Is there a direct link between the state of your house and your state of mind?

[clairabelle]

Since Christmas I have been so low to the point of thinking I needed to go the GPs and the housework was just getting completely out of hand the house was tidyish but not organised IYKWIM however today MIL has had the children for an hour and a half and I have blitzed the house and feel a thousand times better. There's something to be said for tidy house tidy mind

Hoxton chick, do you have a cleaner or am I having it ripped out of me

err untidy I meant. Why am I making so many typos today?

LGJ (have you changed your name???) - cleaner You lucky thing!

LGJ Lapsed Gym Junkie

Changed it because everytime I posted and someone replied they called me LGJ, but people keep asking if I have changed

yes, yes a thousand times yes!

Good idea LGJ

I just motherhood would be so much mroe enjoyable if you didn't have all of the other things such as cooking, cleaning, ironing, washing etc to think of. Takes up so much time.

i certainly do have a cleaner lgj, & she's been today so i am a calm vision of loveliness. ish. can't do irony atm, have pregnancy brain .

The thing with me is that I know I would have to clean up for when the cleaner came. So it wouldn't work

State of mind - good.
House - tidy, cause mother is arriving tomorrow! DP 'The only time you bloody tidy up is when someone is coming to visit' Yup

Yes I think "Tidy home, Tidy mind" is very accurate for me. When I feel down/very tired the HW goes to pot. And the washing .... well!!!

sort of ...
PMT equals v.messy house due to attempted clearout of all rooms simultaneously,

mission abandoned when i come on!

BH, I used to have a cleaner - one morning a month (better than nowt!) - didn't clean for her but flew round the house piling all the crap off the floors on the beds instead.

(Then after she'd gone it all went back on the floors. But they were clean floors! )

JanH

That's what I would be like. I'd be ashamed if anyone else found the apple cores under the sofa

Have to say though I only do a big clean (pull out sofas, cupboards etc) once a month.

Most of it is surface cleaning

Much more likely to have serious mental health probs if you keep your house especially clean, apparently. Plus you'll give your kids asthma if you go overboard. Why risk it? Surely better to sit on your arse and relax just a little while longer.

Too true Scrummy Mummy, apparantly my health visitor diagnosed my post natal depression and general poor mental health by the fact my house was spotless!

My untidy house is eveidence of the fcat I am mentally fighting fit!

I do however feel calmer if the house is tidy, I have a splurge once a week but it never lasts.