NOW CLOSED: Tell us who's the messiest in your house (honest, now!) £100 IKEA vouchers up for grabs!

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Hello. We been asked by IKEA to find out who you reckon is the messiest person in your house.

Do you agree with comedian Tiffany Stevenson, who says, in the new IKEA ad, that "the only thing a man will ever clear out is his internet history"?

Or do you wince with recognition at Paul Pirie's umbraged-male retort: "Shoes, shoes, shoes! What are you, a centipede?"

Please post on this thread to tell us who's the 'floordrobe'-owner in your house - the more scruffy, cluttery, bomb-gone-off detail, the better! Everyone who does will be in with a chance to win £100 in IKEA vouchers.

Oh, and IKEA is running a Facebook poll, too, if you fancy casting your vote.

Thanks - and good luck! MNHQ

My teenage daughter.

Forensics are in her room as we speak analysing a bowl of something that has 'matter' in it.

hmmm me probably!
i am awful at clearing up behind myself.
When I was a teenager a bottle of hairdye exploded in my room one night. The carpet was entirely undamaged

My 3 yo - easily. Oh and one of the cats is a very messy eater but I don't think he counts

Well the kids make plenty of mess but I think the messiest is dh, perhaps because I think he should know better . I often find I tidy the house, have all the laundry done, kitchen cleaned and the second he comes in he manages to dump stuff on every available work surface; bag in the hall to trip over, lunchbox on one worktop, drink on another.

I had a bit of a rant word one day after he'd messed up the kitchen and he gave me a lie in the next day, waking me with the words "I've cleaned the kitchen, I think you'll be impressed". I went downstairs to the chopping board needing cleaned, junk on another worktop, highchair not wiped, floor only half swept and the dishwasher not emptied.

My nickname for him is "Half job Alan"

Of my kids it's my 4 year old son. Out of me and dh would be me !

My Dh. Luckily my DCs seem to take after me.

Its me

DH is a perfectionist and anally retentive with tidyness. I am forever hiding as he goes round the house at the end of the day picking up my dross.

Also he manages to serve dinner with all pots in the dishwasher and minimal drips on the worksurfaces whereas I leave a trail of destruction behind me when I cook. I do try, but I just can't get the hang of clearing as I go, it would all be cold by the time I served it.

I have an entire bedroom given over to my wardrobe and shoes. They still end up hanging on chairs, on the hook in the bathroom, in a pile by the bed at night etc. And my shoes seem to all live in a pile in the understairs cupboard.

I really really hope our son grows up like his father not his mother or we're in trouble.

18 month old DS. We are at the 'emptying bookshelves, clearing drawers, turning over toy boxes, chucking everything that isn't tied down over the stairgate' phase

My husband, definitely. He doesn't notice the mess he creates at all, which is a skill I really wish I possessed!

He will go up the stairs three at a time to avoid standing on the things waiting to be taken up (surely it's more effort to step over it like that than to pick it up ).

He tucks his used tissues down the side of the settee to save standing up and putting them in the bin.

Dirty socks are removed and left on the floor, without fail. He manages to get other laundry in the basket though .

My 17 year old daughter causes more mess than the rest of us put together. She likes to ALL of her belongings on display. She keeps empty cans of hairpray and deodorant, I don't know why. She has clothes on the floor (her 'floordrobe!') and magazines stuffed down the side of her bed.

She will happily polish and hoover, she loves to have 'nice' things but she does not see the benefit of putting things away. She says that her room is like it is on purpose not because she's disorganised. She claims that it relaxes her to see all her belongings around her. I can't sleep in my room if it's a mess, I need order and calmness.

She's clearly rebelling against me

My youngest daughter who is 13 is scarily like me, poor girl!!

dp definitely. he seems to change about four times a day and slings the barely worn clothes over the backs of chairs until they fall over backwards

Me!

Me sadly. When other women complain about their messy husbands I wince and know that that is exactly how my DH must feel about me.

Dd2, 9, thinks if you can shut the door no one will notice everything crammed in, drawers arent meant to be shut, floors are just extra storage space.

I won't be participating. I'd want more than £100 from IKEA since they sold me a £700 sofa which isn't fit for the purpose and with which I am now lumbered for many, many years as we won't be able to afford another.

IKEA and I have parted company.

My husband is possibly the messiest git in the universe. It's a good job I love him or I would have murdered him by now. He eats a sandwich with crisps, spills crisps all over the place, then leaves plate and empty packet on the table. He complains that he can't find anything - when anything is put away yet hates mess. Worst of all he says that since he pays the cleaner that means he doesn't have to tidy up

My husband is the messiest person in our house. He likes to leave everything out to 'remind' him to do whatever he needs to do. So if he wants to read a book by a certain author, he will get out ALL the books by that author and leave them there until I make him put them away, or he gets round to reading them, whichever is first. I always make him put them away.

I used to be tidy, now I have an 8 week old son & it's impossible to get any cleaning or tidying done. DP doesn't help leaving a trail of destruction as he's getting ready for work!

DP - creates the most general mess
DS- creates the most washing

My teenage daughter is the messiest creature in the house.
Her bedroom looks as if it haas been burgled , all the drawers are open with contents spilling out . The floor is covered in clothes and shoes that have been tried on and discarded.

Empty mouldy cups and glasses on the desk if you can even recognise it as a desk as you can't actually see it. It's an ikea one actually!

Around the house you will find more shoes placed creatively at just the right angle for you to trip over. Her bag is usually thrown onto the couch along with her coat /sunglasses and keys.

Makeup is left out brushes and hairdryer left on the floor in MY room. A trail of wet towels tell you that she freshly washed and ready to go .

There is a lovely ikea basket at the front door for shoes ,it's quite large but nobody seems to be able to actually get their shoes into it , there are more lying around it than in it.

I have beautiful cushions and throws adorning the couches , well they aould be beautiful but are usually scattered on the floor in a heap as no one is capable of folding or plumping.

The one thing she is always able to find is her mobile though ,tis a miracle. She's leaving home soon ..I'm sure we'll all miss her ..or maybe not.

My dd aged nine she loves clutter. She did have the second biggest room and it was so messy that we moved her into the smallest room. Still messy, despite me have a everything in the bin clear out couple of weeks again. I have a lot of stuff but is all tidy. The DP doesn't see the mess or the fact the kitchen needs clear up, washing needs sorted or recycling needs done.

the twins are equal in disgustingness. both will have fur growing in any pots and dishes in their room. they are now eighteen for gods sake and if i don't have a go at them, they wouldn't change their sheets.

after battling for 14 years. i have decided to give up.

good look to whomever they end up in a long term relationship with - it wasn't my fault, i tried to make them decent human beings and judging by the lack of visible carpet in their rooms, i have only succeeded partially.

it has to be dp in this house.

I have no idea how he manages to use every knife, saucepan and available work surface just to make a curry.

DS who at 15 months is in the 'unpacking' phase. But tiny toddlers excluded, I am definitely the messiest. I tend to put everything down on the most convenient surface (often the floor).

I blame growing up with full time domestic help, which we cleary do not have in this country.

My DS getting better at tidying into his boxes, but still spreads a bit. I have a high tolerance for leaving-things-to-deal-with-later (it's an efficiency drive), but DH has lost the car reg form, Inland Revenue correspondence, company PINs and a car, thanks to his not ever putting things away or reading his post (that's how he lost the car - no, I'm not LeQueen, either; there's more than one of That Type of man around!).