[Closed] How tidy is your house?

Not very.

We moved house last year, safe in the knowledge that within a couple of months we would gut and redo the interior.

Fast forward 18 months, we've redecorated most of one bedroom and made a mess in the living room.

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At this rate it's going to be in a state of permanent mess for the next 10 years or so 😀

Meh, riding bikes and running and stuff is much more fun than fixing houses...

If you're thinking of getting a clearner..do it!!

It's all well and good saying that, but try finding one you can trust with a key and actually does a decent job. All the people I know with a good cleaner have this permanent smug look about them 👿

Clean & tidy ..but it's not a showhouse ..
Our kitchen floor is probably one of the most vacuumed floors in the country ..due to the fact that my missus is a mobile hair stylist with a 50 / 50 split of clients who she travels to or they visit here ..
Muggins here does more than his fair share of hoovering up ..The Miele cat & dog vacuum being my preferred weapon of choice

Retired doesn't mean tidier. When my wife worked I would do housework to make it easier for her. Now she's retired it's nobody's responsiblity and we operate a brinkmanship policy towards housework and we are both messy sods. She's worse than me for leaving stuff out but neither of us can be bothered mostly. Also we've lived in the same house for 35 years so lots of stuff. A couple of years ago we had a big push to declutter, got rid of stacks of stuff but that just meant the stuff at the back spilled forward. Who cares?

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Not too bad. A bit of mess in all rooms, but I can see the floor. I hoover once a week so that usually results in a kids tidy up to prevent toy-death-by-hoover. Above the floor level, not so good. Ready for Halloween would be polite.

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May I present, my "study":
(This, and the garage, is mine and kept tidy by me alone. The rest of the place is ruled by MrsPants and differs fundamentally)

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Oh my. I'd explode living in that.

I'd wager my garage is tidier than many houses based upon descriptions.

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This was a couple of weeks ago post cycle ride.

House itself, currently pretty close to perfect. Mrs Weeksy is away so its all mine to keep nice, dishes are washed and put away straight away etc.
There's two pieces of music on living room table and they'll go away later.

Being permanently single and having very few visitors = no need to keep flat tidy.
Piles of crap abound most flat surfaces, clothes lie in wait , ready to leap up and trip you in the blink of an eye.
I have a nice kitchen ,cant see much of the worktop though, covered in pots and bowls, water bottles , fruit , paper.
Lounge is better , but again paper is breeding and threatening a takeover bid for the sofas.

Back bedroom contains skis, ski bags , bike box, random cardboard boxes that I am convinced will be useful one day .Empty bottles awaiting a trip to the bottle bank also live here .

Garage , well that needs a complete re-work as its becoming unusable

We currently have 3 usable rooms out of 7 due to accumulated crap. And it's pretty dusty too - in fact I think mould in the playroom is a big cause of some respiratory maladies over the last year or so...

Battle lines have been drawn twixt me and the missus. I'm untidy but enjoy a good clearout and restructure. Garage is stuffed pretty full but you can find it all and get at it.

The better half... well, two stories from her past should have made me aware... At uni, her digs was broken into. Shared house with 4 other girls. Police attended and asked one of the girls if they could check each room and see what had gone. TV from this room, jewellery from that room. The wife's? Couldn't tell if they'd been in the room to ransack it.

Then we moved her out of her folks house. Her room was c 8ft x 8ft. We cleared shopping bags off the floor containing 28 BNWT tops. There were so many plastic bags that I filled 14 bags of plastic bags!

Happy days.

Living room - drawings on most walls and toys everywhere.

Bathroom - hole in the roof and paintwork coming off.

Kitchen - not bad

Dining room - currently being converted in to a playroom for Funk Jr and the soon to be Funk Mk3. So properly messy.

Two Bedrooms - somebody could move in while we're out and we wouldn't be able to see them for all the shite.

If I lived alone there'd be a couple of bikes, turntable, amp, speakers and a Kindle 🙁

My family are lazy degenerates so I make them pay for a cleaner, its still a tip though.

The cleaner has a brand new A5 convertible BTW.

Mrs Makrie is of German/Swiss extraction. The house is always both clean and tidy. As long as she is home. She has been away for a week and is not due back till Thursday night. If I stop making mess now then I may just have enough time to get it back into acceptable shape before her return.

Pretty bad but trying to get better.. I work away a bit, so t'other half gets stuck with looking after the horses and dogs on her own when I'm not there. When I'm around I'd rather be riding than tidying and cleaning so it tends to only happen if either of us gets really fed up and goes on a rampage with binbags and a duster.

In an untidy phase of life. With us it's stage of life, amount of kit and size of place. Have been super tidy, both ex-services and cluttered/untidy. Last place was considerably larger and really well organised and tidy. Here is much smaller so there is stuff everywhere.
Two active children, lots of animals, books (thousands), cds/dvds (hundreds), bikes (everyone has two, some more : ) boats, tools, and stuff. Examples: At a last count there were plus twenty helmets: horse riding, road, mtb, DH, motorbike open and full, kayak, climbing, racing - with at least two people doing each of these. I
know we own well over a hundred wheels on and off kit... and there are more tyres than wheels!!
Our two young ones are now in their twenties (just), one is buying a house, the other just started to rent a flat so we are starting to plan an organised and tidy house but reckon it will take us a year or two.

Mine fluctuates depending on how much -
1)Time I've been working away from home - the babysitter is great and stays over but he's not a cleaner.
2) Money the kids want to earn - I am trying to get them to want to earn rather than insisting they do jobs atm. If they don't do jobs they don't get funds
3)how many of the kids are at home - 2 here permanently, 1 is visiting for a week before he jets of to the states for 3 months. But nothing compares to my daughter coming home - she always arrives with loads of bags and a partner
4)How much I care - sometimes I feel physically rubbish and can happily ignore the chaos, but then I feel better and blitz the place

Joy's of single motherhood - I really should just get a cleaner. However it will always be a small house with a lot of stuff in it

My living room has 8 big squares of paint samples on one wall, they're 20 years old now - never did get the motivation to actually paint the room.

Also in the busy "kids and life" category so usually in a relatively untidy state.

However, as KJ02 is starting school next week we have a Teacher visit on Thursday, so Mrs K has been busy and we are now at showroom standard.

It won't last.

The house is well maintained and if we marketed it tomorrow I could honestly say that there isn't anything that doesn't work properly. I'm as fussy as hell about maintaining plumbing, electrics, fixtures and fittings because I DO have the time to fix them and I hate it when people whine that they are too busy. I guess I'm lucky that I can do plumbing, simple electrics and structural repairs and maintenance like cleaning out drains and gutters.

Mrs Gti and I also hate clutter so apart from pictures on the walls there are almost no nick-nacks or ornaments. All the kitchen work surfaces are clear, nothing is left out. The only messy room is the tiny box room she uses as an office, which is full of her late Mum's bits and pieces that she can't bring herself to throw away.

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Pretty tidy tbh, not obsessive or anything, but I don't really like stewing in a mess.

Was actually one of the reasons we sold a 4 bedroom house at the edge of town, to move to a 2 bed in a nicer area, less rooms to horde shite and hoover/dust/decorate etc. A few house moves saw us get rid of aforementioned shite as well, I don't have anything in my loft, think I've only been in there once in 7 years we've lived there.

My house is a disaster most of the week, then it usually gets tidied on a friday because we have people over at the weekend and we're ashamed of how we live 😀

I think the main problem is we have quite a lot of generic clutter (mainly, we have far too many kids toys to fit in our storage), this means that leaving for example a bowl on the floor doesn't get noticed. Then a glass next to it. Then a crisps wrapper. Then a saucer... Before you know it, entire house is a shit tip much like ocrider's gif above 🙂

My house is a disaster most of the week, then it usually gets tidied on a friday because we have people over at the weekend and we're ashamed of how we live

Worst thing in mine is all the clothes draped over the landing bannister cos I can't be arsed to put them away. It's my house though, so I'd need a 3rd party to tell me if it's actually tidy or not. I did vacuum some areas of carpet the other day.

I don't live in a house as it were but it can get ****ing messy at times. Especially when my head goes.

In 2003 I lost the plot completely and throughout the winter months I run my stove 24/7 - a bloody massive glowing hell of burning mass in which I would just open the door and squeeze in another block of kiln dried slab from the local furniture/wood place. Friends were instructed they would not gain entry unless they turned up with a bag if this hot burning stuff so I had massive stock.

I didn't really clean the stove in any way and eventually a pile of ash developed in front of the thing. It was nicknamed Vesuvius for obvious reasons.

I'm not as bad as that these days but it ain't tidy by any stretch.

Before you know it, entire house is a shit tip much like ocrider's gif above

Just thank your lucky stars that you don't have Redthunder's loo 😀

I feel your pain. We have finally trained our daughter to put her clutter underneath the stairs and no longer at the foot of them. We had a few too many close shaves with wheeled objects...
Crockery, on the other hand is an ongoing project

Not really, I can't think of a time that the whole house would be tidy, but it's a constant battle between Wife and Children.

Remarkable how many full on mother / son battles start with a stray plate or crisp packet

Bike storage and all that goes with it is beautiful though!

I'm tidy.
Mrs North isn't.
Miss North is even worse.

It's clean - 3 hours of cleaners once a week (thinking of adding a second visit) - but I feel like I spend too much of my weekend just getting the place straight.

I'm on the brink of going [url= https://www.professionaladviser.com/ifaonline/news/2291908/author-reveals-fred-goodwins-obsession-with-filing-cabinets ]full Fred Goodwin[/url] about stuff piled up on any horizontal surface.

The sooner we renovate this house, the better.

Erm, I fold all of my clothes according to [url= https://konmari.com/ ]the KonMari method[/url], and forks and spoons get nested in the cutlery drawer.

Sadly, my wife and kids are less tidy.