to hate truely clean tidy houses!

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My "friend" teased me today about my house always being cluttered I have 2 young children and a dog and my house is neither dirty or untidy, just lived it!
I have toys, paperwork and books around the house.

Her house is always spotless and everything has its place.

Drives me mad

YANBU I am with you give me a lived in slightly cluttered and very lived in look.

my father is spotless with his house as his my sister..

guess whom are coming over for Christmas?

I find mess and clutter a complete creativity-killer, personally. I don't think there's any rule.

My neighbour has a spotless clean house, am a bit jealous, but her DC's aren't allowed in sitting room unsupervised, only playroom. My DC's have run of house and it shows sometimes but it's their house too!!

I try to keep house relatively tidy but there is clutter I need to sort out!

I have a cleaner who comes once a fortnight.

I don't like houses with no ornaments, pictures on Walls, or even coffee tables just so that it is easy to clean. I find these homes souless. Even if the owners have lived there years. However I also don't like dirty homes. There is a happy medium is my (inarticulate) point.

My apartment is quite bare but I love doing temporary decorations - in the last fortnight I have decorated (quite separately) for two birthdays and today DD and I got out all the Christmas decorations and I am really looking forward to putting them all up (differently to previous years).

I should probably have been a retail stylist!

I am probably arguing this point unnecessarily but when litchick said this:
"I think uber tidy homes where children are clearly not free to enjoy themselves or express themselves are not family homes"

I read it as an entire statement (i.e. to be taken as an entire entity), NOT that she meant all uber tidy homes are not family homes.

I could be wrong though.

Riven is there anyway you can get some cupboards for DD's SN stuff - i used to live in a really small place when it was just my and my 3 girls and it drove me nuts (can make you feel quite depressed too) There are storage solutions but i know they cost money:( perhaps you could rearrange things a little, sometimes it can give you a fresh perspective?

I would love our home to be like a perfectly arranged showroom. I can do clean but everywhere you look there are little piles of detritis that seem to grow and multiply.

I have a BF with the perfect home. Her children cried at the park because they thought they would get their feet dirty in the grass

Lol i know what you mean Riven. My DH is a minimalist at heart but he doesn't have a chance living with 4 women!

I do wonder if the people that have mentioned 'banning' children from rooms actually present it as such... We have a formal living room which the children never go in without me but I'm sure that I've never told them not to, there is just nothing in there for them. There is a rule that they are not allowed in my bedroom if DH or I are not in there but that rule only came about when DD went to a friend's house and her and her pal went mad with the Mum's red lipstick !
I constantly feel like I'm tidying my kitchen as the playroom and family living room are off it, as is the hallway so everyone comes through it. The rest of the house stays quite tidy though as the children generally choose to play downstairs where I am.

I would say my house is tidier than some and messier than others but there are definite advantages to having plenty of rooms.

Idealy, tidy would be nice, but when it comes down to it, I have only a certan amount of energy to expend.

Whats it to be..to be judges a slatten for my house keeping with a pile of creative work done.

Or the forth road bridge that is the catalog house that dosent realy exist, and if you try, to constantly mantane it, to that stupidly high unreal standard,it will slowly drive you round the bend, and suck out your soul.

I rember the watching a stepford wife in the the early 80s, valum and kays catalog,trying to control the insanaty of life with a clean kitchen floor.

Who rembers Miss mary of sweden?

Apoliges, Im sleep depravated to fuck with a boob crazed sick baby and Im unpacking from a move.I so desperatly want to draw something.

Washing the dishes just dont cut it.

Peace out clean freeks, Im just jelouse.

yes I would like a clean house..

My children are not allowed in my room since they got my makeup out and wrote their names on their bedroom wall with nail polish.

Other than that, there's nowhere to ban them from! There's their room, the living room and the bathroom - they must be allowed into all of them.