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.

So when do you actually relax ?

In the evening.

God I don’t think I clean my bathroom tiles monthly, let alone daily!
Sink and toilet cleaned often. Shower screen after each shower. Floor maybe once a week. Tiles like twice a year…

Definitely less stuff though. When coats started falling off hooks, did a major charity haul. Now everything is 1 in, 3 out

@PhilCornwall1 wish I had your energy then!!

My cleaner cleans the bathroom tiles twice a month - they are flipping gleaming, especially when compared to my twice a year cleaning of them before I got a cleaner.

The entire range of filthy (due to pets and muddy paws (the bloody cats) and toddler) to immaculate that you could eat off the floor! It’s a constant battle here. Definitely more clean during the week and an explosion of toys and dishes on a weekend. Life with toddler, pets and working full time. Oh well.

About a 6 out of 10. Always tidy, generally pretty clean but I am not cleaning every day or deep cleaning all the time. I thought it was better than it was until I accidentally got the black light torch out when my kitchen light went - base on that should probably downgrade myself to a 3!

Averages at a 7 to 8, it was a 10 at lunchtime today (after I had done the Saturday morning blitz).

• @PhilCornwall1 wish I had your energy then!!*

It's probably down to the amount of codeine I have to take each day. 🤪

Clean but sometimes untidy. I have a cleaner twice a week.

Awful but with 3 under 5 and a DH who is working too much I’m not sure what to do about it. Close my eyes?😞

Mine is usually very clean and tidy. I feel much better when its clean. It gets a bit messy with dc toys during the day but I tidy up it all up every night once he's in bed. I clean as I go, load dishwasher and wipe kitchen after every meal, do laundry every day down to putting it away each evening, and clean bathrooms at least every 2 days. I'm a sahm at the moment though so i have the time, let's see what happens once I start work!

Pre-children - perfectly clean and tidy.
Post-children - shit tip.
Quite looking forward to the last leaving for uni

@JaninaDuszejko

Clutter image ratings - by this our house is a 1 (clutter free) with the DCs bedrooms and playroom verging towards a 2. I still think we could do a lot of decluttering though, we just have the room to hide clutter.

These are pictures to do with hoarding? Not to do with non-disordered people's cleanliness/tidiness! It's surely a different thing entirely.

Cleaning, hoovering, dusting I'm good at. Tidy has never been a word used about my home. Piles of clothes waiting for ironing or putting away, toys in the wrong places.
I keep floors clear as I broke my arm tripping over floor mess on a nighttime toilet visit at 7years old, but every surface is full of stuff that shouldn't be there.

On first impressions it's very tidy and clean.

I'm always on it, I hoover regularly, always cleaning toilets, basins/sinks, worktops, wiping things down etc, invariably sweep and mop the kitchen floor most nights before bed. Not a thorough job it has to be said but always a quick swish round and leaving everything 'tidy'.

However every now and then I'll notice a cobweb, a kitchen cabinet is a bit mucky, I've got white painted doors everywhere and I'll notice fingerprints on the edges, above the handles (it seems no-one actually used the handles themselves!). Suddenly I'll notice the skirting boards in the bathroom are mucky and so on. When I start delving I realise although my house would to most, look clean and tidy on first impressions, it actually isn't that clean.

But where do you draw the line? I work from home, I'm already spending at least an hour or two a day on housework - washing, cooking, shopping. keeping on top of things (single mum, no partner). For my house to be pristine, I think I'd have to be cleaning full time.

I do my best. I'm certainly hygienic - very much so. But if you were to really start looking around in my house I'm sure you'd find loads of things that are far from 'clean'.

Always “guest ready” here. We keep on top of the daily tasks like dishes/wiping sides/quick hoover of all the floors/once over of the bathroom while the shower heats up/always make sure we just pick up after ourselves and put things back where they belong. Do a load of laundry every few days and only iron when needed. My weekly deep clean takes me about an hour or so on a Sunday morning where I vacuum behind furniture/dust/steam sofas and floors/change bedsheets. I would rather clean as I go through the week than waste my precious free time on the weekends cleaning! I can’t settle if my home is a tip and I like living in a “show home” as it were.

My husband’s office on the other hand is an absolute nightmare! He thinks nothing of piles of paperwork strewn everywhere and will happily let a few days of dishes run up before he empties his desk (yuck I know!). Thank god it’s hidden away from the rest of the house.

Mid range I guess. Much better since my friend started cleaning and I hired her. It’s well worth the money as I work full time and am super busy (aren’t we all). So now the hoovering is done weekly, up and down and bathrooms and floors mopped weekly, and kitchen cleaned. I clean the kitchen daily, and night before the cleaner comes I will empty the drainer and make sure worktops are clutter free. I’m always behind on the washing as my son wear so many clothes with all his sports, but I generally put it away soon after it’s dry. Now I’m working at home I spent meetings where I’m listening in and not on video call to load the dishwasher / hang washing / put clothes away / prepare lunches for school and start the evening meal!! That’s been a god send and has made me more organised

So messy, the clutter and piles of (clean) laundry and toys everywhere really get me down.

Clean tho.

Would be easier to keep tidy with a major reorganization and better systems...but with young DC and work can never find time to do that so it's a vicious cycle.

Very tidy people, what do you do with your dirty cloths while you are waiting to wash them?

I get through lots of cloths as like to regularly use clean ones for hygiene. But I also like to do cloths on a hot wash and only do that 1/2 times per week. I don't like to put dirty cloths in a general laundry basket as they make the other stuff (which will be washed on 30) smell.

@MogsBestestFurball

Very tidy people, what do you do with your dirty cloths while you are waiting to wash them?

I get through lots of cloths as like to regularly use clean ones for hygiene. But I also like to do cloths on a hot wash and only do that 1/2 times per week. I don't like to put dirty cloths in a general laundry basket as they make the other stuff (which will be washed on 30) smell.

I wash them in any wash I do.

It's a tip constantly and I hate it. I have three kids under five and OH helps very little. I'm like a hamster on a wheel just trying to keep up with laundry, dishes and the messes my kids make.

@MogsBestestFurball my dirty cloths just get washed in with any load I’m chucking on for the day. They all come out clean. Nothing comes out of the washing machine dirty does it?

My dirty cloths also go in with the load I'm doing, I wash on 40 degrees and the cloths come out clean at that.

I get round the washing thing by having baskets in literally every upstairs room.

There are three of us in a three bed house, me, son, daughter and we all have our own rooms with a laundry basket in each, plus I have one on the landing and in the bathroom.

I pretty much know what I'm going to get out of each basket. Son's sweaty gym gear and cheesy socks, towels, bathrobes etc in the bathroom and the basket on the landing tends to be full of bedding.

I put washes on twice a week, no particular day but I'll maybe do two or three loads and either go to the launderette to dry (in Winter) and garden washing line in Summer.

Of all the household chores I think laundry is the one I hate the most. It's never ending. You empty a laundry basket and feel such a sense of satisfaction for a day, and then it's full again.

@MogsBestestFurball

Very tidy people, what do you do with your dirty cloths while you are waiting to wash them?

I get through lots of cloths as like to regularly use clean ones for hygiene. But I also like to do cloths on a hot wash and only do that 1/2 times per week. I don't like to put dirty cloths in a general laundry basket as they make the other stuff (which will be washed on 30) smell.

Just chuck them in the laundry basket and wash as normal.

It doesn't matter if they make dirty laundry smell - nothing comes out of the machine smelling bad or dirty, even at 30 degrees.