To think working class people are cleaner than middle class

[LardLizard]

Perhaps the mc people don’t feel they have anything to prove
But bloody heck some of them are scruffy buggers !!

I am working class, and I am filthy. Yabu

Very true in the military, wives of Officers who had come up through the ranks were obsessive about their homes. One woman we knew when going on holiday spent the whole day cleaning, when they were ready to go hubby and the children sat in the car while she ran the hoover round the whole house, again, and dusted, again, throughout. She was never at the bus stop anything other than immaculately coiffed, made up and dressed 'properly', the rest of the wives were often in rollers and dressing gowns.

Why in areas with a high concentration of social housing are there old sofas/car engines/broken toys/general shit just lobbed in front gardens? No excuse especially as many councils pick up large items of rubbish for free.

Every class is going to have a mixture of levels of cleanliness.

I know a spotless WC home and a filthy shitty pig sty of a WC home.
I know a spotless MC home and a filthy shitty pig sty of a MC home.
Sadly I don't know any upper class homes! But I've seen them on TV and again some are spotless and some are filthy shitty pig stys.

What are you on about op?
Why don't you just keep your home how you want and not give a shit about anyone else's

Well i live in social housing Creambun and my council charge for every item they pick up

So lobbing old sofas and fridges in front gardens in acceptable then?

Lol at council picking up items for free

No cars? No money for a skip?

It’s their gardens. Why does it bother you?

Here we go again with the Mumsnet obsession with the class system.

I'm working class and I'm filthy, as is my house and car. Exception that proves the rule? I'm not poor though. Maybe the comment above about being able to afford to go out is significant. There's always something more interesting to do than cleaning.

Intriguing.

As it makes the environment shit for everyone in the area?

Well no but I don't think councils pick up stuff for free either and whilst we are at it councils houses arnt free either another mumsnet myth.

In Scotland one free pick up per year.

What about the upper classes op?

They must be a load of absolute filthy trollops according to your logic.

I don't think I've ever seen a dirty LMC house, there's definitely something in that. UM, middle middle and work class I've seen immaculate and flithy and everything in between. Sadly don't think you can count Upper class if your experience is standing behind a barrier clutching a National Trust brochure.

There is definitely a subset of middle class people who do the whole boho sprawling scruffy house, knackered car, kids in bodenesque hand me downs and ratty hair thing.

The most obsessive cleaners I know are LMC. I think that's possibly true.

Other than this, I'm not convinced there's much correlation.

Agree with hatgirl. My job is also spending time with all different sorts of people in their houses. Social class is absolutely no indicator to cleanliness (personal or house hygiene).

Why waste time cleaning when there's much better things to do?

I think the lower classes quite often like to out do each other with cleanliness and looking well turned out. I think looking down on anyone who comes short of this is a very LMC thing to do.

I'm resolutely working class, I must add.

Fruitcider never mind 😮

Imagine if....if there was no class system..imagine it.

There used to be a 'type' of WC woman who was the sort always scrubbing the doorstep, or washing the net curtains - but I had a MC upbringing - so I never knew if it was a real thing or a sitcom trope.

My children are Boden wearing scruffy hairy things, and my house isn't particularly clean. In fact the state of it right now is shameful...So OP maybe has a point (except the fridges in the front garden type)