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

7yo DS2. I am a bit OCD organised, DD is tidy-ish for a 13yo girl, DS1 is the TIDYEST person EVER, but DS2 is like a human tornado! (DS3 is too young to be messy!)

it's the combination of all of us that is the "dirty bomb" in our house! independently, we are all quite tidy, but at the weekend, all bets are off: we are too busy doing stuff to tidy and consequently by Sunday evening it looks like we've been burgled - by ourselves!

I am the messiest person in the house. I have real trouble keeping clothes organised etc. I like to think though that much of my mess is mine and doesn't really get in the way of others. DH is messy and will allow the house to get dirty until he does a big blitz. I however, am more likely to keep it generally clean as I go along. He will make toast, leave crumbs everywhere, the butter out, jam etc. and just leave it there. Infuriating! So, different kinds of messy.

My daughter (age 3) probably has the tidiest room, but we do it together and I love organising her clothes.

PS please can I win the voucher so that I can actually have a wardrobe for those messy clothes rather than a temporary £20 structure we bought years ago! Temporary sadly turned into permanent (and hated).

It's me! I love stuff! I have too much stuff and not enough places to keep my stuff therefore my stuff is everywhere. I drive DH mad. I'm cleaner though-I scrub toilet and bath regularly not sure DH ever does those he just doesn't like mess.

I think in our house we are all as bad as each other unfortunately that doesn't set a god example to the kids and most rooms are messy. Yes they get tidied but end up as bad in about 5 mins :( so I've given up!

It would be me for sure, I need the extra floor room!

My other half - how does he manage to spill so much coffee.

This is a hard one.
Definitely not me.
Dh makes a huge mess then does a great tidy up, rather than tidying as he goes - which drives me mad!
Ds1 has clutter all over his bed and floor, but its precious clutter, not junk, and has his own sense of order to arrange it
ds2 is a nightmare - puts things whereever he fancies and wanders off.

My other half - how does he manage to spill so much coffee?

Probably me, although the 3 teenagers seem to have learnt by my example!
DS1 is tidiest DS age 14 tidied his room for the first time ever last week and then was sick all over the carpet abd DD12 i cannot even get into her room
DH comes home and fluffs about tidying but really just makes piles of stuff and throws away things i need!

Bit of a contest between me and DP. I'm tidy INSIDE - I like the theory of tidiness but struggle with the reality, sometimes have a go at clearing the kitchen table of all the crud - papers, bills, packets of peanuts - that accumulate - mostly dumped by DP. He then complains that he can't find anything. He seems oblivious to mess, which at least means that he doesn't complain when my art materials are all over the floor with a cat lying on top of them (she says, looking over the top of the laptop). Occasionally we have a tidy up (which means moving piles of books from one place to another) and have a Kim and Aggie moment when we find an ancient hairball lurking in a corner. DP's underwear builds up on his side of the bed until it walks to the washing machine (at least, that is what he imagines it does).

DD aged 18 is incredibly tidy. Must take after my mother.

my hubby

DD - nearly 8. She just stands at her wardrobe hauling clothes out with gay abandon, discarding them on the floor as she's too 'little' and can't reach to put them back . She pulls her drawers open, rummages about and hauls things out, leaving the drawers open with unwanted clothing dangling from the open drawers! Sge's very good a shoving things places to 'tidy' also known as hiding them. A good stashing place is behind her door, under her drawer unit, in the wardrobe - clean clothes and dirty clothes all mixed up. I am scared to look in her desk - I once found cheese in there - a whole pack which I thought Imust ahve left in Tescos as I couldn't find it when we got home. No it was in the desk in a south facing conservatory in August - tracked it down with my nose!! She loves paper and cutting up paper into tiny pieces and etting them fall randomly over the foloor. She has Polly Pocket, Animal Hospital and Littlest pet Shop - they are out 'on show' and live on the carpet - sometimes we can't find her bed. She once decided to get out of bed and sleep on her floor, I honestly thought she'd gone missing as I couldn't see her for ages lying in amongst all the stuff on her floor. We have a rule about tidying rooms to get pocket money on a Saturday - DS does his in 5 mins, she spends 4 hours weeping and wailing and dramtically throwing herself about. When she decrees the room is tidy we may see the carpet but all the crap stuff is just shoved in a shoving sort of way to the sides of ehr room or stuffed in a cupboard/suitcase/box/any handy receptacle. She is the messiest person I ahve ever met in my lie but I love her to bits and can't wait till she has a daughter just as messy -

It's me. I am regularly shamed in to clearing stuff up/getting the hoover out by my 4 year old DS. "Look, Mummy. What a mess. Is it tidy-up time?" "Oh dear, Look, Mummy, iss all mucky. Shall we get the hoover out"

My house is a tip. but it is all mess from my dh's many current hobbies. If he is not dismantling a motorcycle in the kitchen he is building a new valve amplifier in the living room. He is a living cliché. He also has more shoes than imelda marcos and leaves them strategically placed in doorways and in the middle of the floor for people to trip over. I am immune - it rarely bothers me unless someone is coming round. I adamantly refuse to clean up after him though, he is a grown up.

I have to admit to a "knitting corner" which contains a sofa, a huge pile of yarn, many knitted blankets and throws and cushions and half finished projects. But my mess is colourful and you can sit in it comfortably.

Very variable - 6 year old son pretty bad but I go through phases of messiness too!

Definitely my 4 year old with the tiny attention span. She can go from building blocks, to princess/barbie play to water play in about 3 mins. Her room therefore, is a complete bombsite.

I am the messiest in the house by far. I can't pretend it's for any other reason other than i hate housework and enjoy life far too much to be spending my time cleaning and tidying. I like easy solutions, like storage boxes and big cupboards that you can fling stuff in rather than whiling my hours away with organised places for everywhere. I love my house, it's a fun-filled, laughter-filled home, but as my friends say, they love coming to mine because they can relax rather than feeling like if they drop or spill something I will go ape on them!

me1 DD1 2nd, DH 3rd, DD2 is only 8 weeks so not capable of much mess yet!

It's not me, I'm perfect. It's not my husband, he tells me that he is always tidying up after himself. It can't be my DD as she says she is always putting things away for other people. My son says it is never him as he's always in his room.

It must be the cats. Or maybe it is nobody

Secretly...................... it's me

dp......he leaves a trail of belongings throughout the house (I know it is big, but I don't think you actually require a trail of breadcrumbs a la Hansel and Gretel to find you way back to the front door...) So mail slung on the dining room table to fester for weeks if I dont deal with it, work papers left in random locations, keys in the fruit bowl, socks dotted at regular intervals through the house, stuff piled on the stairs (by me) is climbed over, clothes on the floor or aimed at the laundry basket, towels ditto, cups make it out of the office as far as the bedroom/bathroom and, if you are really lucky, the kitchen (but not actually the sink), books periously balanced on each other in the office which will slowly slide like polar ice flows, until they crash to the floor, usually in the middle of the night scaring the bejesus out of us, butter tubs left when empty on the side (I could go on).....and the perennial 'blackduck, have you seen my glasses/office keys/wallet?'
Mind you ds is giving him a run for his money.....

I, however, take up most of the wardrobe space...

I fear it might be me, although we all have our areas of expertise in mess generation.

My DH is very good at shaving and then leaving a disgusting tide mark of shaving foam and stubble in the bottom of the sink.

My daughter steals my makeup and then grinds the eyeshadows into her carpets and leaks the nail varnish over her chest of drawers.

My son leaves dirty underwear all over his bedroom, but then throws clean stuff all over the place when he is looking for his "lucky" pants. I tend to be the one in there having to sniff the pants to separate the clean from the dirty - and I tell you, I have had tears in my eyes from the ammonia!

Me though...I have piles of clothes all over the floor in my bedroom as we don't have a wardrobe yet. Dh refers to things in the fridge as my "experiments" and complains when he trips over another pair of shoes left in the middle of a doorway, or my handbag.

DD suggests that if I wasn't always on the computer I wouldn't be such a messy person.

My DH is ridiculously blindly messy. He does his own laundry which often entails doiing a load, unloading it onto the kitchen floor and leaving it there for hours whilst children crush jammy toast in it and dogs walk over it and it's nearly dried in a crumpled heap...I then have to gently persuade him that he can't just put these clothes on cos they stink and he'll have to do it all again. He lost Ds drinks bottle in his study which is so chaotic I dare not go in there. He insisted he just put it down for a minute and it disappeared and his explanation was that our resident ghost had swiped it. It must be bad if you have to start blaming the undead for your own chaos

We're all messy - I think it's genetic from both sides! My mum keeps reminding me what I was like every time I moan about the kids, and to honest I'm not much better now! The other half tends to leave piles of newspapers lying around and leaves butter out of the fridge and crumbs everywhere. The kids seem hellbent on covering the floors of their bedrooms so no carpet is visible.