Are you the "domestic "type?

I used to have a Martha Stewart's standards but as I am now older, doing all the work, it is not her standard. I really try to keep things neat. I do not have dirty dishes or a unclean kitchen and bathrooms. My problem is clutter with things that we buy and have no room to put them away without discarding old things. A few items did get taken care of last week.

Good thing no one comes in and says "What a mess".
 
I was never a domestic queen….but hey you marry guys who were bachelors and the bar is pretty low. Whenever I used to expect company I would look around and wonder what others saw. Then for a time I just told people I was going to put a paper bag over their head when they came into the house. The house I spend most of the time at is neat…most of the time. Bathroom is clean…
 
I like to keep a very organized, clean, and uncluttered home. So does my husband. He likes cars therefore our car is always spotless as well. "His" garage is meticulously kept.
I also like drawers, dressers, and closets nicely organized.
As a part of our numerous moves, I remember a realtor asking us if we really lived there!
 
Rossana said:
I like to keep a very organized, clean, and uncluttered home. So does my husband. He likes cars therefore our car is always spotless as well. "His" garage is meticulously kept.
I also like drawers, dressers, and closets nicely organized.
As a part of our numerous moves, I remember a realtor asking us if we really lived there!
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I'm not quite like that... altho' I like the place to look decent...

I do remember when we were first buying the Spanish house, we looked at quite a few, mostly getting sold by ex pats.. all in good order.. neat , clean.. and then we got to one where everything was immaculate right down to the closets and drawers with everything matching in colour and style ,.. and I made a comment.. ''who has time to do this''... and the Estate agent said.. ''well my wife does the same thing''...ooops ! :ROFLMAO:
 
Muskrat said:
I was never a domestic queen….but hey you marry guys who were bachelors and the bar is pretty low. Whenever I used to expect company I would look around and wonder what others saw. Then for a time I just told people I was going to put a paper bag over their head when they came into the house. The house I spend most of the time at is neat…most of the time. Bathroom is clean…
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My husband was a batchelor when I met him... he was much more of a neat freak at home than me ..and my car is spotless, but you can literally eat your food off the floor of his Maseratti...
 
hollydolly said:
isn't she the one who went to prison for tax evasion or similar ?
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She got a tip from her stock broker that something was about to happen. Apparently a stock broker is like an insider. If he were an actual insider, he never would have known what was up. But I don't know all the details, either. But government had to do something about flagrant insider stock trading, but most of those guys are big players and considered off limits. But as a show of commitment to regulating the market, they nailed Martha Stewart. She was a good choice. She was very well off, harmless and helpless. That showed us little people that government took stock manipulations and informed trading seriously.

When Martha went to jail, stock in her business plummeted like Tesla because there was no one to mind the shop, and my brother in law loaded up on her stock. Five months later when they let her out, I don't know if it was for good behavior, or if the judges were just embarrassed by the whole thing, my brother in law sold the stocks, and made some money.

I don't recall if the broker was punished also. Martha stole all the headlines.
 
I manage to get the dead horse out of the living room before it starts stinking....LOL

The dishes are washed immediately. The laundry is done. The toilet is clean. The kitchen isn't disgraceful.

The dust, I'll admit, gets ahead of me. The bed is seldom fully made after getting up. The laundry gets done and the clean clothes are hung up or put away promptly but never ironed.

I don't rhapsodize about cleaning supplies. My towels don't match....except for the ones I put out for guests. I don't have pretty bowls of poupurri, poupourri, potporry, chunks of good-smelling stuff laying around. My kitchen towels are cleaned and bleached but not particularly attractive.

No furniture in the house has doilies on top. My bed isn't covered with decorative pillows.

Peg Bracken, the writer, said there are three kinds of homemakers: Spotless, Spotty, and Spotful. I've ruled out Spotless. I'm on the fence about Spotty and Spotful. Just call me Spot and I'll come running.
 
I’m certainly not keeping a house up to Martha Stewart’s standards. Our house is clean enough. If we are expecting company I’ll clean it up a bit more but not overly. When we come home from a walk our house smells clean. We only clean the floors once per week. Some people clean them every day. I DO consider myself domestic since I usually eat everything made from scratch. I’d rather put my time into doing that than meticulously cleaning up.
 

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