Do you keep a clean abode?

JupiterKid

So how clean do you keep your dwelling? Do have the kitchen and bathroom(s) gleaming every day and a spotless living room and bedrooms?

Or are you a filthy slob who has used pizza boxes stuck to the floor and a whole pile of dirty dishes piling up in the kitchen sink? Do you think a bit of dust and clutter here and there is acceptable or does everything have to be in its right place?

Tidy or sloppy - or in-between? And have you ever visited a truly filthy house? A place you couldn't wait to get out of?

Samuel T. Cogley

Slob, and proud with a wife who thinks she isn't but is. Not the ideal home show, it is not.

Beyondgone

Once I'm fit to kick a path clear through to the jax, I reckon its grand. If there's climbing over stuff involved then there's a spring clean.







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The_Valeyard

A good clean every week. She comes on Tuesday mornings. Place looks great.

Samuel T. Cogley

The_Valeyard wrote: »

A good clean every week. She comes on Tuesday mornings. Place looks great.

Do you think if you made her come more often the place would be cleaner?

The_Valeyard

Samuel T. Cogley wrote: »

Do you think if you made her come more often the place would be cleaner?

Nah. Once it's done. I do my best to keep it somewhat respectable until the next time.

Tigger

The_Valeyard wrote: »

Nah. Once it's done. I do my best to keep it somewhat respectable until the next time.

Whoosh

endacl

The_Valeyard wrote: »

Nah. Once it's done. I do my best to keep it somewhat respectable until the next time.

Go back and read it again. Slowly.

The_Valeyard

endacl wrote: »

Go back and read it again. Slowly.

I got it. But I rose above it.

I said,

Valeyard ...no...you aint playing that game......she does a great job, very handy.

Samuel T. Cogley

Tigger wrote: »

Whoosh

Now you're just bragging.

The Backwards Man

Aye I do me best

gifted

Clean kitchen...have to have a clean kitchen....

Harry Palmr

Lightly messy. Moderately filthy.

mad muffin

I had gone from living like a filthy hobo in my 20's. With me only doing the dishes when I have absolutely exhausted every single dish in the house. Laundry pilled up until I've used every single stitch of clothing I own. The house cleaned once every six months. Bedding and towels changed only when I couldn't stand their smell. I was living in Sydney at the time so I had plenty of cockroaches scurrying about.

Fast forward 20 years and I now (for some time now) clean downstairs every day, and upstairs once a week. Do the laundry 4 times a week (twice for clothes and twice for bedding and towels). Everything gets put away and the kitchen gets wiped down several times a day.

learn_more

I don't consider myself a slob because I don't like uncleanliness especially a dirty kitchen. I abore a dirty cooker and greasy frying pans etc. Un-hoovered carpets or bits on the floor don't bother me as much as they are less bacteria ridden. Having said that I often let my kitchen/living room get out of control and suddenly realise how bad it is and go on full-on cleaning spree where I find I can't stop and clean everything I can see in one session including the plugs and sockets and appliance electric cables. I wish I could get into a little and often habit rather than once a month cleaning spree.

On the other hand I have a friend who has an apartment that looks like something you see in a show room or a magazine, at all times. The couple do unusual things like the forks in the cutlery tray will be all aligned up fitting snugly together and in the fridge they place every food item placed neatly in order from the front to the back and the glass trays would be still 'see through' as if it were brand new. They are not OCD, they are just OTT.

Harry Palmr

Beware the spotless abode, it's a near certainly the person living there is not nice.

biko

The place is messy but not dirty.

Roger Mellie Man on the Telly

We're vile and so must employ a cleaner to clear up our mess. By being thoroughly disgusting we're supporting jobs.

Tigger

Samuel T. Cogley wrote: »

Now you're just bragging.

Mountainsandh

Like Biko.
The place is a constant mess, but it is kept hygienically clean (not meaning super-clean either, just normal clean).



On one hand, I don't care. There's more to life than a tidy abode, and it's a friendlier place, with no airs and where familiar people feel familiar, and new people drop their guard.
Spotless, minimalist places freak me out a bit, and I never feel comfortable in them.

On the other hand, I spend my time complaining about the mess, and attempting to get the other humans living here to do their bit. It's not working. :)

RobertKK

I live in my pig sty.

Though I am in the process of a Spring clean, and YES: May is still Spring.

Flibble

I keep my lil abode middlin'. Enjoy cleaning & listening to moosic of a weekend.

...Except when I'm in a depression slump. Then it *can* look like a bum lives here. I managed to spend all day today cleaning, but I only got the kitchen & bathroom done- THAT'S how bad it was.

Whispered

In between. It really depends on what else is going on. This nice run of good weather means all of the washing in the house is done, curtains, bedclothes, pillows, cushion covers. All lovely and fresh. But I haven't cleaned the floors properly in a few days with the toddler traipsing in and out all day it seems there is no point. In saying that I try to do a different room deep clean every week.

We have guests coming for the weekend so the place will be spruced up by then.

I would love to have one of those houses that is always "guest ready". You know, where you don't have to panic clean when someone texts to say that they're in your area.

Your Face

I have a woman so the place is usually clean.

Winterlong

Our place is normally in great shape. She is more picky about the cleaning than I am. I am more picky about tidying up than she is. So on balance we have the place just right.

Sometimes a good deep clean is very relaxing though. Not a chore.

Parchment

As someone else posted - i had a total change of heart at around 27 years old. I used to live in chaos, messy (never dirty) but i was just really careless with everything and could happily fall into a bed and sleep on top of a bundle of laundry etc. My car was a mobile microcosm of my house - full of clothes and random junk. People were afraid to take lifts from me in case they were smothered by clutter.

Now i am very tidy and organised. I cannot cope with mess/things out of place. I dont know what changed really but i much prefer how i am now - it gives me a clear head and i feel way less stressed when the place is in order.

I clean maybe twice a week - himself does the same. Laundry is kept on top of and i do enjoy looking at the place when its cleaned and tidied.

gramar

You could eat your dinner off the floors.
I wouldn't recommend it but if you like dirt and germs and dog hairs then be my guest.

Mena Mitty

Samuel T. Cogley wrote: »

Slob, and proud with a wife who thinks she isn't but is. Not the ideal home show, it is not.

Like you and your good wife our house is not a showhouse it's a home...and we're happy.

Ush1

I'm very tidy, but not particularly clean so things like dusting can go undone for a while but my wife is the opposite, very clean but not tidy.

Some might say we would work well together.......but that's a lie and it's a constant battle!

andekwarhola

I wouldn't be the tidiest or a daily cleaner but my wife is approaching OCD level.

Plus we've two young boys so overall, it balances out.

I've come around to making more effort and I think she (most of the time) realizes the futility of trying to keep a family home looking like a show house.

5rtytry56

Jupiter planet, this thread is missing a pole!
You should have:
How do you keep your abode?

Spotless
Tidy
Grubby
Shi+hole

or something like that

Rezident

I spend my time doing things that make me happy instead of cleaning. I feel more comfortable living somewhere that feels lived in rather than somewhere that looks like a museum and everyone's afraid to relax - friend of mine grew up ina a hous elike that, very weird.

kylith

Messy, but not dirty. Every now and then I'll stuff the clutter back in a cupboard and hoover. I try to keep on top of the kitchen though.

SEPT 23 1989

Place gets a good going over once a week

A house that looks like a clean room is not a home

clairewithani

I work long hours but I do what I can to keep the place clean. In times of stress the place can be quite untidy. In extremely busy times the place is bordering unhygenic. 90% of visitors call to my house during untidy time. The other 10% call when the house is at its worst : (

Dial Hard

There's a big difference between mess and dirt, imo.

Having said that, the older I get, the more clutter bothers me. There's always runners at the bottom of the stairs and a book or three (mine) lying around the house but that would be the extent of it.

In terms of cleaning, we keep everything in hand daily and have a cleaner who comes in once a week for two hours to do the hoovering and "proper" clean. I change my bedclothes every fortnight. Laundry is done every time there's a full load of a particular wash (whites, darks, colours, etc) in the basket. I don't iron, but my sister does. I do all the cooking so the clean-up from that generally falls to me too. I also own a *lot* of books and my sister refuses to dust the shelves so I get stuck with that too. Even though it's all her photos on the top of the shelves *rolly eyes*

Doltanian

I keep the place very clean, neat and tidy. What really grinds my gears is how some people will allow their dogs into their houses, such filthy disgusting animals should be kept outdoors. I have an acute sense of smell and can instantly tell if I'm in a house where dogs sleep inside with their owners. Like buy a dog kennel or keep them in a shed or something.

muttnjeff

I have teenagers.
Upstairs looks like we've been broken into.

kylith

Doltanian wrote: »

I keep the place very clean, neat and tidy. What really grinds my gears is how some people will allow their dogs into their houses, such filthy disgusting animals should be kept outdoors. I have an acute sense of smell and can instantly tell if I'm in a house where dogs sleep inside with their owners. Like buy a dog kennel or keep them in a shed or something.

I'd prefer my house to smell of dog than of bleach.

Jack the Stripper

The key to a clean house is no pets indoors.

Jobs OXO

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Lightly messy. Moderately filthy.

Like my lass !

kylith

Jack the Stripper wrote: »

The key to a clean house is no pets indoors.

Disagree. No children is the key: toys everywhere, place smells like milk puke and dirty nappies...

Jack the Stripper

kylith wrote: »

Disagree. No children is the key: toys everywhere, place smells like milk puke and dirty nappies...

I'd rather human smells than animal shiit or puke.

andekwarhola

kylith wrote: »

Disagree. No children is the key: toys everywhere, place smells like milk puke and dirty nappies...

I always found that putting the dirty nappies in the bin helped immeasurably.

JupiterKid

Poll duly added people!

OCD clean freak or filthy slob?

retro:electro

Clean kitchen and sitting room, bathroom is decent and then every other room door is closed cos I could not be arsed

...And Justice

The house used to be spotless, then when we had kids it was only spotless when people came to visit. Giving the false impression that the house was always like that.

Now that one of them is a teenager, it's got worse, her room is fcuking disgusting. And stuff is dumped everywhere...all over the place. Up stairs, downstairs....everywhere. No amount of giving out solves the problem. Same with the younger one.

whoopsadoodles

I like everything to have a place and be in its place and I like things very clean.

That's what my head wants but I can be messy. Not dirty though.

I would get very panicky if someone called to the door and there were dishes not done or something.

I have a housekeeper of sorts the last short while and she has improved my life no end. I've so much less stress since she started with me.

antodeco

I've got a 13 year old and an 18 month old, so place is never tidy. Coupled with the fact that my house is literally a building site, it's actually not too bad!

kylith

Jack the Stripper wrote: »

I'd rather human smells than animal shiit or puke.

If your dog is shiitting in the house then you're doing something wrong.

Jack the Stripper

kylith wrote: »

If your dog is shiitting in the house then you're doing something wrong.

i don't keep a dog in the house.