to think the working class have the cleanest homes?

[dovebird]

out of the people i know, the working class ones have spotless homes.

the middleclass ones seem alot more messier and nowhere near as spick and span.
they also tend to dress their children in odd socks etc.

anyone else noticed this?

YANBU - you're correct.

Kate Fox's "Watching the English" has more on this:
www.amazon.co.uk/Watching-English-Hidden-Rules-Behaviour/dp/0340818867/

You are clearly MC LineRunner

Had it been a Ferrero Rocher wrapper than you would have moved straight to Upper class

I've eaten cous cous.

There is a squashed ribena carton on my front step

oo count me in on that gruel, sounds tasty

Most days it's crisp bags, catgirl

Kettle chips or Monster Munch?

I think a squashed ribena carton has potential, FarSide.

TheHouseOnTheCorner PMSL, it's grim oop North.

All we ever get is gruuuu-ellll....

Ynbu all my experience tallies with what you have said. My family is very working class and my mum is even fastidious about cleaning the milk bottles and tins she puts in the recycling. In my experience middle class people are far more relaxed about cleaning. I don't think it's such a priority to them.

Because.....working class people have nothing else to worry about, other than the shiny step???

Monster Munch. That's how I know it's not my own kids, thank fuck. They eat mostly hula hoops.

All you people with dirty steps are slatterns. You are betraying your class. Get out there and scrub them now and don't report back until they shine! What if you had a middle class visitor?

I refuse to associate with the working class, so have no idea what their homes are like ;)

A middle class visitor would not darken my doorway (or doorstep) as I live in a working class area!
But no shiny door steps though, lots of sweet wrappers tho!

I must be the queen, my house is an absolute shite hole!

[blushes] it's probably me. I bloody love Monster Munch

Dirty dirty beef ones. Yum. They are so wrong yet so very very right.

Please tell me I'm not the only one who has never scrubbed my doorstep! Isn't it enough to wipe your front door down once every year or three?

Pickled onion monster munch are my fave things EVER

Don't worry Creme - I have never attended to a dooor step. Nor am I likely to. It's out-bloody-side ffs

Doorstep cleaning=urban myth surely?

YANBU, clearly insisting that people take their shoes off before they come inside pays off.

Nope. Not an urban myth at all.