Your attitude to household cleanliness?

[_angel_]

I have an anally clean sister who insists on telling me how everything 'smells'.

With two destructive little boys I think I am in a no win situation.
When she had my son at hers she'd only let him eat white food on her white sofa and new white carpet (who gets a white carpet anyway, it's asking for it!)

Despite having the hoover out about four times in two days the place is still a mess.

It ought to be relatively clean, but still a complete mess.

 

[onenameshelley]

When i am on my own the flat is spotless, but i have had to learn that not everyone is as neat as me. I spent the first few months going mental because things were not cleaned every day and now i have learnt to accept dirt as part of living in a shared flat. When i get my own place though...the dirt will have no where to hide *mwaahh ha ha*

I really actually quite enjoy cleaning.

 

[parallelepipete]

Weekly circuit of house - and kitchen is cleaned daily (sweep floor, clean worktops and hob). It'd be less often if I didn't create such a mess when I cook!

"Cleanliness is next to Godliness" - does that mean I'm a bad atheist then?

 

[Ozric]

I have an anally clean sister

Ooh, what a quote!

 

[parallelepipete]

Ooh, what a quote!

I think you want the Health, Relationships and Sexuality forum, sir - just up the passage there...

 

[Ozric]

Suit you sir, oh!

 

[Rohen]

Oh boy

Well i went through a period of not doing anything for a while

things happened and I just wasnt able...

I started doing the ironing this week and what a joy it is to finally have a selection of clothes that are ironed

I blitzed the kitchen but that never lasts very long as I start cooking and then it gets messy.

The dog hair gets vacuumed up by the dyson nicely but she sheds like its going out of fashion most days

The whole placec is going to be blitzed this week as the brother is coming to stay Well its a good excuse to get the shit sorted

I might attack the garden at somepoint too
the fox has been digging it up and has made a total dogs breakfast of it

Anyone want gravel as I'm thinking about de graveling it its mostly gravel and rosebushes and weeds

 

[subversplat]

Very relaxed

I let the washing up pile up until there's no clean crockery, then put it outside and hope to forget about it until I've used everybody else's crockery, while dropping all sorts of bits of rubbish and clothes and magazines about the place, until one day I go on a huge cleaning spree, clear everything up, do all my washing up and anything else nearby that needs doing, sand down my worktops sweep out (and possibly vacuum) the carpet and generally make everything nice and sparkley, then I go back on my 2 to 3 month cycle of not doing bugger all

I have an exceedingly high tolerance of dirt and mess though, and only clean through necessity (as in, the plates are mouldy and I want to eat something off them) and other people's muck doesn't irritate me as long as it's not in my way, and then it just gets moved somewhere else where it can stay as mucky as it likes.

 

[Crispy]

I'm very relaxed about cleaning, really. I try and keep the kitchen in a good state, cos it's a pain trying to cook in a dirty one. In our shared house we have an almost-rota. There's a list of cleaning tasks pinned to the kitchen wall (hoover lounge. clean hob. sweep floor. wipe surfaces etc.) and our names accross the top of the grid. When you do a particular cleaning task, you put a mark in the correct box. If you've got the least marks in a particular task, it's your turn to do it. This way, there's no draconian rota that says thou shalt mop the floor this saturday or ELSE! - it just makes it easy to see who's not pulling their weight and the house gets cleaned at a rate that is an automatic compromise between everyone's ideal.

We used to have a similarly egalitarian method of alloting shared cooking duties, but maybe I'll save that for another thread. All I can say about it is that it let me draw some wonderful graphs

 

[geminisnake]

I really actually quite enjoy cleaning.

You wanna come visit?? I'll even pay your fare!!

Our house could do with tidying but it's fairly clean. The bathroom porcelain is always clean, as are the mirrors(can't stand dirty porcelain).
Shame about all the junk on the floor though

 

[Looby]

I do the bare minimum during the week and blast the lot at the weekends.
Nathansears hates this and says he would rather not spend weekends doing housework but I have yet to see any evidence of him trying to do anything to change it.

 

[liberty]

Pretty clean all the time.. Things feel better that way

 

[WasGeri]

Sign on my hallway mirror -

A clean house is a sign of a wasted life

Whereas a dirty house is something we should all aspire to, I suppose.

 

[cathal marcs]

I love my cleanliness sadly none of my flat mate seems to leave his crumbs everywhere. I knew he was back before I seen him due to the amount of crumbs he seems to leave from his tea

 

[KeeperofDragons]

Clean enogh to be healthy
Dirty enogh to be happy

As long as the kitchen & bathroom are clean & the dust isn't too bad I couldn't give a monkeys

Life's too bloody short for housework

KoD

 

[Rohen]

I do have a dishwasher so the plates are always clean

 

[Passdout]

We try and keep it nice here. Not easy as we find other things more interesting