How visitor ready is your house right now?

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Unexpected guests are about to walk into your house.

How tidy/visitor ready is your house?

Scrolled down too far to see this. Sums up my feelings completely.

I'd need a half an hour to have it perfect.
And we actually have a visitor right now. He's not getting the 5 star treatment 🤣

Not mortifying. I would probably murmer, 'Just got home, ignore the floor. Tea?'

It's ready to appall the visitors. I make sure my kids don't grow up seeing women spending vast amounts of hours polishing toilet bowls and shining the kitchen. It would give them a distorted view of what a woman's role is and that isn't good for self-esteem, relationships, jobs or society as a whole.

Fine, I would need to pack away the cardboard box the kitten is destroying and quickly Hoover the bits of cardboard from the rug though!

Okay, fair enough - yours might not be quite visitor ready

Depends how they feel about health and safety…

I like your reasoning there

Mine is 100% not visitor ready. I can’t afford a cleaner and I can never find enough hours in the day to stay on top of everything. Everyone I know live in show home levels of tidy and so tend to avoid visiting us on that basis, which is fine by me!

Sort of, but that’s only because I’ve very recently had guests staying and had a bit of a blitz beforehand. There might still be the odd cobweb though. I don’t like discombobulating the spiders - we need them to devour the blasted clothes/carpet moths.

Pigsty. But I’m on maternity leave with a sleepless baby, the four year old’s been home all day “making an obstacle course”, and it’s a fixer-upper. I have grand tidying plans for that sweet spot when the baby starts nursery but I’ve not yet gone back to work… Mostly involving a skip.

I'd be fine, it's clean and tidy. Although if it was my dust searching mother, I'd probably be accused of not being very particular. Though as my sister and I did the majority of the cleaning and babysitting growing up, whilst she was in the pub, I'd say she had a cheek. I keep her at a very long arms length these days.

@Elephantsdontlikechocolate what a strange position to take, you know it's not either or, and men can also do housework?
My DC see in their mother a woman who is at a senior level in a professional career, the higher wage earner, with dad in what is perceived as a more caring professional role, and that we both share household chores to make sure the house is kept generally clean and tidy.
My house doesn't need to be a shit tip to prove that women are not domestic servants

@Teenstoday, are you sure that’s why they’re not visiting? DD’s house is nearly always carnage, as she puts it, but she’s constantly got much tidier friends round - nobody seems to give a toss.

I’ve got the kids food all I’ve the table from lunch, crisps on the carpet, toys everywhere, clothes slung around because my toddler ‘didn’t want blue leggings’ today and got a drop of juice on her otherwise pristine top, speaking of my toddler.. she pulled off every single cushion off my sofa and put them in a mountain on the lounge floor.. she asleep on top of that pillow mountain at the moment so any visitors won’t have the most comfortable visit.

Just home from holidays and walked in to realise I hadn’t left it clean enough for visitors (people feeding cats) as I’d thought. Have been cleaning for hours and right now it’s just at the ‘sorry our house is a bit messy’ stage😅 It’s generally quite tipping but not horrific but kitchen presses and wardrobes are really really really awful and I try to block visitors opening them🙈 We had people stay over at Christmas while we were at my mums and when we got back and saw how clean they’d left it we were really ashamed. We say it’s because we have 4 kids, both work and dh does websites at night while I write but I don’t know that it’s an excuse for how bad it sometimes is. We do try …

Now? Perfectly ready. Ask me again in an hour when my toddler’s home.

Well, downstairs would do. & if they want to judge then 🤷‍♀️ The loo needs a clean and mop, there are pots on the drainer, my 'to do' pile has been moved about a fair bit until I get to it but it's not dreadful. I'm slooooowly working my way round decluttering and using stuff up.

Upstairs however needs a MAJOR blitz and tidy but we haven't got that far...no-one ever goes up there really though since we have a downstairs loo & it's rare anyone stays the night plus the teens who might stay don't care.

Well as long as they closed their eyes to walk through my kitchen into my living room it's fine. Not that I really get visitors anyway

Depends on the visitor. Friends would take us as we are – bit messy, because we're all off for strike day, but fairly clean – but someone prissy like my MIL would probably raise an eyebrow at the state of the kitchen table that's covered in craft stuff.

Honestly? Messy, not as clean as it should be and a bit stinky. In our defence, DH is swamped with work and I’m recovering from surgery. But the friend who just came over got ushered into the garden as quickly as I could manage.

of course then I remembered that one of the garden chairs is broken, the patio windows are filthy and there’s an inexplicably stinky plant in a pot right by the door. But hopefully she’s forgiving…

shit just remembered I didn’t offer her a biscuit or anything. Kind of glad that @Eyesopenwideawake has already posted else I think I’d be the worst host/house on the thread 🤣🤦‍♀️

Absolutely 100% ready it’s spotless always is I’m a very tidy clean person it’s actually a fucking bomb site with skid stains in the toilet and overflowing bin but I just wanted to pretend to myself that I live in a tidy home for a just minute. 😂

Yes, the digs when they visited were the clues! Comments like
’haven’t you done the dishes yet?, by 8am this morning I had insert every household task. …..’
Another one who ran their fingers along my skirting boards looking for dust.
’You should paint this’
’You need to do that’
‘Its 9am on a Sunday and you still have your pyjamas on’
Endless criticisms and comparisons to their own homes. My house isn’t awful. It’s just dated because we can’t afford the work and I would rather finish a conversation with my kids before I hoover. My friends take me as they find me, it’s family who are the PITA.

Love me= love my mess. If they don't like it they can jog on😁

Oh it’s perfect. Bathroom scrubbed and gleaming, guest room has freshly made beds, towels folded immaculately ( all colour coordinated of course) Floors are hoovered or have gleaming tiles. The kitchen is well organised and clean…….oh wait, that was in my dream 😒 in reality it’s a bit different.

Ours is really tidy at the moment but that's because it's Friday and we get everything done then so we can have a free weekend.

Happy for anyone to walk in, house is always clean and tidy.

A 21 year old a 16 year old here, their rooms? More than likely shit holes, but visitors wouldn't go in them.