually chaotic but we never have visitors thank goodness.

It's interesting, everyone who lives tidy says they love it. Everyone who lives messy hates it, very few trot out the old line of "I'd rather be making memories with my child " or whatever nonsense."dancing in the living room" "laughing with friends".

I guess there is a lesson in there someplace about us as humans and our desire to be in a clean and tidy habitat..

It’s pretty messy. My kids play. Kids from the street come to play and we paint, do craft and messy play, we build dens and the kids run around in the garden and forget to take off shoes on the way in. There are sticky finger marks, a few crumbs about, toys not put back in boxes but you know what... my house is fun and full of laughter and I wouldn’t have it any other way. Plenty time for a spotless house when the kids have grown up.

Bluntness, I’m not trotting our a line either. I meant every word.

Those things aren’t mutually exclusive though Weedinosaurus. We do loads of crafts, it’s DD1’s favourite thing to do. We also have friends round all the time, plenty of outside play, sand gets traipsed through the house from the sandpit etc. DD2 loves play doh. Plenty of fun and laughter. I also like to make sure the house is clean and tidy at the end of the day. Not judging you at all if you don’t choose to do that, I just don’t like the implication that if you keep your house clean then you have no fun.

I also don't think they are mutually exclusive. Your house can be clean and tidy and full of love and laughter, it really doesn't need to be messy for that to happen, 🤣

Fairly tidy living room kitchen dinner as open plan
Bathroom done most days
Bedrooms are kids responsibily (teens) but I collect rubbish and crockery daily

Fairly guest ready at a push

@SoyDora

Totally agree

Same here. Lots of craft and play dates.

The children know to tidy up before moving on.
And I am wiping sticky fingerprints etc whenever I clock them

It’s hard work. But worth it

Have you tried TOMM? It’s really helped me x

Mine is tidy all the time. If we have guests then I'd give the guest bedrooms/bathroom a freshen up though.

It can get messy during the day as i have a 2yo at home but I tidy up at his nap time and bedtime.

DH and I have busy jobs, active social lives and try and exercise when we can, no kids though. As a result we tidy once a week, for an hour or two on Saturdays, which usually gets us to a point where we’d be guest ready. As a result it very much depends when in the week you visit us

Considering a cleaner mind...

Better than earlier as I have cleaned the downstairs windows this afternoon (polishes halo). Try to clean up spills and marks as they happen. The kids follow me around undoing all the good work.

A mad panic and even then too much stuff to ever make it look really tidy.

What is TOMM?

The organised mum method

https://theorganisedmum.blog

Messy, in a not enough storage way, and a chaotic toddler. How do you clean a fabric sofa that’s constantly dribbled on/chewed/sicked on etc?!

Mine has become worse since DCs are teens. Particularly Dd2. She is unbelievably untidy and spreads her crap around the house not just in her room. Toys and craft I could cope with. Food, clothes, makeup, shoes, cups..everywhere. I have turned into a shouty mum and hate it.

Downstairs could be presentable in 20 minutes (if I hide all the crap on the table) but upstairs is a no go.
I started TOMM yesterday. I quite like it and hope that it will make life easier.

Messy, in a not enough storage way, and a chaotic toddler. How do you clean a fabric sofa that’s constantly dribbled on/chewed/sicked on etc

By not allowing them to eat food on the sofa. And repeatedly saying no chewing (does he really chew the sofa??) and vomiting is presumably and hopefully a fairly rare occurrence

Lack of Storage is definitely a difficult one though