How messy is your house right now? BE HONEST

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I think mumsnetters are not always entirely honest when asked about the state of their homes - thinking of that thread where everyone posted immaculate kitchens when the op asked for realistic pictures.

We’ve cancelled our bank holiday plans due to weather. Kind of taken the easy route by taking the kids to a toy shop for legos to keep them occupied so DH and I could get into a box set with a curry. House is not messy but certainly not immaculate. Haven’t done much this weekend so definitely feeling guilty.

Genuinely curious - how messy is your house this very second. Instagram has made me feel a bit sick to my stomach. Following a lot of house accounts as DH and I would like to build in the 5 or so years.

My kitchen is tidy enough but everything not cleaned daily could do with a wipe - fridge, bin, cupboard doors, patio doors etc. Sink and surfaces clean for now.

One living room is a war zone. I don’t even try to have that tidy. But our living room/diner is totally clutter free (house rule as I need one clean space for play dates without having to rush around like a crazy person). Bathroom toilet and sinks are fine but limescale could be dealt with. Grouting is a bit yuck.

All bedrooms need a dust and a vac which I may do later. Usually I make kids tidy rooms over the weekend but I told them they didn’t have to bother (they were well behaved whilst dh was sick last week which was a God send).

Washing was bad but I paid one of the kids to get through 4 baskets this weekend which they have managed. Dh will fold later.

What about you?

I've worked today *that's my excuse.
But dog hair every where, recycling stuff on benches, I haven't done much today and I'm too tired too.
I have put a load of washing on and washed a few dishes though, that's it!

I don’t know. I think it’s pretty messy but others come round and think it looks okay.

It's not messy, but we do have a lot of stuff in cupboards and the garage / loft and that worries me more. I can keep the rest of it fairly clean / tidy , but the other things bother me more. Even if it's tucked away and can't be seen.

Not too bad , I think if I spent 10 mins I could have all the surfaces cleared but have got two loads of dry washing to sort and can’t be arsed

We are pretty much always 5-10 minutes away from being fully visitor ready. There is always something that could be straightened/wiped/tidied! No kids at home but I have a messy DP and 2 floof shedding cats so it takes an effort everyday just to keep it where it is

Our cleaner comes tomorrow so I have spent today gradually tidying up and clearing surfaces before she comes. Upstairs all sorted, hallway and kitchen fine. I don't know where to start with the living room/ dining room. DS7 has spent the last 5 days building a monumental wooden train track across the living room and looped around the dining table. It is a pain in the arse but his pride and joy as he has used every single piece of his monumental collection. Debating whether to put it all away or ask the cleaner to do her best around it...

Right now, pretty great. We've been out all day so the kitchen just has a few dishes from dinner, I made the beds before we left and my son only had a jigsaw out in the living room 💪🏻

Yep. I feel this deeply. I live like a minimalist as my parents were huge fans of stuff 🤢 I get very irritable if my house is messy. I make ample use of my label maker 😂

My home is spotless.
Im a minimalist who hates clutter and mess and stuff i dont need.

Um , my bedroom is pretty untidy with a pile of clothes on top of the drawers needing sorting. Everywhere else needs a vacuum and dusting. And the wood floors - ugh they definitely need some deep cleaning (I bought some special stuff to do this months ago). Bathroom- yep, could use a good scrubbing. Kitchen's in pretty good shape though!

It looks like something off of Hoarders UK.. Im so overwhelmed. I just dont know where to start. to make it worse, dh has brought a massive bunk bed for DD off Facebook marketplace and left it in the dining room until we can clear dds room, which will be never.

I've been listing my shopaholic excesses on Vinted all weekend so my spare room looks like a jumble sale and the rest of the house isn't much better if I'm honest. I'm kind of annoyed with myself as I'd been doing really well recently with staying on top of things and feel like it's all slid away from me over the last 2 weeks.

Must remind myself that the Vinted stuff is all part of my massive declutter so it'll be worth it in the end. Plus, I've sold over £400 worth just this weekend so I'll be quids in too!

The kitchen is a bombsite because I'm sorting the three season porch, which was formerly a bombsite. Sorting the porch into a usable condition means organizing two other storage areas, amalgamating various collectiins of tools currently scattered in the kitchen and the Christmas ornament space, and finding somewhere to put stuff currently in one particular closet.

It’s tidy and well organised but dirty. Needs a deep clean - everywhere.

But that still enforces my point that the replies on that mn thread were unrealistic. If 300 houses were messy compared to those 52 (which is extremely possible if not probable), then the majority of houses are clearly not immaculate. It seems like a pretty shitty type of stealth boast when it’s on a thread written by an op who seems to want reassurance that it’s ok for things to get on top of you once in a while

It's a bit messy with some boxes from deliveries still in the living room, clean laundry on the sofa, kitchen messy from cooking dinner.

Kids bedrooms could do with a tidy, mine is tidy.

Bathrooms are ok but could do with a clean as I didn't clean them this week.

If someone just turned up, I'd be embarrassed but if someone called and said they're popping over in 20 mins, I could get the downstairs guest ready.

So tidy and clean …I do have OCD

My kitchen sides are pretty cluttered tonight as I've deep cleaned and reorganised the cupboards today so need to find a home for the excess.. a few bags already in the bin!l but the rest I do need to keep somewhere.

Living room is clean and tidy as are our bedroom and bathroom..

kids rooms or their bathroom... no idea, not opened their doors since they went to their mums for the weekend! Probably absolute bomb sites..

Everything is done except hovering. I absolutely can't settle with mess.
Dh has just done the playroom. Whilst I cleared up after dinner. Once the last dc in bed we'll whip hoover round.

Surely it depends what sort of person you are, some people have too much stuff and don’t organise it and never get on top of the cleaning, others have to be tidy. No idea how you could curl up with a box set and a curry in the middle of the day when you have all of that chaos going on around you, it would give me the vapours! Maybe because I’m 100% clean and tidy person and cannot comprehend the messy houses, it would stress me out too much.

There is no wrong!

I washed up earlier. Since then I have cooked and I can't be bothered to wash up again. I know. Rank. I will do it either late tonight or before school run.

I have 2 lots of washing drying. 1 in the tumble dryer and loads waiting to put away that's dry. And enough for 5 loads waiting to wash (we are a big family)

I am half way through decluttering the house. I moved one kids bedroom and swapped with the office. Their room.is done but the new office is just waiting to be organised.

The whole house needs a hoover but downstairs is hoovered daily. Upstairs 2 x a week. But not today. I'm not very well so waiting. Dh come Home from.work.sopn and will be too tired too. He was supposed to have the day off but had to go in for a couple.of hours (we run our own businesses)

It's never pristine. And I don't mind.

I'm a recovering hoarder and previously had several unusable rooms (well, used as storage, unusable for living!) and all living spaces were chaos. Its taken a lot of work, physically and mentally, to get better.

Really quite pleased to say that right now I'd be fine if someone called by. If someone was coming over I'd maybe do a quick whip round but about to do bedtime with my kids then I'm putting my feet up and reading til I fall asleep. It's the kind of peace I couldn't have imagined a few years ago.

Oh and the kitchen and living room will all be clean by the time I go to bed. I can't stand going to bed if the place is a tip. I can't be doing with playing catch up in the morning. I like a calm morning.

It’s about an 8/10. Only because dh & I had a big clean Saturday morning.
We spent a solid 2 hours doing it whilst Nana watched them for us. We don’t normally ask her to look after them but the house was looking…….interesting!

By the end of each day our house is tidy and relatively clean (so long as you don’t look at the skirting boards or down the side of the cooker or under the sofas).

However, we have two young children so we have so much stuff. I am on a constant cycle of trying to declutter every school holiday (teacher), but then grandparents buying them more stuff. The conservatory playroom has two kallax units just to hide all the toys. And the shoes in the hallway! We don’t have a porch and space for only one shoe unit so we have four stair baskets full of the things. Tempted to glue them to the walls at this point.