How messy is your house right now

[Guruel]

Just curious if I’m good, bad or average.

My house is tidyish but not overly clean imo. I go through the motions but can’t say my house is perfect.

As most of the cleaning falls or me I don’t allow dh or kids to have crap floating around. Clutter got to me a few years so I created a system where I put any clutter on the dining table if I see it. At the end of the night if it hasn’t been put away it gets chucked. So the rooms never get crazy as I have bins and storage for almost everything.

But the woodwork could do with some hot soapy water, the grout could do with a steam clean and everything just needs a good old dust.

There’s a few jobs (hob, bin wiping and stairs) I’ve given up on as I’m hoping someone will have the initiative. They haven’t funnily enough. Washing gets done but I’ve stopped folding and just put them in piles on stairs and scream for owners to take up.

Id give myself a 6.8/10.

What about you?

Love hearing how normal other people are as SM would have you believing otherwise

Pretty messy in general . Bit shabby in places . Clean toilets and kitchen though

It's not too bad. Our bedroom and the spare bedroom is immaculate and actually the playroom is pretty clean as I had a huge sort out and cleanup with the kids today on their last day of hols. The rest of the house...not wonderful but its OK, although washing is piling up a bit. HOWEVER...kids back to school tomorrow and I am planning a massive deep clean and declutter child free (how sad is it that I'm actually looking forward to this 😀)...our routines have all gone to pot a bit over the hols and tomorrow is about getting back on track !

Incredibly messy, borderline hoarding. As usual.

Pretty messy tbh but it's been worse.

Single working parent, 2 primary kids who have sooo much stuff

My flat is very clean and tidy. I have been on a major cleaning and decluttering spree the last couple of months. I'm now in a good routine. My husband just finished using the carpet washer there so everything feels fresh and lovely.

It wasn't always like this though. The place used to be filthy with mess everywhere. My breaking point was coming home from holiday and feeling so depressed at the state of the place, wishing I could go back to the caravan we stayed in.

Absolutely bloody spotless because I had photos done today to sell it!!

I know it will be difficult for me to keep this up, but I must because I already know where I want to live !!

I'd say I'm 20 minutes out from being guest ready. It's consistently clean, but not totally tidy - a bit mussed up by the day - half read books waiting to be picked up again on the coffee table, some mangled 1st day newsletters on the side board and a cushion pile on the sofa where one of the DC has flopped next to me etc. Happy debris! It has definately not always been consistently clean and has had infinitely larger piles of unhappy debris when the DC were younger though.

It's funny but I really believe upbringing has an effect on this.

I grew up in a complete show home. Wasn't allowed to put anything down anywhere. My mum polished and hoovered the whole house at least every other day - it was her whole life. I was also an only child so it was very much their house that I lived in, if that makes sense

I spent my 20s as a complete pig. Control of my space meant my right to live in a mess. Now I have children I'm much more careful about tidiness because the clutter does my head in, but it still isn't as clean as I'd like.

We've just decided to get a fortnightly cleaner because I've accepted to myself that I have a mental block about cleaning. I definitely feel a real aversion to spending my life serving a man by constantly cleaning a house.... which is all a reaction to my upbringing

Please share your tips! Particularly for the kitchen/dining areas

It’s 7:45, the kids have just gone down so it’s a literal bomb site. Dinner under the highchair, clothes all over the bathroom floor, every toy pulled out in the living room and the blankets and sofa all ruffled up.

Mine is far messier than I would like. Everyone has diagnosed ASD and ADD ADHD…it’s so exhausting and I’m the only one that desperately wants it calm/spotless yet I feel frozen. It’s a horrible cycle for me, desperately wanting to model organisation and cleanliness to children but so so bone wearyingly exhausted.

The hotspots are my kitchen which only has a tiny amount of worktop/cupboards for the size of house, and the laundry putting-away. However, the hall is nice for children to come in to, the living room full of books and music and wood stove and dog, their bedrooms always nice…I’m doing I suppose 6/10

I wish I hadn’t lost my Mum/Dad many years ago though, it would be far easier with some good moral support. Childcare support. Just, you know, support!

By my own personal standards, I hate it.

By my 'just at the end of the school holidays' standards, it's not too bad but I'm looking forward to having a good reset next week and bringing some well needed organisation back.

I'm OCD.. you can probably guess what my house is like. 😂.

it's very tidy, everything has its place.. it could possibly do with a bit of a deep clean, there's a few area's which need work. skirting boards.. possibly a dust?

but i can't help not tidying up.. i have a massive fear of being judged so my house is always tidy just in case someone shows up unannounced

I could have someone call round unexpected and I'd be happy for them to come in.

The tricky bit is DH thinking tidy is the same as clean. Eg I'm waiting for a new bookcase and there are 6 piles of books stacked again the wall where the bookcase is going (about 150 books in total) he complains that hes fed up of the landing being untidy. However he will then cook and leave food bits or splatter marks on the hob and not see a problem because everything else has been tidied.

The flylady app is a godsend. I downloaded it on all our phones and set it all up the same and now everyone refers to it, even DS will mark things off that he has done in his room.

I've also introduced decluttering. Each week I'm decluttering a space in a room till the whole room is done and this has helped immensely.

Cleaning is done daily depending on what is on the flylady app.

It’s perfect, OCD. My house as a child was the pits.

My home is always spotless unless I'm poorly or my 5 year old is. Having a clean house is very important to my mental health. Doesn't matter what else I've got going on will always make time for cleaning I've always been that way even when I was working 70 hour week.
Bit easy now daughter at school and I work from home.

It is the last day of the summer holidays. It looks like we’ve been burgled.

Untidy but clean. New house and awaiting wardrobes fitted, new bedroom furniture, possibly fitted furniture in lounge. Already had a number of extra kitchen and utility units fitted. Just takes time to get organised.

Will be having a cleaner when I get my state pension.

Very tidy at the moment.

Well I had a burst pipe in January, I was not at home at the time, but since then I have damp and mold everywhere downstairs, the house is uninhabitable and stinks to high heaven.
It has taken until now to find anyone, who will come and sort it out and the outcome is still uncertain. I was there on Saturday and it was pretty bad.
Messy, not exactly untidy, but water damage, definitely.

This morning it was a tip (but reasonably clean) as we got back from holiday yesterday and everything was everywhere. This evening after a sort out and a quick clean round it's all good again. Not perfect but as a single mum of 3 who works full time it never will be.

Untidy, unclean, unpainted, unfinished and dusty. It's not revolting though, so I'm going to give myself a solid 3/10.

P.s. it's been like this since we moved in almost four years ago.

Our house isn’t embarrassingly bad, but is a bit messy and in need of some tlc. Carpets are ancient and fraying, rooms need repainting, the kitchen is tiny and there’s food from yesterday’s shop stacked on the surfaces that won’t fit in the cupboards. There’s a tent (packed up) in the dining room because we need to clear space under the stairs to fit it in, and can’t face tackling the piles of stuff there. It’s fairly clean but we have too much stuff for the space. I claim I haven’t got time, but that’s not really it, I just hate cleaning.

Decorating a bedroom, so most of the stuff from there (adult dd returned from uni) is spread liberally round the house.
So an absolute Holy mess.

But hasn't stopped me inviting in visitors for a cuppa... take us as you find us.

OP your house sounds like an 8 not a 6.8. Mines probably a 6 at the moment.