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To think it is easy to keep your home clean?

400 replies

Ohwell14 · 27/10/2017 20:05

Providing you are able bodied obviously

OP posts:
Caprinihahahaha · 27/10/2017 22:22

If this shitshow is what you go with your spare time then I'd crack on with the cleaning

CherryChasingDotMuncher · 27/10/2017 22:22

Sorry you couldn’t sneer with other goddesses about what slatterns other mums are. Sometimes threads don’t go the way you want, take it on the chin lass Grin

bellie710 · 27/10/2017 22:25

Oh forgot to mention, I also take my children to swimming club twice a week at 6am, and 2 night swimming until 9pm, as well as Rainbows, Brownies, Running Club, swimming club so have allowed myself to not give a 2 fucks or care what anyone thinks of my house :)

shaggedthruahedgebackwards · 27/10/2017 22:25

Having a spotlessly clean house is suspicious IMHO

I'd assume you'd just cleaned up after a murder

BusyBeez99 · 27/10/2017 22:26

I work full time and have a DH and DS and a pet. House is always clean and tidy. Polishes halo 😇

plank · 27/10/2017 22:27

Providing you have the frickin time!

formerbabe · 27/10/2017 22:29

It's really easy to have an amazing figure...just eat right and go to the gym everyday. There's no excuse.

It's easy to cook from scratch everyday. Buy fresh ingredients and spend a little extra time in the kitchen. There's no excuse.

It's easy to look glam everyday. Get up earlier, fix your hair and spend an extra ten minutes applying make up. There's no excuse.

user21 · 27/10/2017 22:32

There’s so many reasons for me to not clean.

Spending time with my children
Drinking with my friends
Having a laugh with my DH
Dancing to my favourite song, or even a song I don’t like much.
Painting my toenails.
Talking to my lovely Mum on the phone.
Riding my bike.

I find all of these things more enjoyable and worthwhile than cleaning 😊

Bluntness100 · 27/10/2017 22:36

Some folks do live filthy though, I’ve seen it in house viewings, i mean proper filth. And they can be single and live filthy too.

Someone posted on here awhile ago, about how to stay on top of it, then casually dropped in that she couldn’t see her bedroom carpet for chocolate wrappers and rubbish. It’s quite shocking and nothing to do with kids or dogs. Some folks really just don’t give a shit. I,m not talking people who are unable, I’m talking people who live in filth and don’t care.

Pennypickle · 27/10/2017 22:38

I have wiped over the kitchen worktops (with a bleach based spray - I'm sure that matters to you) this evening and cleaned both toilets and bathroom sink. I've even thrown some bleach down them :)

The kids schoolbags and school shoes are still cluttering up the living room, where they left them after school - before I took up my role as mums taxi and dropped them off at their various activities, before coming home and doing their dinner and clearing up afterwards - hence the bleaching of kitchen worktops.....

Their shoes and bags will (hopefully, fingers crossed) be, albeit, reluctantly, taken to their bedrooms at some point tomorrow, seeing as its half term, otherwise they would have been gone before 8am in the morning on a school day.

I have given them each a laundry basket for their rooms, in the hope they will do their own laundry. That hasn't been very successful so far.

They are all of an age where they can keep their own rooms clean and tidy. They tell me they have cleaned their rooms - and I have even witnessed them taking the Hoover (or Dyson) upstairs. I was soo chuffed! :) Only to discover "Clean and tidy" to teenagers means picking everything up off the floor and stuffing it into the wardrobe :(

How clean and tidy do you require OP?

I usually have a tidy up and clean round before visitors arrive if that's any consolation :)

frogsoup · 27/10/2017 22:38

You have one baby and one teenager in the house, OP, and you think you know about whirlwind mess-makers? I have unfortunate news to relate... Once you've had a toddler (and perhaps add in a 4 and a 6yo), then you can pronounce about how easy it is to keep a house clean and tidy. I await your return in 4 or so years time with your tail between your legs...

SparklyUnicornPoo · 27/10/2017 22:47

Depends on your standards really OP, I went round my friends house and she apologised for the mess, I couldn't find any mess she can never come to my house because her standards are clearly too high

MistressDeeCee · 27/10/2017 22:50

OP aka Goady Toady. Bet you pride yourself on your spotless home, & being a paragon of virtue unlike most other slatterns who let minute things such as work, childcare and actually having a life, get in the way of cleaning. Bet you also have people around rolling their eyes as you will keep on about your perfect home. Scintillating convo, housework. Im on the edge of my seat here

Tummelthecat · 27/10/2017 22:53

Its probably not that hard...... but good grief, it is SO BORING!!

Ifearthecold · 27/10/2017 22:56

My house was always clean and tidy for a couple of years, we had to have live in staff to manage that though!! Sadly since then it has just been me and some cleaners and standards have slipped.

JenniferYellowHat1980 · 27/10/2017 22:58

It’s manageable on my two days off a week. On my working days it’s not and I don’t beat myself up about it. I wouldn’t invite my prim auntie over on those days though.

TheDowagerCuntess · 27/10/2017 22:59

It's Saturday morning here, and I've spent the last two hours of a lovely sunny morning doing dull arse, boring, relentless housework.

It takes a lot of work to keep a house clean and tidy, but unfortunately it's necessary, so you just have to get on and do it.

It's not difficult, in that it's not rocket science, but it is a lot of work, so YABU.

NotJustThreeSmallWords · 27/10/2017 22:59

Just me here and my home isn't clean. I hate cleaning and would rather spend my time thinking about what I ought to do but not actually doing it. But I'm the only one that needs to live surrounded my mess and I have no fucks to give.

Cleanermaidcook · 27/10/2017 22:59

So you're actually having a moan about your 13 yr old as. Well he's 13, generally they don't do clean.
And personally, no it's not easy when you work and have kids but hey ho each to their own, you get your mop out I'll go down the park I won't judge you, you don't judge me.

Oblomov17 · 27/10/2017 23:05

It’s not that hard. I refuse to/too lazy to. But that’s a different issue. I keep it ‘respectable’. But if you pick up anything, move anything, you find years of dust!

NoSquirrels · 27/10/2017 23:06

It probably is easy - if you're set up right and have the motivation & inclination.

I find it so fucking tedious, Groundhog Day-ish & irritating that I prefer to do almost anything else.

I'd LOVE a tidy home. No one else agreed with me, alas, and I'm fucked if I'm spending my life nagging other people.

Cantspell2 · 27/10/2017 23:08

I personally don't care how clean and tidy anyone else's home is as I don't have to live in it but I do find it quite fascinating on here that on a how often do you shower or wash your hair type thread you will be classed as mingling if you don't do it at least once a day yet people seem to be proud of the fact they don't clean their house or iron their clothes.

Betsy86 · 27/10/2017 23:11

Pictures or your tidy house never happened Grin

Emillee · 27/10/2017 23:14

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To think it is easy to keep your home clean?
AssassinatedBeauty · 27/10/2017 23:15

Well personal hygiene is different to a clean/tidy house. People need cleaning more frequently! And a shower can take 5 minutes, so it's not like it takes very long.

Ironing clothes is nothing to do with being minging or not. Whether your clothes have creases or not makes no difference to your cleanliness. Also if you don't iron, you tend to choose clothes that don't need ironing anyway.