What's your gaff Like, clean or shitehole?

[May Kasahara]

Both of ours are wetter than a haddock's overcoat; the noise of the Dyson is like cat kryptonite for them. Even the sound of us getting it out of the back room is enough to induce mass panic, which we are always unkind enough to find hilarious

 

[sojourner]

Both of ours are wetter than a haddock's overcoat; the noise of the Dyson is like cat kryptonite for them. Even the sound of us getting it out of the back room is enough to induce mass panic, which we are always unkind enough to find hilarious

My cats are like that too. Wimps

As for the cat fur...I now have to drape an old blanket over the bed to stop them turning it into a furry duvet (and provoking my cat allergy to the extreme just as I'm trying to relax )

 

[May Kasahara]

I've had to ban mine from the bedroom except on special occasions; the hairiness is just not worth it.

but also since when they are allowed in the big lazy bastards take up all our sleeping space and the boycat always wakes me up at 4am.

 

[Pie 1]

Pretty tidy, pretty clean, but let down by constant storm of cat hair that defeats even the most determined efforts at removal. Where do they produce it from, ffs?

Snap!

We've got parquet & slate floors though, so it's pretty easy to sweep up

 

[May Kasahara]

I thought that having no carpets would make life easier for us, but the hair just formed into tumbleweeds that rolled around the whole time

 

[felixthecat]

Ours tends towards untidy but clean. Sometimes when I'm getting ready in the morning I don't have time to put everything away again before dashing out of the door, but I always do a blitz tidy when I arrive home.
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This is me too. The place has been hoovered and the sofas are all neat, but there's a rugby ball, a sweatshirt and a pile of Kerrang! magazines on the floor......ah, and theres a Heineken glass and some hair stuff by the side of the sofa... probably other stuff I can't see from here as well.

Oh, and a generous coating of cat hair everywhere.

 

[spanglechick]

the bathroom's sort of clean. the rest of it is a tip.

better by far than it was a fortnight ago. we had guests on the bank hliday, and shame made us clear up. before that, it could have been a featured house on 'life of grime' - not too dirty, actually, but so untidy.

interestingly, when my boyfriend lived in subzerocat's houseshare, he used to do the washing up every day, too... hmmm.

 

[Radar]

Unmitigated shitehole It's amazing what you can get away with when you're single !!

My living room is a strange hybrid of an airline crash site crossed with an explosion at the IT lab of the british library, all set in a dutch coffeeshop 3 PCs and a U60 strewn across the floor, along with other bits of sun kit. A stack of 5 plastic crates full of books sits in the hallway awaiting the next great cleanup of 2007

 

[equationgirl]

After being brought up in a showhome, I have come to realise that the universe does not implode if an unwashed glass stays on the side until the next washing up time, or my desk is a bit of a mess.

 

[longdog]

Unmitigated shitehole It's amazing what you can get away with when you're single !!

My living room is a strange hybrid of an airline crash site crossed with an explosion at the IT lab of the british library, all set in a dutch coffeeshop 3 PCs and a U60 strewn across the floor, along with other bits of sun kit. A stack of 5 plastic crates full of books sits in the hallway awaiting the next great cleanup of 2007

I'm with you all the way comrade.

The bedroom is a tip. I've had a clean duvet cover and sheets waiting to be put on the bed for the last 3 months. I keep it in perpetual darkness so not even I see the mess.

The bathroom is dirty but hygenic. I do have a clean(ish) loo and sink. The bath I'm not fussed about but it does get a sloosh out now and again.

An then we come to the majestic dump that is the livingroom. Working from left to right...

Two bass guitars and a an electric guitar. A keyboard, a small bass amp with a phone balanced precariously on top of it. Two PCs and a laptop (look, I need them OK?) on the shelf above them... four speakers, an amplifier, an assortment of computer parts, tools, glasses, mugs, salt and pepper, tape measures, candles and assorted other crap. A printer, a box of dead laptop parts and a rucksack.

The floor boasts a fine selection of fluffy toys belonging to the dog, a bog brush (also belongs to the dog, I bought it new for her to stop her trying to steal the one from the bathroom). Somewhere under the dog hair there is a rug... I think.

Shelves covered with books, CDs, DVDs and videos plus assorted other tat.

Two dogs.

Oh yeah, I forgot... Kitchen... Shithole.

 

[twisted_angel]

I'm a clean freak so always tidy.

 

[scifisam]

Messy but clean. We just don't have enough storage space.

And my GF is ill and sleeping almost all the time, so we can't tidy all the stuff she brought to the bedroom when she moved in here - that place does look like a bomsit.

 

[Meltingpot]

Are you me?

I find my way between towers of books, piles of paper, bags full of knitting, plastic bottles and paper so I can just about keep it vaguely clean. But my toilet is always spotless!

Pretty much, apart from the knitting

 

[mrs quoad]

I voted 'a bit lived in'.

This is more related to my perception than any lived reality, or so I'm told. "Fucking chaos" in the words of one ex

I spend a good half-day tidying up before letting anyone in to be shagged, unless their either an ex or someone I feel unusually comfortable with.

 

[sheothebudworths]

I keep it in perpetual darkness so not even I see the mess.

 

[moomoo]

I spend a good half-day tidying up before letting anyone in to be shagged, unless their either an ex or someone I feel unusually comfortable with.

What do you do? Make the lady wait outside while you hoover?

 

[lynne8]

mine's messy but cleanish, needs a vacuum and the bathroom could use some work!

 

[maomao]

Getting better. It turned into a real tip in the two months after I broke up with my girlfriend (not that she did any housework, just that I kept it tidy for her). As my mood has improved so have my household habits. Still some worrying stains in the carpet from the dirty period though. Vomited red wine seems much harder to get out of carpets than when you just spill it.

 

[Orang Utan]

it can get quite beastly, but I keep on top of things intermittently. What I can't stand is my flatmate tidying things away, so I can't find them - CDs and videos and books and DVDs are supposed to be strewn all over the place aren't they? What's the point of putting them out of sight where they get lost?

 

[mrs quoad]

What do you do? Make the lady wait outside while you hoover?

Going by the previous three, WOMAN.

'Lady' seems overdoing it a wee bit.

 

[scifisam]

What do you do? Make the lady wait outside while you hoover?

I did that once. We were together for almost a year afterwards. It was partly because I'd seen her place and it was scarily tidy, whereas I had a 3-year-old daughter.

These days, they take me as they find me. And the current GF has lasted more than 3 years - but then, she's far messier than I am.