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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Thank you.
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QOTD Tuesday (clean vs messy)
How clean is your house right now? If someone stopped by unexpectedly, would you be embarassed or totally cool with how your house looks?
Re: QOTD Tuesday (clean vs messy)
It's actually pretty clean. I was able to vacuum this weekend and clean the bathroom, and we've been staying on top of the kitchen. DS has even been helping put his toys away lately.
The bed's not made, but I wouldn't be embarrassed if anyone came by.
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There are some toys on the floor, but otherwise, the bathrooms are respectable, I sweeped/vacuumed the floor last night and the kitchen is tidy.
In general, our house tends to be "clean" but with a little bit of baby toys/destruction on the floor.
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Since DH has been travelling so much lately, and it is just me, my house is very clean. On any given day, it is about 80% clean, with the exception being the fact that my very fluffy furry pup sheds EVERYWHERE and I would have to vaccuum twice a day to keep up with it.
I'd be mildly embarrassed if someone came over in black pants and sat on my couch, though if I had ten minutes notice I could pull it together to be completely presentable.
Totally different story when DH is around, however.
The cleaning ladies just came yesterday, so come on over! It's probably good 'til Friday
We're a little slackerly when it comes to dealing with our piles of paper and putting away coats and stuff, so it can get to be messy. But I actively ignore the being embarrassed thing because my mom was so embarrassed by her piles when I was a kid that I was never allowed to let friends inside. I'm afraid of the slippery slope that can lead to that, so I will air some amount of my slobby side without much embarrassment. I can just blame it on T anyway :P
my house is clean every other thursday, when the cleaning ladies come!
sometimes, it's still clean by saturday morning. but after the kids get done with it, there is nothing clean about it.
it's usually not messy enough that i'd be embarrassed to have unexpected company - except right now. we are in the middle of purging and getting ready for a huge pick up from purple heart tomorrow. so there is stuff everywhere.
RIght now I would be a little embarrased. Problem is, you enter the house and you go straight into our living room (which is the main room we use). So the table is messy from last night and I am not sure I put the empty popcorn bowl in the sink at 2 am....
I would not have to go into witness protection, but I would be a little embarrased.
I would be embarrassed right now. We did a lot of laundry over the weekend and haven't put it away yet, we need to wash dishes, the bathroom needs cleaning, the floor needs vacuuming...
My dream is to have a cleaning lady.
We keep our more formal living room, kitchen and downstairs bathroom fairly guest-ready (although the living room really needs to be dusted), but our family room, bedrooms and upstairs bathrooms are pretty awful right now. LO's bedroom is ok, though.
We also desperately need to vacuum, but our old vacuum isn't really working and we can't decide on a replacement.
It's clean.
I vacuum every other day and pick up mail/clothes/dog toys on a daily basis.
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The cleaning ladies came a week ago and I tend to be a neat person to start, so the house is clean. Plus DH is gone until next week, so the house will remain clean
So I would totally be fine if someone showed up.
While it would not be on an episode of hoarders, I would be a little embarrassed at the state of it. But we don't have people over often.
DH and I have been slacking for the past few weeks since we were so busy in the month of October. We'll clean it this weekend and the following week since he has a friend and his GF who are staying with us the next weekend.
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normally, I am obsessively clean. BUT -- after the ceiling leak, I canceled the maids that week (two weeks ago) bc I didn't want to pay them to come when the drywall dust was going to be everywhere. I then got a promotion, and decided to use the raise to pay a painter to come in and fix it all and make it purty for the holidays. That started last weekend, and will continue on weekends only (we pay cash, get a great discount, but it takes a lot longer) which means the first floor is still in a HUGE bit of disarray. The maids are coming tomorrow, ceiling be damned, bc I just can't stand it any more.
Long way of saying - if you came today, I'd be mortified.
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