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

[HelenMumsnet]

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

Me without a doubt and I don't even notice it until someone points it out, the worse thing is I will huff and puff over everyone elses untidiness and seem obvious to my own haha

I'm afraid it's me. What's worse is that I pretend to visitors that I'm tidy, but one peek inside my stuffed to bursting cupboards/spare room that can't be opened and that's gets rid of that false impression.
I do clear surfaces, but I kick stuff under the sofa and throw random stuff in the cupboard under the stairs.
I have got better because I understand about germs and have a reasonably clean bathroom/kitchen. When I was a teenager my Mum went mad over the banana skins and worse that she found under my bed.
Dh is tidy, but seems incapable of seeing dirt!

Depends how you define mess...Organised chasos is good!

Seeing as there's only me and DS, its definately him.

My Husband, drives me mad, he spills tea/coffee or any drink he carries. He manages to do it even if the cup is half full

I do the most tidying. However, I do the most of everything, so I put more things down than anyone else in the house, so I'm probably messiest. DH does least, but tidies least. Claims not to see dirt. Two boys are just vectors for mud and mayhem. Baby creates washing, and a bit of mopping round the highchair, but is otherwise innocent mess-wise.

Cat brings in mice and rabbits, slaughters them under the beds and waits for us to play hunt-the-smell.

It's definitely joint 1st place to me and my son - we've got a floordrobe AND a stairdrobe !
My BF is very neat - I'm sure the mess drives him mad but he always has his own tidy flat to go to (which is where I'd tell him to go if he ever complained about the mess :) )

My son and I have been in the house for 5 years now, since I got divorced from his dad. Until I redecorate the whole house, it's relaxed and untidy (but NOT dirty). I think the neighbours are probably a bit surprised by all the Nerf darts in the bay window..... !

my partner is the messiest in my house. Constantly clearing up after him. My 19month old helps tidy too lol, i'm training him early lol

No contest - DS is messiest - if you count thousands of lego bricks left in a series of painful foot traps atround the house as mess!

The kids definitely!

I'm the messiest but I do lots of shouting about everyone else in the house using any available surface as a dumping ground to distract from this fact. Look closely and there is plenty of evidence of me being the dumpee - I should have name changed for this post as so far my cunning plan has worked!

IM AFRAID ITS ME MY HUSBAND CAN DO ANYTHING WITHOUT MAKING THE SLIGHTEST MESS

Me. My house looks mostly tidy (ish), but please don't look in any wardrobes, drawers etc as stuff will definatly explode out every where.

DH and I are probably an equal match. Problem is, once somebody puts a few items in the 'floordrobe' more starts to build up.

I can't pick them up once they're there because of my irrational phobia of spiders (no joke - when we first got married I swear that flat was infested! Several times a monster crawled out of a towel or a sweater I was about to put on ) so they just slowly build up until I become a quivering mess and sit on the bed trembling whilst DH shakes each item of clothing and then passes it to me so that I can put it in my laundry basket and take it downstairs to the machine.

We really need a new system

My son as he is still young (only 2.5) and already relunctly clears up after himself. I am the cleanest in the house - v. house proud - i hate dirt and mess, it really stresses me out!! My partner is messy with his clothes, lol!!

It's a close call.
DD is 3 and hasn't learnt how to tidy up yet (and doesn't have very good examples to follow.)
DH is messy and is apparently unaware of mess that has been created. He does all the cooking but isn't very good at cleaning up spills, dropped items straight away. He moves objects (like DD's toys out of the way, but if he doesn't know where something lives he'll just put it on the side. The stairs can be full of items which need taking upstairs, but he'd walk over them.

But the messiest person is probably me. I have far more stuff then DH and slightly more than DD. I'm a hoarder and like crafts, lots of different ones, they're inherently messy pastimes and they take up various corners of almost every room in the house. I'm trying to be ruthless this year and I'm getting rid of things I've saved "just in case" but it's slow going. Maybe one day I'll get there.

My partner Vivienne wins hands down!!!

It's me . My lovely husband is organised, tidy and generally very good. My 10 year old is a bit messy, but not too bad and will generally keep her 'clag' in one place. I, on the other hand, can create chaos where there was once calm. I am clean, on the whole, but am terribly untidy.

I shall nominate dh. He would probably nominate me. I was nuts about tidy houses when we met but after a few years I realised I was getting way too stressed and started not clearing up. Now we are probably as bad.

It's me, and ds a close second.

I am a very messy cook, hoard stuff which gets in the way and buy too many things that I end up taking back but which I leave in bags around the house first.

I just don't notice mess as much as dh does.

My son is the messiest person in the house at the moment, but I can forgive that. Since he is only 3! My husband leaves socks draped across the sofa in the living room, smelly football boots in the hall...
However, although I am tidy in the rest of the house... In the bedroom I am messy. I have a desk piled high with creams and scraps of paper... My sewing paraphernalia is mounded in the corner and there are shoes wedged into every available crevice in my half of the room. It's like my slobbiness is tightly constrained elsewhere and yet must have an outlet!

we are all messy, but 9yo DD1 has the edge. Pants thrown on the floor next to the laundry basket. Books stacked on the floor in front of the bookcase. Shoes thrown in the corner when she has a proper big wooden box for her shoes. Toys every fricking where possible.
Though we are all messy I reserve the right to moan at them about it because I am the only person who does anything. We all make mess but technically I tidy up after myself and they don't. I did nothing on Thursday- nothing at all except feed DD2- we had a DVD/sofa day and when DH came in I actually said the line "This is what it looks like when I don't do anything all day". All the mess he and the DDs had left from the night before (normally tidied by me in the day) still there in all its glory.

DH. I cross-stitched and frames a lovely pattern for him, A4 sized, to hang over his side of the bed. It reads: 'The flair is nae storage fer yer klaze.'

My 10 year old son, he drops everything on the floor

That would be me, hate cleaning (not tidying although prob dont do it often enough) as in washing up hoovering dusting washing floors etc etc My husband is an angel as he comes home from work plays with our 2 yo daughter and then hoovers too! Luckily my LO loves hoovering too so hopefully she d be tidier than her mother. I often say he d make a better housewife than me, and yet i ll never earn as much as he does, so he has to put up with me at home! He says I am a good mother though (thank god).