How tidy is your house?!

[RHOSA]

I struggle. Single parent, two boys 4 and 7, work 22hrs. You?! Xxxx

Not too awful. It’s usually better and I follow the organised mum method but I haven’t been home much this week.
I have 3dc, both myself and my dh work 12/13 hour shifts.

Thank you. I'll look up the 'organised mum' method. Xxx

It's tidy as I can't stand clutter I'm not sure I'd call it clean though! Windows/skirting boards/bathrooms could all do with a good going over 🙈

It’s near on immaculate thanks to very house proud DH.

I’m sure though when he is old he won’t look back fondly on the time spent cleaning and feel that all that time spent was worthy.

Not very. We are all untidy people. I make sure the kitchen is clean before I go to bed, the living room could be presentable within half an hour, the bathrooms are ok, the bedrooms are a mess. Mine is the worst!

Single parent working long hours.

Crap everywhere 🙄😫

I'm a really untidy person but the thought of someone seeing my mess gives me heart palps!

I really want to give the organised mum method a whirl

Stassy123 me too!!!!!! 😂

Mine gets messy but can be tidied fairly quickly as there is a place for everything.
More importantly, the kids chip in too and do whatever task I shout at them to do. Tidying up is done at the end of every day mostly.

Single mum working 33 hours a week .....

Last week I started my "summer strip"
Started with the living room; 3 bags of rubbish / charity shop - room is now tidy and looks good
Moved onto my bedroom this week; 1 bag of rubbish
Heading into DD's room next week - send help and a rescue team

Once the big strip is done - I normally make Monday my cleaning day and try to keep on top of it like that

Visitor ready always, I do little and often, always leave the kitchen tidy after a meal, fold washing straight away from the line or drier so I don't have to iron. Declutter regularly and Kondo'd my bedroom last year so it's easier to find clothes. When ds was little I had baskets for his toys so they could be scooped away quickly.

i have a cleaner once a week cost 14 quid. best money i spend all week

before that though..when the kids were babies i felt like a failure. then uncharicteristically of me - and my gender, i stopped comparing myself to other people. i was happier. tbh 4 days a week my house is a shithole, but i work fulltime and i am not a maid - it doesn't bother me as id rather do anything else and believe me life is too goddamn short to be obsessed with tidyness.

I need to get rid of some stuff, so there’s less to clean and tidy away. I really think that will help.

Quite tidy downstairs.My bedroom looks a bit more lived in but I am fairly uncluttered.I think because of this I don't notice the dust gathering but when I do it takes minutes to sort.
I tidy as I go.I am about to go to bed so I will quickly tidy the sitting room,straighten cushions.
I cannt be bothered to finish the dishes so they are stacked in the kitchen and will get done in the morning while the kettle boils but the sides were shipped down as soon as I served diner.
The only untidy area my desk so a few admin things to sort(if I tidy them I will forget) and the ironing basket.

It's not very.... I make sure the kitchen and bathroom are clean.

It's pretty tidy but then I only have one kid, a cleaner and a DH who is pretty fastidious. I work full time + so don't really do that much but have a blitz every now and then. Things tend to get piled up in the corners so every so often I attack them in a fit of organisation but generally the floors and major surfaces are pretty clear. I'm very fortunate. Don't know how I'd manage if I had a small Hosie and three kids! I'm sure it would be carnage.

Custardo good points!! My EA ex was obsessed with it being completely tidy every evening before sitting down and I still get anxious about it. Xxx

bit untidy and could do with hoovering upstairs. need to sort out my floordrobe ASAP. it's gross. laundry and clothes are the worst thing ever

Reasonable. I work 30 hours, 6 yr old and 16 yr old. DP works away during the week and doesn't help much. Everywhere is reasonably tidy and clean. Kids do their own rooms. I could have everywhere spic and span in an hour or so. I think little and often, clean as you go works best for me.

Single parent, work full time, two messy teens and my house is pretty tidy. Bathroom, kitchen and sitting room are always tidy/ clean. My room is always tidy apart maybe from clean washing and beauty products on dresser etc. Teenagers rooms look like they have been recently ransacked. I hoover a lot. Garden tidy too. My MH suffers if the house is messy. But I still think we own too much stuff.

Single mum, working full time, in the last week of term and going on holiday next week? Chaos.

Ds just finished primary so there are books, bags and artwork all over the kitchen and the ironing pile has taken on a life of its own.
By Tuesday, it’ll be sorted.

I have always tried to run a fairly tight ship on the cleaning front but I am coming to realise that excessive cleaning can be time ill spent. We tend to have a permanent pile of paperwork in the kitchen and another of stuff to sell on eBay on the landing. I find that irritating...

I recently heard this on the Secular Buddhism podcast and it really resonated:

Dust If You Must
by Rose Milligan
Dust if you must, but wouldn't it be better
To paint a picture, or write a letter,
Bake a cake, or plant a seed;
Ponder the difference between want and need?

Dust if you must, but there's not much time,
With rivers to swim, and mountains to climb;
Music to hear, and books to read;
Friends to cherish, and life to lead.

Dust if you must, but the world's out there
With the sun in your eyes, and the wind in your hair;
A flutter of snow, a shower of rain,
This day will not come around again.

Dust if you must, but bear in mind,
Old age will come and it's not kind.
And when you go (and go you must)
You, yourself, will make more dust.

LP working 40 hours (and more if needed when DS (almost 3) is in bed due to demands of job role) ... house is .... not great.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s acceptable for the demands on my time, but I seem to spend every minute I’m not working, or concentrating on DS, cleaning. And it’s still not enough. House is very old and generates dust like you wouldn’t believe.

TBH some weekends we go out more than I would otherwise, just so I’m not at home obsessively cleaning (to little effect, once DS has finished rampaging!)

Love that poem @IsThisOkForYou

Very clean and tidy, I can't stand mess and clutter and get a bit anxious so I try to keep on top of things daily so it's not a huge job, sometimes though at the end of a long shitty week at work, I wish I could just let it all go a bit.