How ready is tour house for unexpected visitors?

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I’ve got 24 hours - with work and sleep, more like four hours, to prep.

I’ve been going at 100mph. How organised and ready are you at any given time?

Its always clean and tidy, so I've no effort involved, I can't live in a dirty or messy house, I don't find it relaxing.

I wouldn't be mortified if someone dropped in right now, but I'd rather have an hour or two to finesse things a bit!

Noone ever comes to our house anyway but if in the unlikely event that someone did decide to drop by then they'd just have to accept our house is it is. It's cluttered but not overly messy or dirty and there are always clean cups and a hot pot of tea on the go. We would never have overnight visitors because everyone we know lives within spitting distance so there's no need.

I really loathe an unexpected visitor but I’m anal about cleaning and tidiness so I’d always be ready if someone were to come round (always have clean sheets in all the beds, hoovered and polished etc.) I won’t leave the house in a mess, I just can’t do it. I might have mild OCD to be honest. Helps to have a cleaner who cleans my house twice a week.

It's ready usually - spare room is made up, I wash sheets once someone leaves and straight back on, do nip in with vacuum though as can be a few weeks in between. I may need to nip for groceries though as I don't always have appropriate food in since one dd left home, one is veggie and I'm on a diet!

Should add cleaner came earlier and dh actually cleared up his tools from the spare room last week - not sure what they were doing there! Pre having a cleaner my answer would be different!

Ready in about 15mins downstairs but if it's an overnight visitor probably 45mins to change bedding and bathroom needs a wipe.

Completely for people who aren't sleeping over. Living room, kitchen and bathroom are all clean and presentable.

Our bedroom is fine although they have no need to go in there. We're re-doing the spare room so it's a building site at the moment but nobody needs to go in there either!

I'm about 2-3 hours to being ready. This is good, normally I need a couple of days for a daytime visit and a week for an over night.