How stained / generally mucky is your carpet?

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I'll start the bidding at
One big splodge in the corner where ridiculous husband spilt red wine twice on the same night
One big splodge in the opposite corner where the christmas tree leaked it's water one year
Mystery splodge by the door
Mystery splodge by the fire
New splodge from yesterday where 4yo spilt his milk.
Theyre not HUGE BLACK splodges but just areas of discolouration from said incidents.
I've said splodge too many times
They all really annoy me and I can't completely get rid of them properly. We have a berber carpet which I got on the basis it wouldn't stain/would hide stains but because it's a carpet made of loads of little hoops I never seem to be able to totally free the fibres of the marks. If it gets wet the hoops sort of fray and never look as tight as they used to or quite the same colour.
So how mucky is your carpet? Anyone else have a berber carpet and is yours as impossible to clean? Can you recommend me a carpet that will be super easy to clean in future??

Oh I should have specified - carpet in your living room. The rest of the house carpeted throughout except kitchen and bathroom is preeeeetty much splodge free

Don’t have carpets . This house was wood floor throughout when we moved in and I love it so much for this very reason. Quick sweep to get the dust up, spillages easily mopped up.

Got a few rugs which clean up ok, but much less hassle to replace if they get beyond help.

Don’t think I’ll ever go back to carpet.

We're slowly replacing the carpets which the previous owner put down. They are/were vile. Scratched by animals, stained where they'd given birth, just filthy. So as we do each room, we rip out the carpet. Living room now has a wood floor and we've just ripped up the dining room carpet and found the original 1930s quarry tiles. I'm not having carpet downstairs at all. I've bought rugs instead.

No Staines. Beige throughout. Dh gives it a carpet shampoo twice a year.

Any stain I use vanish spray with a scrubber as soon as I see it.

We bought a lovely cream carpet to go with our cream sofa. 10 years, one kid, one dog later and um, yeah. Regretting a few life choices atm. But hey, once DS3 is older and the dog is less of a menace, we can change the carpet and get a new sofa... Just got to wait

So this is my issue, I'd love to just rip it up and put in wood floors as we just have crappy, hideous black and red concrete underneath the floor but that would be waaaay out of our budget.
Option 2 is get one you can simply shampoo. You just can't shampoo the berber because it goes all crap and frayed if you get it wet!
My parent's beige carpet looks good as new and I know they're much worse at spilling than we are and they have a massive dog. I have tried shampooing ours but it just seems to anger the carpet.

I don't have carpet. But my one rug is revolting . Big wee stain from GirlDog when she didn't want to go outside in the rain, and a nice puke stain from BoyDog. Plus some mashed in play-doh courtesy of DS.

There's one part of the house with high footfall and two Labradors.

Most splodges are from the inside of a dogs stomach. I've had a professional carpet cleaner twice and they're still there.

I need to replace with hard floor, and I will eventually. Not been in the house long. I've covered most of the splodges with patterned rugs.

Filthy after 3 kids very close together.

We rent and have been here 5 years, the carpets weren't new when we moved in but weren't stained

Kids still very young. If we still here in a couple of years, plan to approach landlord to see if he fancies going 50/50 on some new ones

Our carpets are frankly revolting and I Vax them every 6 months or so, looks fine for q day and then back to looking awful. Same for a professional clean. Teenagers, a big dog and adults drinking red wine have done for them.
I do not want carpet downstairs but the rest of the family do in the sitting room.
Our cream bedroom carpet is shocking. Anything dropped goes a funny brown or yellow colour, it looks grim. Looks even worse when we try and clean it and ive tried everything.

I get mine cleaned by a professional on a regular basis otherwise they'd be mega grubby! Also think of all the dirt you can't see

Our carpet is dreadful, but it's survived potty training our DC, a vomiting cat, a piddling puppy and various spillages of coffee/wine/juice. I do clean up the accidents, but the cleaning process seems to bleach the affected carpet slightly. Professional cleaning did make it look much better, but the carpet seemed slightly sticky afterwards and I think this residue attracts dirt, so it's considerably darker now.

Buy a carpet washer.

Our carpets have had lots of spills. Including my stepping back off a stool last year holding a can of emulsion paint which went everywhere. But if you can carpet wash thoroughly and quickly you can usually avoid a stain..

No carpets here, goodness knows what dust and dirt they trap. Quarry tiles downstairs, floorboards upstairs.