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?

Passive yes queen of the wc, aka salt of the earth lol

I vaccuum my door step and pick up litter out of the road and the grass verge opposite my house i must be vv working class

and sometimes i give the garden path a brush with soapy water, but i always say 'what' not 'parden'. thinks i've got a split personality.

I work so I guess I must be working class. My home looks like a bomb has hit it most of the time.

Goodness me. I have a shit tip messy house. I say pardon not what. I say haitch. I have a degree. I run my own business. I had gift list which included money for a honeymoon at my wedding. I have never been to Waitrose. But I have never bought brown sauce.

What am I? What am I???

why would anyone care?

Quite.

It lot to do with the consumption of couscous Ariel. Of course its important to care, should you make it up to the middle classes you can bin your marigolds, forthwith!

Ah couscous

Phew. Now I KNOW I am working class. Thank you :)

Agree with OP. My mother and MIL spend a lot of time cleaning and bloody ironing, everything. I'm the next generation, didn't leave school at 14, went to university, didn't have a factory type job and I'm on a slippery slope to tardyness (seriously).
I'll never be in the dog hair and wellies brigade though.
The class thing is still there, but it's more mixed up. I see the massive difference between my upringing and my children's upbringing.

I have noticed this too, OP. Of course there are exceptions but broadly true

Well I was going to clean my shit tip house today but instead I'll leave it and flounce about telling people how I'm Middle Class don't you know

Makes my day easier :o

so you are a messy cah and cant be arsed to clean up dont be so daft working class household here a bit messy and children think odd socks are a fashion statement

Oh after reading the thread i think i have middle classdon aspirations

I was JUST gonna wade in with the donkey stone.
Can you still get them?

I remember the old ladies in Saddleworth all donkey-ing their doorsteps when I was wee.

My mum didn't, though.

And I ordered saffron in my Ocado delivery this week. Again.

I don't really care.

What I would like to throw into the mix, however, is plug-ins and excessive use of air freshener instead of just opening a bloody window.

Discuss.

(Runs away).

I don't know if you can still get them (poncey London dweller now).

Can anyone in a North West market town do a quick recce and let us know?

Poncy Oxford dweller here.

It always struck me as utterly pointless, doing your doorstep with a donkeystone. Then you'd get people who painted the doorstep, which always looked like a slipping hazard.....

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donkey_stone

www.thedonkeystone.co.uk/ourservices.html

Sorry, I haven't read all of the threads. There is an element of truth in it. The more you have the less you have to try. Generally speaking.

I think there is a working class pride in how clean your home is.
I see it with my mother and MIL - my mother is very proud of how thoroughly she cleans her house, whereas my MIL laughs merrily about her cobwebs while heading off to luxury hotels and to buy Maxmara clothing.

My aunt once told me that the council threatened to evicted them for not cutting their grass , nana was pregnant with her 6th child apparently granddad was a lazy sod so it didnt get cut so they were served with a warning , Imagine that happening nowadays

to evict*

I think that I must be an aristocrat then. I can never achieve spotless and clinical how ever hard I try and have resorted to buying just black socks for DS to avoid odd sock problems.