What type of a home do you keep?

In my extensive experience with roommates, I'd say people are almost never as clean as they purport.

Basically clean, I like having things clean but I do stack up some stuff here and there or sometimes my "clothes chair" needs some work.

I keep my downstairs very clean, always fresh flowers...upstairs is a bit more lived in.

You writing a book, OP?

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My house is clean yours isn’t

No one is mentioning what kind of a home their mother kept vs. the type of home they now keep....

I grew up in a very chaotic home, my mother eventually became a hoarder. I keep my house clean and mostly orderly, especially kitchen and bathrooms. I set the table every night for dinner. I love eating at the dining table, something we didn't do too often growing up. I also make my bed every morning, it's just a comforter and shams, so it just takes seconds. When I visit my sister I'm reminded of how we grew up, her kitchen counter is packed with crap, no room to even prep food.

Clean-ish organized chaos

I have to have order: furniture in place, clothes stored away, everything tidy and in its place. Beyond that the kitchen and bathrooms are always clean and everything in its place, and the floors clean looking and no dust or dirt on view.

I care much less for surgical cleanliness in other areas. If there is dust under the beds (and there is), I'm not bothered. If a white glove were to be run along the tops of window and door trim, I'm not troubled if there's a not unreasonable dust accumulation. The.clothes inside closets and cheats of drawers are roughly organized, rarely folded, almost never ironed. The drawers of my desk have no evident order to anyone else's eye.

Above all, I value everything being in its place and no clutter beyond stacks of books I'm reading. Outside of a couple.types.of rooms, cleanliness is very much secondary to spotlessness.

Advantage: people alway mistake.order for cleanliness, so they credit tidy you for being cleaner than you are.

When my house gets too messy I pull out my Cat In The Hat Cleaning Machine, and presto. All is neat and tidy.

Pretty much neat and clean but I need to clean the clutter from my closets. I've been putting it off.

Organized - I HATE stuff thrown on the floor or couch and clutter! Chaotic environments stress me out (although I forget where I put stuff away a lot lol). However, my bed is not made unless I have guests (I sit in it with my laptop for work) and a few dishes in the sink (for a day at most). Also, hate mopping, dusting and folding clothes - necessary evils (since my housekeeper moved back to Guana).

Oh, my mother was a housewife - very neat, very clean home with hot breakfast, hot dinner every day with mandatory chores every night (dishes😣) and weekends (floors, laundry, mowing, raking, shoveling ugh!). Thankfully, she insisted on doing the bathrooms. Definitely rebelled as an adult!

Mom's house: nice, but too much stuff on every surface. Closets full of stuff. Difficult to clean / vacuum, because you have to move stuff, first.

My house: uncluttered. Easy to clean and vacuum. I'm not obsessive about cleaning, but I do keep track of how often I do certain things like vacuuming, washing the mattress pad / cover, toilet, etc.

I have enough going on without adding being a clean freak. Ain’t nobody got time for that!

My wife keeps a good house.

I used to be a professional housecleaner and had about twelve regular accounts. I would say I was OCD about each house and getting my daily routine done properly. When asked about my house, I would just laugh and shake my head. Here, the kitchen and bathrooms fairly clean and orderly and there is a bit of clutter here and there, but I'm very relaxed about weekly dusting. That's my least favorite chore. I quickly make the bed tidy and nice-looking everyday- maybe for good luck. But,if we expect a guest, I do a quick once-over.