How clean and tidy is your home.

[Shithole101]

If you have children. How tidy Is your home? What does tidy actually mean , in my head i always think people's homes are really tidy and visitor ready all the time. I see posts on Facebook and it will say please excuse the mess. When there is no mess.

Then there's tiktok videos with trashed houses that says let's normalise this. And they do a tidy up thicktok/video.

Handful of people on here may know I struggle with keeping on top of my house stuff and there's times it's Been trashed and shamefull. But im thinking it's not good to normalise that.

Some people manage to keep show room looking houses . How do people do that ?

I don't work but still struggle alot so how do people keep their houses really tidy but also work.

I have the same 😭

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My house is a shit hole. The dust has a layer of dust on it. Cluttered and dirty.
I have no executive function skills, and MH issues.

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If you have 8 rooms you could just do 5 one week and 3 the next rolling back onto the first room again on the Thursday

keep spending 20 minutes on each room and never more than one room a day

Today it’s ok but if someone said they were coming round I’d still panic tidy/clean! Generally there are toys everywhere and the bathroom could really use a deep clean, but really my priority after bedtime is crashing on the sofa and watching something mindless. My friends wouldn’t judge! I’m a really inefficient cleaner – once I start I see a thousand other jobs to do and distract myself.

I have 13 rooms total so I guess it would be a 2 week rolling rota, with every other Sunday off.
In reality I’m not that organised 😬. Kitchen and bathrooms are done practically daily. The rest as and when! I hoover downstairs every day due to the dog.

13 rooms in total. How ? Are you very lucky and have a lovely big house . Or do you own a small hotel 😃. But yes definitely alot of work you have .

You must be fairly close to that, no?

5 beds + 3 baths = 8 rooms already before you've added any living spaces

Maybe they mean rooms, not bedrooms. I live in small 3 bed terraced house, but there are 11 rooms in total.

I'm sorry that my threads cause you such upset.

I was just trying to count . After 8 I just have the living room .and kitchen so 10. It sounded such slot but when you put it like that it's not really

Yes makes sense

I keep bathrooms, sitting room, kitchen and dining room tidy and clean as it should be, but deeper clean when we are expecting guests.

Kids playroom and their bedrooms are always clean but not necessarily tidy. Kids have to tidy their own bedrooms though!

Our bedroom is relatively clean and tidy apart from the dirty clothes dp shoves on the floor but if I put in the wash I get "don't touch that pile I might wear something from there again"

Yes, 13 rooms total, not bedrooms!

Everywhere's clean & tidy apart from the kitchen as I haven't washed up yet and the washing needs to come in from outside yet I'm sat on my bum reading mumsnet.

I do spend a lot of time staying on top of it all though, but it's the summer hoildays so I'm not to bothered right now.

We've got quite a small house which I think is harder to keep tidy.

It's also easier to clean a tidy house.

I've decided that there are some areas of the house that are really important to keep as tidy as possible so that I don't die of shame when visitors pop over.

I chose those areas (most of down stairs) and I organised everything so that it's easy to put away. I spent time thinking about what would be most logically appropriate to go where. (I was recovering from a major surgery when I did most of it. Dh has helped with some.)

For example, I realised that both dh and I (though dh is definitely worse) are really bad at keeping on top of endless bits of paper (bills etc) that arrive and they'd just end up on the kitchen tops in ever increasing piles. So one of the deep drawers beneath the cooker that most would use for pots and pans has become a filing cabinet, full of plastic wallets with labels for all the different things. The kitchen is a main hub and hangout so it's easier to file it there than where it used to go in a chest in the sitting room.

I have always had poor tidying skills though I'm being forced to get better.

It is much harder with young children imo. Toy cycling can work well there though you need to have somewhere to store them when not in use.

Until DD was 3 we lived in a tiny mid-terrace where the living room was just not child-proof so she had all her things upstairs. So downstairs looked tidy and nice.

When we moved and had a lot more space we just went with the previous set-up of her playing mainly upstairs.

It helps now having a cleaner and ensuring that each Sunday the house it tidy enough for her to clean.

Clean - no one is going to catch e-coli

Not massively tidy. But not a bomb site.

Usually very clean and tidy, I go by the maxim of everything has a place and everything should be in it's place. I can be a bit obsessive but I find it much easier to clean if I don't have to start by tidying to be honest, so that makes us all keep it nice and clutter free. I've always been the same, probably because when I lived with my parents there was clutter everywhere!

My washing is so bad . Out of all the crap I find hard . I think the washing is the worst. There's times i have done the same wash over 3 times , theres times i have taken wet washing upstairs . And my energy is zapped and I don't hang it up. There's times I have fucked up so much the clothes have ended up with mould spots so I have to bin them. Once in a blue moon I get on top of lt . Tell myself it will never happen again . But it always does 😭

Same. Everyone assumes I am really organised. I am really not. Just cannot afford to let things get out of control.

I have a cleaner come once a fortnight and so it gets a proper tidy the day before she comes. Then the day she's here its immaculate, then there is a slow decline over the next few days until I then feel stressed out and do a big clean myself, then we are stable for a few days and a slow decline until she comes again.

Dishwasher goes on twice a day usually, sometimes three if I've done baking. I cook a lot so I like to keep a reasonably tidy kitchen.

I'm on top of the laundry. I like doing laundry.

5 year old DD creates trail of destruction and I generally don't tidy up the living room at night because she likes to come back to her toys in the morning, and I don't mind about toys everywhere as long as she's happy and occupied.

I struggle to keep on top of the floors and often there are crumbs and bits of grass and all sorts floating about.

My house is not huge though so I can get it presentable within probably an hour and a half.

DP and I have busy jobs and we definitely prioritise other things over cleaning.

Two observations IRL of tidy people

1. very few possessions ( knick knack clutter)
2. never sit still

Sister is very tidy. In the living room there are are sofas, a TV, a TV unit, a thermostat, a dog bed. Nothing else and I mean zero. There must be a TV remote I guess.

Mum friend is very tidy but with three kids. She has ADHD and in the many many hours at her house she has sat down once to eat a meal. Doesn't sit to drink coffee or pause. Never. Not even for one minute. Never

So throw out everything downstairs and never sit down.