Is your house always guest ready?

[Itwasntme1]

I have been off work sick. Feeling miserable so watching a lot of tv.

I have noticed that in loads of shows, overnight guests turn up unexpected and there is always a guest room with clean bed linens. The house is also always tidy.

If someone arrived at my door now they would find a messy living room and a spare bedroom with no sheets on the bed and a half emptied suitcase on the floor. The bathroom would also need a scrub.

Am I a slob? Is everyone else house guest ready?

Mine is guest ready, it that I'm quite happy for friends and family to see our mess!

Nope, definitely not.

@TheCanyon - why do you have bleach-soaked cotton wool around your bath? I am genuinely interested.

Our spare room doesn't even have a bed and is currently still full of boxes yet to be unpacked from when we moved last may.

There are last night's dishes in the sink, ds's toys all over the living room floor and the bathroom needs a good scrub.

There is laundry on every radiator.

That being said, apart from the spare room, it would only take an hour or so to be guest ready.

Will get unpacked and buy spare room furniture eventually!

Yes, guest ready here. Clean and tidy throughout and clean linen on the bed in the spare room. I'd just need to get fresh towels for the guests and open the window a fraction in the spare room. I'm happier living here when it's guest ready tbh.

No. Not unless the guest is ovine. It's always ready for lambs in difficulty.

Yes, I hate a messy house so it's generally clean and tidy most if the time. We dont have a spare bedroom so I'd have to dig out clean sheets for the sofa bed but other than that, bring on the guests!

They would have to have a takeaway though as meal plans are for us four, Mon-Fri and I hate cooking so wouldn't want to faff about doing something different at the last minute.

Unexpected sleepover last night. Pulled bedding out of cupboard under stairs where it lives in a vacuum pack thing. Pulled out what passes for a spare bed in DD's room. Annoyingly, I had to give the bathroom a clean. Are whatever kids' crap I had in the freezer.
Take it or leave it. Don't have a spare room.

Definitely not! The spare room turns into a dumping ground/washing room but the bed it always made up anyway. The rest of the house could be spotless or a complete mess depending on what day it is and what kind of week we've had!

Yes but not because I care about people turning up, I need a tidy house for my own sanity!

No. Just no.
My dp (we don’t live together) once got very drunk at a works thing close to me and was brought to mine unexpectedly very late by a senior colleague. I had been in the middle of one of those sort outs which creates unbelievable mess before I had gone to bed exhausted.

That was the most awkward ‘do you want a coffee thanks for sorting things out’ type encounters ever.

We laugh about it now. I determined to improve. I haven’t.

No. It would be ok but I would prefer a bit of notice

Haha, never! If someone walks into my place they take it as it is! Currently the floor badly needs hoovering, the whole place needs decorating and I badly need to dejunk. Never mind, it’ll all get done eventually

We have 3 spare bedrooms ( 1 used for storage) and always ready for visitors. Bathrooms too are always clean. I don't like living in a mess.

Not tidy -could get living room presentable in 20 mins though and I'd leave them there while I cleaned the bathroom (10mins).
They could then choose between ds's bottom bunk ( all made up) or we always have a throw on the back of the sofa

Depends. During the holidays it's a mess, toys everywhere, clean laundry and DS1s Warhammer stuff all over the dining table, whole house could do with a good scrub and a hoover. But the kids go back to school tomorrow, so by lunchtime it'll be decent. But we never have totally unexpected guests, anyone who wants to pop in will check we're at home first, so I have time to do a quick tidy before they get here.

God no. I’d need lots of notice and some Valium.

Just watching last tango in Halifax. They are panicked about overnight visitors and clearing out guest bedroom😂😊

Yes - I like living in a very ordered house and always have, even when the kids were little and it was way more chaotic. Lucky enough to have a guest bedroom and bath on the 3rd floor - noone else uses it so it is pretty much always ready (bed undressed at the moment though).

I have friends whose houses are utterly cluttered/chaotic/unready and I love them dearly and love visiting them.

Probably- I have a blow up bed and clean bedding that could be put together in 10 minutes to go in the floor of the office.
I sometimes have colleagues over to my office so it has to be kept reasonably clean and tidy.
We are generally tidy for a big family and there's a corner shop open all hours for a pint of milk and biscuits...