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?

🙋🏻‍♀️ checking in! I do the very bare minimum I can get away with. DH used to live in a veritable show home before he met me. I have forced him to lower his standards significantly and he's forced me to raise mine marginally .

Although I did just purchase a new Hoover and it's wonderful so for awhile there I quite enjoyed hoovering. Back to normal now though.

There's just so many more interesting things in life than cleaning. It's like my brain has a flat battery for it. You turn the ignition key, and nothing. If I have actually jump started into it, I can keep going.

But it's relentless and thankless.

If I've had a good scurryfunge for a visitor, I'm that emotionally drained from the experience, I feel I've earned a couple of days of and the place is a tip again.

I wasn't great in the first place. Adding a dyspraxic Lego fiend child into the mix really doesn't help. I find it draining having to relocate the random rammel around. For a variety of reasons, I suspect that there is more than one dyspraxic person in the house... I can't handle "tidy as you go", that's the cue for a burned/ badly cooked dinner, or never actually doing what you wanted because you dealt with 5 distractions along the way. Doing something like swapping load A from the dryer to the basket, load B from the washer to the dryer, and bringing load C down to wash can take half an hour as various diversions occur along the way. I struggle to change gear with transitions and break off to do something different and am a horrendous procrastinator. Self-imposed deadlines don't do anything, a deadline has to mean something.

Walk in at any random moment, and it will be untidy and a bit crumbly, but not deeply dirty. It can be blitzed back into redemption. Inviting the ILs over every few months does the trick.

My CDs are in alphabetical order though, well the ones not gathering dust by a stereo I have a beautiful garden, because even the grass can look nice for at least a week between cuts, rather than being undone within 10 minutes of someone else walking in the house.

would rather spend an hour staring at a wall Hell yes!

How about we call ourselves The Slatterine?

ArthurEyeTits I have a massive sofa which houses essentials. Currently housing a bag of humbugs, a biscuit container, a hoodie that needs going in the wash, a blanket and me!

Hello! I'll join the club please! I love this thread! I'd far rather loll around on the sofa when I'm not working, cooking or looking after my two year old. I do laundry and wash dishes (which I hate) and occasionally squirt some Toilet Duck down the loo, but that's about it. Towels and beds every other week. My husband is probably worse than me, we just don't really notice, or care enough, there's always something more interesting to do. Tomorrow we've people coming for lunch so we'll stick the robot hoover on at some point and clean the sink. Dust if you must!

I like things to feel comfortable and lived-in. My worst nightmare would be a minimalist, high-gloss house where I would afraid to put a mug of tea or a glass of wine down on any surface that's lucky, eh?

Streamside your home sounds lovely! a cat, books and old china. Divine. For as little as £200 I'll tell you ALL your clothes are shit. Kerching!

OMG! You are my people!

It's just so fucking tedious. You clean, it looks nice for a couple of hours, then everyone gets home, or the cats shed all over the carpet, or the spiders reappear...bang! it's messy again. Genuinely, what's the point?

I have also found my people!!
I HATE cleaning and admit that I am quite lazy. I would rather read or do almost anything else to be honest. My children are clean and the laundry is done so they and us always have clean clothes. However I am rubbish at putting away said clean clothes so they are in piles in my bedroom right now! Been meaning to clear out old clothes for ages now. I load and run the dishwasher every day. I do all the cooking and have a tidy around each evening. Wipe down what needs wiping down. My DP does some stuff as well each day so we don't live in filth. He does do more to be fair. I sometimes wish I could muster the enthusiasm to do more because I do like it when my house is spotless!

ArthurEyeTits I thought it was just me who had a sofa that has accumulated so much stuff it is need of tidying! Not that I'm going to bother...

I’ve found my people! Can I join, please? Laundry is done (mostly put away), we’re clean and fed, vacuum cleaner is given an occasional outing but that’s about it

.... Looks around at half-renovated house where underfloor mice have eated the heating pipes and half the wiring, and still suffering aftereffects of burst pipe... Piled dishes in sink as dishwasher on strike... Piles of sorted clean laundry on dining table where cat likes to sleep, DIY tools all over worktop...

Can I join The Slatterine, please? Dyspraxic, possibly autistic, definitely not got a hold on the organising function, and in rebound from white-glove-inspection officer father. I did once fail Commodore's Rounds for not dusting my light bulb at HMS Drake; gods know what he'd think of my current abode! 😁

You called?

I have name changed in the past but am always a slattern. Once a slattern always a slattern.

Represent.

I clean when I see dirt and find it particularly objectionable. Which is not very often.

Oh, I love this thread.

My house is what my mother calls 'clean enough to be healthy, dirty enough to be happy'. So if it's good enough for her...

Today I'm considering changing bed linen & cleaning toilets, unless I find something better to do of course.

I do what I can, when I feel like it, and don't let it stress me. Last time I did a thorough clean of the kitchen floor, DH appeared ten minutes later with two muddy dogs after a walk, leaving it worse than it was before & me wondering what the point was.

SudowoodoVoodoo Scurryfunge! love it! yes it's what we do when we know Grown Ups are coming. Also love rammel. Underused!

SlatternIsTrying Perfect!

TooManyPaws welcome to The Slatterine. Let's all sit and have a cuppa. Just swill one round if none clean.

DramaAlpaca There is ALWAYS something better to do than housework - scurryfunges excepted.

Count me in. I really love a clean and tidy house just not as much as I love sitting around reading/watching TC/doing nothing.
Thankfully, both young adult dcs are the same, we are all also very clumsy and have cats that shred nice furniture so couldn't be houseproud even if I tried.
Occasionally have a big clean up and vow to keep it that way but can't stick to it.

In my view the secret is to get rid of "junk". Cleanliness where essential at frequent intervals [bathroom - toilet - kitchen]

At lst a decent and relatively happy AIBU thread. When our time comes to meet our maker, you won't get extra 'point' for having kept a spotless house throughout your years, but for the joy and happiness you shared ith others.
Would like to meet woman of similar 'domestic cleanliness' mindset who wanders around in a negligee (not smoking).
Love and happiness are all you need. Random usage of equipment like vac, washing machine etc for the odd moments is fine. I am neither woman nor slattern, just busy.
Nice to see a relatively happy thread on MN as so many these last couple of weeks have been totally depressing with all the constant whinging.

Hello my people!
DH is in the military, and would like to live in a spartan house, with no soft furnishings or decorations - he sees it all as clutter. I painted the bedroom battleship grey to see if that helped. Nope.

Unfortunately for him, I would happily wash up every few days, hoover when my feet get gritty on the floor, dust by running my hand across the surfaces when they look lagged and maybe remove cobwebs annually. The bathroom is always pristine though.

We lock horns over it regularly, as he does 90% of the housework and it's not a fair division. The trouble is, I simply don't get uncomfortable because of mess or grub. He gets anxious about it, so runs around before I've acknowledged it needs doing.

Anyway, I can recommend a robot hoover to fellow slatterns. Best £170 we've ever spent. He trundles off every morning at 9am, and takes himself back to bed when he's done. I have to keep the floor clear for him so he can do the job properly, so it keeps me tidier too. I pop him upstairs in the evening when I get home from work (DH is working away at the moment).

I am sooooo much better than I used to be, but quite frankly as long as the kitchen sides are clean I don’t care. Hate hoovering. Hate dusting. I tidy as much as I can with a toddler undoing it behind me.

Kitchen and bathroom decently cleaned for safety of course!

With three malting humans and a malting dog, combined with our house being old and a dust-magnet and people constantly tramping the contents of the beach/sandpit/garden in with them I feel like I’m always cleaning yet things never seem clean long.

Nevertheless, I do tend to leave areas like the bathroom that aren’t a daily bloody struggle too long between cleans. My trick is to invite people over so I’m forced to clean more widely and deeply out of sheer embarrassment. Otherwise I just wouldn’t do it. When I win the lotto first thing I will be doing is hiring a cleaner...

Hello dear friends.... We have a weekly cleaner. We tidy for her and otherwise I hoover up scattered cat litter and wipe the kitchen surfaces daily. Otherwise, I prefer to go out and eat cake in tea rooms.