What kind of a housekeeper are you?
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December 8th, 2009
Are you crazy about the details, or are you OK with going “Meh.” sometimes.
For example, it’s raining. Again! We have three dogs who just love to go in and out, in and out. Of course, in weather like this they track their muddy little paw prints all through the house. I have mostly bare floors (no more wall to wall carpet for me again, ever!)
My response is, “Meh.” After the muddy little paw prints dry and turn into dirt, I’ll sweep. I’ll sweep once or twice a day, just a lick and a promise, but I’m not about to start mopping the messes up until the weather dries out. So, live with “dirty” floors for two or three days. And I just say “Meh.” I am the knightess that says, “Meh.”
Would you, on the other hand, stress about it, and rush around mopping the prints up?
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Ahahahahahahahaha! You don’t wanna know!
I wish I had a housekeeper! If my floors get attention once a week, I ain’t doing too badly….(considering more than half the time I’m at home mon-fri is spent sleeping, I don’t see the point in manic cleaning)
“Meh” is too intense to describe my housekeeping.
I swear I have OCD. When I see a mess I have to clean it up.
I’m ok with meh. My room is clean, but not neat. I’m the kind of person who is chaotically organized. I know where everything is and that’s good enough for me. Every now and then I get bit by the cleaning bug and I put all the stuff in my room away. Then during the next week I spend more time trying to find what I need than actually using it.
As for the dog thing, we used to have three big dogs living here. We’d have a towel by the front door to dry off their paws before they went galloping all over the house. It worked pretty well and they were used to stopping by the door to clean up.
Whisper “Swiffer Wet Jet”, “Mrs. Meyers all purpose cleaner”, “Comet” and “Green Apple Windex” in my ear. It’s like foreplay. ;-)
I love to clean. Love, love, love it.
MommyVal just kicked me out D:
my floors gleam. my bathrooms are as clean as a hotel. all my washing is put away. my back hurts so bad I can barely walk
@trailsillustrated In other words, you wouldn’t be stupid enough to have three indoor-outdoor dogs! (Sorry about your back. I know. I get ShopVac back too….)
@Val123 I could not handle 3 dogs. I’d have a breakdown. I think your’e lucky
When I start cleaning my room on a regular basis, everyone will check my apartment for pods.
@trailsillustrated It was all rather an accident. I married a dog lover. I think I’m lucky too, in that it just isn’t in my nature to “sweat the small stuff.”.....I don’t like it, I prefer clean, but I’m not going to kill my self making it happen when I’ll just be spinning my wheels…
@KatawaGrey Pods?
hehe, Im bout ready for some pods
I go through phases. I’m on the disabled list lately so the housework is sliding a bit. There is a point where I just can’t stand it anymore and clean like the devil. Then I go back to meh.
I’m an indifferent housekeeper. There’s always clutter around, but as long as the bathrooms and kitchen are clean, we all have clean clothes (folding and putting away are optional), and the rabbit’s cage isn’t stinky, I’m perfectly happy.
With three kids, mopping the floors is extremely frustrating. As soon as I’m done, which takes a while because the main living areas of the house have hardwood floors, someone spills something sticky or runs in from the back yard with muddy shoes on. I swear, clean floors are dirt magnets. So, I sweep as needed but avoid mopping for as long as possible. The kids clean their rooms when they get too cluttered, I vacuum when the rooms start to look too cruddy, and clean windows when we can’t really see out of them.
It’s probably a good thing we don’t have a dog, because the muddy paw prints and shed hair would bother me and I’d have to sacrifice time playing with my kids, reading, and Fluthering to clean those things up!
I can’t stand clutter. I have to put everything away immediately. I can’t stand more than a couple dishes in the sink. However, when it comes to messes I can’t easily see, I’m a little more lax, (I can let vacuuming slide for a few days).
Pretty good, not as much as in years past. If I’m living with someone then I’m better but at home I’ll let a few plates stay on my dresser or a glass on the sink and dust on the window sill. As long as laundry is kept up, my bed is made and the bathroom is clean then I feel like a success.
I’m pretty much with @Snarp but I want to be like @jmah. My house is cluttered, but there is nothing gross going on. It is relatively clean, just messy. It drives me nuts, but I can’t seem to figure out how to get it together.
I am so a ‘meh’! If company is coming I go at it like crazy. But then I’ll put all the clutter in a grocery bag, put the bag in a closet and forget about it!! Only to have to tear the house apart to find something important!
@Val123: Yeah, cuz if I started cleaning, it would mean that there was a clone of me living my life that had emerged from a pod.
My house is cluttered, and dusty, and nothing is in its right place, but then I have children, dogs and a husband. Someday I will be able to keep the house they way I like it, neat and dust-free but not necessarily spotless. And I will be able to find things, like scissors.
@Darwin (My husband’s been out of town for three weeks. My house is staying so much cleaner all by itself. WTH? Why is that? Would my house be staying much cleaner all by itself if I was the one gone for three weeks, and my husband was home alone? That would be an interesting question….)
@Val123 – I think you already know the answer to that question. :-)
I do…but WHY is that? I don’t understand….he’s not a slob or anything, but the floors, the kitchen, everything just stays cleaner….
It’s the oblivious gene. It is present in almost all children to some degree, becomes particularly active at puberty, but only turns off in women at maturity. It may become slightly more inactive in adult men, but it never turns off entirely. That is a good thing as it is part of what makes them think you are sexy in the morning before you brush your teeth.
I notice that my mother and I both have the unconscious habit of picking up stray items, wiping down counters, and straightening pillows and pictures wherever we go. OTOH, I have never seen any man do that except one who was a self-confessed “clean Nazi.” It adds up, you know.
@Darwin True that! I do the same thing…I’m going into the kitchen, so I grab whatever glass or dish in front of my and take it with me. Pick this up, pick that up. Rick does NOT do that! In fact, LOL, say there’s an empty box on the floor, and he happens to kick it as he’s walking across the floor. His response is NOT to pick it up and get it out of the way, his response is to kick it harder, on purpose, so it just skids across the floor to another part of the room! And that repeats itself over and over, with the same box!
I have an illness…I think..=Z Everything is organized, my closet is by color, my shelves all are in order and I have tons and tons of shelves. The beds are made every day or it bothers me until they are. I Cannot stand anything to be out of it’s place.(friends will pick on me when they visit and make bets on how long it takes for me to see something out of place..=Z) I clean the kitty litter 3 times a day after one cat. I have two dogs in this house and you would never know it. I bathe the dog once a week. I take care of an elderly uncle too, cleaning my house is a full time job. I recently had to hire a maid, I am sure she thinks I am crazy, however she gets paid so I don’t care what she thinks. I can no longer keep up with everything the way I want to due to my RSD.
Sometimes I wish I was not like this because it is so stressful at times. Who wants to spend all their free time cleaning right? I have to have a deep cleaning once a week, (all furniture gets moved, curtians swept down, dusted, scrubbed on hands and knees and shampooed if needed) swept, cleaned and tidied every day. I have 27 rooms down to about 3–4 hours daily. It takes at least 9–10 once a week.
The maid comes in 3 times a week, yet I am still cleaning. My poor husband..=( I tell him not to stress over leaving stuff about but I know he does. He says he loves how clean our home is, but I am sure it drives him batty when I am constantly picking up and cleaning up.
@buttkisses Man! Not me!! I like a clean house, but I like my down time and sanity too!
@buttkisses – I have a friend with a similar problem. She started a cleaning service, so she still cleans all day long but now people give her money to do it.
BTW, if you want to give your husband a break, my house desperately needs cleaning. :-)
LOL The thing is I don’t like doing it…I hate it…but I cannot just let it go. I didn’t use to be quite so bad, but since I built this house for some reason it has just gotten worse over the years. I have this image in my head that I think I am obessed with, not the cleaning so much but the image?? If that makes sense? I designed this house from bottom up, and from day one I have pictured it a certian way and that is the ONLY way it seems the house can be at all times…I think I developed my own OCD?
My step mom asked me to help her with her home a while back and I turned her down, the thoughts of cleaning her house was a turn off. So it is not the cleaning so much,that I enjoy or am obessed with. It is the look. =Z
@buttkisses Ah! We gotta help you! What can we do, guys??
Have you ever heard of this? Is it OCD? or whatever they call it..my daughter says it to me all the time. I have already cleaned half the house today, as it was cleaned yesterday..sigh If I don’t put everything the way that it should be and the nap of the carpet is not one way and the sinks are not dry it really eats me up. I get anxious and want to get it done ASAP. I cannot just leave it.
I have actually waited while the cat finished pooping so I could scoop it
Um….seriously. You might want to talk to a professional about this before you turn yourself into a wreck….
Thats what I was thinking, but was afraid to admit. I know nothing of how OCD works or if it can even be developed or cured. I sometimes want to just kick myself I hired a maid =(
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My husband doesn’t care what I do, just as long as I am happy. He thinks I am happy cleaning the way I do, but I’m not Sometimes he gives me these looks like I am from another planet, but I give him those looks too..LOL
Thanks responding…=)
I have a feeling your maid won’t do it just the way it should be done, though!
LOL no she doesn’t but she does do the sweeping the way I asked, drys the sinks when she is done cleaning them, but there are things she just doesn’t know..=Z I cannot bring myself to tell her so I just do it when she leaves. The sweeping of the house is the hardest thing for me to do with the RSD in my foot. So I pay her to basically sweep…she does an ok job in the bathrooms, the dusting though…sigh It is not her fault…it is me and I know it.
LMAO I hooked you up to a link in the other Q&A..it is too hard to explain proper..
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