To think it is easy to keep your home clean?

[Ohwell14]

Providing you are able bodied obviously

Is it fuck

I didn't mean spotless, I'm not on my hands and knees scrubbing skirting boards with toothbrushes, I just mean tidy

Depends how busy you are doesn't it?

It's a full-time job. Constant. Always washing up to do, bits of fluff stuck to skirting boards or the tv screen, sticky light switches to wetwipe, fridge to clean, windows...kitchen cupboards...mirrors... Not to mention the bathroom that seems to look like crap 5 mintites after it's been cleaned.

2 adults, 6yo and dog here. Tiled floors throughout - so not only does it need sweeping, you have to mop it straight after. Cunty bloody floors.

Just asking, if people don't like the answer please feel free not to answer

I work a lot of hours and don't have a cleaner. When I'm on my deathbed I don't think I'll be wishing I had done more cleaning. I'd rather be doing yoga or running, watching crap TV etc. I never realised people actually enjoyed it until I read it on here. My house gets cleaned once a week and it looks fine.

Don't like the question*

Tidy is subjective.

Nothing to like or not like, it's so subjective and without context it's more or less pointless

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Why do you care tho?

Well, I find it easy in my particular circumstances but I’m under no illusions that it’s easy for everyone.

Do you want to come and mind my three kids? Two of whom have serious disabilities. The youngest who is only allowed in school for an hour a day and cannot be left alone and at night no one sleeps until gone ten?! But yes I should have a spotless house. Go. Fuck. Yourself.

I'm with you OP. I said the exact same thing to my Butler on Monday but he insisted on having the week off.

Left me in dire straits I tell you, how am I supposed to know which end of the mop is which?!

Clearly you haven’t met my children!

Msqueen

I'm pretty sure I didn't say spotless....

Nigh on impossible. I suppose I could stay up and clean when they’re in bed, but there isn’t actually an hour in the night or day when they’re all asleep.

But, at least I’m doing my bit against antimicrobial resistance! ;)

I don't find it hard even with both pets and children. If ill it's different.

Some just don't see mess or refuse to to do it though for all sorts of reasons, chidren being the main reason as to why it renders many incapable of housework.

I wish my house was spotless. I would even accept tidy at the moment.
I have arthritis and a 1 year old. My pain free time is spent with her. My house suffers as a consequence. Makes my blood boil but I’m too tired to do anything about. It will have to wait till I have a week off work

I could be tidying right now but sitting on the sofa on mn eating a chocolate orange just appealed so much more... feel a bit sick and need a drink but too tired to move after a day out on my own with 3 dc. More than happy to be called lazy, too tired to care.

My house is spotless - on Thursdays after my cleaner comes .

Surely that depends on how big your house is, how much time you have to clean it and how many people live in it.

I knew someone who openly judged their 'friend' because their house wasn't as clean as theirs. But the 'friends' house was an 8 bedroom place. They were house parents for 6 young people with learning difficulties. Both of them worked and the house was on a major road so generated a lot of dust etc. Judgy friend lived on a quiet street in a 3 bedroom house with 2 small children. She was a SAHM whose husband worked relatively short hours.

The moral of this story is that some people are sanctimonious dicks.

OP, we need more info to establish whether YABU - how many children do you have and what ages, for a start?

Tidy, yes. Spotless is another ballgame. Even when I’ve got all the plates lined up and spinning, there is ALWAYS something that needs doing. I like my house clean and tidy, but I hate the idea that, on my deathbed, the amount of my life I’d have spent on housework is just wrong and I’ve decided to change that, life is really too short.