Lazy housekeepers anonymous

[Santosha]

Oh you girls have NO IDEA how much I love you all right now. I'm usually more of a lurker but this thread made me grin so much I just had to post...

My name is Kat and today I cannot see my kitchen bench, nor my bedroom floor. I've always been pretty messy and lazy and it's embarrassed me. I feel like it is a sign that I somehow can't manage life or being an adult (a message with a whole lot of yucky family history behind it) and I seriously cringe and want to hide if anyone ever drops in on me. How is it that I can get a postgrad degree, manage a pretty full-on job etc. but I still take my clothes off and just dump them on the pile on my floor 'till I eventually run out of undies and have to chuck said pile in the washing machine??? Part of me is still 15!! Since I've become a Mum it's so much worse. Even less time and energy to do the bare minimum of stuff I used to do, and now added pressure on myself with the idea that if I were a really good mum I'd be better at 'keeping house'.

Now I see that a whole lot of women who I respect and admire (yes, I'm pretty quiet in here but I do read lots of your posts) live a bit like me!!! Yaaaaaaaaayyy. Lets all lie down on our loungeroom floors and make 'snow angels' out of the junk and toys to celebrate!!

[Kazbah]

Now I see that a whole lot of women who I respect and admire (yes, I'm pretty quiet in here but I do read lots of your posts) live a bit like me!!! Yaaaaaaaaayyy. Lets all lie down on our loungeroom floors and make 'snow angels' out of the junk and toys to celebrate!!

What a great idea!!!!! I have piles of clean folded clothes in baskets around my bedroom ... I keep saying that I want to empty out all the non-fitting clothes ... but it never happens.

[boomba]

My name is Kat and today I cannot see my kitchen bench, nor my bedroom floor. I've always been pretty messy and lazy and it's embarrassed me. I feel like it is a sign that I somehow can't manage life or being an adult . but I still take my clothes off and just dump them on the pile on my floor 'till I eventually run out of undies and have to chuck said pile in the washing machine??? Part of me is still 15!! Since I've become a Mum it's so much worse. Even less time and energy to do the bare minimum of stuff I used to do, and now added pressure on myself with the idea that if I were a really good mum I'd be better at 'keeping house'.

Now I see that a whole lot of women who I respect and admire (yes, I'm pretty quiet in here but I do read lots of your posts) live a bit like me!!! Yaaaaaaaaayyy. Lets all lie down on our loungeroom floors and make 'snow angels' out of the junk and toys to celebrate!!

thats me to a T.....snow angels here I come :P

[~me~]

My name is Heather...and I just don't see the point!!

I don't iron, never have. My DH does the vacuuming as I don't see the point when not 5mins later it needs doing again.
Mmmmm, generally my as my thingy says, my house is clean enough to be healthy and dirty enough to be happy. Live and die by that
Get the basics done and that's about it really.

[thepixie]

Hi I'm thepixie and I may never have mopped the floorboards in my current house (been here since August 09). It's been at least six weeks since I cleaned the bathrooms and then I couldn't be bothered to clean one of the shower screens in DD's bathroom cause it would have been feral again that night. We even have a robotic vacuum cleaner and half the time I don't let it run cause I can't be bothered to tidy up the toys from the floors... Our landlords came over last week and I didn't even clean for them .
My excuse is that I work three days and just trying to stay on top of the dishes and laundry and look after DD is all I can do.... but I didn't really do it when I was a SAHM either.... I just hate cleaning. A clean house is the sign of a broken computer.

Im too lazy to even make up a story about maybe cleaning my house in the near future

:yeahthat:
But I would love to get a cleaner.... definitely on the list for when we have money again.. whenever that may be

[ss_storm]

Lets all lie down on our loungeroom floors and make 'snow angels' out of the junk and toys to celebrate!!

hahahahaha...that made my night!

[Liviam]

Hi my name is Liviam and I couldn't think when I last cleaned my house . I have mount washmore to do tonight as well as picking up my kids toys but I'm on BB and heading to bed soon.

[Muffy]

Hi my name is laura and im a BB addict.. oh no wait we're talking about cleaning!!!!

Hi my name is laura and my house is a complete mess.
The only thing i do everyday is vaccume because i hate seeing crumbs on the floor.
My bathroom gets cleaned.. whenever i feel like it... every couple of months or so
My dishes.. well... when i dont have a clean glass LOL
I really need to change DS's sheets but i havnt washed the last lot i put in the laundry basket ohhh say a month or 2 ago :S
I havnt folded the washing in about 2 months its now getting to the point where its a massive task to find something to wear (like undies hehe)

oh god i feel gross
*runs and hides*

[mrsmac]

I'm HOME!!!! At last i have found like minded women LOL

I am a hopeless cleaner, I usually say its cause I work full time but in reality I am just lazy LOL

[MrsFabuloso]

OMG, I love you all for being lazy housekeepers.....thankyou for making me feel normal!!!

My dishes are only washed because DH did them.

My bed hasn't been changed for god knows how long. I too still have the sheets from last time I changed them in the bottom of the washing basket.

I have 2 over flowing baskets of washed clothes to fold. One load in the dryer to get out. One load in the washing machine to rewash because I was too lazy to get out said load from the dryer. Then I have an overflowing basket of clothes to be washed...who knew we had sooo many clothes!

I have half a big container of veggie soup int he fridge which I made about 2-3weeks ago that needs to be thrown out. Thankfully it doesn't smell yet. Maybe when it does it will make it to the bin...

The only thing I have cleaned recently is the toilet and floor around it because DD peed all over the seat and floor

The ensuite bathroom hasn't been cleaned in who knows how long. That's DH's responsibility though!

The display cabinet is full of *****. I don't even know what's on it. I don't know what colour it is anymore it's been so long since I've seen it.


Usually I'm a bit of a clean freak....but lately (is the last 6mths- at least!!) I have come to the realisation that really, who gives a ****. If I don't neither does DH, the kids clearly couldn't care less....it's only my mother and the little devil she's left on my shoulder telling me I'm lazy and that she's taught me better that really care....and you know what, I've got better things to do!

[Muffy]

I have half a big container of veggie soup int he fridge which I made about 2-3weeks ago that needs to be thrown out. Thankfully it doesn't smell yet. Maybe when it does it will make it to the bin...

errr im guilty of that too... i have sooo many containers in the fridge that need to be emptied but that means more dishes... ahh its a vicious cycle....

[Fleur]

Oh, I love you all, you have made my night.

I'm so lazy I can't even be bothered telling you how lazy I am right now.....

oh wait, that's not fair

Can't rememebr the last time I cleaned the ensuite, or the oven, (but hey no-one looks in there)... I did scrub the kids bath the other night but that was because I had to rinse out the spilt bubble bath, so I used the facewasher to rub at the really dirty bits while I was there. That's called multi-tasking

[feeb]

OMG I love you all!!!! So glad I am not the only lazy person.

We get a cleaner once a fortnight as when DS1 was a newborn I couldnt get anything done as he had to be held all the time and the house was getting me down, now with 2 not a hope in hell of me getting it all done.

I always have washing to be done, washing to be folded, washing to be put away!! I regularly re wash a load as to lazy to fold other washing to make space to hang more!
I dont iron!! I dont even fold DS1 clothes as he pulls them out drawer and chucks on floor!

I have stuff covering bench, buffet, chest of drawers etc, I always meen to sort stuff but it doesnt happen.

Always have stuff in fridge needing chucked!!!!!!!!!!!

[ss_storm]

We moved to this house early December and still have two and a half rooms that haven't been sorted out yet...one is the office which has DF's desk sorted out (not tidy though but that is his problem) and the other two are storage rooms, they just have boxes of **** stuffed in them, I don't know where to start!
ALso have a giant pile of the last 7 or so months of paperwork that needs to be filed away, includes a TON of invoices from DF's business! I think I just need a box labelled 'filing cabinet' to dump it all in

[Sopdet]

My name is allycat and I am a binge housekeeper
I go on cleaning 'benders' for a couple of days each fortnight....then nothing

This is sooo me. I can't see the floor in our 2nd bedroom/study but that is because the contents of the bookcases are all over the floor. But that room is number 1 on the cleaning hit-list as we've got family arriving in 2 weeks to come and stay.

The rest of the house is reasonably tidy (but I did spy a few dust bunnies making a run for it across the dining room floor last night)

[Glamourcide]

My name is Heather...and I just don't see the point!!

Amen, sister!! I am FOREVER announcing to DH that there's just NO POINT, if I mop the floors so they sparkle, the kids come out five minutes later and spread toys, dirty clothes, half-chewed food and bits of dirt everywhere, the cats and dog spread their hair around; they splash around in the bath so the floor gets filthy again and DH can't seem to aim the toothpaste flecks downward so the vanity gets filthy; if I scrub the kitchen benchtops I'm just going to see a clean space as an opportunity to cook something else and make more mess to wipe up... I spend all day cleaning and in two minutes it's trashed! Why bother?! I could spend those wasted hours doing something FUN instead

[boobaloo]

*snigger* this thread is right up my alley...

hi, my name is Boobaloo, and i dread the thought of people just 'dropping in' for a visit, especially anyone in my family as they are all anal-retentives about cleaning.

my house is a $hit-fight at the moment, and i just cannot be arsed doing anything, i hate mess, but am incredibly lazy about doing anything about it. i think it comes down to the whole 'why should i bother, when my kids are messy buggers who will untidy it behind me...'

the only time my house gets a reallllllyyy big clean is when my mum is coming to visit, and she's in afghanistan, so at least she can't surprise me... but i live in fear anyway

i think dp is finally getting a bit fed up though...

[crumpet]

OMG i feel normal!!!!

my name is sam and im a lazy thing when it comes to housework....

i really cant see the point in mopping weekly or even more often when the floor boards still look shiney from 4 weeks ago....
why vacum the carpet when the dogs are going to put more hair on there anyway??(this WILL change when worm comes!!)
why wash 2 plates, 2 knifes, 2 forks, 2 glassed and a pot and oven tray every night when i can delay it for 3 days and not waste water????

yep housework is over rated and no one ever appreciated it so why bother?!?!?!?!


love this thread!!!