AIBU to ask for the slatterns of MN to come forward?

[MarianaMoatedGrange]

Inspired by another thread. I am a self confessed slattern. Would rather read a book or browse MN than clean to a rota. I wash dishes, do laundry and am clean in person, but happily coexist with cobwebs until they get quite bad (adds to the Victorian Gothic of my home is my reasoning).

I will have a cleaning frenzy every couple of weeks or so then subside back into lassitude, draped becomingly on my sofa with a book or phone (aka slobbing out in leisure wear or PJs with chocolate to hand).

DC grown into adulthood with various views on cleaning. Oh, I lived briefly with one man when young, then never again so it was and is entirely up to me how I lived. DC taught how to clean/tidy/cook, which they did age appropriately. One enjoys cleaning.

Levels of squalor never enough to incite interest from authorities - just vaguely smug looks from my cleaner, tidier friends

So, any more of you rota free, as-and-when sisters out there?

Ah. I’ve found the cleaning thread for me.

I HAVE been trying to make a bit more of an effort to decluttering but that’s as far as it goes.

I detest cleaning.

I suppose that is me. It's not through an willingness, just more mentally inability. I do what I can when I can.

I tidy, the cleaner cleans and then we have a tidy house for about a day then that's it until a fortnight later when the cleaner comes back.

The thought of 4 hours cleaning on a Saturday. Fuck that for a laugh. I'd rather be at the allotment.

Signing in! I'm doing well if I do dishes once a day and laundry once a week.

I know it’s light-hearted but can we dispense with “slattern”? It’s only ever directed at women.

I am a scruff.

I’m off to city today, have put laundry on but no cleaning and need to hoover.

Was it Quentin Crisp who said that there was no need to do housework because the dust doesn’t get any worse after four years? So it’s just a case of holding your nerve!

I know it’s light-hearted but can we dispense with “slattern”? It’s only ever directed at women.

I love the word ‘slattern’. I’m proud of my slattiness.

I have found my people 🙏🙏

My people! I like a clean, tidy house, but with an active 2 year old, a full time job and an addiction to reading my approach is far more haphazard than is ideal.

However, when I do a massive blitz I do feel smug for a few days until the general squalor re-emerges.

However, when I do a massive blitz I do feel smug for a few days until the general squalor re-emerges.

This is so me

I had to clean the bathroom last week; our autistic son had got in there, destroyed the toilet roll, emptied the bin, dunked various items in the toilet bowl ... As I cleaned it up, I recalled that I hadn't done so thorough a job since my parents visited 18 months previously.

I hoover the stairs & landing (the only carpeted area) when I cannot stand the crumbs any longer.

Laundry is a necessary evil for looking clean at work/school.

DH loads/unloads the dishwasher, mops the floors weekly, and - because he does most of the cooking - takes on responsibility for cleaning the cooker. I will occasionally wipe coffee stains from the worktops.

Do I qualify for this club?

The house is not untidy. It's not noticeably dirty. It wouldn't pass a Kim & Aggie test, but nobody ever regrets not cleaning more.

This is me! I hate cleaning. We do the bare minimum of cleaning up after ourselves and the occasional tidy up when it gets too bad. The cleaner comes every two weeks and the house is spotless for a couple of hours, then it all goes downhill...

I’m terrible and must admit we’re now at the stage where if it gets much worse phone calls might be made about us ...

Welcome, my sisters of scruff

@seaweedandmarchingbands I love using old fashioned terms. Guttersnipe, baggage, trollop, slattern. Yes, they were/ are used against women so let's reclaim them!

This is me! I hate cleaning. We do the bare minimum of cleaning up after ourselves and the occasional tidy up when it gets too bad.
Ditto
I do laundry, cooking and dishwasher daily but everything else just happens when I notice it's getting particularly bad! Every time I Hoover I think "that was easy and the floor looks lots better, I should try to hover every day". 2 weeks later I start thinking I should get the hoover out again.

Ah, hello my people

I live in a very old and very dusty house. I also have cats. I could spend hours and hours every week disinfecting and polishing all the nooks and crannies. I don't.

Washing up gets done daily, hoovering once a week unless I'm working from home when I might push it around downstairs again. Kitchen worktops wiped down daily. Sinks get a quick swoosh-round after I've cleaned my teeth (but mainly because the upstairs bathroom has a vile blue suite which really does show every speck and blob and looks bloody awful).

There are some cobwebs. Some things are stained. There are books and papers and 'important stuff' on more or less every surface. We're all comfortable, happy and healthy!

I'd like a slightly cleaner, less cluttered house but frankly, I cba. Who cares? There's more to life.

Reclaiming words often perpetuates them. Sometimes words belong in the dustbin of history. Calling yourself a slattern just promotes the idea that women should be doing housework.

What is this "cleaning" and "tidying" of which you speak?

I love slattiness @StillCoughingandLaughing

I only have a proper clean round when either:
People Are Coming (proper grownups etc)

Or

We're going away (I like to come home to a nice clean, tidy house)

Otherwise I do what I CBA to do when I think of it and have nothing better to do.

Oh, I love the word slattern. I completely get the argument against it, but to me it conjures up a fabulous image of an Elizabeth Tayloresque woman in a silk negligee, emerging tousled from an unmade bed and dropping cigarette ash across the floor...she has far better things to do than clean.

I'm really good at mental housework! I make lists in my head of all that needs to be done, then I do exactly what I'm doing now- drink tea and MN on the sofa looking at the cobwebs!

l'm much the same. lt's as well l'm in a rented house because it means it gets a blitz every three months or so when the letting agent's coming to do an inspection. Every time when it's neat and clean and tidy, l think "ooh, this is lovely, l'll keep it like this".
A week later l'm sitting there thinking "where did all this stuff come from?!"

You don’t really sound like a slattern OP. You just sound like someone who doesn’t dust or Hoover much. I think the test is: is your loo stained brown with shit?