To think it is easy to keep your home clean?

[Ohwell14]

Providing you are able bodied obviously

Too many variables to generalise, so yes YABU. However if your house is too ratty for you and you need more of a challenge you're welcome to come & clean mine.

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

Yep, this ^^ You win sanctimonious post of the day if that helps

IMO it depends if you hate doing it, what other shit you have going on in your life, whether you care, what your priorities are and how many people with ADHD live in your house.

No, it’s not easy. Not when you have a DH and DD who make it their business to create mess faster than anybody but Mary Poppins can tidy it up.

Possible? Yes!
Easy? No!

Cupcakey - I agree with your making memories not tidying in principle, but growing up as a child I lived in a clean but very untidy Home (clutter absolutely everywhere) and I do remember exactly how it looked, and finding it fairly annoying. As a child. I wished my mum had proper storage for things instead of everything out and untidy all the time. As an adult I am very clean and tidy and organised, sometimes I do feel in reaction to the frustration I felt at my childhood home for not being calm and organised.
I like knowing where to find the sellotape and seeing needles and scissors and stamps and envelopes and keys and important post and being able to see acres of clear sofa and kitchen work surfaces and shelves and porch and so on...

Someone how all my friends are anal retentive tidy freaks. I admire them but enjoy the difference between us. According to my closest girlfriend, my method of cleaning goes something like " I'll just dust this shelf- oh look, I haven't read that book for a while- (cleaning over)" She's not wrong.
And considering I have an enormous number of books, dogs, what seems to be 1,000's of boys in my house constantly, live rurally with red mud and high rainfall......no. Tidying is .....I'm reading Mumsnet.

It’s not that hard.

I struggle when I have a flare with my disability, but even with multiple health conditions and a physical disability my house is always clean.

I have had Home help for a bit and a cleaner for a while, and DP is my hero, but if and when I had none of that I managed to keep on top of the dishes, washing and hoovering at least.

That’s when I was barely able to walk.

Teens and assorted animals work full time with a long commute elderly parents to care for.

Yeah. Dead Easy.

Other people probably perceive my house to be clean and tidy because it usually is when we have visitors, it’s a fuck load of effort to keep it like that and sometimes I really cannot be bothered.

It's doable, depending on number of children/pets and their habits etc. - but it's boring as fuck.

Our house depends on how my week has gone and how much I can be arsed, we're in the middle of fitting some more units in the kitchen extension to store away oh's crap. House will be instantly tidier once that is done.
As for cleaning luckily me and oh agree on a low standard that enables us to not do much. And dh doesn't do housework, but I don't mow the lawns and pick up the dog poo.

It's half term. My house only stays clean and tidy if I never stop. Literally, if I sit still for an hour, it all goes to shit.

Fantastic - you find it easy to keep houses clean. Brilliant. Just what I'm looking for. £2.50 for the whole house, cash in hand, when can you start?

Seriously. I’m a single parent. I’m out of the house 11hours a day. My teens are in it unsupervised. There’s two dogs and two cats. I also care for elderly relatives in their very late 70’s and 80’s.

I cook from scratch and freeze every sat so I have dinners dine for the week. I get my groceries in Lidl. I have to do the garden and all the house maintenance and the car jobs.

When the fuck am I supposed to get time to properly clean?

Ye helps stave off death

I have a large house which is much easier to keep clean and tidy than my old, tiny house. The crap is more spread out, creating the illusion of tidiness. We have a playroom into which I kick all the Kid Crap at bedtime and shut the door. I have plenty of cupboards to chuck detritus into. Guests are shown into one particular reception room which is always immaculate because no-one uses it unless we have guests, likewise the most convenient loo.

If I lived in a smaller house I’d be up to my neck in crap and filth. Keeping houses tidy and clean is fucking nightmarish.

When I was on maternity my house was spotless.

When I went back to work, when DS was 6 months old, full time, it was tidy but it wasn't clean.

Got a couple of promotions, hired a cleaner, gardener, ironing lady. My house was immaculate.

So yeah it's not hard to keep your house clean, if you have £££, I also get my fruit, veg, milk, windows etc done.

As wel as childcare I feel like I just work to pay other people to do stuff for me..

It's really fucking easy..

I manage to keep it tidy but it's probably not that clean. Apart from kitchen worktops, they're clean.
Better things to do than housework really.

Also my house is old and tatty. Even when it’s clean it never really looks immaculate and shiny. You can’t polish a turd

No. I get home from work at 7, by the time DS is asleep, I've eaten and showered it tends to be getting on for 10pm. DH often works weekends.

I struggle to keep the house clean and tidy.

It depends on a lot of things. I've always tried really hard in all the houses we've previously lived in....but there was always something wrong with the house/was grimes when we moved in/ had loads of "character"/ loads of junk

We moved into a new build at the beginning of the year. Suddenly the whole cleaning thing has just clicked and I'm finding it easy to keep on top of things. I think it's just easy because everything started out clean and perfect and we chucked a lot of the cap we'd been carrying around for years. Also I'm a bit older now, my priorities have changed (I was quite young when I had my first Dc) and take a lot of satisfaction in having a clean house.

Everyone has different priorities though. I grew up in a spotless house so for me it's just normal. DH didn't and genuinely isn't that bothered if things arn't clean.

There’s a difference between cleaning and tidying. Even when I worked sixty hours a week with a young child and a dog, the house was clean and tidy. However I do cheat, I’ve always had a cleaner and I tidy as I go along. Put things back after they are used, put clothes away when dry, tidy toys into toy box at night before bed etc etc. My husband and daughter are messy though so it takes either a bit of cajoling or grab something as i leave the room.

I really dislike cleaning, in the dusting, hoovering, cleaning the bathrooms, changing the beds variety of cleaning (as opposed to cleaning up after dinner ) and hence the cleaner. If I’m not willing to do it I’m lucky enough to be able to pay someone who will. It’s not hard, it’s just seriously dull.

I had a friend pop round unexpectedly last week and she actually said “did you know I was coming?? ” . When I looked at her like she’d lost her marbles, as. I’m clearly not telepathic, she explained it was the fact it was so tidy with candles lit. She thought I just did that when expecting people and didn’t know I actually lived like that she actually seemed really confused by the concept. 😂

Yeah. Young kids go to bed. You can after they go up. Teens don’t. And they can make mess out of thin air.

It depends who or what live with you! I have a cleaner in once a week and I can still come back after a 13 hour shift to find the husband / teenage daughters ( my son is really tidy though😁) have been bathing , cooking , baking and mucking it all up again.
It's not always in my control and they do I suppose try to tidy up after themselves but are not that good at it.