Am I just a lazy cow or do other people do this?

[TallyMeBanana]

Start rushing around tidying up about 15 minutes before the OH comes home from work?

It's my day off and I've spent it reading, playing with DD and drinking tea!!!

I should go and do the dishes.........

No but DP does it!

I'm an even lazier cow. Haven't tidied all day, don't intend to, it's a waste of valuable MNetting time!

yes I do too! Although I'm not going to bother today because it's Friday and I just can't be arsed! And anyway - if it's your "day off" then you shouldn't feel guilty, you've been looking after DD all day not actually having a free day .

I'm the same as you - always rush round at the last minute and he always looks a bit horrified at mess...

My house would be a total bomb-site if i didn't do anything all day? I could never get it all done in 15 minutes. I have to keep on top of everything through the day, or my temper frays and the children's behaviour deteriorates.

I have to tidy through the day or I get really irritated. Don't think dh cares though!

I do this all the time!

I do small bits throughout the day but the last half hour before dh gets home is manic.

I just need to organise myself better!

I find that once I've tidied up, the place looks like a tip again within 5 minutes so no point doing it til the last second

Checking in as Yet Another Lazy Cow.

That's what my DH does, it's chaos if I don't ring him and warn him that I'm leaving work.

I don't.... I'm lucky, his mother was a slattern, so as long as he is fed and given clean clothes he thinks he is living in the lap of luxury

It wouldn't even cross my mind. I think DH might do this sometimes though.

I don't mind him knowing we live in a pigsty. He lives here, after all.

Moo!

{Stands up to be counted as a lazy cow}

Suburban, that is my theory exactly!

Melindaaa what happens in your house that cant be tidied in 15 minutes?! Or do you live in a mansion with 34 kids? :o

Em ... is your the boss?

Suburban I should also say that it works because I can say "Well it was tidy when you got home, so it must be YOU that made the mess" :o:o:o

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

You Are Not The Only One

Hahahahaha too.

I would never dream of this. By dh does.

But, not by

I never do this. I might tidy up because I want to, but never so it looks good for when my husband comes home from work. Anyway he doesn't care. He's as messy as me.

If DH is looking after the kids he doesn't bother attempting to look like he's done anything if he really hasn't achieved a lot,so I'm buggered if I'm going to run around like a 1950's housewife for him!

I haven't hoovered today as myself and DS went to an ice cream parlour instead! Much more fun. Nothing wrong with a day off :o

Yes! We did post-holiday laundry, painting, trekked to playground and visited granny today while the house looked like the wreck of the Hesperus. Am sweating now and DH has just sat down to his dinner.

Not that he'd give a shit. He'd either ignore it or start cleaning himself. And it's only because we're on hols. Normally, the DCs are wrecking their CM's house instead