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Your house and company
Is your house ready to have company over at a moments notice? How picky are you when having people over?
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yeah - its not spotless by any means, but I wouldn't be embarrassed if somebody just dropped by.
there are random cheerios/animal crackers/other kid related clutter in my house at all times - except the day after the cleaning lady is there.
If people can't handle that, we probably aren't friends.
Definitely not. I am trying to get better about it. I am a cluttered person (physically and mentally) and I am consciously making an effort to clean something up every day. My Mom didnt keep the house clean and organized growing up. Heck, my grandmother is/was a hoarder (I say was because she now lives with my aunt). Like almost as bad as on Hoarding: Buried Alive. For realz.
I feel badly about my lack of cleaning/organizational skills because DH grew up in a home where his mom cleaned daily. She still does. She is ready for company all the time. I'm trying, MIL. I promise.
This is why I love having dogs. They fix our cheerios/cracker problem.
Nope. My house is rarely company-ready. H and I are both disorganized and it shows. Plus we have dog hair everywhere (two dogs who shed a lot = sweeping daily only does so much.) We clean every weekend though, it just doesn't keep. So our house isn't "dirty" but its not company-ready. I try to clean before a party or something, but if we're having good friends over, then I don't especially care - that's why they're good friends.
I think if one of us was organized we wouldn't have an issue, but we're both kind of "meh" about mail all over the dining room table and the like, so it just builds up.
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Absolutely not. Luckily we seem to live too far away for anyone to want to come see us. The only person who comes over regularly is FIL but he just comes in the back door and helps DH work on the basement. Our whole house is a disaster.
Actually MIL was over the other day waiting for carpet people while both DH and I couldn't be there and as usual the house was a mess. I'm embarrassed that our house is the way it is and especially with my parents and DH's parents I feel it reflects poorly on me as a wife and an adult. No one ever says anything though.
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OMG no. My house is never clean on a moments notice.
How picky I am about whether people see certain aspects of my dirty house depends on who it is...I get heartburn whenever my FIL or MIL come over because our house is a pigstye compared to theirs. But our friends or my family, as long as the kitty litter is clean and not strewn across the bathroom floor, the kitchen counters are wiped and we've vacuumed at some point it the past month I'll call that good enough.
My bed is never made and there is usually a pile of laundry in the laundry room. don't care about those. I do get embarassed about the random piles of paper and cat hair tumbleweeds though.
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Ok yea no one is allowed in our apartment because it is a complete disaster. No seriously. We have lived here for almost a year now and my parents haven't been over since we moved in and they helped move us! same goes for his parents. The only one that has really been there is DHs uncle and he is usually only there for like 5 minutes if that! Its seriously horrible. I think it is one of my anxiety issues that i am trying to work on and i am seriously majorly overwhelmed with it. I need on of those cleaning shows to come in and help! My car is the same way!!! I just don't have the slightest idea where to start when it comes to cleaning and organizing!
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Tygress - Isn't 6 old enough to put away her own clothes and toys? I mean, not that she won't make a mess, but she could help you clean it up and keep it clean.
How's her ankle?
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Yea but i think its to the point that it is just way to overwhelming now. I know it is seriously overwhelming for me so i can't possibly see how its not for her. So my plan is to get it completely cleaned (with her help) and start completely new. Where she is going to be the one keeping it cleaned!!! I was in there cleaning last night and she was helping me some.
Her ankle is doing tons better! The swelling is totally gone now and shes back up and running around like a nut!!!
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Our house isn't a mess, but it's not super clean and neat either.
When I know people are coming over, I just make sure the toilets/sinks are wiped down, and I've vacuumed recently. I don't freak out about making sure everything is spotless though.
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With having someone come in every 2-weeks to give it a thorough cleaning, our house stays in pretty good shape. We could stand to vacuum more often as a general rule of thumb, but I'm pretty on top of the clutter, the bathrooms don't get gross, and I tend to wipe the kitchen down every night when I'm doing dishes after dinner.
Nope, not ready for company at all. When it was just the two of us, sure. Now it's cluttered with DD's stuff, stuff we haven't gotten to, cleaning that needs to be done...it's like we are always doing a major clean instead of just keeping up with it.