How tidy do you get your house every day?

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I wouldn't naturally be the most tidy person and my husband is probably tidier than average.

Tell me honestly what your standards are? I have 2 kids, 3 and 5. I take contracts, this year through choice I was off for 12 weeks over summer.

I make sure that I do all the cooking (lunch, snacks, dinner but he makes porridge in the morning) and 100% of the laundry. I make sure that the dishwasher is loaded sides wiped down. I wouldn't always sweep the floor or mop more than twice a week. We do have a cleaner who does a weekly deep clean weekly.

There would be a lot of toys everywhere downstairs but I have often run out of steam before I tidy them...

I feel like a slattern compared to some on here. I have teenagers, a dog and a messy DH. It feels like I am fighting a loosing battle and ai only work part time.

Dishes put in the dishwasher, toilet wiped over, living room tidied and hoovered if needed.

Anything else is a bonus.

I’ve got no will to do anything more at the moment as we’re waiting to move and I just can’t face anything but the bare minimum.

My house is never really tidy. It's clean but not tidy. Kitchen is cleaned daily, I vacuum the floors daily and clean the bathroom every other day.
We are slowly packing up ready to move but rather than making the house tidy it just seems to make it more of a mess.

@Gizmo98765 I always feel like a slattern when I compare myself to mumsnet threads, I tell myself the other slatterns just don't admit to it as much as the tidy folk!

Think we must be rebels in the minority.

Clean (stay on top of the laundry and dishes) but toys bloody everywhere. That's the vibe at our place after 3 kids.

If your DP wants the house to be cleaner he either needs to do more cleaning or pay the cleaner to come in more often.

You're not his scivvy!

I would love to have a tidy house but DH is v messy (though not dirty). Piles of stuff on most surfaces, clothes on the floor, never all the toys put away. I'm always a bit on edge about it, but he doesn't see it and won't change, so I've learned to lower my standards. I am pregnant and too tired to spend hours tidying in the evening.

Downstairs is clean and tidy every night as it helps me relax. Kitchen cleared and wiped down, floors hoovered every day (we have two dogs).

All bathrooms wiped down daily.

Upstairs where the teens live...hmm variable but reasonably hygienic

Nobody has ever refused a drink, including the police so I'm guessing it looks alright
They came round to get some CCTV from me, I offered a hot drink, she looked into the kitchen and said "yes please"

It's usually somewhere between "tidy, touch nothing" and "best do some tidying"

@DucksFlyTogether

I'm just gonna say I'm a neat freak.

Every day by 8pm, the kitchen is completely clean, dishes washed, counters all clear and wiped down, kitchen table clear and cleaned. Put away all toys in the living room in to the toy chest, kitchen floor swept living room vacuumed. The bathroom also at 9pm after I've brushed my teeth gets a wipe down with flash bathroom and toilet duck put down the toilet over night.

It's only me and DS. I can't relax in a messy room. I live minimalistic in my tiny 2 bedroom house. My house does look like a show house by 8pm.

5pm - 8pm though looks like toys r us exploded and the kitchen is "in progress"

Bedrooms are always tidy bed mades at 7:30am after waking clothes are always put away by myself once they come out of the washer dryer. So no clothes laying about.

Saturday's the deep clean of vacuuming bedrooms, stairs and hallways and mopping the bathroom floor and kitchen floor happens.

I have to say though it's one adult one child and DS does model my tidy up behaviour now.

Wow

Clean enough to be healthy, dirty enough to be happy. The people I enjoy visiting most don’t keep their houses like show homes so I try not to care, more important to enjoy my family. If it were my last day on earth I would be gutted to have spent it cleaning!

I do a full on tidy, clean, gardening, washing marathon on a Saturday and then try to do some food prep/cooking for the week ahead on a Sunday. I’m a single parent with two teenagers and a stressful, busy job and nothing other than work and sorting stuff with/for my DC gets done during the week as I just don’t have time or am too knackered. So the state of the house/garden just deteriorates as the week goes on til my Saturday blitz!!

I wouldn't describe my house as tidy (just tidy enough to be safe for toddler DS), and I am naturally a messy person. I do try to force myself to keep the house in a socially acceptable state in case if surprise visitors, but this often fails miserably.

Most nights, the dishes are washed and toys are put away. The kitchen still looks like a shit tip it's lived in. Bathrooms and vacuuming are typically done once per week. Laundry is constantly hanging on a clothes horse, then gets folded and shoved in my bedroom where it sits for weeks. I don't make my bed.

I wish we had the money for a cleaner.

I have OCD and I can’t rest until things are clean and neat. I do things as soon as they need to be done. My husband is good about helping if I ask him to do something or if I give him a list, but he generally doesn’t take initiative on his own. Mostly because I have way higher standards of clean than he does. Small things like a chair not being pushed in or a glass left on the table irritate me. Things that I recognize logically aren’t really a big deal. So these things I usually just tidy up as I go because I’m not going to nag my husband to do things that really just boil down to my own OCD. The one thing he loves though is that the house is always immaculate, and that whenever company comes over we don’t have to clean up for them because it’s already clean anyway. He grew up with his parents who were total slobs, and he always dreaded visitors because his mom would force him to clean up for days beforehand. I love his parents, but I personally hate that sort of mentality. Like if you’re messy and your house is a little bit more lives in, then just own it. But don’t be fake and clean for an entire week and be like “oh this is my home!” Just my opinion.

Fully paid up member of the slattern club here.
I'm shit at adulting and especially at the running a house aspect of adulting. It isn't a thing I'm proud of. I envy people who have it sorted.
It just surprises me that the bathroom needs cleaning AGAIN despite the fact that I have been cleaning bathrooms since I was 10 (It was my chore).
Its like the whole thing ambushes me.
And when I do get into a groove and we have a lovely, almost visitor ready, house for a few weeks no bugger every acknowledges it. I need a badge at least!
(And its not like my parents didn't teach me - both of them are neat freaks.....)

My bedrooms are always more messier, and I don't know how it ends up like that every single time after I tidy up. It's not dirty just messy with stuff left on the floor that needs to be put away, sometimes the children will bring a toy upstairs and leave it on my bedroom floor!!
Downstairs however, kitchen/cooker sink always cleaned. Work surfaces clean down twice a day. The breakfast table however just becomes clutter, water bottles on top, napkins, random coins. Every other day I'll sort the breakfast table out. My lounge and conservatory are always tidy but that's because children are not allowed in after a certain time of the day. The main living room, is a bomb site with toys everywhere, I put all toys away and they come again in seconds. Before I go bed I'll ensure the living room is tidy, sometimes when am really tired am like na what's the point, I've never woken up to a tidy living room, I go to bed tidy and wake up finding it a mess because my kids have woken up before me.

Household of five adults, one bring old and wheelchair bound and I am her carer. Two adult sons and one sons girlfriend who have their own areas of the house that I don’t touch or even enter without permission.
I wipe over my bathroom and the disabled bathroom daily. I wipe the kitchen daily and wash up after each meal, I put a wash on daily and I Hoover downstairs everyday as I have 3 cats.
Weekly I do a full clean of the bathrooms, change beds, dust, full clean of kitchen and utility room. Clothes are put on the dining room table in each persons pile and everyone collects to put away as they come in from work. I do mine and the person who I care for everyone else does their own.
I like a clean and tidy home and do some housework every day so it never gets to be a massive job that needs doing.

Full clean of kitchen (sometimes don't put away clean dishes on the rack though), tidy living room and baby play area, wipe down half bath (main floor bathroom), put clothes in hamper.

Sweeping/mopping and cleaning of other bathrooms is once weekly, I only make the bed when I change the sheets on sunday!!! My husband does the laundry I don't really care if it's put away as long as there are clean clothes for me to wear, though I'll sometimes throw in a load if I want something specific cleaned for me or the baby.

Cleaner does the vacuuming and washes bathrooms and dusts every two weeks.

I can't stand clutter so the house is almost always guest ready which is nice because our parents both come up at least once a week!

I don't garden at all though. The garden is a shit show.

I would say clean ish and tidy ish (depending who I am comparing to!)
Every morning I empty dishwasher, put in a load of laundry, hoover downstairs and mop the kitchen (hoovering and mopping is very important, 2 dogs!).
Main upstairs bathroom gets cleaned every day/every other day, downstairs loo daily. Upstairs gets hoovered 2/3 times a week. All bedding weekly.
I am a potterer so tidying is done as and when I see something so it doesn't really feel like I am doing it....just little and often.
The kids are in charge of their room within reason, I try not to look
This has been the way it's done since I was pregnant with my eldest 15 years ago, I made a decision that I wanted the kids to grow up in the nicest environment I could possibly provide for them. It works for me!

I'd say mine is somewhere in the middle!

It's always clean but not sterile!

Bathroom hets cleaned and floor done at weekend.

Kitchen floor also mopped at weekend.

Hoovered at weekend but done properly.

Worktops wipes as I go along.

Don't think beds are ever made 🤣

Clothes are out in sideboard when dry or ironing pile or on sideboard after ironing. Put away when we have time.

Washing up is done when time allows. Da puts stuff off draining board away and I wash up and re fill it!

I just don't have time to do this spotless clean daily. He's a swimmer. We are up at 4. Out 4.30-7.30am for training 4 times a week.
Out between 6.30-9.30/ 4.30-7.30 or 6-9pm 4 evenings a week.

I can honestly say if I'm home at 9pm and the carpet is a little messy I can happily not start hovering!

I have a cleaner who comes in a few times a week who does an amazing job, but have a toddler so as soon as she leaves place looks like a bomb has gone off. Tbh by Monday our place needs a really good scrub. In the evening, it’s just a quick tidy, load dishwasher, wipe down all surfaces in kitchen and tidy living room. I wouldn’t be able to sit down in a messy living room. During the day though it’s chaos.

Pre DC and pre cleaner I used the organised mum method which i thought was really good.

@itsgettingwierd

I'd say mine is somewhere in the middle!

It's always clean but not sterile!

Bathroom hets cleaned and floor done at weekend.

Kitchen floor also mopped at weekend.

Hoovered at weekend but done properly.

Worktops wipes as I go along.

Don't think beds are ever made 🤣

Clothes are out in sideboard when dry or ironing pile or on sideboard after ironing. Put away when we have time.

Washing up is done when time allows. Da puts stuff off draining board away and I wash up and re fill it!

I just don't have time to do this spotless clean daily. He's a swimmer. We are up at 4. Out 4.30-7.30am for training 4 times a week.
Out between 6.30-9.30/ 4.30-7.30 or 6-9pm 4 evenings a week.

I can honestly say if I'm home at 9pm and the carpet is a little messy I can happily not start hovering!

I will also add we are then out 8.30-4.30pm everyday at work and/or college too.

Wow, you only need to sweep and mop the floor twice a week with a 3 & 5 year old!!! This gives me hope, we have a 2 year old and a 10 month old and the floor needs sweeping after every single meal.
I used to be so tidy, you could call in at any point and I'd happily invite you in. Then after my first I would appreciate like 30 - an hours notice. And now with the two give me 24 hours notice 🤣🤣🤣
If I'm honest it bothers me but try not let it (every once in a while I have a strop about it). There just isn't enough hours in the day and baby is veryyy clingy.
We always have a clean kitchen at the end of the day, living room clean but toys out quicker than I put them away. Bathroom only get done once a week or when obviously dirty which annoys me. Upstairs tends to be cleaned and tidied but always seem to have stuff hanging about where it shouldn't be. Laundry 🙄 always on top of the washing, but folding or ironing and putting away 🙈 ends up being 3 loads before I make it to that point.
I imagine yours isn't too bad if you have a cleaner, cos I wouldn't want them in mine without having cleaned first 🤣🤣🤣