To think how can people live like this?!

[AnotherManicMumday]

I'm a cleaner and understand people's houses are going to be a certain level of messy/dirty else they wouldn't need a cleaner but some are just vile!
One family went away for 2 weeks and their fridge was left with opened milk, very very out of date food in the fridge, bins all over flowing. I wasn't going in until they'd been away for over a week so its not like they thought it would only be there for a day or 2 until I went in. I don't do their fridge normally and it was only that I had bought them fresh milk for coming home that I saw it all and got rid of a whole binbag of stuff.
Another family have gone away. Been gone a week. I went in yesterday and the smell knocked me sick.... They'd not flushed either of their 2 toilets after using them so it's been left stewing. There was meat in the fridge and again opened milk. There was spilt cereal that's had milk on it all over the settee. I get that people have busy lives but there is just no need for certain things to be left! Their kids never pick up after themselves including food wrappers/yoghurt pots and this standard of living just seems to be becoming the norm 🤢

One of the reasons I cancelled on getting a cleaner was clutter. I couldn’t be bothered making sure the house is very tidy for a cleaner to clean, might as well do it myself as it’s the quicker job lol

I would pay good money for a 'tidier' instead of a 'cleaner'. I think I'd rather clean after someone else had tidied than vice versa.

This should definitely be a thing.

BarrackerBarmer I feel the same. I’d probably let them decide where everything goes, just reorganise the house lol

@user1499173618 exactly that!!!

YANBU. That's grim. I've stopped going into SIL's house because it's so disgusting (and flea ridden!). I once babysat her two kids and at the top of the landing dirty washing was spilling out of the laundry basket, including period stained knickers all over the floor 🤢 her house is basically a health hazard! The weird thing is if she speaks to people who have never been in her house she tells them she has OCD when it comes to cleaning! Deluded doesn't cover it

BarrackerBarmer I feel the same. I’d probably let them decide where everything goes, just reorganise the house lol

I suspect my cleaner would be an interior decorator if she could. She will occasionally slightly rearrange the furniture or pictures etc and it make the space much nicer. Once I came home to find her supervising dh and his brothers to switch our dining room with our family room - I walked in as they were moving the dining room table. In fairness dh had been saying for ages the rooms were the wrong way around. It made a huge difference to our house.