A slattern asks...

[Meltingpot]

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.

Me neither (or put in to soak).

 

[Funky_monks]

We clean once week and wash up after tea every day.

What with dogs and all the farm mud, it'd get pretty nasty pretty quickly if we didn't (the many doormats, outside the door, in the stairwell and a square of carpet inside the door all help). My predecessor left the place in such a state, I insisted my boss fit entirley new carpets throughout before I arrived to start work.

 

[geminisnake]

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

Nothing to do with age. I've never been able to handle squint pictures. My friend's mum has 3 animal head carvings that hang on the wall and one of them is always squint. I straightened it every time I went into the house. I wanted to wire it straight
If it had been mine I would have done!!

I have also taken a cloth with me when I went to visit my daughter so I could clean the bathroom mirror

 

[moomoo]

You can come over and clean it if you like

If I lived nearer to you, I'd be round like a shot and do it with pleasure.

Floors should be clear, although that's not a message that's got through to my children yet.

 

[izz]

If I lived nearer to you, I'd be round like a shot and do it with pleasure.

Floors should be clear, although that's not a message that's got through to my children yet.

ah clear floors, i dream wistfully of clear floors.

 

[butterfly child]

Our problem? We've got too much stuff. Dillinger4 will tell you - you can barely walk from one end of our house to the other for the amount of 'stuff' we have. I find it difficult to motivate myself to clean when it looks so fucking untidy afterwards anyway. Might as well go the whole hog.

This is our problem too.

Gotta de-clutter first, then I might find the motivation.

Mind you, by the time we've de-cluttered, I will have graduated and will be working and therefore able to afford a cleaner again. Yay!

 

[butterfly child]

If I lived nearer to you, I'd be round like a shot and do it with pleasure.

Floors should be clear, although that's not a message that's got through to my children yet.

<checks moomoo's address>

<puts house up for sale and plans move to moomoo land>

 

[Tank Girl]

((((mr trebus))))

well, dodgepot's pretty much covered about how tidy our flat is. I don't work on wednesdays and I usually give the flat a tidy and clean then as well.

I don't iron though, but down to my dressmaking I'm going to have to go and buy my first ironing board (but I don't mind that, cos dressmaking isn't housework!).

 

[spanglechick]

this thread is also useful for screening potential houseguests.

I know that I could cope with Crispy, bluey or Vintage Paw (not that she's likely to be in the area) dropping round unannounced - but that I would need several weeks notice before I let Tanky or the dodgepot over my threshold.

 

[moomoo]

this thread is also useful for screening potential houseguests.

I know that I could cope with Crispy, bluey or Vintage Paw (not that she's likely to be in the area) dropping round unannounced - but that I would need several weeks notice before I let Tanky or the dodgepot over my threshold.

Would you let me in? I could clean up for their visit.

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

Would you let me in? I could clean up for their visit.

You'd probably need blinkers so you could only see a little bit of the flat at a time.

 

[moomoo]

You'd probably need blinkers so you could only see a little bit of the flat at a time.

I like a challenge...........

 

[Thora]

I'm quite slatternly too. I never hoover unless I've smashed a glass, never dust, never wash windows. Every couple of weeks (when I run out of clean underwear and have to start wearing bikini bottoms usually) I do make an effort to sort the clothes on the floor into clean and dirty, and at the same time empty the bin and throw out all the obvious rubbish-clutter - newspapers, snotty tissues, old bus tickets etc.

Recently I noticed a dark patch on my cream rug, and realised it was because that's where I stand when I dry my hair and the rug had a layer or hair on it.

 

[Ms T]

We have a cleaner now, but back in the day I used to clean at least once a week, and tidy up most days. I don't like dirt or mess, and would always be the person in our house to crack first.

I think I get it from my mother, who is pretty obsessive about cleaning. She hoovers pretty much every day, and her house is always spotless. If I cook in her kitchen, she will clean up around me, which is incredibly annoying. She also polishes carpet rods, and irons knickers.

 

[Poot]

I thought I was bad but I feel like Kim and Aggie now! (Probably Kim, if I'm honest...)



I worked out today that excluding cooking (which doesn't count) I must spend 2-3 hours every day doing housework. And yet I still live in a shit tip! Admittedly I only work part time, though.

 

[spanglechick]

I like a challenge...........

tell you what, moomoo - you pop down to london and clean our flat - i'll entertain your children for the day. Then at the end of the day we'll have about 1/34th of the flat clean, and i'll drive you to the local psyche ward for PTSD treatment...

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

i'll drive you to the local psyche ward for PTSD treatment...

Good idea - it's only about half a mile away so it'll be nice and handy.

 

[Vintage Paw]

You know you need to clean up your clothes from the bedroom floor when the cat can't find a good clear bit of carpet to throw up on at half 4 in the morning

Mind you, can't chuck your carpet in the washer - you can a pair of jeans and a towel though

 

[Epona]

My place is too full up with things to ever look tidy, stuff that starts on the shelves ends up on the floor because of the cats making sure that gravity still works anyway. And if I hoovered the ancient carpets would probably come apart. I really don't care about cat paws and bums on things either, if I was going to catch anything from them I would have done so by now. I find people who panic about animals in the kitchen or in beds fairly odd anyway, yes I have animals in my house, if that freaks you out, don't come round.

 

[wtfftw]

I don't think of myself as tidy or even clean but ugh. I've lived with a shocker of a flatmate or two and when the rubbish doesn't get taken out and the bath is full of pubes and I'm keeping a set of cutlery in my room and I can't even get to the kitchen sink. And mice. Bleurgh. I'd pretty much go back to the parents once a week to wash and be fed and then spend the rest of the week in my room with the door locked.

I've got tidier since living with the manshape as with both our stuff and both of us moving things around I'd never be able to find anything. I'm feeling accomplished this week as this is probably the first time ever that both the kitchen and the bathroom have been clean at the same time. I even swept the hall and my brother hoovered in here. Bedroom is a tip (clothes on my side and newspaper on his) but that's partly because we need to get more storage.


I've never seen the point of cleaning. I hate unending stuff but my mental health is heaps better when this place isn't a midden. It's been such a long time coming and such a struggle* that it feels great. I keep going into the kitchen and just having a look at the shininess. It's still grubby but that's because it's a dingy 1930's dark ground floor damp flat.




*ME again. blah blah.

 

[London_Calling]

Thinking on, I may have got tidier the older I've got - which might also mean I'm becoming like my mother, and I'm sure that's not supposed to be the case . . . .

 

[GarfieldLeChat]

i do the washign up regularlly and tidy up most of the time. After the hell of the swamp there's no way i'd ever let it get that bad again...

hoovering is teeps job however... and consiquently has been down once in 6 months...

 

[foo]

like someone else said on the thread, i hate housework but i hate a dirty house even more.

so i do the housework even though i'm a lazy sod and would rather curl up with a book or watch telly.

yep, i do like my house when it's tidy and looking nice.

 

[dodgepot]

as the old saying goes - "behind a tidy house is a dirty mind"

 

[Tank Girl]

tidy house? check

dirty mind? check

 

[secretsquirrel]

Once every couple of weeks or so we’ll clean the house top to bottom. I start feeling really twitchy and uncomfortable if it hasn’t been done for a bit and there’s nothing nicer than putting your feet up once you’re done and everything looks tidy and it all smells nice. However, kitchen is kept pretty clean and swept constantly, clothes washing is done several times a week although ironing is done only if absolutely necessary.

However, we haven’t cleaned the windows since we moved in a year ago!

 

[felixthecat]

Kinda of a mix here. We do it between the 4 of us daily - hoovering , laundry put in the machine, yesterday's laundry sorted and put away (yes, at least 1 washing machine load daily ), washing up, general tidying. Doesn't take long to do, but takes lots of complaining from all involved. I sure as hell am not doing it all by myself when there are 3 other adults here (kids16 and 18).

I keep an eye on the bathroom myself - a quick wipe round usually before I go to bed keeps it ok. Kitchen and bathroom floors are mopped once a week by someone - whoever didn't do it last week or the week before and same with the fridge. I have washed the downstairs windows once in 5 years and never washed the upstairs ones - you can still see out tho.

 

[quimcunx]

Sometimes people say they are more untidy than they are. I believe you though...

I've never dusted or cleaned the windows,

There is a balance. My flat is now at the point where it makes my whole life feel disorganised and dirty. But this only means it seems like much too big a job...

At the same time I could never be one of these clean as you go along people. I prefer a decent amount of dishes to wash. make it seem worthwhile.

 

[geminisnake]

I worked out today that excluding cooking (which doesn't count) I must spend 2-3 hours every day doing housework. And yet I still live in a shit tip! Admittedly I only work part time, though.

Can I suggest you give up on the daily routine coz I probably do 2-4 hrs a week(unless I'm feeling inspired) and live in a bit of a mess(though some may call it a shit tip) so you really seem to be spending a lot of time on wasted stuff and you could be doing something nice instead

I don't even work part time or have a wee one in the house. You do have a wee Poot don't you?

 

[Poot]

Can I suggest you give up on the daily routine coz I probably do 2-4 hrs a week(unless I'm feeling inspired) and live in a bit of a mess(though some may call it a shit tip) so you really seem to be spending a lot of time on wasted stuff and you could be doing something nice instead

I don't even work part time or have a wee one in the house. You do have a wee Poot don't you?

Yeah, most of it is picking up after him! (And hence hoovering, wiping, de-stickying, washing, un-crumbing, and de-crayoning). I'm trying to get him to tidy up but there's only so much a 2 year old will manage... I'm sure others will sympathise!

If the weather's nice I think "fuck it" and we go to the park instead. Because you can't muck the place up when you're not there! *Makes mental note to spend more time at other people's houses*