Poll Do You Keep A Clean & Neat Home Or...?

[Sandstone]

The thread http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=4464859 on the Old Fashioned Money saving Forum of Money Saving Expert

And there are so many useful time and money saving hints, decluttering support and load of generally useful stuff on there

 

[The Albatross]

Left on my own devices I am relatively tidy. But I am married to a man who loves his stuff and it has slowey but surely taken over the house, three sheds and the attic. As my mom and mother in law are hoarders, it really plays hell with my ADD/ADHD. I find it quite anxiety producing to attempt initiating independ choices to deal with it in my home and in both of their homes. But I've had just about enough. I am tired of hearing, for example, "It will be better when I remodel the bathroom and bedrooms." Um that was 5 years ago. I am getting more assertive at home and have been helping our respective mothers deal with their "hoard" for this past year. It is frustrating.

Today I came in and instead of being able to clean, I helped move around my mom's hoard so she could bring in three bakers racks for her hobby area. No furniture went out. I had to cue myself to breathe. Minor setbacks only, but she did validate me a bit after last week when she acted out (my mom) and said "You live the same way I do." She did recollect that when I lived alone, it was not sparse, but it was attractively decorated, neat and tidy. I was single then though.

I said "Other"

Off topic a bit, but I just came in and am still a bit overwrought about my mom's house. We aren't cleaning it up so she can bring in more stuff... she needs to be able to accomidate her zero gravity chair, a walker and one day a wheel chair. It just ain't happening.

 

[MomOfTwo]

Prior to twins my house was immaculate. I still must line my towels up a certain way and both my husband and I are a bit fanatic about clean floors, bathroom and a kitchen. Dusting is one of the last things so my house can get dusty but it is clean and cleaner than most people that do not have children. I am obsessive I guess.

 

[aka]

I voted for "I'm quite neat and organized, but occasionally..." since I like thing at least organized if not neat. Not saying I have the cleanest place but there is a limit to how much mess I can deal with.

 

[a3a2]

Left on my own devices I am relatively tidy. But I am married to a man who loves his stuff and it has slowly but surely taken over the house,

I hear you, Albatross!

But I've had just about enough. I am tired of hearing, for example, "It will be better when I remodel the bathroom and bedrooms." Um that was 5 years ago. I am getting more assertive at home

I am proud to say, that while I cannot get a vehicle into my garage, as of today, I can see several feet of the floor!

 

[Privateer]

I am, by nature, a very organised person. Unfortunately, I'm also a very forgetful person. The combined effect of those two things is that I periodically put everything away nice and tidily, but I'll gradually take more and more stuff out then forget to put it back and forget where I left it, so my house goes through cycles of being pristine and being a pig-sty.

 

[who am i kim]

My mother was always a tidy freak. I took on that role too, until I could cope no more. I learnt that you did not have to be that tidy. Now I am going the other way as I find that with PTSD that I cannot do what I used to do. So I now only do what I can manage. Which is a little and not a lot these days. But my house is homely. :) I have learnt to deal with untidiness and look the other way, as I cannot do everything.

 

[txtrace]

My house has always been clean but lived in. I hate dishes in the sink or things out of place in the kitchen. My closets have always been organized by clothing season and color.

Of course, that was pre crash, ptsd and depression. Now it is easy to tell how I am doing emotionally & physically by looking inside my home. When I'm down or in pain things just don't get done like they should.

 

[Changing4Best]

Thanks, everyone, for your input. I've got some ideas now.

 

[Deleted member 1860]

I'm pretty messy.... I just have too much stuff!

 

[twopenny]

I'm hopelessly messy! But to be fair, I don't think that's ptsd, I think it's just me.

I get worse when I'm really unwell - as a teenager I got into a horrendous mess in the flat i lived in (quite disgusting), but at the time, I was going through a big hopelessness / self neglect phase. I've never been that bad since.

 

[DharmaGirl]

I love to have a neat and clean house, however I moved to a tiny house with a big back yard and have a giant son, two giant dogs and a rather large cat. I rent out my shop so there is even less space. Since I have a bad back, it is hard to clean. Actually, the PTSD dissociation makes it hard to clean.