Am I the only one that gets annoyed by a messy house on TV?

[bumblebee50]

I was watching a new sitcom - it wasn't very good and I only watched about ten minutes. The family house it was set it was cluttered with stuff everywhere in the kitchen, toys on the stairs etc. This really annoys me - I hate to see a messy house on TV. I was like this a bit when I was young - watched Swapshop instead of Tizzwas because I couldn't stand the mess made on Tizzwas. Before I get flamed, although my house is usually tidy I'm not the least bit bothered if a friend has a messy house, it's just on TV.

My DD loves to watch programmes on hoarders - I just open mouthed that people actually can live in it, and call their stuff treasure when it's covered in faeces and dead animals.................. it agitates me enormously!!

I just don't understand it op. I don't get why it would 'really annoy you' to see the set of a tv show, I.e. a fictional house, messy. It's television, it isn't real! It doesn't impact on the programme. This post is really pointless!

Well done, bonhomie.

But it's not really fair to expect everyone to manage the way you do.

I do my best.
I am a single parent. I am a full time teacher with all of the marking and planning and out-of-hours work that involves. I am also a masters student in my 'spare' time and have an evening class I have to attend not too. I am exhausted - and I'm afraid that more often than not - when I have to choose between going to bed at midnight and staying up longer to clean the bathroom or do the dishes I end up falling into bed with the dishes undone.

I try to clean on Saturdays. But then feel guilty that I am not spending more quality time with the children, who I will have hardly seen all week.

And then comments like yours and the OP's leave me feeling like a failure.

lifeissweet You don't have to live up to anyone's standards or expectations but your own. It's like everything else, there are so many variables, it's impossible to set a one size fits solution for everyone. At different stages of my adult life, I've veered from extreme shit pit to immaculate nothing out of place show home and back depending on prevailing circumstances. Given the circumstances you describe, I'd be right on the edge of shit pit with a side of bin overflowing with takeaway boxes.
One bit of advice I would give you though, I know it's the last thing you want to hear or do at the end of an exhausting day and I used to do exactly the same thing when I was a single mum working full-time, those dishes left overnight in the sink? Honestly, try and do them right away if you can, it sucks and I used to grumble and swear all the way through those few minutes of doing them. But getting up and having to face them the following morning and not having time to do them because grouchy kids lost their pe kit or whatever so I'd leave them and get in from work and there they fucking were: that used to make me feel much much worse.

I couldn't watch steptoe either but I think it was because Wilfred bramble gave me the creeps. I love The Middle but the mess in the house makes me feel a bit edgy.

Ive gone to work without opening the curtains - I figured it would be dark when I got home and I would only need to drawer them again. My friend went to work with her bath still full of water and the towels on the floor.