Category: Let's talk
admit i got this idea from a conversation a few days ago (thanks for this one cody!)
how clean/ tidy is your house?
i live alone, and i'm really not concerned with things being spotless. yeah it's nice to have things put away, and it's nice to spend as little time as possible tripping over stuff, but with me- yes things are put away, but not always in the right place
like i'd finish with a cup, but in sted of putting it in the cup drawer, i'd just put it back where ever- i'm not bothered because i can find it again.
as for things on the floor, i am always leaving my clothes in the corner of the room- just my clothes though nothing else like food or anything
so i guess pretty tidy but not really 100 percent organised
I live alone, but still like my place clean and neat. I’ve been called a neat freak, but I would say it is just home training as a child that makes me this way, plus it is comfortable.
I’m not comfortable if my place isn’t picked up.
I vacuum daily, or every other day depending on traffic.
That means carpet, and hard floors too.
I wash dishes daily, sometimes twice a day, depending, and it is just me.
Now and again, I’ll leave dirty dishes over night, but usually not.
The top, inside, and oven on my stove are clean. You can open the top and run your hand under where the burners and feel no food. I clean the stove pans as they get dirty too.
The hood and fan are grease free, and because I don’t fry, it is easy to keep that way.
I clean out my cabinets often from the dust. All my small appliances are ready to use and I wipe them down daily when I’m cleaning the kitchen.
Inside the fridge is clean.
Floors are mopped maybe every 3 days depending, same with my bathroom as to cleaning it.
I do laundry weekly, or when my basket is full.
I have a cleaning day once a week, but on days out, I do small things to keep up.
Nothings on the floor, tables, counters that doesn’t belong, and I have specific places that things go.
I have some glass surfaces, so use glass cleaner on these.
I clean my windows often, and the blinds.
I guess the only thing I don’t do is wash walls, but I do wipe down the door frames and doors touched often. The pictures and such on the walls I dust often to keep the dust off.
I don’t keep anything I’m not using. I give it away, or if broken, toss it.
I wash my trash cans often when they get dirty, because I don’t use plastic bags in them.
So, that is me.
I also live alone. My routine is similar to Poster #2. I like things neat and tidy with a place for everything and everything in it's place. I will never be accused of being a horder. I pay someone who comes in every couple weeks to clean, but I find it's easier to keep things neat as I go. I find it easier to locate something if I have a pretty good idea where it is if I ever need it.
Same as poster 2 and poster 3, except I line trash cans with plastic bags. Have somebody sighted do the windows which I pay for. Nothing against dogs, but I grew up with 2, and I felt like I was breathing and eating hair a lot. I have no animals and live alone. To each his own. Interesting topic.
I find that the older I get the more I clean. When I was younger, my house could be a bit of a disaster. It wasn't ever nasty, just cluttered.
Things that didn't bother me as a yung person now drive me to distraction. lol
It is a rare occasion that I leave dishes in the sink over night but I'm not going to say it doesn't happen.
Since my move last month, I'm working very very hard on seriously organizing my shit. There's still a bit of disarray because of my unpacking and everything not having found it's new permanent place but my goal is for that to happen sooner rather than later.
My biggest challenge, aside from the 12-year-old mini-me who also lives here, is keeping the hard floors as clean of dog and cat hair as I would like. My goodness! I have yet to find a good hard floor vacuum and I suck at sweaping no matter how many different methods I try. Nothing pisses me off more than to spend 30 minutes sweaping or vacuuming a room then to walk across the floor and feel dust under my feet. GRRR. lol
I would have to agree with Goddess that I used to be a lot messier when I was younger. It was common to walk through my apartment and have to wade through beer cans, pizza boxes, Taco Bell wrappers, etc. I would also add that finding dust and crap on my wood floors is frustrating. Bea is right, this is an interesting topic.
I could never stand that. Even as a college guy, I just had to have it clean.
Maybe I'll do the other and get messy as I age?
Laughing.
Sometimes dust plows in if your windows are open. If you wax, or use a floor cleaner with wax, it keeps that dust from sticking, so you won't feel it if you sweep.
I vacuum with the regular vacuum sweeper I use on the carpet, but you need to have it on the loest setting, and it also must be clean, as to the hoses, and bag inlets. A clean vacuum sweeper provides strong suction, but a dirty one just kicks some of the dirt around.
If you don't understand how to clean your vacuum, take it to a shop about every 6 months or so, and have it serviced.
I'm a lot like DG. I didn't mind mess when I was younger. I didn't like my place to get disgusting, but had no problem with dishes in the sink, or not dusting/vacuuming for awhile, etc. As she said, a bit of a disaster. LOL. I too have gotten a lot cleaner as I've gotten older. Now that Mark and I are together, and we have a place we both like, it helps with keeping it cleaner. In places where I didn't really like my apartment, or when I was alone, it was harder to care about keeping it clean. Now I care more. We also have a cat, and I find that being a pet owner gives me incentive to keep the place cleaner. It's a little more difficult, but I keep up with it. Partially because the cat shouldn't have to live in a messy situation any more than us, and also because I refuse to be one of those pet owners where the first thing you smell when you walk in the house is that they have a cat. That's nasty!
I'd love to have the money to pay for a cleaning service! That's not a blindness thing. Mark and I are both blind, and we keep a clean place. It's just that I hate cleaning, and if I had the money, I'd pay someone to do it for me. Lazy yes, but there it is. I've used services like that before when I was employed, and will again if finances allow.
i'm clean, but some of you.... ouch!!!! glad you are happy but I would not vacuum every day. well actually I don't do that. if operated by me, vacuums die a horrid painful death. seriously without trying I've sent several to the hospital and a couple had to go to be used for cleaning the heavenly hallways. my husband does this chore once a week. no more and no less. also in our home chores are divided . for example I cook and launder. he does the dishes and vacuums. this system works for us. it would be great to have a cleaning service once a month to come in and double check and fix places we might have missed. so far the husbandd takes this suggestion as a personal affront. good friends tell me quietly what needs fixing.
I am pretty well clean over all. I do have some days when everything hits the fan and is a disaster for a couple of days then I go to town and clean it up.
I have moved and am working on a new routine but everythings pretty good so far.
I vacume every 3 days so like on the 3rd, 6th, 9th, 12th, 15, 18th, 21st, 23rd, 26th, 29th, then the 3rd again.
It helps me stay on task and keeps the dog fur down.
I have a steam mop and use it on these same days.
I have an under the cabnant trash can that is screwed on the cabnant door. It uses grocery bags and I take it out daily.
I wipe down my bathroom counter, sink, toilet and shower just about every day.
Lawndry as needed.
other things like windows I wish I did more often but I guess I am doing them about once a month and I polish my leather furniture monthly.
Switches and such weekly and then my fridge weekly as well.
I am that kind of a person that will pick up as I go along. Always fixing and straitening the coutch pellows and such.
Ooh, like DG post 5, the fur is the bane of my existence! We have two dogs, one's a shepherd, and a power shedder, so I try to vacuum daily, but it's never going to be perfect. I'm a bit concerned about the babies drowning in this fur, when they're here!
When I have lived alone, my apartments have been nearly spotless, and I often wish I still lived on my own, just because it's so much easier to keep things organized and clean! And only one dog helps a lot. I'm afraid I tend to get unreasonably irritable at having to clean up after someone else... and I'll clearly have to deal with that much more gracefully and better than I do; it's just part of living with another person. I just hate to see dishes and mail and random things left on the couch or piled on end tables, when they have a place, and items not put in the pantry, food stuck to the stovetop, when it takes less than a minute to wipe it off after use! *grump*
LOL and I thought I was horrible. I hate having to clean and then go back to find someone has messed it all up again.
violet blue, once you ave two toddlers, you will learn what true mess is. I have irish twins. my son and daughter are 15 months apart. for two years you just wipe up, mop up and put away. then your partner comes home from work and says "whi's this house a mess?" after he does this once he learns that is not a helpful and constructive attitude.
as for dog fur, they wil survive. having two wonderful oggies is much better for them then living in an operating room. enjoy your day.
Naw. You needs a paddle.
Dude leaves food on the stove, you tell him to bend over.
Doesn't take out the trash, bend over.
Pee on the toilet seat, well, bend over, but in that case he's got to kiss the seat, or get an extra ten.
You get the idea.
Laughing.
Dishes go straight into the dishwasher here. If it's full, I wash 'em by hand immediately.
Wayne, you're a treasure! And I wish you could hear what a great laugh I had, over your last post. Thank you! *still chuckling* I like that plan, I do, I do! Hahaha What fun.
I don't live alone but I am pretty tidy. If I feel a dish on the counter or in the sink, I immediately wash them. Sweeping and mopping... I don't usually do it but when I do, there is always a little bit of dust here and there.