Active discussions

Please or to access all these features

Talk
Sponsored threads

This topic is for sponsored discussions. If you'd like to run one with us, please email [email protected].

See all MNHQ comments on this thread

MNHQ

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

449 replies

HelenMumsnet · 01/04/2011 17:10

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 Blush 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

OP posts:
suzikettles · 02/04/2011 20:39

In1981 seems to be living with my dh. Hmmm.

bebejones · 02/04/2011 20:51

My 2 year old DD is pretty messy...but she can't help it, she's 2! I am trying to teach her to put one thing away before she gets something else out, it's not going very well! :o

DH on the otherhand should know better! I'm always picking up dirty clothes from all around the house & he seems to collect dirty glasses next to the computer & bed & just think that they will find their own way to the sink! Hmm Drives me up the wall! And don't get me started on the piles of post that seem to get opened and tossed to one side, what's wrong with the bin?!

I wouldn't say I'm particularly tidy myself. But I do at least make an effort to pick up after myself. I think I'm fighting a losing battle with DH, so I shall focus all my energy on 'training' DD! :o

victoria48 · 02/04/2011 20:51

My 4 year old is the messiest, closely followed by my husband.

AtYourCervix · 02/04/2011 20:59

hmmmmm. that's a hard one we are all a little untidy but i think DD1 might be the worst.

My parenting plan was to never hassle them about their rooms, letting them know their room was their space, in the hopes that they would look after them and keep their stuff tidy.

HA!

Major backfire.

I tend only to nag them when not a single cm of floor can be seen. They are shocking.

star1000 · 02/04/2011 21:00

My 3 yr old daughter - her bedroom has clothes and toys trailing all over the floor - I spend more time tidying up than she spends playing!

retrohotpink · 02/04/2011 21:09

My partner is without a doubt the messiest in this house! He never fails to leave his clothes on the floor for me to pickup the next day, does half jobs like washes clothes then forgets to dry them, spills food on floor/furniture when eating. Funnily enough, I wouldn't have it any other way! Glutton for punishment....!

prettybird · 02/04/2011 21:12

Between dh and me, me Blush

However, he's not as tidy as he thinks he is and he never notices the work I do do keeping the place tidy.

Ds is definitely taking after me though - his room is wins the award for the tip of the house Hmm despite many threats much encouragement Wink to tidy it Hmm

Our bedroom is now our tidiest room - thanks to a properly planned re-decoration (and our lovely Ikea PAX wardrobes with carefully planned wooden internal shelving/drawers) with "a place for everything and everything in its place" - everything, that is, except for the disorganised pile of magazines on the floor beside "my" side of the bed that I never get around to reading and that are a trip hazard Blush It is now like a boutique hotel bedroom :) if you ignore the dishevelled pile of magazines on the floor Blush

zoewiz · 02/04/2011 21:15

My daughter is by FAR the messiest in this house hold we call her mya "Hurricane" Hermitage because that is literally what she is she blows in a leaves a mass of destruction in her wake

napoleona · 02/04/2011 21:25

defo DS (17) - wow his room is a trip hazard. Dont make me go in there.

nottirednow · 02/04/2011 22:25

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn

TheBreastmilksOnMe · 02/04/2011 22:40

Absoloutly without a doubt, me! Even my toddler can't compete. Yes, I have a floordrobe, a chairdrobe and an anytabledrobe. Anywhere but hung up in the wardrobe. I have mountains of months old ironing to do and pileups because of it. It only gets done when I have run out of wash baskets to keep it in and ran out of clean stuff to wear.

Ditto the dishes. I'd love a dishwasher but it won't be me who empties it, that's for sure.

Vacuuming only gets done when DP tidies the cupboard under the stairs and finds the vacuum.

Post and paperwork! Oh my God! I always seem to have mountains of post to sort through and file and it never seems to take over anybody else like it does me.

I have a draw designated to 'tat' in the kitchen, lounge, dining room and each bedroom and they are full of the stuff.

I have a busy life and I like to enjoy it so why should I spend it tidying up?

herladyship · 02/04/2011 22:43

Teenage (16) ds...

Good grief, the mess!! Shock

essexgirlSE · 02/04/2011 22:45

I am - I just seem to create clutter wherever I go. Never have been able to keep clean for five seconds. My daughter's the same, and we own a big hairy mud-loving hair-scattering slobbery dog. Trying to keep this place clean is like painting the Forth Bridge!

blueberrysorbet · 02/04/2011 23:01

me- i drive everyone crazy and i honestly don't see a mess. I think i have tidied up and dh just laughs disbelievingly, even ds1 (4) comments on my mess and dd1 just tidies it up- but she is worse than me (she is only 20 months) i think i am tidy and am forever making lists ad putting things away, but i seem to create disorder. its not dirty mess, ie empty cups, just books and clothes, important papers in piles...my hair is messy as well, no matter how i load serum on it and straighten it, pin it up etc etc..:)

vintageteacups · 02/04/2011 23:02

My daughter who is 9. She is already turning into a teenager and despite having lots of lovely storage boxes and shelving units, she still likes to 'display' everything.......mostly on the floor!

She even keeps individual sweet wrapper - just in case she needs them!

BeckleinDisguise · 02/04/2011 23:39

Oooh tricky! DS1 would probably win the crown for being obviously the messiest, he never puts anything away and seems to leave a trail of untidyness wherever he goes. If asked to tidy or put something away, he'll go to great lengths to hide the things rather than just putting them where they go! There are always things of his stuffed under the chairs, behind the sofa, under the pushchair etc.

Mind you... DS2 tends towards lazy and just ignores the mess he makes. We found many odd, dirty, screwed up socks of his whilst tidying under the bed today.

DH leaves his stuff all over the place and is dreadful at cleaning up anything after himself, especially in the kitchen (I can always tell what he's been snacking on from the crumbs he leaves behind) although he claims to be a tidy person...

...and my computer desk looks like a paper-bomb has gone off on it - I am good at acumulating clutter! I don't count myself as the messiest though as I feel I'm always picking up after the others so therefore don't have time to tidy the computer desk...

DD is good though, she is only 3 and will usually tidy up after herself to a degree.

Despite all of this, my house is quite tidy and clean Grin

CointreauVersial · 02/04/2011 23:56

Well, there are lots of contenders in this house.

The DCs leave a trail around the house, discarded shoes, coats, plates/cups and other detritus.

DH is incapable of putting clothes away, and also scatters his possessions across the dining room table whenever he comes in.

I leave stuff about too, but I'm exempt because I DO ALL THE CLEARING UP!

The winner is.......DS1. One day i'm going to stop picking after him, and eventually he will be trapped in his bedroom by the tide of rubbish, dirty pants, books, footy kit, crockery and crisp packets jamming up the door.

mpad6869 · 03/04/2011 07:08

Sadly - It has to be me

noodle69 · 03/04/2011 07:10

My daughter by a mile! Other than that both my husband and I go through stages of mad tidying up so it looks perfect and then it looking like we have just been burgled. Most of the time it is one being really tidy, one being a mess so it evens out pretty well!

Nailitorelse · 03/04/2011 07:26

DD2

KeepCalmAndCarryOnMNing · 03/04/2011 07:57

I think it's probably me. But DS isn't far behind!

luijo · 03/04/2011 08:42

My hubby - what the heck does he think that big wooden thing in the bedroom is for??? not for putting his clothes in thats for sure!!

KenDoddsDadsDog · 03/04/2011 08:44

My one year old DD who as I write is scooping clothes out of a drawer onto the floor!
DH is a neat freak with the annoying habit of throwing everything out that gets in his way.

Bonsoir · 03/04/2011 08:45

DSS1, 15, is by far the biggest culprit. Used tissues all over the floor. Bleugh.

TaffetaCat · 03/04/2011 08:47

DH and DS contain their mess, and tidy it up beautifully, if nagged incessantly and given aeons to do it.

DD (4), OTOH, is a walking tornado. Left downstairs alone whilst I get up, for example, for 20 minutes, most of the floorspace will be covered with weeny eeny ickle dollies, their weeny clothes, their weeny ice creams and some even weenier pots of strawberry jam (WTF?). If she's managed to get into the craft drawer, the kitchen table will be covered in glue, sequins, bits of tissue paper and glitter. And of course said glitter will be all over the floor and her as well. And she'll be in the only clean school uniform left.

On the upside, if I'm downstairs and she's left alone upstairs, she restricts herself to her bedroom and the bathroom. The bathroom generally has shampoo and bubble bath emptied into pots of "potions", left lurking precariously at corner's edges, flannels laid over some as if sleeping. Her bedroom often has most of the wardrobe contents emptied for her fashion show, with discarded items strewn in hard to reach places, and most toy boxes upended so all the toys can watch said fashion show.

And she's crap at tidying it all up. But hey! Its Mother's Day today. She's asleep in her pit. Not my problem today. Grin