A slattern asks...

[tarannau]

It's the three recycling bags worth of newspapers alone that would get my wick. I'm bad at collecting old papers myself, but that's beyond clutter. Hell, that's getting toward Trebus territory.

 

[dodgepot]

Nah - you get the hoover out for the important things - like when you're cutting up MDF.

wouldn't getting out some sort of saw be a better option?

 

[Stig]

That said broccoli a minute ago!

Yes, then I changed it so it was a description of a non-specific example, 'all names and places entirely coincidental' etc.

 

[moomoo]

Thing is, I think moomoo's probably more 'normal' than we are.

I doubt it.

I just can't relax if the house is a mess, I hoover every day and mop the floors most days (the dog even has to wait by the door when he comes in to have his feet wiped ) and the kitchen is cleaned more or less immediately after people have finished eating. No way could I not hoover every day. While I was on holiday, some friends bought some shopping and the post in and they were joking about whether to mess the place up in my absence!

But I'm not completely anal, I don't dust that often and am not too worried about what I can't see. It's a family home after all and the children aren't very tidy but I will admit that I don't like clutter.

At the moment though I am stressing about the boys wardrobes as they are stuffed full of clothes that don't fit them - I'll definitely feel more relaxed when I've sorted that lot out. I think I tend to focus on a job and am not happy till it's done. And, yes, I do lots of ironing................

 

[Stig]

anyway, once you're past having a landlord who can inspect the place, there's no need to clean unless people's mothers are visiting, surely?

I certainly wouldn't clean because MY mother was visiting. She's not some sort of weird compulsive clean freak. She ate the bread the cat had licked, remember.

Oh, wait. So, we're both rebelling against our parents. Oh dear.

 

[spanglechick]

It's the three recycling bags worth of newspapers alone that would get my wick. I'm bad at collecting old papers myself, but that's beyond clutter. Hell, that's getting toward Trebus territory.

the phrase "Life of Grime" does get mentioned quite often. Anyway, he kept his in piles, ours are scattered. And none of them are mine. My clutter is more clothing and shoe related...

A lot of you mention pets... which makes me wonder...

my aversion to animals in general and dogs in particular is the taint they leave behind - hairs, dribble, fluids and just that indefinable residue... it literally makes my skin crawl and I can't relax at all. Which is how some of you would feel about the clutter and grubbiness of our flat. Hmm... I can't quite make sense of that... give me time...

 

[rich!]

Yes, then I changed it so it was a description of a non-specific example, 'all names and places entirely coincidental' etc.

*waves hand*
"These are not the washing-up examples you are looking for"

 

[spanglechick]

I doubt it.

I just can't relax if the house is a mess, I hoover every day and mop the floors most days (the dog even has to wait by the door when he comes in to have his feet wiped ) and the kitchen is cleaned more or less immediately after people have finished eating. No way could I not hoover every day. While I was on holiday, some friends bought some shopping and the post in and they were joking about whether to mess the place up in my absence!

But I'm not completely anal, I don't dust that often and am not too worried about what I can't see. It's a family home after all and the children aren't very tidy but I will admit that I don't like clutter.

At the moment though I am stressing about the boys wardrobes as they are stuffed full of clothes that don't fit them - I'll definitely feel more relaxed when I've sorted that lot out. I think I tend to focus on a job and am not happy till it's done. And, yes, I do lots of ironing................

did you work, before you had kids - and did you hoover every day then?

 

[rich!]

I certainly wouldn't clean because MY mother was visiting. She's not some sort of weird compulsive clean freak. She ate the bread the cat had licked, remember.

I think she held some of it up for extra licking, too. Or was it just to get it licked by both of them so the other one didn't feel left out?

Oh, wait. So, we're both rebelling against our parents. Oh dear.

Rebel without an ironing board, that's me.

 

[moomoo]

did you work, before you had kids - and did you hoover every day then?

Yes and yes. And I still hoovered when I worked and had kids.

Although hubby was a clean freak (he would move all the furniture when he hoovered) so it's probably years of training from living with him.

 

[Vintage Paw]

I think she held some of it up for extra licking, too. Or was it just to get it licked by both of them so the other one didn't feel left out?

Rebel without an ironing board, that's me.

lol - that's vile

And yet I've got to admire her

I'm sure we consume several varieties of cat stuff every day. He roams everywhere, even over the work surfaces in the kitchen. I don't care. I'm not dead yet.

I try to keep him off the main food prep bit though, although I'm sure he wanders there when I'm not looking.

He leaves bum marks on windowsills too. The rate at which that gets cleaned up varies.

 

[May Kasahara]

the dog even has to wait by the door when he comes in to have his feet wiped

That's just sensible though, surely? My friend's dog has been trained to do this as well, and I'm sure their cream-carpeted household is much more harmonious because of it.

 

[dodgepot]

Although hubby was a clean freak (he would move all the furniture when he hoovered)

i don't do that *every* time i hoover, but try to do it regularly.

 

[May Kasahara]

I'm sure we consume several varieties of cat stuff every day. He roams everywhere, even over the work surfaces in the kitchen. I don't care. I'm not dead yet.

I try to keep him off the main food prep bit though, although I'm sure he wanders there when I'm not looking.

He leaves bum marks on windowsills too. The rate at which that gets cleaned up varies.

Ours are usually really good re. kitchen surfaces - they just know they're not allowed up on there, and that's that. Except for today, when I went in to get a glass of water and found Beaker up by the sink sniffing about in the dirty pots It's catnarchy!

 

[northernhord]

Hord towers is tidy, and I dont mean like an unlived in showroom.

 

[bluestreak]

as promised.... my bedroom floor...

 

[izz]

When i lived alone i lived in a haven of tidiness and cleanliness.

Love Mr Voltage though i do, he is not tidy. He creates his own little maelstrom of chaos and confusion wherever he wanders. Things may, by myself, be put away, but if Mr Voltage needs something out it comes. When he's finished with it, he puts it on the nearest horizontal surface and leaves it there.

Because i have to move all kinds of things from their horizontal surfaces to clean i find i'm all too easily defeated and we live in a shitpit.

 

[moomoo]

as promised.... my bedroom floor...

*Cries*

 

[Stig]

lol - that's vile

And yet I've got to admire her

I'm sure we consume several varieties of cat stuff every day. He roams everywhere, even over the work surfaces in the kitchen. I don't care. I'm not dead yet.

I try to keep him off the main food prep bit though, although I'm sure he wanders there when I'm not looking.

He leaves bum marks on windowsills too. The rate at which that gets cleaned up varies.

She didn't, she's not Nanny Ogg. It had been shown an interest, by one cat, that's all.

See, I don't care at all about cat paws or bums on surfaces, but that's because I wash the surfaces regularly and the chopping boards aren't flat on the surfaces unless they are being used, then they get washed.

I think I've worked out that my so-called 'clean freakery' is purely food hygeine related. Everything else I don't really give a shit, although I do have a bit of a phobia about other people leaving their piss all over the toilet seat and floor, and their pubes and hair in the bath. *puke smiley*

 

[Stig]

as promised.... my bedroom floor...

'bout the same as ours, except i would have washed that glass up. And the spoon.

 

[spanglechick]

as promised.... my bedroom floor...

where are all the clothes?

 

[bluestreak]

where are all the clothes?

In a pile on the other side of the room festering. I just chose that shot cos it was the greatest concentration of filth in one place!

 

[geminisnake]

i'm scum. pure scum. i have laminate floors in my bedroom and they're sticky from spillages.

Eeeeewww!!! I can handle mess, I can handle dust. I can handle dishes being dirty overnight but sticky Can't handle sticky for any time at all!! If I notice something is sticky it gets washed instantly.

I can't handle dirty mirrors or squint pictures either.

What are the little silver cannisters bluey? Or don't I want to know?

 

[bluestreak]

*Cries*

You can come over and clean it if you like

 

[bluestreak]

'bout the same as ours, except i would have washed that glass up. And the spoon.

The glass scares me. It's got geeb and mango juice crusted on it and has stuck to the floor.

 

[Strumpet]

I.hate.cleaning.
When I get another job asap earning more one of first things I'm damn well doing is getting a cleaner! Hurrah! Life is way too short to spend it cleaning but I love a clean n tidy house so

 

[bluestreak]

I can't handle dirty mirrors or squint pictures either.

What are the little silver cannisters bluey? Or don't I want to know?

the canisters are from nitrous oxide. what's a squint picture?

all my mirrors are dirty too. they all have handprints and dust and drugs residue on them.

 

[Balbi]

I tidy to

a) stop me playing on the internet all day

b) make a nice clean freshly hoovered room to watch dvd's in

c) have a kitchen that's totally lovely and clean, ready for cooking in

d) because the bathroom looks orrible

 

[madzone]

what's a squint picture?

Lopsided, funny angle, not straight etc. I assume she feels she has to straighten them up - sopmething that comes to us all with age I feel

 

[Crispy]

urrrrgghhhhh....skanky......

Hah! I've got that beat. We've been here 1.5 years and haven't hoovered ONCE. (ok, only one room has carpet, and it's not even realy carpet, just a rough rope weave thing, but Hah!)