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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

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jaibaby · 01/04/2011 22:20

My partner. He moans at the kids when they won't tidy their mess, but he's worse than them! I come downstairs in the morning to find his clothes from one end of the room to the other, plates / cups / cutlery left on the floor. Smelly socks left on my laptop (eurgh!). My two year old is better at cleaning than him!!!

beautifulgirls · 01/04/2011 22:22

Ashamed to admit it is me. I am a clutter collecter and every surface gets piles of stuff that get moved from one place to another when I need to access somewhere that is cluttered up. Now and again I have a little blitz but it doesn't last for long! It is telling that when I tidy up my children ask me who is coming over Blush

mellicauli · 01/04/2011 22:31

DS1 is 14 months old. He likes to take books off shelves, DVDs on the floor, bowls out of cupboards - and of course, toys everywhere. Lego is good for general dispersal especially his brother's tiny stuff but little toy food is just as good.

If he wants to go out in the garden, he will bring you a single shoe. And if you don't go out, he'll hide it in the pile of dirty laundry. He moved my (expensive) conditioner out of the bathroom a couple of weeks ago. I have absolutely no idea where it is.

korkythekat · 01/04/2011 22:32

my DH is the messiest, leaves his games all over the plac, forgets where
he's left things & then moans the place looks a mess!!

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Tommy · 01/04/2011 22:40

my DS1 takes his clothes off and just tosses them - I find socks and school shirts weeks later behind radiators and under beds....
DH thinks that if you shove things in a cupboard and shut the door, then that is "tidying up"....

DorisIsAPinkDragon · 01/04/2011 22:44

My youngest DD, (but she is only 22months), it's so bad that as I tidy one room she deconstructs the rooms I have already been through and to rub salt in the wounds suggest that she is actually 'elping mummy'!

However once she improves I guess it may well me a spilt with me being messier in our bedroom (I don't have to open the doors on my floordrobe Blush) but dh is far far messier in the kitchen (really! I'm not just saying that!)

lizd31 · 01/04/2011 22:45

My fella WAS the messiest in the house, he always used to say that if he stod still long enough I'd throw him away...so I did ...lol

nenevomito · 01/04/2011 22:46

It's me, sadly. I am a lazy slattern of the highest order. The floordrobe is all mine. The two toy monsters don't help and it drives my DH absolutely stonkingly nuts, but I just can't help myself.

If I could stop hoarding crap like a squirrel with OCD, it would be better, but alas no!

My mother asks, politely, "So when are you going to do something about tidying your house.

My response? When he children are old enough to be organised into a little work-gang and operate the hoover. Thats when!

freefan · 01/04/2011 22:46

Definately my teenage daughters! so much more messier than my sons or husband, need a really good reason to enter their bedroom :)

HansDatdoodishes · 01/04/2011 22:48

Me!

I spend so long keeping the kids stuff tidy I can't be bothered to sort out my own.

angell74 · 01/04/2011 22:50

My 3 year old just trashes everywhere but will then kindly point out where he thinks I should tidy up ........ I think he listens to his Dad too muh because he is OCD tidy (apart from openend post which he leaves EVERYWHERE). My 8 year old has an incredibly tidy room and freaks if you move anything out of its place but will happily leave his stuff all over my kitchen work surfaces.

cazzzie987 · 01/04/2011 22:57

My other half, I tidy up and the next thing I know everything is a mess. He doesn't put his washing in the washing basket instead leaves it on the floor and he always leaves his cups upstairs, I could go on...grrr

carolxted · 01/04/2011 22:57

my teenage boys are a nightmare so messy and untidy, when I go past there bedroom door I close it, can't stand to look in

llynnnn · 01/04/2011 23:09

I am the messiest, I'm afraid to say! But I also tidy the most (mostly after myself though!) Everytime I have a big tidy up of all the clutter, clothes, necklaces, letters, general junk etc that is lying around I promise myself that I will tidy as I go, a week later I'm back to mountains of stuff everywhere!
Drives dh mad but mostly he has learnt to ignore my mess!

Oh well, i really believe some people are tidy and some are not!

ChessPiece · 01/04/2011 23:16

ooh, difficult choice between dd and dh, probably dd. But I think she takes after him.

If I insist suggest she picks her books up off the floor and puts them back on the shelf they will be done back to front and upside down, any old how.

Jewellery that is carefully sorted into separate boxes ends up as a tangled mess in the drawer. Make-up, old tissues, wet flannels etc strewn all over every surface of the bathroom. Clothes left where she has stepped out of them at bedtime. Study desk, chair, shelf and floor a heap of books and papers.

She doesn't seem to see the mess at all.

ByThePowerOfGreyskull · 01/04/2011 23:19

DH is the messiest when it comes to paper work, he would happily have 367 piles of paper round the sitting room.
The boys would happily leave toys dotted round the carpet in every room of the house if left with no adult guidance
and I have no issue with leaving today's clothes on the side of the bath rather than putting them in the laundry basket
so all of us really!

pipsqueak · 01/04/2011 23:24

dd8 s room is way worse than rest of house

hmc · 01/04/2011 23:25

My 8 year old daughter - party due to her dyslexia (and accompanying lack of organisation) - she just doesn't 'get' tidy. She is quite creative and artistic too and order does not fit her expansive nature.... followed by dh - he is far too busy to concern himself with such trivialities. 6 year old ds however is anally tidy (love him!)

farming4 · 01/04/2011 23:40

Me Blush drives dh up the walls -his fav saying is "a tidy site is a happy site" ( no hes not a builder hes a farmer) Tbh I'd rather be out in the garden! Dcs take after me - fav way of tidying bedroom is to shove it all under their beds! Thank heaven for my mum who comes to stay every couple of months and helps me rescue the house from under its mountain of clutter. hoping that one day the tidy gene will kick in and I can stop apologising to everyone who comes to the door about the state of the place.......Grin

hmc · 01/04/2011 23:49

I would kill for a tidy husband farming4

Jux · 01/04/2011 23:52

DH without a doubt. He's the only one who never picks up after himself though he is the one who complains the most.

Used to be that I was messy and he was very very neat. These days, he never worrries while I wander round picking stuff up and getting a bit hysterical about it all.....

hmc · 01/04/2011 23:55

This is quite tragic really - for Mothering Sunday I have asked the dc (with dh's collaboration) to not bother with cards, presents and other pointless fripperies - but to just to tidy up!...it's all I want!!

TINKERBELLE33 · 01/04/2011 23:58

It's me - DH is a tidy freak where as I leave a trail of destruction behind me where ever I go! I am the most untidy person ever, but as the saying goes -tidy people are just too lazy to look for things! Grin

5GoMadOnAZ650 · 02/04/2011 00:10

DD4 who is 2, I'm fairly sure she was an andrex puppy in a former life Hmm
As fast as I can tidy she follows along untidying as she goes.