To ask if you grew up in a clean and tidy home?

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Apparently your more likely to be clean and tidy if you were.

Yes. I like mine clean and tidy, which it is on a good day. Young kids make it hard to keep it that way all the time 😂

Yes I did and yes I'm 100% worse

No, my parents have piles of stuff everywhere and can never find anything so they just buy multiples of things and add them to the piles. The two of them have filled every room in a 4-bed townhouse so there are narrow paths through the rooms you can still get into.
My room was the only island of order in a sea of chaos.
Now my house is tidy, everything has a place and I know where everything is. I know if I hit a certain level of chaos I’ll just give in to it, so I fight every day to keep order.

My parents would argue over the hoover! Literally….everything in its place.

Our house was tidy apart from my bedroom 😬. My mum only worked a few hours a week so had plenty of time to keep the house tidy when we were younger. My parents were tidy but we were also allowed to be messy as long as we cleaned up, we were encouraged to cook and to be creative. My dad is super organised as he is ex forces, he is still super fussy about things being kept in their correct place and has everything labelled.

My house is clean but not necessarily tidy, I have way too much clutter and nowhere to store it. I do clean the house at least once a week but not to most peoples standards, I rarely dust but I Hoover often.

Yes I did, my mum was tidy and organised. I’m not particularly tidy myself, although I wish I was, but I can’t seem to get it together and end up having little piles of things around. My ex used to call it vertical filing.

No my mum was excessively almost obsessively clean and tidy. I'm tidy/clean but not to her extreme

No I didn’t , growing up the house messy, unclean and my mum was a hoarder. I now struggle to keep my house clean and regularly have to declutter as I tend to horde as well. My sisters have gone the opposite and their houses are clinically clean.

i grew up in a scruffy house full of second hand furniture and mismatched stuff, crappy decor, too small for us so lots of stuff around. Shared a bedroom with my sister. My mum did keep it very clean though despite the pets and it was never dirty, or embarrassingly untidy. Just very lived in and a bit shabby as you’d expect in a house with three kids, three cats, other pets and being on a low income. Bedsheets were ironed and beds neatly made, they were just cheap and mismatched bedding - that kind of thing!

My house is VERY tidy most of the time in the main rooms - kitchen/diner and lounge always tidy and clutter free, and look nice. I hate mess and unsightly clutter. Just don’t look in the cupboards or the spare room! These go through cycles of needing to be sorted and then being tidy for a while.

Yes i did. I am clean and tidy and quite organised but i don't care particularly if it's not.
I remember when my kids were little and dh coming home from work and asking if the toys could be put away as it was messy. It was 4.30 so at least two hours before bedtime, i said no and if he didn't like it he could come back when they'd grown up. Didn't moan again.

yes
nope

I grew up in a clean and tidy home but I was never clean and tidy myself. My bedroom was always the messiest room in the house growing up and I never figured out how to stay on top of housework, especially around working full time.

No, lived in a very messy, dirty house. Now my house is really tidy and everything has a place..im careful not to be too obsessive around kids but if it gets messy I feel really stressed and unsettled and find tidying and cleaning really therapeutic.

No I didn't. We were overcrowded for most of my childhood and it was horrible. Vermin was part of the norm. We have a lot of stuff but my house is clean. My cleaner and friends say this.

Clean - yes. Tidy - so-so. There were three of us kids growing up, and whereas nowhere near spoilt, our father liked to treat us (think Sindy dolls, the Sindy doll house, then my brother had all the Hot Wheels cars). My mother always tidied but there were three kids of similar ages.

Today, I wish I were minimalist, but I'm just not. I like ornaments, lamps, photos of my dogs and family. Clean - definitely. I love cleaning.

No definitely not and I vowed not to do the same to my kids. My house has always been clean and tidy (although I don’t count toys out during the day) but they got tidied up every evening.

My parents' house was clean and tidy, mine is less so (but not awful). I'm just lazier than my mum.

No and as a child i was never allowed friends round.
My home is clean and tidy though. I'd die if I had a shit tip home.

I could have written this post. Its the biggest stressor in my life. Unfortunately my daughter has the same tendencies as her father so I am battling two of them. Its quite hard at times :-(

I grew up in a cluttered, untidy, unclean house and I hated it. I swore my kids wouldn't live in such an environment.

And here we all are in the same situation. I still hate it. I am trying.

Very clean and tidy- never anything out of place. My house is a tip.

Define clean and tidy?
And it is you are, you're, not your (possessive pronoun !)

I grew up in a clean and tidy house and I'm a slattern living in a midden.

Yes. My mum had Issues, particularly around control, which manifested in her being a bit obsessive about cleaning and tidying, which clashed with my then-diagnosed ADHD which couldn't really comprehend this whole 'tidy' thing. My mum expected me to know what 'tidy' looked like (I had no idea. She'd be screaming at me that my room was a mess and I was a slut, when it all looked perfectly all right to me).

My kids weren't particularly clean and tidy either. But now they've all left home and I've got my house the way I like it. It's not exactly immaculate, but there's no piles of stuff left lying around in corners. And I only dust when I feel like it, which is probably causing my mum conniption fits from the Other Side.

Yes and I would like my house to be tidy but sadly it’s not.
My dm did not involve me in the running or upkeep of the house at all so I left home with no housekeeping skills at all.
I feel shame whenever she visits, which I suspect she knows and enjoys