How clean is your house....really?

[briggsy's girl]

i go through phases where i have to have EVERYTHING perfect and i really go nuts with it - but it's not often, and when it's done, i look and think "hmmmm, it's no different to what it was before i went to all the effort. i try and keep things dusted when i can (usually as i move everything from one pile to another i dust around it) - i have some antique furniture that i try and clean up properly every couple of months - but to be honest, the past 6 months everything has gone to the crapper and i just can't let myself care

IF it is something that you feel compelled to do, devote one half day a week to doing "unusual" cleaning. that half day might be from the time bubs goes to sleep until bed time if that's the only time you can find. one day do the bathroom cupboard, one day move the couches. when it comes down to it, it's stuff only YOU can see, so it's only really bugging you - and only you can know if it is a NEED to clean, or just a want.

FWIW - i don't move furniture to vac most of the time - but every 6 months or so, we move EVERYTHING over a period of a couple of weekends, vacuum, shampoo the carpet - and before we can do all that - all the other crap that has hidden down there gets cleaned up. it might be a more regular thing in high traffic areas once Gremlin arrives - i know i have 13 weeks to get it all done now, and it's starting to stress me a little bit - but i know i will get it sufficiently done to welcome her home - and everything else will happen when it happens...


ETA - Leash - i moved in here 3.5 years ago - still have stuff in boxes! my DVD's are nicely sorted. but CD's and books - well, lets not go there! i have four boxes of books in the linen press (under bed tubs), half a floor to ceiling bookshelf full in the rumpus room, a bookshelf full of uni stuff and Stephen King in the study as well as five 52L tubs of kids books, and three or four other tubs in the "store room" as we've nicknamed the spare room.... lotsa work sorting them out i think! do not fret - you'll get there!

can i just advise that if ANYONE has a house full of stuff and is moving in with someone that also has a house full of stuff - CULL everything before you move in and maybe even move into another house so you start fresh!