House Pride

ah well, you want to see filthy come visit me. you probably wont want to come back again!

Hmm, I think we fit into the filthy category, though it has improved a lot after the MS left. We have a dog who shreds everything, and a cat who spreads the shredded stuff everywhere

I love a clean house too - I like everything to be in it's place as well - that doesn't mean it is though!!

We vacumn at least every other day but mostly every day, never go to bed with a messy kitchen and I try to make sure the whole house is tidy before bed. However I still have much to be done everywhere else... Walls, windows, skirting boards, bathroom ceiling all need cleaning and I just don't see when I can do it - Outside needs tidying too. I think Winter is a hard time for outdoor stuff though - roll on the spring clean!

Is there any way to keep on top of it all? If DP was more inclined to clean it would help but he does do the washing and vacumning now

alyxw I don't know if there is a way to keep on top of it all. I tend to do what I can when I can. I do washing everyday otherwise for some reason it seems to triple in size if I leave it any longer and then just the normal everyday stuff. Sheets get changed after DH's night shift's. I mop once a week but sweep and vacuum everyday. I try to do bathroom twice a week and fit anything else that needs to be done in where I can. My DH is wonderful and most of the time he vacuums and helps with dishes (he cooks every night he is home too) plus does anything I ask, but I hate asking as he works hard for us.

I used to be terrible as Kelly will tell you, have got much better lately, dishes done at night, dishwasher turned on after dinner and emptied for the next morning, washing folded and put in bedrooms, ready to put away.

We are slowly renovating our place and its so dusty all the time. It's driving me nuts. Every time I clean up the dust something else gets sanded and there is more dust. We've blown up 3 vacuum cleaners so far
We have 2 more rooms to do, and I can't wait to be done with dust. Then we can get carpet in which will be awesome. The place doesn't ever feel clean without carpet because the floors are all different, and the plywood floors are especially horrible underfoot. I don't want to get the carpet laid until I'm done with the sanding dust though, cos I don't want them to get filthy right away.
There is also clutter everywhere, cos half of the rooms are unusable or the old storage space has been dismantled and there isn't a new one yet. I got my towel cupboard finished last week so I don't have to keep my towels in a nice folded pile on the floor in the spare room. Sigh. We are making huge improvements to the house, but the process is doing my head in!! I hate the mess.

eta: I try and avoid having people round at the moment, and if I do have people round, I do a giant clean, and cram everything else in the spare room and shut the door. DH doesn't seem to get it though, and has been known to open the door to the catastrophic spare room to show someone something

Edited by T_Rex