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.

I've never learned to tidy as I go. It comes as a huge and bitter disappointment every time. And no, my mother didn't run after me. It's a gift, obviously.

the oh is a nightmare - drawers/doors are left hanging open contents exploding everywhere - he believes there is a tidy fairy who will fly in and sort it out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mitchell41 - you can't have met my dd aged 10 then - she will walk past the dirty linen bin to put her dirty clothes elsewhere on the floor, this is when she isn't storing up her dirty linen under her pillow? for yuk! Not envious!!

DS1 - he's nearly 3 years old - is barely bigger than most Ikea kitchen stools but give him an hour and he could easily 're-arrange' a whole Ikea store to his own personal feng shui of 'mess all over floor = happy toddler'!

Having been married first time round to a neat freak I am now married to someone who has almost exactly the same tolerance to mess as me. We're the perfect couple living in our slightly chaotic and moderately messy house

DH. Messier than myself, two DD's and cat combined.

He literally dresses and undresses whilst climbing the stairs;
leaves small piles of books all over the house (current mobile library hotspots being dining table, foot of stairs and the bath) ;
We have at least 5 boxes/bags labelled 'wires' (I would love to see him find a specific one from these!);
and finally his underwear drawer currently contains; one t shirt, one toy teacup, 1 set of photograph negatives (seriously how old??), 15p and a receipt dated Nov '09. No underwear

Hmm, well I am the proud owner of a walk-on wardrobe and we do have a habit of turning every flat available surface into 'easy-access-filing' for paperwork. But then I can eat noodles without covering myself, the floor and memorably the wall with "worms mummy, worms!".

Everyone in my house is messy. I'm messy by nature but the others are only messy because muggins here does the tidying up after them.

That would be me. (Although DH and DS aren't much better).

I've been known to leave glasses/cups in the bedroom with dregs in the bottom for weeks, sometimes to the point where it was best to throw them out The most recent was a hot chocolate mug. Was beginning to wonder what the funny smell on my pillow was..then realised it was coming from the mould infested mug next to the bed
I once had a half full bottle of J2O in the bedroom for 6 weeks. Worryingly it didn't have the slightest bit of mould nor a hint of a funny smell to it

I also have a definite "floor-drobe" going on, and inside my wardrobe is just a basket of clothes (rather than hung-up clothes). The middle of the sofa always has a collection of books/letters/ biscuits on it because I can't be bothered to put them away.

I do close the kitchen cupboards and put away the butter after using them though, unlike DH!

My husband neatly folds his clothes and then lays them out neatly on the floor. I have no idea why but it makes my perfectly clean bedroom look a mess. He also cannot throw anything away. It it wasnt for me, our house would look like that rubbish-dump house from The Labyrinth.

Definitely ds3 (aged nearly 14). He has an IKEA bed that has high sides round three sides, so there is a huge space down the side of the bed where he can secrete all sorts of stuff - mainly sweet wrappers. He has a paper round so has cash each week, and owns 17 pairs of jeans, most of which live on the floor, along with the rest of his clothes.

I once found two wrapped Kraft cheese slices down the back of his bed - I don't know what worried me more - the fact that he couldn't remember putting them there, so didn't know how long they'd been there, or the fact that despite being somewhat vintage, they still looked fresh and hadn't gone hard or a funny colour.

Better than that, though, he was looking for something in his room this morning, and found a £20 note that he didn't realise he'd lost!!

I'd say me, but since we got the new chickens in our garden, Sebastian the Cat has taken to living upstairs.
Last week I found a perfect cat poo in the bathroom because he couldn't go downstairs.

So i'm voting for him now.

the 7 year old is appallingly untidy - worse even than me

Without question it's DH. He spends too much time travelling and in hotels on business so we have to put up with dropped towels, never clearing away plates, mugs etc, chucking stuff in the direction of the bin.

Snarl.

It must be sad for a cat to be frit of a chicken

Very hard to choose between me, my husband or our 14 year old daughter

I think my daughter wins the prize though, her room is always a bombsite and things can often get lost in there, oh recently she lost a memory card with homework on it. It was found last weekend on the floor in her room! Clothes, make up, homework, books, dvds all on the floor!

I like the look of things tidy but have to make a HUGE effort to get it there, being tidy just doesn't come naturally to me at all!

Both of us, but DH would say me. He dumps his stuff wherever he feels like, but because I do the same and I have more stuff there isn't a space for him.
Our bedroom looks like Primark on a saturday afternoon, and the girls room is just as bad on a sunday when I have done the washing.

It's so bad, my mum came to stay and told me to put all the dirty washing downstairs and she would sort it all. We came back 36 hoursd later to a massive pile on the landing 'Oh', I said ' I shall put it away then'
'Nono' says my mother 'this is all the clothes that there is no room for as your wardrobes are full of shit'

Reader, I felt about 12. Again.

It's me . I am trying. ( Very trying, etc etc).

Piste - he's very old and gets spooked easily. When I first moved in, he avoided the sitting room for ages as well. He was spooked because he was trying to get past the chicken into the house - she was in the doorway, and he ran past to get past her quickly. It backfired because he frightened the chicken too - she started squwking and flapping, which of course was what freaked Sebastian out.

Aw Nickel. That's really sad! Your poor kitty. My friend ( my other friend apart from you obviously!) has chickens and they are such comedy creatures. She rescued them from a battery farm.

ex-Battery hens are funny.
It's amazing that they're so cuddly to humans, when it's humans that put them through their torture :(

I think they are just very grateful. A grateful chook is a cuddly chook

Many thanks for all the comments on this thread - all much appreciated.

Am pleased to say TobyLerones name was pulled out of the hat and she wins £100 of IKEA vouchers [csmile]