How clean and tidy is your house generally?

[MsWalterMitty]

Such as day to day. On the scale of spotless all the time to absolutely filthy?

I’m guessing mist would be in the middle somewhere? But I know it depends on standards.

I think I’m in the middle but closer to the filthy end

My house is rarely tidy as I feel like I’m constantly running both the dishh washer and the washing machine.

Clean clothes are always on the floor waiting to be put away.

The hoover comes out once a week, s does the mop.

The toilet is cleaned every other day. The bathroom once a week.

I can’t remember the last time I cleaned the windows/window sills/skirting boards.

Kitchen is the tidiest and cleanest room in the house… every day. But it’s used the most.

My downstairs is clutter free, but the decor such as the doors/handles/furniture/sodas dated as we can’t afford to replace at the moment… so it brings down the house imo.

At the risk of being turned on by mumsnet

We're very messy - not dirty dishes and unhygienic sort of messy thankfully, just stuff everywhere all the time.

We moved from a big flat into a smaller one a few years ago and it's so cluttered. I'm trying to get rid of stuff but am a bit of a hoarder and it's hard.

Very! But I don't work so there's no excuse....4 bed/ 3 bathroomed house. Just the 2 of us. I hate seeing mess/ clutter. Everything has its place!

It's a mess. All the doors to the bedrooms are closed when we have visitors! The kitchen I would give about a 4/10, sitting room is full of toys at one end, I would give a 3/10, bathrooms about 6/10, bedrooms 1/10.

We have great storage and house is newly decorated so it's always visitor ready. I do one bigger task each day (this morning I cleaned out four kitchen drawers - took 40 minutes)

I have bought the Organised Mum Book but never used it.

@Echobelly

Very untidy, but not generally 'filthy'. There's not food plates left congealing for days, overflowing bins or dirty clothes all over the floor, though my husband takes ages to put away clean laundry in our room. There are also a few piles of DH stuff (mostly paperwork) that he never, ever puts away and no one else is allowed to.

The rug under dining table can sometimes get yucky if there's been messy eating and it's not been hoovered, but DH and I have got better at cleaning kitchen in between weekly cleaner visits so there's no longer occasional spills that have been on surfaces for days or anything like that. I can't clean 'to perfection', there'll always be the odd crumb left after I'm done and MIL seems to think that's leaving the place in a filthy mess but honestly I don't know how people get things spotless, life is too short to pick up every speck.

I did want to improve on the kitchen as I felt really awful in our last place where the lady who looked after our kids after school, when we asked her to stay and make the kids dinner when we were going out told us, as politely as she could, that she didn't like to cook in our kitchen as it was too messy (I didn't blame her, but we just didn't have to time to clean it after breakfast before we left for work), we'd leave her money for a local cafe when we did that instead.

Now the kids are older I have the time and energy to clean the kitchen almost every night, having made it a habit in the last two years.

This is exactly us!… But without the cleaner!

Well you can enjoy a cup of tea and go to the toilet without fear of contracting a lurgy, present company excepted (yes I’m looking at you Covid) in my house presently. I am writing this whilst on a jolly for the day. Seems to me a reasonable balance.

@JerkintheMerkin I find that saying to be very true. I definitely feel more of a sense of wellbeing when the house is tidy

My OCD won’t let it get below middle ground. I sit down and I’ll see something not in its home and get back up again.

I’ve got better after some therapy (and knowing where the obsession to keep a house tidy/clean has come from) but I’m sitting here now MNing and can see daughters trainers she’s dumped by the door with her coat and my coffee mug from this morning which needs to be washed 😬

I usually spend a few hours on the weekend sorting and folding laundry, hoovering and mopping floors, getting things ready for the week ahead. All other housework gets done throughout the week or as and when needed. Before the pandemic I had a cleaner in once a week, but I can no longer justify the cost.

My dc also earn pocket money by helping out with a few simple chores. And I just don't get stressed over certain things like some people might, such as dusting behind the fridge on a frequent basis or steam cleaning bath and kitchen tiles.

We're not at home during the week and I've always been a minimalist, so our home is not overflowing with clutter/business and it is therefore easier to keep it clean and tidy.

Generally tidy and clean, often washing hanging upstairs in winter and I really don't have the time/inclination to bleach skirting once a month like my SIL, sometimes a bit cobwebby before I notice, our ceilings are very high. It's now DSs job to sit on DHs or my shoulders with an extendable feather duster he loves it so keeps an eye out for cobwebs 😁.
As long as it's not really grim I think lived in is fine, especially in an old house with exposed floorboards I'm never going to go more than a day or so without a little dust cropping up

My standards are low & I don't give a toss if it's a little messy, we have no regular routine and I hate waste so hesitate to toss things out... plus I just don't like cleaning. I feel only marginally better when the house is freshly cleaned in that I know I don't have to do that again soon.

I don't understand the houseproud thing. So my home is cluttered, random stuff is around, floor usually needs a sweep. DC sometimes despair but I have been in homes that were truly yucky so that's what I compare to.

You are doing better than me/us.

Chronic illness means I can’t do any of the cleaning. And DH standards of cleaning are much lower than you or me.
So yes Hoover is rarely once a week, more once every two weeks. Mop for the kitchen… less than that. Bed IS done once a week. Bathroom… from time to time (but toilet is bleached regularly as is the shower).

Things are relatively tidy (no pile of posts at the end of the table, clean or dirty clothes everywhere etc…

I’d love it if dH was doing more but I’m already feeling guilty I am not doing more than I do so feel really bad/guilty of I was asking him to do more iyswim.

Disaster zone most of the time.

It's been terrible during corona because we haven't had anyone over. That's usually my cue to tidy up a bit but without that I fall prey a bit to "Oh I'll do it later, I'll just sit down now".

It varies…..

Every so often the state of the place gets us down - and so we have a big clean and tidy up.

Currently putting a new ensuite in and so this will cause mess and clutter.

On a don’t do it like us note…… we decided to sell up and move 4 years ago. The hall and stairs carpet had suffered children, brews upstairs, cats, builders etc etc. So we got a new one - pale creamy beige. Looked lovely for 6 months. Now it looks crap. Hoovering helps but…..

I now know why my parents’ generation went for orange swirly carpets.

House didn’t sell either - too much competition from similarly priced new builds.

Always clean. Usually tidy. Obviously if the children are sat playing with something it won’t be spotless but everything else will be tidy.
I can’t stand mess and it makes my life feel so chaotic if things aren’t tidy 😂

I know it bothers DH when it's messy so that should spur me on but I can't seem to do anything without an attached sense of urgency.

The mess doesn't bother me personally.

I used to live in an absolute mess.

I've learnt that little and often means the house is always clean and tidy.

It takes less time to do things regularly then doing a weekly 4+ hour clean.

Everything has a place and everything in its place.

@2anddone

Single parent, 2dc aged 16 and 13. I wfh dc at school. House always very tidy only thing out of place is the laundry drying on clothes horse in the winter. Dc bedrooms always tidy (they do that themselves). Bathroom cleaned thoroughly once a week and quick wipe over after every bath/shower plus bleach down toilet every day. Kitchen cleaned daily after preparing and eating meal. Hoovered once maybe twice a week. Being on my own, working full time and having dc activity runs to do this helps me, it only takes an hour and half to clean house top to bottom on a Saturday morning as never has chance to get dirty.

This is me word for word!

I hate mess and can't relax if I know the kitchen needs hoovering or the bathroom isn't clean. It's not perfect, I don't pull the furniture out every week to clean behind it but we're pretty much always guest ready, if not spotless.

Our house isn’t too bad. We clean bathrooms, hoover and dust every Saturday so it goes from clean to a but grubby over the course of the week. Kitchen is cleaned more often just during the process of wiping down for cooking etc, but generally the rest gets a spruce up once a week. Just two adults in the house though so not too much mess generated!

Thought I'd add although my house is clean and tidy it blatently stinks of dog!

Not tidy or clean (and don't care)

Don't have children or visitors to see so I'd rather read a book or watch tv

I tidy every night so between 7pm and 7am its tidy but i have 3 children under 6 so its rarely tidy during the day. I hoover every day as we have a dog, mop several times a week and generally keep on top of things but have just hired a cleaner for 2hrs once a fortnight to clean the bathrooms and kitchen as i never have time to do them beyond giving the toilets a quick wipe over daily and wiping the kitchen over when used.

This week 11. I work full time with two young children. Just hired a new housekeeper who started this week. House looks like a hotel. Just got home from kids activities and keep walking around it but there is nothing to do. It’s immaculate. It’s amazing.

Spotless sorry I'm a SAHM so lots of time to keep it clean. I also can't relax if the house is untidy. I get it from my mother.

Pretty spotless. I find mess and clutter very stressful and I can't relax if my space is disorganised.

There's only two adults here, though plus pets - there are no kids, so it's not hard to keep on top of it all, especially as I only work part-time.