To think it is easy to keep your home clean?

[Ohwell14]

Providing you are able bodied obviously

Well it depends on your priorities. If you like a clean home & make that a priority over e.g. watching a movie every night, doing the gardening, going for an afternoon nap etc. then it's pretty easy. It's all about how important something is to you, how much effort you're willing to make. I like a clean tidy home, it helps me relax and I enjoy it so for me it is pretty easy (I also have a 3 year old and work full time) but I dont care how other people spend their time & whether their house is clean or not.

Life is for living, not cleaning.

Oh - you meant tidy? Whole other kettle of fish. My house is tidy as i bought cupboards and bookcases for my things to live and i put them back once i've finished with them, more or less (looks at abandoned scarf and 3 playmobil figures on dining table). DH and 6yo are the same tidy-wise.

I regularly declutter- just open a drawer or go through a shelf and chuck crap. While my tea is brewing.

We have a selection of bins round the corner from us: 3 main bins, and various others for plastic/paper/glass/organic. You can chuck rubbish between 7.30pm-10pm, chuck recycling any time, so we take it out with the last dog walk of the evening. Ther's a big 'ship container' size thing up the road every Saturday where you can leave broken electrics, batteries, light bulbs and strip lights, motor oil, cooking oil, paint - all kinds of crap, like a mini tip.

So it is easy for us to keep on top of 'kibble'. But i don't wash up after every meal, can't be arsed, sometimes no time. I should sweep the whole house every day - like that's going to happen!

At the weekend my son has every toy he owns out all over the house - really don't care, he has a lot of fun with everything. But it gets put away Sunday evening. If you visit us tomorrow afternoon you'd think Argos had vomited in our house!

I've never really had a problem with it either op but then even though I work more than full time, and am pretty much a single parent to two with an invalid dh I never really sit down and have what I consider to be pretty low standards but other people consider our home 'spotless' . We have always gone for minumalist decor which helps and kids are very much housetrained.

I am able bodied.

I work 3 days a week (was 4 days until a couple weeks ago), DH work 6 days a week, we have DD1 (8) DD2 (2). DD2 is disabled & very high needs.

It is not easy to keep my house clean (or tidy!). There is a lot more to it than just being able bodied.

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

^^that.

The actual cleaning is not that hard, I suppose. But finding the time (and motivation) to do it, and then again and again and again. That's what's hard.

My house is too small to ever look properly tidy. It was not built for people with book and CD collections. I'm in work full time and often do 14 hour days. Like fuck am I giving up precious weekend time to do proper cleaning. Dh does kitchen and I do bathroom.the rest has to wait until half term, although there's nothing to stop dh doing it while I work.

Yeah - maybe. But it's boring and I'm quite lazy.

No.

I’m able bodied but autistic with executive dysfunction issues. Keeping my house clean is something I massively struggle with despite having a DH who does his share.

Can I name this kind of post a 'shit grenade'?

I could easily keep my flat clean. But I don't.

Judge away. I'm too lazy to care.

I see you have one 6 week old baby OP. Come back and talk to us once she's mobile and you are running after her the whole damn day.

I find a strong ability to ignore the mess means I can pretend my house is tidy.

I only have one child, and don't find it too hard, but I like a clean, tidy home so I prioritise it. I usually do an hour once DS is in bed, and hoover a couple of times a week.

However, I don't go to the gym or get much in the way of hobby time.

mrsterrypratchet

Yes you can

I don't find it at all hard to keep my house clean and tidy and never have, even when I had small children. I can't live and function in sort or mess, so I don't and I make keeping the house clean and tidy a priority, so long as you don't open the cupboards.

I find it really easy to keep my house clean. Since my 3 kids flew the best and DH ran off with OW there's no one to make a mess but me. Oh, and I only work PT so plenty of time for housework.

I would much rather have my family life back and an unclean, messy house any day.

My house is beautifully tidy during the week or two a year when my DC are away.

The rest of the time, it is messy and most of my spare energy goes into making them tidy up after themselves and wondering whether my DS genuinely has ‘mess blindness’.

Depends... the cleanest, tidiest houses I have been in belong to family and friends who have a one or more of the following in common:
No children
No pets
Don't cook from scratch
Don't work or work part-time
Have a cleaner
Don't have clutter or 'stuff' (think new build showhouse/'Next' furniture showroom)
Don't work from home
Basically, the less stuff you have and fewer people you have living there, the easier it is to keep the house clean & tidy.

Thanks @Pickleypickles. Much appreciated

Try having 3 non sleeping preschoolers and a husband who works 13 hours a day but comes home to eat and smear shit in 3 toilets and scatter dirty clothes and wet towels about the place and fills your house with the contents of a hoarders house and refuses to sort it. I can tidy all the hours god sends but nothing one abled bodied person can do can fix that. The word is sabotage and totally out of my control. I still clean and tidy 3-5 hours a day and that's just to keep things barely liveable.

Fucking right op! Piss easy.

*nest

I'd say tedious rather than easy