How clean is your home?

[Mike]

Very.

This.

[bcoop]

I hate that I'm not home enough to keep my house as clean as I would like. I hate clutter, and I hate a dirty house. A lot of nights I don't get home until 10 or later, and usually go straight to bed. The woman will be moving back soon, and she keeps a pretty clean house, so that will help.


I'm actually at home sick today, and getting the house under control is my priority.

[lowthreeohz]

I have a sunday routine that involves turning football on nice and loud (or pandora in the off season) and doing a good deep clean. laundry ,dishes, dusting, bedding etc.. all get done weekly and i get mighty irritable if it doesn't happen. only took 5 years or so before she got it all figured out

[KBScobravert]

I have a sunday routine that involves turning football on nice and loud (or pandora in the off season) and doing a good deep clean. laundry ,dishes, dusting, bedding etc.. all get done weekly and i get mighty irritable if it doesn't happen. only took 5 years or so before she got it all figured out

It is like they are Hard Learners. We start with subtle hints, maybe actual suggestions, then directions that they ignore and it takes setting shit on fire to get them to understand the way we want shit done.

My first wife would leave pots out. I started to make them disappear. She eventually figured out if she didn't want to keep buying pots and pans, she would do dishes.

On that note, God created the paper plate and plasticware for guys like me. I hate dirty dishes and Sams will sell me 1,000 paper plates for $11.

[mstng86]

I think this is what pisses me off the most. Coming home after being gone for 3 months and I have to hire someone to come clean or spend my time getting things the way I want it. It is a feat in body language control to not explode when I walk in the door after being away for 3+ months.

I am okay with the kid toys/mess, I am okay with the dogs toys but people mess drives me nuts.

She should have the common courtesy of you coming home to a nice clean house. IMO. Its not everyday you get to come home.

There is a long standing stereotype about men being messy and women being clean that needs to come to an end. Women are fucking nasty, and most of them are disorganized as hell. I can only imagine your situation, being gone in that hellhole so long to come home to a mess. You'd think she'd clean it up before you got there.

This!!
Unfortunately, I saw the signs of how messy my wife was when we were dating. Pussy clouded my judgement. LOL. She has gotten better now that we have our own home.

What does drive me crazy about peoples houses, is when they have a 2 car garage absolutely full of boxes of shit they haven't touched in decades and a 30k car sitting out in the North Texas weather getting sun damaged and beat up with hail. The last neighborhood I lived in it seemed like every house was that way. Only seen 1 or 2 like it since moving in here. People are crazy.

The friends garage I was speaking of in the first post is exactly like that. I asked for a drink and they said to pull it out of the fridge in the garage. I walked in the garage to a floor covered in dog food and basically a pathway to the fridge.

[lowthreeohz]

My first wife would leave pots out. I started to make them disappear. She eventually figured out if she didn't want to keep buying pots and pans, she would do dishes.

It took a few pairs of shoes and some purses and random jewelry before mine caught on. I'll tell her til im blue in the face, but as soon as i'm not in the room shit's back to normal.

[Big A]

I'm good about leaving a trail behind me during the week, and only pick up occasionally, but my place gets a fairly thorough cleaning on the weekends. The only thing I'm really bad about keeping up with regularly is the dusting.

I do prefer having a clean home though, and it's like getting a haircut when everything is back in place come Saturday or Sunday afternoon. As with a lot of you, the place is spotless when I am expecting planned visitors, even the dusting.

[talisman]

I'm good about leaving a trail behind me during the week, and only pick up occasionally, but my place gets a fairly thorough cleaning on the weekends. The only thing I'm really bad about keeping up with regularly is the dusting.

I do prefer having a clean home though, and it's like getting a haircut when everything is back in place come Saturday or Sunday afternoon. As with a lot of you, the place is spotless when I am expecting planned visitors, even the dusting.

I used to be really bad about dusting in my mid-20's. Like, only every 3 or 4 MONTHS. It was the one thing I had to figure out a way around. I finally figured out that even though I was organized, I owned too much stupid knickknack bullshit and moving it all around and cleaning it also was what annoyed me about it. I got rid of probably 20 1/18 scale cars and other junk, and it takes me ten minutes to do the whole house now. My 656 square foot condo would take me 30-40 minutes, and still not look great.

[mustang_revival]

I usually clean on Sundays too, but really need help on the regular deep cleaning. I really need to get a maid to come help me out twice a month..

[The King]

Mine is cluttered, but not dirty. One of my friends keeps her house FILTHY. If you walk across the kitchen floor with white socks on, they will be black by the time you reach the living room.

Roaches?

[MattB]

According to the Kirby vacuum salesman, I have the cleanest house he has ever been in, I told him that apparently I don't need his vacuum then and thanks for the free shampooing.

I had a Kirby guy come to the house yesterday and offer free carpet spot cleaning, or a free room cleaned or someshit. I declined the offer because I figured somehow they'd pressure me into some bullshit.

[Roscoe]

Not as clean as I would like, and I'm pretty anal.

We just moved and have been here 2 months. We haven't had a cleaner and I actually had to clean my own toilets... Can you believe it!?!?!

<-- trying to find a reputable cleaner ASAP

[Big A]

I used to be really bad about dusting in my mid-20's. Like, only every 3 or 4 MONTHS. It was the one thing I had to figure out a way around. I finally figured out that even though I was organized, I owned too much stupid knickknack bullshit and moving it all around and cleaning it also was what annoyed me about it. I got rid of probably 20 1/18 scale cars and other junk, and it takes me ten minutes to do the whole house now. My 656 square foot condo would take me 30-40 minutes, and still not look great.

I don't have many knick knacks, but my black printer, black glass desk, and black glass entertainment center show dust minutes after I clean them. The duster doesn't get it all, so I end up windexing everything. Perhaps if I did get in the habit of using the duster every weekend, it wouldn't build up, and a 5-minute dusting would suffice.

Something tells me that my anal side wouldn't be happy with that, as much as I can live in a little clutter, when I do get to cleaning I go at it tweaker style.

[4bangen]

I try to keep a clean house but I battle with my inner demons every time. I'm pretty much a full on hoarder. I have WAY too many things. I have spent this year trying to work on it, but it's hard for me to get rid of things.
I think "oh I can sell that one day" or "If I ever get another thunderbird that will be handy" “one day I’ll fix that” and “That’s hard to find, I may never have one again” and so on....
You can ask anyone that knows me, this year has been a lot different, I've gotten rid of 3 Mustangs, a Buick, Ranger, a Lincoln, an engine or two, a few truck loads of car parts, and 10+ boxes of random crap. A fellow board member or two have made off like bandits due to “the great junk purge of 2013!” lol I've contacted a few people who I'd loaned stuff to and told them not to give it back. I’ve thrown away stuff that I couldn't find new owners for and it's starting to feel good. I have room to breathe and its helping to fuel the fire. It’s a lot easier to clean when you don’t have stacks of shit everywhere.
Though I still have a lot of work ahead of me.

[BMCSean]

I had a Kirby guy come to the house yesterday and offer free carpet spot cleaning, or a free room cleaned or someshit. I declined the offer because I figured somehow they'd pressure me into some bullshit.

It was pretty funny, but my wife was pissed. Every time he said "it can do this" I made him prove it to me. He was cleaning baseboards, vents, I tried to get him to use the pet grooming thing on the cat but it freaked out. He was there for like 2 hours just having a good time, he didn't pressure me at all because he said he got paid to do the demo too. Then his "Boss" came and tried to hard sell, that is when I said thanks but now you need to go and walked them to the door.