How clean do you keep your house?

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Loboto-Me:
What drives me batty are people who complain how messy thier house is and act embarrassed about it, then when I walk in, it’s nice and tidy!
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Uh oh, guilty as charged:o , lol.

But when I tell my friends that my house it at a level 3 or 4, I mean it. No one visits without warning, so when they do see it I have “power-cleaned” to a level 2, lol.

Malia
 
My mom got me a sign to hang near my door that simply states:

My house was clean last week, sorry you missed it.

I also have a sign I printed on the computer that is hanging in the hall between the kitchen and living room that says:

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing. Phyllis Diller

My house is cluttered so it looks messy, but we’re a clean messy. No crumbs, spills, or dirt on floors and furniture, it it happens it gets cleaned right away so stains and critters aren’t going to make themselves comfortable. I’d rather deal with clutter than critters…I can’t stand bugs. Besides I want a floor clean enough for my kids to play on and crawl across without standing up with blackened hands and knees if you know what I mean 🙂
 
In a way I am jealous of the woman who was raised by a marine and forced to be clean. I am naturally very messy, and my mother tried to change me, but it didn’t work. I am very comfortable in clutter, but luckily I have a cleaning lady so my house looks pretty good. Still, my cupboards and closets are very disorganized as are my drawers. I guess I’m a 2.

I purposely invite people to dinner every couple of weeks to force me to tidy-up. I don’t have many people who just drop-in as Island Oak does.
 
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BioCatholic:
guns: “no gun after being fired will be left for more than 1 hours, or 1 hours after the car ride home from shooting range before cleaning. unspent ammunitions will be removed, wiped and put neatly away. firearms will be broken down, and checked for defects. firearms will be reassembled, and placed in the gun cabinet, securely locked, and the key placed back in the Major’s hands. any deviations from orders will result in reduction of weekly pay, and suspension of firearm priviledges”. .
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You called your dad “the Major”? He never made it LCOL, huh? Anyway, weapons are a different matter all together.
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BioCatholic:
i still think that one day the Major might actually drive 500 miles for a suprise inspection of my house. hes never done it yet, but i wont put it past him.
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Being a “squid” didn’t have one iota of effect on my living quarters. In fact, I think I clutter BECAUSE of it. 😉 But seriously, if he does pop in, and inspect, casually remind the Major that you are the skipper of your ship, er, home, now, and you like it the way it is.
 
What’s the saying? "Boring women have immaculate homes?"LOL

No offense to all you #1 types. I probably come in between 2 & 3. It would definitely be a 3 except for my having a “cleaning-Nazi” daughter, and besides, I don’t much care what it looks like to other people.

Messy, a little dirty at times but nobody has come down with typhoid or the bubonic plague so far so that is a plus.

I suppose I became more laid-back as I got older.
 
I’m a 2.5… I’ve got clutter here and there and I won’t even try to justify anything. But my house isn’t dirty. I do get embarrassed if my house really is messy because it reminds me that I’m not utilizing my time effectively. Than again, if someone says something about my house, I’ll give them a quick tour of underneath my kitchen sink for the cleaning supplies and point them to the vacuum. It’s my house, I’ve got three yung’un’s (6, 3 and 6mo), homeschool, military wife, cloth diaper the baby and my dryer won’t work (it’s not gas)… so I’ve got a few more things on my mind or to do during the day rather than keep my house to someone else’s standards. If I know you’re coming, we have a powerclean. If you drop in unannounced… you’re likely to see that the dishes haven’t been done yet, laundry is still being sorted by the six year old which means it takes up ALL the hall space, the baby is crawling on the floor with all the toys or pulling her diapers off the bottom shelf of the coffee table happily drooling on them, my three year old made a fort out of the couch cushions, three blankets and four pillows and she’s running around in her princess panties and a pink cape. And I’m still in my PJ’s.

Now, there are some of you on here that remind me of a great friend of mine… she can’t sit still in her own home because she’s ALWAYS cleaning SOMETHING. There were MANY times I came to her house to find her 8 months pregnant on her hands and knees SCRUBBING her floors. She was known to strip the wax off her floors every two weeks, scrub the daylights out of it, lay new wax and buff. Drove me nuts when you’d ask how her day was and she was so proud of “I did my floors today.”

As long as it’s clean (like no trash all over the place and dirty dishes in the living room or other places of the house)… why worry about what others think? They’re not paying the bills. 🙂
theresa
 
Have you ever seen the show on Lifetime, ‘How Clean is Your House’? That’s my house! :eek:
My question is: HOW DO I FIX IT!
I’m just too tired to do anything about it!
I have 5 kids, age 7,6,4,3,and 18 months plus baby coming at Thanksgiving! Also had 2 jobs and my husband had 1, but now that’s changed, I quit a job (I’m 9 months pregnant after all!) and my husband finally found a second job. We’re still a 3 job family.
Also my Brother In Law lives with us, a confirmed bachelor who pitches in but holds himself to bachelor cleanliness standards!
So, 3 kids are home ALL day. And I can’t keep ANYTHING clean! I feel all I DO is clean. And clean. And Clean… I am a slave to this house! and it is still so bad. Oh yeah, a 975 sq. ft. fixer upper that we rent.
So any advice is welcome.
Please help desperate pregnant lady, Number 1 and 2 housekeepers! :o
 
I’m a 3…soon to move up the ladder to a 2 (or maybe a 1 😃 ) now that the kids are getting old enough to make them clean. I’m just loving it!

I’ve got them loading/emptying the dishwasher, cleaning their rooms/making beds, cleaning up the living room, folding laundry and putting it away.

Can’t WAIT until they can do ALL the laundry! :dancing:

I’m not an organized person, but I HATE it when the house is messy. So, it’s a constant battle that carries a lot of guilt.
 
Della said:
1. Presidential visit ready.
2. Clean but not perfect.
3. Okay, but wouldn’t want visitors to see it.
4. Messy, enter at your own risk.

I have to admit to being a #3 most of the time. :o
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I would go for number 2.I don’t have much time for cleaning,so I try no to make a mess,try to clean as often as I can,and this way I have my house clean and I can receive visitors anytime.🙂
 
Della said:
1. Presidential visit ready.
2. Clean but not perfect.
3. Okay, but wouldn’t want visitors to see it.
4. Messy, enter at your own risk.

I have to admit to being a #3 most of the time. :o
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I’m at 1. I wish I could relax a little and be a 2. I don’t want my daughter in fear of making a mess. I have major issues with dirt and dust. Help me relax!!
 
I’m between a 2 - 3 - more of a 3 but I don’t tend to worry alot about what other people think. It’s not unhealthy - but I don’t sweat the small stuff like many of my friends do. I learned when I had my first 2 kids very close in age that there were just some things you had to give up - I wanted then and still do now, to spend time with them and their activities - not worrying about how my house looks to visitors!

Nothing personal to those #1 types but some people that I know that are in this category make me very uncomfortable when I go to their house with my 9 year old. I feel like I have to walk behind him picking up crumbs! At times I just stay away to save myself the grief. And my 9 year old isn’t a slob, he’s just a 9 year old boy and wasn’t raised in a house where crumbs on the floor were a catastophe! Just get the vacuum out and clean it up!
 
I work really hard to keep as much as I can as a two, but depending on where you go, my siblings have differnt definitions… ( my little brother, for example has a room rated at about a five… but my little sister and I have a clean room…)

Laura 😛
 
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