To ask if it’s petit bourgeois to clean the house before guests arrive?

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Just that. We always clean the house thoroughly before guests, even play dates. Bathrooms, bins, everything. I’m wondering if this is because we’re lower middle class as my posher friends don’t really bother. What’s the norm?

Our house is always spotlessly clean and tidy. I wouldn’t be happy otherwise and DH would enter melt down. It's still very much a home and homely though.

I do not clean or iron, other people do. However, the kitchen is always left immaculate after cooking, basins and baths are given a wipe after use, the dishwasher is loaded and unloaded.

If you pick it up, put it away.

I find that my motivation to clean is spurred on if we have impending visitors.

Catholic clean (yous could safely perform surgery on it at any time).

i‘m so relieved now that it’s not that I’m riff raff it’s a catholic thing 🤣

i’ll go upstairs now scrub the grouting with a toothbrush confident that my spotless house won’t let me down!

Do what you like. Why do you care what class it is, or what's 'the norm'?

This kind of ridiculous anxiety is poisonous, get free of it for your own sake, do.

Yes. Also tea towels. I love it, I put music on and find it therapeutic.
A neighbour had a baby so I went round to offer to do some ironing and she said no, could you hoover instead?! Imagine my disappointment.

@mollyfolk to properly dress a bed you do realise the sheets should be ironed in situ and a steamer comes in handy for the duvet cover and artistically arranged top layer/counterpane.

I have only done that when selling a house - for the photos and viewings

I do like my nighties ironed!

This is me.
I do a good clean once a week.
The house is generally tidy as I put away rather than put down.
So I'm happy that anyone would visit- anytime.

I try and amalgamate my several piles of random shite into a friendlier, single pile somewhere in an innocuous corner 😇

I must pass that on to my upper class friends who say 'hoover' - heaven forbid they'd be mistaken for lower middle class! The shame!

I also think this is nothing to do with class. If you live dirty and are ok with manky toilets as you say, then cleaning before people Encounter this is advisable.i dont beleive what you describe is what your posh friends don’t care about, shit stained toilets. More they don’t live like that and clean after themselves.

I don’t care what class you are, if you don’t clean your toilet you’re a scummy fucker

I hate to say it but the thought anyone is ok with a skid marked loo turns my stomach. It’s one thing to leave your literal shit for someone else, but a whole new low when you are all good with it.

it really changes the dynamic of the thread, because what the op is talking about is not just normal cleaning or tidying for guests coming round and absolutely nothing to do with class.

if you actually think it’s ok to have a shit stained loo and that some folks might not care and have guests in to see that, then that’s completely grim.

You'll be doing them a favour. 😉

None of my friends, all rather posh, would say hoover. Our staff might.

Hyancinth Bucket would definitely say vacuum cleaner rather than hoover.

We don't have a tumble dryer so if we have overnight guest we have to wash and dry the sheets etc. Also removing cobwebs from the rafters, hoovering under floorboards, and soforth.

Depends what state your house is but I would not let friends or family into a messy home. That’s just having standards.