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?

Butchyrestingface It seriously unnerved me. I needed an antidote.

Butchyrestingface It seriously unnerved me. I needed an antidote.

I rolled around on my bedroom carpet for a while and it settled my nerves beautifully. Well, I assume it was the carpet, haven’t actually seen it for a few years due to all the foliage growing out of it...

I really needed this thread today!
Doing a deep clean as we’re moving and all our stuff is now in boxes. Moved the furniture (which hasn’t been moved since we moved in) and was both disgusted and proud of the thick layer of black dust/fluff/hair. Who know you were supposed to move furniture to clean behind it? Or clean skirting boards?!

Marinamoatedgrange - I prefer 'bohemian'. That covers lots of things and seems to imply that cleaning and tidying is a little bit common, I think!

Full time job, 2 dogs, a teenager and a horse. Nope, housework not done here with any regularity either. Much more productive and interesting things to do. Washing up gets left until days off and things washed out individually if needed. Laundry is fairly on top of - it's either work/school uniform which needs washing or various t shirts etc we wear in bed. Stables/dog walking clothes last a few days before I wash them. I've currently run out of fabric conditioner and have used free Ariel samples to wash my work stuff for tonight because I keep forgetting to buy it. Didn't forget the cake this morning though 😁
My house hasn't fallen down yet. More hair on the carpet than the dog if I'm honest. I do wish I had more time sometimes to do it, and occasionally I go mad on one room and blitz it. However I clean an awful lot with my job so coming home to start again isn't high on my priority list. I almost drove myself to distraction trying to do it all, keep an immaculate home and work, alongside everything else. On a nice morning it's far better for my mental health to go out for a ride with my friends and then coffee or lunch than bog myself down to cleaning a house that's going to be dirty again tomorrow anyway. Sleeping, eating and earning are also more important.

oooh yes cheese I like Bohemian!

I was on maternity leave and a cleaner came round to see me before I booked a regular clean. She got out get feather duster, flicked it around and a massive cobweb came floating down. She turned to me and said “if your house is this dirty when you’ve been off work, what will it be like when you’re working?”

It says everything about my attitude that I was not at all offended. I did then point out that this is why i was interviewing cleaners. She did not get the job.

For those swearing with the 4letter I word I have never owned on or the board that goes with it xxx

currently baby in one hand sleeping, phone in the other, and zero desire to hang up washing that finished two hours ago

#MyPeople #TheSlatterines #SistersOfScruff

I tell people that I clean just enough so that ss won’t take my kids away 🙂

I had a cleaner come to deep clean my kitchen and she told me my kitchen was ‘very dirty’, fair enough!

A friend recently visited and told me she feels better about her place after seeing mine, also fair enough!

I’m having a new kitchen fitted so I now tell my friends that when my kitchen gets too dirty, I just get a new one 😁

Last time I bought a hoover, I ordered it online. Helpfully about six weeks later they emailed me to suggest it might be time to clean the filter.

I'd used it once.

Even with cleaners coming two hours a week, my place is one bad day away from disaster at any given time. It's not dirty, it's just...a little chaotic.

Like laundry ends up piled up in the spare room, or I'll get my sewing machine out and take over the entire kitchen table or the living room will get colonised by duplos or those Vtech Little Explorer toys, or we'll start some really long complicated board game and oh well that's the kitchen table out of commission again while we take three days to get through one game of Eldritch Horror, or we'll start a new robotics or electronics project and it'll take over half the spare room or my toddler will start pulling loads of books off the shelf and I'll start picking them up then realise there's one I haven't read in ages and get sucked in and ok that pile of books just lives there now. That kind of thing.

Also DH doesn't clean, he just imagines himself cleaning and then talks about it later like it actually happened.

The cleaners just work around the chaos and make sure the place is hygienic. Life goes on. We're happy.

Is it just me to be finding this thread incredibly refreshing? Since joining mumsnet I thought it was normal to totally zoflora your house twice a day, whilst the bedding an towels were in the wash after a single use. I also admit to not redecorating/extending/garden landscaping....well ever. I kind of just bought my dusty victorian house and after a frenzy of painting and ambition (pre-children and increased workload) just added to it with nice stuff I like. I admit I need to work more on getting out the crap we no longer need/like/want!

Sorry I meant to post on 'the all houses I want to buy are shit tips' thread. But this will do.

@emeraldshamrock Well, exactly. If I didn't pay people to do it, it wouldn't get done. This is the current state of my side table, for example

I like your work trinity

That's nothing...this is my dining table

I am currently sat in a pile of my kids toys reading mumsnet and eating jaffa cakes I have no plans to move any time soon

Why are you all posting pictures of my desk??

Is it safe to assume that if I came to visit any member of the Slatterine that I could keep my shoes on?

Well we live in Germany so it's generally shoes off here :o That said I did actually once have a friend say apologetically "Um... I'm just going to keep my shoes on..."

This thread is making me smile.
I wash up when I run out of clean plates. Washing blitz when we need clean clothes.
I'm happy in my hovel, lived in and I do know where everything is. When iv been on a cleaning mission theres no chance of finding anything

My car is a disgrace too, I'm beginning to feel accepted by people that this isn't going to change. It's never bothered me. In fact it suits me. If you dont like the mess, dont get in my car? Easy enough really.

I do what I can when I can do it. I have spent today moving between sofa, washing machine, and tumble dryer. One of the children will be on dishwasher duty tomorrow. The middling child vacuumed through this morning, and the youngling has been rounding up rubbish and recycling.

Tomorrow I will sleep.

Win some, lose some. Well, win some and lose many more.

@Seeingadistance I recommend you do

At last - MNetteres who don't shower three times a day/wash towels after one use/deep clean bathroom every day... My kinda people...!!

I've vaccumed the living room today so that's okay for a couple of weeks - I'll have to do the bedrooms next week, as DS & DiL are coming, and I suspect that the tops of the doors will be examined for dust (and plenty found).
I keep myself clean, clean kitchen regularly (every couple of days) and always, always wash up - the one household job that I (strangely) don't mind doing..!
But dusting? Moving furniture to vaccum?? Cleaning windows??? No - just no...!!!