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?

Me! I would quite happily live in a level of mess. So would DS1. It drives DH crazy. I suspect DS2 might take after him - he's always taking things in and out of drawers clearly thinking he's rearranging them, and any excuse for a baby wipe and he's there scrubbing away at a table, chair or floor. He's only one though. I'm sure it won't last!

@Meckity1
I'm not sure whether I need a rota or an intervention

Neither, just a sit down with a cuppa.

A Male aquaintance has asked if he can come over tonight. That'll be a no then.
I just cannot be arsed with cleaning now.
I'm tired and hungry. And not interested in a shag.

TopBitchoftheWitches I always went to recent FWB's place, he never came to mine. Have ditched him now Winter is coming. Prefer to stay in and not shave my legs

Let’s put it succinctly; I don’t need to leave the Dyson on constant recharge 😬

Hello, my tribe! I have generally only cleaned properly when an estate agent is coming to take photos to sell the place or people are coming to view. As I've moved house a lot recently, I have to say it is the most boring thing in the world to keep up a clean house, I don't know how anyone does it for long. It is so repetitive, isn't it? Mop the floor, then you're supposed to do it again soon after, (a week? I don't even know what the rules are) even though it doesn't look mucky? Got to be joking. I go for more of a smoke and mirrors approach, where people are distracted by my sparkling conversation, strange furniture and low lighting.

My DH is ex-military and is a clutter free neat freak.

When he's away on a business trip I go a bit feral and leave all of the dishes/hoovering/washing etc until the morning he's back

To give an idea of my approach to ironing, my son was six years old and when I got the ironing board out he said 'what is THAT?' He had never seen it before and that isn't because I waited until he had gone to bed to do the ironing.

My people!

We do laundry, but it never gets ironed, and sometimes never even makes it upstairs - we have a pile of clean washing on the sofa. Admittedly part of the reason is that our drawers and wardrobe are in the spare room, which is also home to some of our bikes. Can't be arsed to fight through them to get clothes in/out!

Dishwasher gets loaded and unloaded once or twice a day, but hoovering is pretty rare, and stuff only gets properly scrubbed and dusted every couple of months. The skirting boards are fairly horrendous... 😬

I would like to live in a tidier house, but we both work full time and have a toddler. In the evenings we're too knackered, and at the weekend we're doing fun things with the sprog/visiting friends/family, etc.

We are planning on getting a cleaner, but we need to clean the house first. I'd be too mortified for anyone to come in in its current state!

Here are my people. I loathe cleaning. I don't think I've touched my skirting boards since I moved in 18 months ago. And that's just the start of it

Every so often I get a notion to clean our skirting boards. So I spend like 10 secs scrubbing at a random patch and then sack the whole thing off.

Oh and I think our iron is still in garage from when we moved in almost two years ago. I don't think we even have an ironing board now. Maybe it's in garage too.

OP, l'm sure l once heard somebody (stand up on tv) say you should 'spray your cobwebs with glitter for a festive effect". l might do that....

My mother (and her sister) were inveterate cleaners. My mother wouldn't go out for the day until she'd hoovered and dusted. What the hell there was to hoover and dust, l have no idea. How much can build up in 24 hours when there are only 2 people living there and one's out at work!? When my auntie had visitors, as soon as they left she'd have the duster out, polishing imaginary fingermarks off tables, etc.

l blame that for me being the way l am. l've never had a routine. l tend to do it when l'm having visitors or l have no clean clothes. Having said that, the room my rabbits live in is immaculate....

My house is an absolute tip at the moment! It probably goes against the spirit of the thread, but honestly the untidiness is really getting me down. I just don't have the energy to sort it at the moment - especially as I'm nine weeks pregnant and exhausted. That's my excuse anyway...

l'm sure l once heard somebody (stand up on tv) say you should 'spray your cobwebs with glitter for a festive effect".

Fabulous. I have found my people.

I recently had to lint-roller my newly crawling DS's legs before going out... the floor has finally been vacuumed three days later.

l'd hate anybody tidying for me. Years ago when l was at work OH 'tidied up' and put my credit card statement (and the rest of that day's post, unopened) in a drawer l rarely used. Which l didn't realise until l got a letter saying l'd be charged a fee for late payment, plus interest. l spent a jolly half hour on the phone to them arguing the toss, to no avail. When l eventually found the statement l went mad. lnsisted he paid the late payment fee, plus the interest. Which he did, but so he should! Who the hell puts unopened post in a drawer, especially when it's not theirs?!,

I've done that Celebelly then thought "what the fuck am I doing?" and stopped.

I cleaned for a week with a view to selling the house. I felt quite smug and even got the three year old cobwebs and put zoflora down the sinks. Then I went to view a couple of houses today in a really popular city. V v expensive and absolute hovels. One was actually filthy but the v v hipster renters and v v hipster estate agents thought it oh so cool and trendy.
So fuck it I'm never going to clean again. I want to be hipster and dirty

My dh has often ‘tidied’ things away. Drives me potty - because I have a few places I KNOW I will put things and if they’re not there I know he’s been interfering. He has a HORRIBLE habit of just shoving everything in boxes without even a second look at what it is. If you’re going to tidy, at least bloody look at what it is!

Ahhhhh flamingjune123 In the 70s I was a hippy. Now my get out clause will be aged hipsterdom.

Inspired by another thread. I am a self confessed slattern

I read that thread. Terrifying.

l'd love a robo vac for my bunny room. l'm not sure how my rabbits would feel about it though. Two of them are totally unconcerned by the hoover (l've even de-fluffed the girls bum while l was doing the floor, and she just carried on eating) but one of them is scared to death of it. l can hoover their room, half an hour later it's floofy and covered in bits of hay again. lt's clean, though - just untidy.

I am a lazy slut. We have a wonderful cleaner round once a week. The house looks marvelous for a five hours. The other days of the week, I clean the kitchen and bathroom. My old house just seems to have dirt.

Sometimes, I feel like cleaning then I just read a book until that feeling passes.