How clean is your house....really?

[The[cookie]Doctor]

It's not.






The End.

[Tanya]

My house is revolting! I have done nothing allll day and neither has anyone else... in fact no-one puts anything away after using it, so the bench has food all over it, the sink is full, there are no cups if you want a drink..... I feel like crap!

[Astrolady]

I am home all the time, my house is a pigsty. As soon as I do something one of the 3 boys comes along and undoes it. I do like to try and do the dishes every night, but then that doesn't always happen either.

I know its time to vaccume when the black dog hair is making black tumble weeds that blow across the kitchen floor like in the westerns... lol.

LOL i have that problem too.

I have started threatening the boys "If toys are on the floor when you go to bed they go in the bin" last night they tested that. I was yelling out what i was picking up and putting into a bag, as I knew they were in bed awake, when I hit the Mach 5 speed racer I could hear sobs coming from their room. Everything I had to pick up has disappeared, when they learn their lesson it will reappear

[alioops]

If you want to come to my house at the moment there is nowhere to sit, nowhere to prepare food, and you need to have 4 wheel drive feet to get through my bedroom because of all the dirty washing. But Physically I can't do all of the things that need to be done every day. I can't walk the next day if I try! Plus all the kids stuff that is strewn all over the rest of the floor. I ma trying to get something done every day, like if I am waiting for the kettle at the moment I am trying to do a little bit of tidying in the kitchen, and while watching telly I try to do a little cleaning off of the couches, but it is a very slow process, and until my health is good enough it is not top priority. I have to take care of myself more than the house.

[Bathsheba]

The thing that demoralises me... and what I blame for not having a cleaner house... is that our home is old, and the satisfaction factor of cleaning surfaces is minimal... because areas like the bathroom still look cruddy even though they are technically clean

The worst room is the office.... it is a complete shambles. The best room is the kitchen... anything to do with food rivets me into action. My mother's kitchen is gross... ants in the pantry, overfull fridge etc... blah blah blah... the first thing I did when i returned from a holiday at her house (even after a 4 hours flight with unsettled kids) was to scrub my pantry because I was so traumatised by the sight of my mothers all the previous week! I literally walked in the door, dumped my suitcase and got to work!!! DH thought it was hilarious but thanked me profusely because he too found the sight of our clean kitchen soothing after such trauma (he tried to do a fair bit of cooking in my mother's kitchen as well).

I don't wash down walls as often as I would like... or sweep the floorboards.... or vacuum huge trailing dusty cobwebs from the ceilings... or clean the finger prints off the windows and mirrors... or put away clutter.

It was easier to get motivated when we owned our brandnew townhouse... but, I guess, with young kids it's actually easier to have a house with lots of wear and tear... it bothers you less at the end of the day. That's what I keep telling myself!

[mrsmac]

OMG Bath- I have never washed walls!!

My house looks reasonably tidy (not sparkling clean though) every saturday at lunch time after the whole family clean up we do each sat but it degenerates from then on!!
When DD1 had a boyfriend it was great cause she never wants them to see the state of our house usually so she cleans madly every time they came over!!

[Bathsheba]

My sis, BB member RoseHannah... put me to shame when she came down to stay by washing some of my walls With little kids I get lots of texta/foody finger prints etc on my walls that I generally ignore as much as possible. But it's pretty funny... when I go to visit her place I end up scrubbing something of hers (last time it was her stove top and washing down a midgy covered window)... doing other people's cleaning is MUCH more fun I find LOL.

[alioops]

So Bath, when are you coming to my place? I need someone who likes cleaning to visit!!

[sneakysparkle]

It's not.






The End.

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