When your house is never visitor ready but you have visitors coming tomorrow ...

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Eeeek! Help! Adult daughter is bringing her new man home to meet us and staying for two nights.

Our house is clean but untidy. What should be my priorities? Have the day off tomorrow and they are arriving in the evening. There's literally 500 bits of tidying/putting away that could be done so I need to prioritise. Shall I make a list? I'm not good at lists or being tidy (suspect adhd). Feel like a bunny trapped in the headlights 😬.

Make sure the kitchen and living and dining areas are tidy that would be my priority - somewhere to sit , somewhere to eat

And clean the bathroom!

My priority would be bathroom and kitchen, then making place feel welcoming.

Ask your DD if there's anything she would like hidden?

Grab a few bin bags, fill them and shove them in the loft/shed/garage

Personally I would get a box/boxes gather up anything that doesn't belong in each room then dump the box in my bedroom to sort out when they've gone.

Obviously get rid of any rubbish as you go but if it's just in the wrong room or hasn't got a home it goes in the box.

Clean bathroom and kitchen, hoover. Put all "stuff" in a box and sort what you can, hide the rest til they're gone

I sweep everything into boxes and shove them under my bed.

The problem with that method is I never seem to get around to then sorting the boxes out and so they just multiply.

Clean kitchen, clean bathroom and clean living room. Anything that needs tidying just shove away to hide it before you clean.

Make sure the kitchen and bathroom are clean and clutter free - have 2 bags one for rubbish and the other to sort later. Just remember the mugs in keeping up appearances. Oh and the bedroom they are sleeping is clean / fresh sheets and aired.
Tbh if you are that bad she will have warned the other half. So don’t worry too much.
Mine knows what to expect when visiting my mums - I do the cooking and then I can clean and cook as I go. It’s just differing standards unless they are an arsehole they won’t be judgy. Mine is bemused mum can live like it whereas I say his needs to relax

All the windows open first thing for an hour.
Fresh linen on their bed, quick vac of their room the shut the door.
Clean the loos and sinks.
Bag up any rubbish.
Empty the bins and take out to the wheelie bins.
Mop all hard floors (few drops of essential oils in the water).
Main living space tidied.
Kitchen work surfaces cleared of stuff that doesnt live there.
Vac round.
Chuck anything you want to hide in your room.

Hand him and your daughter the cleaning stuff when they arrive. LOL

Don't stress, your daughter knows you, knows the house and the family and is happy for him to come and stay with you all. That would be enough for me.

Maybe add a nice vase of flowers and get some goodies in. But you will do that anyway. Enjoy meeting him, as long as he is made feel welcome all will be well. I am sure he is a bit jittery about meeting you too, and men in general don't see beyond food and drink ha ha.

All the best.

@OakleyStreetisnotinChelsea

I sweep everything into boxes and shove them under my bed.

The problem with that method is I never seem to get around to then sorting the boxes out and so they just multiply.

So glad to know it's not just me!! 🤣

I would start tidying tonight so that you're not stress tomorrow

Get in food & booze. Feed liberally.

Only things that needs to be clean is the toilets, bath & kitchen work surfaces.

Do not spend all the time seeing them moaning about having cleaned up.

I have adhd, I know exactly what you mean. People who pop in for a wee chat have no idea of the hours of terror that precede the visit. I no longer have visitors. 😁

Boxes?! Fucking amateurs, use laundry baskets! 😁

Feeling better already. The house always smells clean and fresh, all rubbish and recycling is dealt with promptly, her room is dusted and vacuumed with clean bedding on the bed. The kitchen is clean, the fridge is clean, even the oven is not bad!

It's more like random clutter in odd places. Tomorrow I have to clean the bath, put about 2000 items of clean laundry away and clean the hob and shop for dinner and cook.

I'm hoping as a 20 year old student he won't notice that the windows need doing and there's strange things lying about on surfaces and tucked into corners!

And change all the light bulbs for lower wattage 👍

I think I am a victim of hiding things in the cellar and firgetting about them. I was down there today and found a newish duck feather & down double duvet which was obviously shoved away fir some summer visit from the inlaws. Was a great find and will send dh to the launderette with it tomorrow.

Out of sight, out of mind.

Packing things away leaves room for more clutter

A 20 year old student will be grateful for lots of food and drink, they won't notice much else.

If you've got all day I'd spend 20 mins per room and keep working around them. At least there'll be a gradual improvement by mid morning.