Are you a good housekeeper?

I keep my house and Colin's house spotless and organized. I like to clean....especially if i'm sad or angry- that's how I vent- Colin can always tell when something is "not right" because I will clean his entire house from top to bottom I love a nice clean home (Also, I have really bad astmah and allergies- so it is definitely benificial to my health to be a bit of a neat freak ) Did I mention my mom cleans houses for a living lol? I'm the one that my friends call when they need help organizing or cleaning their places- I love it. Oh, and I think you definitely have to be a clean freak when you own a rabbit- Sophie is a little mess - always throwing Timothy Hay and poo everywhere...I swear I follow her around with a dustbuster all day long

If I lived by myself I would be, but living with my husband I have given up. I keep the stuff that just grates my nerves done such as dishes washed, food put away, bathroom cleaned, etc. But you will find that my husband's philosophy is, "Why put it away when you can just pile it up???"

I should really take you guys on a tour of his "droppings" as I call them. There's a costant pile on top of and on each side of the computer desk. The kitchen table has a pile of paperwork, a messenger bag, a leather jacket, AND -get this- a now very wrinkled suit, dress shirt, and tie where he came in from an event the other night and could not bear to wear it any longer. That one I'm testing him with and seeing how long it stays there before he puts it away or says, "Hun? Have you seen my grey suit??"

I swear....one of these days....

with 6 pets living here..I have to clean everyday here, if not my house will look like a tornado hit it. I swear my room gets like that sometimes. do you want to come clean my house, Nikki?

Originally Posted by Miagi's_Mommy

with 6 pets living here..I have to clean everyday here, if not my house will look like a tornado hit it. I swear my room gets like that sometimes.

do you want to come clean my house, Nikki?

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lol...you know i'd have everything color coded and organized I swear I have a cleaning sickness

I am not! DH is the good one at that stuff! He can do in an hour what it takes me a whole day to do!

I'm ok...I keep things clean...dishes, countertops, the bathroom, litterboxes, laundry, etc., and I do a big scrub-down of the whole place every week or two, but in a studio you can't really avoid that cluttered "lived in" feel and I'm ok with this not being the neatest place in the world.

Ok, and I admit it, maybe I have a little trouble with the dishes after all.

Originally Posted by lionessrampant

I'm ok...I keep things clean...dishes, countertops, the bathroom, litterboxes, laundry, etc., and I do a big scrub-down of the whole place every week or two, but in a studio you can't really avoid that cluttered "lived in" feel and I'm ok with this not being the neatest place in the world.

Ok, and I admit it, maybe I have a little trouble with the dishes after all.

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I am a little like that. Trav is the domesticated one around here. He cooks and cleans most of the time. Lately, we have been working a lot so the apartment gets BAD so I end up throwing in the towel and cleaning. I REALLY clean when company I coming over. I AM really bad at folding laundry though. It will take me a week to fold them and by then I have yet ANOTHER load to fold Now THAT'S hopeless. And I could not cook a decent meal to save my life. You cannot live on mac and cheese, microwave dinners and fettuchini forever. But I DO try to make a decent meal every once in a while. Oh and I just bought a keychain that says:

"My Only Domestic Quality is That I Live in a House"

That is too fitting for me

There are just too many other things in life to spend my time doing than housework. It's way low on my list of priorities.

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With 4 kids, 5 cats and a DH that works swing shift....................who has time to clean?I mean I do clean,but spot less NOPE!!!!
Right now, you can find dust bunnies and write your name on the top of the entertainment center.
BUT, when I get the Tex Trol in, it WILL be spotless...............if only for a day.

Our house is pretty clean, usually. If I'm upset or angry, it's REALLY clean. If I'm relaxed and happy and busy with other things, the housework slides, but then my husband does more cleaning when he's home.

Cheers, from
SwampWitch

I should say that I do all the important things like sweep,vaccum,dishes and etc.But, the dusting I HATE to do and usually only do once a week.I do 14 loads of laundry a week also.

I do not consider myself to be a good housekeeper. I blame it partially on working full time and having 3 kids at home and plenty of pets. But mostly I just don't really like to clean too much.

I mean, the house is sanitary, but cluttered. That is something I have recently started working on....getting rid of the excess stuff.

This weekend I washed, folded, and put away 5 loads of laundry, ran the dishwasher twice (ds loaded and unloaded), scrubbed the bathroom, scooped 5 litterboxes, cooked 3 meals (and cleaned up after), scrubbed the outside of the fridge, and cleaned under the fridge, helped dh lay new tile under the fridge, collected, washed and sorted all the socks in the house (with lots of kid help), had 2 kids clean their rooms, ran errands for several hours...so its not that I am not willing to do some housework. But at this point, I'm sick of housework! I will get the kids rooms and kitty room vacuumed, and my bedroom. DD did the front room.

I would love to have one of you totally organized people come help out sometime...that is a fantasy I have, to have a housekeeper to help out! LOL!

YES! I cannot stand to be in a messy house, it drives me nuts! I clean everyday - kitchen, litterboxes, bedroom, living room and the bathroom about once a week. Everything must be picked up daily, or I just go nuts! My mom is the same way, so I guess thats where I got it from

I just love having a clean home, it makes me feel happy when I come home and I don't have to clean up all the time! Plus its nice when people come over, I always feel bad when I have a messy house and someone stops over!

I used to be before I got sick. Now I do what I can, when I can and that's not much and not often. My apartment is always in a perpetual state of being cleaned because I get so short of breath and dizzy that I have to stop after a few minutes and rest.

I'm hoping to get some homecare to help me with that though, at least with the vacuuming and floor washing... those are the hardest things for me to get done.

My house was much cleaner before I worked for a vet. I used to be a web designer, and it was much easier to come home and clean after sitting at a desk for 8 hours. Now I'm on my feet all day, and finish each work day cleaning up kennels and stuff in the sinks and vacuuming and mopping the entire place. So by the time I come home... I don't want to do diddly. It's hard enough to feed the cats & the dog, give Sheba her meds & fluids and walk the dog. Sometimes it's about 9pm before I get a chance to sit down and realize that I hadn't fed myself yet.

Thankfully, hubby's starting a new job soon. He'd been working night shift the past year, so at least there'll be another human here in the evenings to help with some of the stuff. He's promised to cook me dinner whenever he gets home before me. This will be a welcome change from the microwave dinners and frozen pizzas I've been living on.

I am easily the worst house keeper, ever.

My parents used think that there was something mentally wrong with me, and I'm not kidding! that's how bad it gets. I just don't like to do it. I have to MAKE myself to do it. I have a friend who comes over once a week to pig out and watch TV with me while our dogs play so now, the house gets a good cleaning once a week, but if it wasn't for that... psht. Who knows!

Paige

A good housekeeper....
Housekeeping.....
You want me to do what to my house???
(um...you get the gist.....)

Originally Posted by lisasha3

A good housekeeper....

Housekeeping.....

You want me to do what to my house???

(um...you get the gist.....)

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My best friends mom says I live like a teenage boy

I have OCD and would love for things to be white glove clean but lately I can't seem to keep up with laundry let alone house cleaning. Now litterboxes and fish I can do, but house keeping takes a back seat somedays. I think I need a maid.
Any volunteers?

Um, much to my mother's chagrin, I am NOT a good housekeeper I do the basics, sometimes , but a deep cleaning?

I'm a good housekeeper and i love my house clean and tidy. Mind you when i was a teenager living at home i did nothing in the house, and i mean nothing!. So there was no one more suprised as my mum when she saw how tidy my house was on because she thought it would be like a pig sty