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

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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:
usualsuspect · 04/04/2011 17:41

my 18 year old ds

Eglu · 04/04/2011 17:43

DH drops his clothes on the floor of the bedroom, despite the laundry basket being 2 feet away. It drives me mad. Even both of the DC manage to put dirty clothes in the laundry.

toffee11 · 04/04/2011 20:21

My husband- he never clears anything away.

edam · 04/04/2011 20:29

dh. He's a pathological hoarder - someone once pointed out to him he'd kept a cardboard box marked 'empty'! (It was stuffed on top of a bookcase that was teetering with the weight of assorted objects - CDs, DVDs, books, all fine but cables, leads, ties and various other sorts of junk, too.)

We have rooms we can't use properly because they are so full of piles of dh's junk. And the car's just as bad. Dh uses it to go to work so he has control of it - when I want to get in the passenger seat at weekends, dh has to do a major clear out so there's room for me.

When I have made a breakthrough and cleared an area - e.g. fighting the crap he'd dumped in poor old ds's room - dh can't bear it and it all creeps back. He has some bizarre need to fill every space and clutter every surface. Not just horizontal surfaces either - he hangs stuff on the wall. No picture hook is safe from being turned into a storage device for dh!

Turns out, unbeknownst to me when I got together with dh, his father was just as bad but his mother had him under tight control (and a five bedroom house with big built in cupboards in every room). Still took us six months to clear out all the "Dad" cupboards when FIL died and another year to clear the loft.

sethstarkaddersmackerel · 04/04/2011 20:31

my 4 and 5 year olds. you can't see their bedroom floor.

my baby is quite tidy though, he throws everything neatly into the bath and toilet.

joanf · 04/04/2011 20:45

Me, but don't tell my husband!

tiredfeet · 04/04/2011 20:50

Definitely me. I try to be tidy, and spend half the day running round doing housework, but I'm just not very good at it, I keep the place clean but just seem unable to notice little bits of clutter everywhere, until dh sorts them out and the house suddenly looks a hundred times better

wombatsam · 04/04/2011 20:57

I'm ashamed to say that I'm the messiest, my husband tries to keep the place tidy but I just seem to have stuff that piles up!

mcfee · 04/04/2011 21:03

Was going to say 6yr old DD but during the week when its mostly me, her and DD2 7months, the house can stay more or less tidy. Weekends on the other hand though when DH is there.........

Housemum · 04/04/2011 21:43

Teenage DD absolutely. She has a huge wardrobe (2 doubles) a tall skinny Malm chest of drawers and the tall wide one. Her bed has drawers/shelves underneath. She has 2 CD racks and a desk. But everything lies on the floor. Managed to persuade her to tidy her room last summer - we found 11 deodorants. She doesn't have a BO problem, but her room was such a mess that she couldn't find one so bought another each time. Clothes all live on the floor. Several opened packets of biscuits. Piles of school work/magazines. Inch thick layer of dust on the windowsill. One wall covered in posters & pics from magazines, another pile on the floor ready to go up. Almost impossible to get from one side of the room to the other - no wonder the screen on her mobile is cracked, probably stood on. Frequently have to nag her to leave some floorspace by her bed - she has epilepsy, so if she has a fit the bruising is even worse if she has a pile of cr*p on the floor that she lands on.

helenthemadex · 04/04/2011 21:46

my 6 year old is the most untidy in our house, she likes to choose her own clothes but gets everything out of her wardrobe and drawers while she chooses, in the morning I have to empty her bed of all the toys she has taken to bed with her its amazing she can get in there, there are always most of her toys on the the floor

its a good thing she is gorgeous and lovely

CharlotteBronteSaurus · 04/04/2011 21:49

depends on your definition of messy.
i leave something of a trail of destruction in my wake. however, i tidy it all away at the end of the evening. DH heaps stuff up into "tidy" little piles on the dining table, dresser, bedside table, on the floor. they stay there forever, or until i tidy them away. our bedroom is the worst - we have one wardrobe between us and everything spills out.

IwishIwasmoreorganised · 04/04/2011 21:50

My DH is the worst in this house. He's a hoarder and we have run out of space so things are starting to appear in all sorts of random places now.

Our ds'2 are no angels but they're only 5 and 2, so are learning about valuing their possessions and putting their things away where they belong. I'm sure their mess potential in the future is pretty big!

Coistycat · 04/04/2011 22:52

I would have to say it is me as i always seem to be picking up more of my own things at the end of the day.

MyNameIsInigoMontoya · 04/04/2011 23:01

DD loves tipping things out, but is still tiny and has limited reach so less scope for real messiness.

DS strews toys everywhere, but apparently at nursery at least, he likes tidying!

So the winner is DH. He is slightly better these days, but when I first knew him was living in a small room in a houseshare with not much furniture or storage of his own.

At the bottom of his bed was "the mound"... This consisted of clothes, books, CDs, post and everything else he owned, in one big pile. The pile got so big that CDs at the bottom would get snapped by the weight, and books had their spines broken... Whenever he needed to find something he just sort of dived into the mound and rummaged until it turned up!

ChristinedePizan · 04/04/2011 23:06

I cover more surfaces but my son covers more of the floor. And my things are in piles which makes them look tidier. He makes no attempt at organising his crap toys

jessica789 · 04/04/2011 23:17

In my house we're all as bad as each other but in different ways. We too exist within the toddler 'wave of destruction' but DS does enjoy sweeping the floor at least. I am guilty of bedroom clutter - make-up, toiletries, clothes - covering every surface. Just how does it accumulate so quickly? OH is the worst for 'forgetting' his clutter in the dining room - little piles of paperwork that gather dust and never get filed or binned unless I intervene. He's also worse in the kitchen - he doesn't understand the concept of cleaning up as you go along.

m00nf1sh · 05/04/2011 07:32

Clothes left all over the floor, all you have to do is tidy them and not just leave them on the floor when you are finished with them. Hang UP clothes when they are dry and not just leave them there . If you see dust on the TV then it isnt a TV effect to make the picture look all retro and staticly - it means it needs cleaning!!

These are some of the things I tell MYSELF amongst many others, for I am most definately the scruffy one and probably the bane of my boyfriends life who is forever doing all the work.

I feel bad from time to time, but then I just cant help being a messy one really! :D

stephiehall · 05/04/2011 08:09

Definitely me. He's pretty good at just not shopping for new stuff. I have way more storage space in the bedroom than he does and it's all stuffed to overflowing. I've an awful lot of close I don't want to throw away because someday I WILL lose weight and fit into them again!

jomulan · 05/04/2011 10:03

My teenage children could give Kim and Aggie a run for their money.

How can they miss the huge clothes drawers in their rooms and mistake the floor as the place to put freshly ironed clothes? How can they not know that the space under the bed is not a dishwasher?

Do they still really believe in fairies, more specifically, the bedroom cleaning fairy?

jeanette177 · 05/04/2011 10:11

My little girl is only 6 but already like a teenager she must change her clothes 5 times a day at the weekend she just loves trying on different outfits and seeing what goes together, and every outfit she takes off ends up on the floor as well as all her matching accessories.

TiggersAngel7774 · 05/04/2011 10:42

My hubby deffo king of the florobe and is teaching our 3yr old his bad habits.

However hes also king of the hoover and general cleaning excluding dishes and clothes. So it works otu quite well so long as he can clean when he wants to not when it needs it or i ask

emsmiff · 05/04/2011 10:43

My husband for sure. His side of the bedroom is disgusting at times! Why can't he pick his clothes up and put them in the washing basket instead of throwing them on the floor? I never cross over to the "Dark Side"

WhoWhoWhoWho · 05/04/2011 10:49

I'm a clean freak and DS's favourite phrase at the minute is "I like everything orderly and neat" so in my house I think the cat is the messiest!

oneday12 · 05/04/2011 12:21

Me, or so I keep getting told!!