Since the lockdown, what's the state of your home?

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We're 3 weeks into lockdown and I was hoping our house would be tidier and cleaner, but that hasn't happened so far, although we have done some tiny jobs that needed to be done for a while.

Is your home a) better b)the same c) worse since lockdown ? Us it's b mostly (but our b = untidy and not lovely) with a bit of c some days, so the opposite to what I hoped would happen!

It’s week 7460 of lockdown, and my house is probably even worse than when I started the thread! I did declutter the DCs books, but everything else is mayhem!

Mine is so much cleaner now because I have more time at home than normal.

I usually have a weekly cleaner and I was vaguely aware that she wasn’t working to as high a standard as she did a few years ago (she’s been cleaning for us for over 10 years) but since I’ve been cleaning myself I’ve been horrified at just how lax she has become. I’ve paid her up until the middle of June and I think after that I’ll pay her for another few weeks and give her notice.

(c). It appears the more time I have, the less I get done!

Mine is cleaner than usual because I have time for things like washing curtains, clearing drawers, wiping woodwork, much more than I usually do. However, the mess is something else altogether! 6 people squashed into a space and here all the time is making tidyness really hard. And it is emphatically not my job to tidy up after 5 other people with full use of arms, legs, eyes and brain!

I miss my cleaner. I keep it superficially tidy and I have had a good scrub of kitchen floor. But other than cleaning the toilets and sinks I haven't done the bathroom floors. My son broke the vacuum a week ago and waiting for the replacement to be delivered so the carpets are not looking good.
We tend to breed clutter but with a cleaner I knew it was clean, if untidy. I'm just not getting all the jobs done that she did.
Next house I am NOT having the washing machine in the kitchen.

There are three types of house-work:

1 - the day-to-day ie food-shopping, cooking, keeping kitchen and bathroom respectable, bins, laundry, general tidying up etc.

2- actual cleaning ie windows, surfaces, floors and everything in between such as stairs.

30- decluttering and sorting.

Under lockdown, I was hoping to do loads of 3 but am stuck doing 1 & 2.

I find getting to the point where the house is in a good enough state to start decluttering hard enough ordinarily, why I thought it would be easier with everyone at home, I don't know!

We have de cluttered a lot but there is nowhere to put our unwanted clutter as all the charity shops are shut. It’s all piled in boxes in one room making that room pretty much unusable.

We’ve rearranged the living/dining room 3 times so far during lockdown, trying to give us as much space as possible and failing miserably!
And yes, I agree with the 3 types of HW, smartcasual. Number 1 is as good as usual (so not great) n2 is not happening and n3 is slowly making progress. I think the more we’re staying in, the more we’re realising we just have too much stuff for the size house. But it’s a tricky job, whittling everything down, when there’s children underfoot.

I am doing lots of 2&3; but the neglected 1 is taking over!

The same. Except for more child and husband untidiness.