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

It is a tough competition in our small house, as we have far too many books. But I nominate my toddler with his thousand little pieces of toys, books, magazines and swimming stuff.

I actually think that It could possibly be me. I spend so much time running around after everyone else & tidying up after them that I end up never having enough time to sort myself out! On top of that I work 2 jobs so the upstairs bannisters & bedroom floor tend to become my wardrobe sometimes when Im rushing in from one job, getting changed & rushing out to my other job!

My ES is a nightmare - everything on his floor - nothing ever put away.

food ends up on the floor, sofa,table - if he makes a drink he will most likely spill it all over the floor,

DD2 (10) and I are tied for the messiest. However, I defend mine by saying every pile of junk stuff is actually work-in-progress of some sort (filing to be done, rearranging to be done, etc etc etc). It's the "to be done" part, though, that gets in my way and never quite seems to move to "done".

DD2 is the spitting image of me in looks and personality and leaves a trail of items in her wake, seemingly incapable of seeing the mess.

Together we form a little messy coalition against the rest of the obsessive-compulsive tidy members of the family; DH, DS1 and DD1 are all the Perfect Peters of our household but at least since DD2 came along I have an ally!

10 m/o. My reason for existence is obviously to pick up after him all day.

Mo or Dh seem to take it in turns for being messy. And dd1 seems to be less messy than ds (at the moment) When dd2 gets up and about that will be the test!
Fortunately, we have never all been 100% messy together or that would be one assault course no-one could master.

My son for sure. Boy does his room smell! Its even starting to go mouldy in there!

OMG !! The messiest peron in our house by far is my 15 year old daughter, her bedroom is like a council rubbish tip, there are clothes strewn everywhere, magazines and bits of paper all over the floor and all her drawers hang open with "stuff" overflowing, then there are enough dirty glasses to keep a pub going for a saturday night dotted all around her bedroom and as for what lies beneath or behind her bed, crisp wrappers, sweet wrappers, sticky things Yuk !! hair grips, missing socks of long ago, and all the missing biros from the house. Yes my teenage Daughter is most definately the messiest

My teenage daughter. I used to be a Police Officer, and I have seen tidier burglaries than the state of her bedroom!

It's hard to choose between the two daughters, but I think the 14 year old just pips her sister to the post. Her room is appalling, and the rest of the house strewn with bits and bobs that she drops. In fairness, she tries. But she is just so absent-minded. She must get that from her father ;-)

Definately 12 yo ds.

I tell him its his job to clean his room because I want to respect his privacy but really it's cause I'm too scared to venture in there.

I actually worry that he'll contract some unknown mutant virus from the stuff thats growing in the dirty plates and cups.

OMG most definitely my husband, he's worse than my 5 and 7 year old.

My Husband, even though he proclaims to be incredibly tidy and it is me and DS that are messy we have a large breakfast bar in the Kitchen that always ends up full of junk - when I clear it, nothing belongs to me, maybe a couple of things belong to DS (though usually toys put there to be fixed by DH!) and everything else belongs to him. He does not understand this at all.

He also leaves empty packets of things in a drawer - don't ask!

Me. not all that closely followed by 2yo DD. DH is unbelievably tidy.

My dear partner Dave, definitely. How difficult is it to close a cupboard or drawer after you've opened it?? Too difficult for him, obviously. And don't even get me started on dirty clothes on the floor - pants, socks, jeans, he's even tipped clean stuff out of the washing basket (that was waiting for me to sort it and put it away) onto the floor with the dirty stuff. When I asked him how I was supposed to tell the dirty stuff from the clean stuff, he said 'Sniff it'! Sorry, but I'm not sniffing dirty socks for anyone!
Thanks for listening, rant over. I feel better now.

me, closely followed by 9yo ds. DH is a total tidy freak .

I believe my husband simply does not see mess ... yet in inssits on tidy cupboards

its got to be me, take off underwear and just throw it on the floor, happens all the time and even worse when i drink

me i think, now my messy daughters have moved out. i am good at cleaning around the mess though!

Our dog Maesto has a wide variety of walkies-attire. He often takes them out of the cupboard and scatters them over the kitchen. He's messed up!

My daughter isthe messiest, she leaves a trail of possesions everywhere she goes starting the minute she gets in from school by kicking her shoes off in front of the shoe rack (not once has she put them on the rack) her coat gets dumped on top of the shoe rack instead of the hooks. I dread her asking to make anything in the kitchen as shes such a nightmare
Wouldnt swap her though x

I'm afraid its me. When I was a student my shared house was burgled and the police officer walked in my room and said in 20 years he'd never known a burgular trash a room so badly. My housemate and I struggled to keep a straight face as apart from the missing computer it looked like normal.

I'm afraid that 15 years on and married with a child I'm no better.

I leave dirty clothes on the floor at the bottom of the bed, I leave empty mugs on the floor and table. Dirty plates are left on the table. Shoes are scatterd over the hallway. The floor my side of the bed is a foot deep in bits of paper, magazines, books, makeup. I have to climb into bed from the foot of the bed - but I promose I'm cleaning that up tomorrow!!!!

My DH says I leave a trail of destruction behind me and he's fed up with it!

Once upon a time there was a girl that kept a clean tidy house, some fixtures and fittings may have been tired, but they were well looked after - anyone could have visited at any time.

Then, this girl met a man, who came from a very untidy house. They got married and as time wore on, with the pressures of shift work and R&R, the man from the untidy house finally wore down the soul of the tidy girl - she decided that if he couldn't be bothered, nor could she.

It still bugs her to this day - she makes the sandwiches, not a crumb is left out before serving, if the UM does the same, theres butter and crumbs everywhere. These days, there are piles of stuff all around the house, papers that get shoved into boxes for a rushed tidy up tend to stay there, to be greeted by another box the next time someone says they're popping in. The UM will leave shoes everywhere, will go and get another can of cola but leave his previous can in the lounge!!!! WHY!!!!!!

So TG now has a loft and small bedroom dedicated to clutter, the landing houses a wardrobe full of clutter along with boxes, in her bedroom the now redundant cot is full of clutter and includes the clothes she wears day to day; the wardrobe in the bedroom is full of clothes of varying sizes that no longer fit (but will eventually)- maybe she is the worst at hoarding (with dreams of making millions on eBay one day), but UM is definitely the untidiest.

UM has two garages full of boy clutter, including the ever so useful 'bits of wood' (you can never have enough of these). Odd pots of nails/screws/old lawnmowers/ vintage paint along with vintage brushes and rollers in their last used state/goodness knows how many tools (however, DIY is never on the agenda as he doesn't have the right tools! £150.00 was needed for a saw which was essential to put up a shelf - suprisingly, after a few words, said shelf was successfully installed with the existing tools).

To top it all, there are now two homegrown little UM's joining in the party; it's getting to the stage where there will be a foot wide path through all the clutter in the house - a la CSI, someone could die in the house of TG and UM and not be discovered for weeks! TG fears the only cure may be to call in a TV show and publicly humiliate herself and UM into clearing space, but then that would just create space to start again - what a dilemna!

I would definitely have to say my OH. He cleans obsessively, but is really untidy with it..

My son Harry leaves wet towels on his bedroom floor also toys, books and clothes empty sweet wrappers