How clean is your home?

2 -4. I was more diligent about cleaning when mom was alive. I always started early in December and REALLY cleaned to get it good before Christmas. I would also vacuum every Friday. Like many responders here, I have pets (2 cats) that are constantly leaving me little surprises for me on the carpet (which end they come out of is anyone's guess). Can't get new carpet until they go to the big catnip patch in the sky or they'd ruin it in a week or two. I really need new carpet because when my mom was here, we kept 11 cats between us and they weren't always fastidious where they relieved themselves despite having numerous litter boxes. There is probably gallons seeped into the carpeting. Some people that come inside feel they have to mention the "cat odor"; one woman even went into anaphylactic shock! I guess I'm so used to it, I don't notice. It's been at least 5 years since I dusted my knickknacks (and I have A LOT). Now that I'm much older, cleaning just doesn't seem productive anymore, things only get dusty again. I limit my vacuuming to jubefore I have estate sales.
 

I hate to dust. We have this shiny black TV table that attracts dust. It is dusty 5 minutes after dusting. My smartas* husband likes to write in the dust.
 
Heating and Air Conditioning ducts are the major cause of dust in your homes. Clean the vents and have the ducts professionally cleaned. This will not only reduce dust but also reduce allergy symptoms.
 

8.5 - I'm a neatfreak and I cannot stand clutter or unpleasant smells of any kind....ugh. Everything must be in it's place. My cat is also a neatfreak so that works out well. :)
 
Lon said:
Heating and Air Conditioning ducts are the major cause of dust in your homes. Clean the vents and have the ducts professionally cleaned. This will not only reduce dust but also reduce allergy symptoms.
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I agree. We also had our's sprayed with an anti-bacterial spray. As for cleaning, well, we have a lady that comes in once a week and cleans, except changing the bedroom linens. My wife has a thing about someone touching her linens.
 
My house is usually about a 7 but sometimes I might make an 8. I am not obsessive about housework and my husband does most of the laundry and a few other chores. He absolutely does not cook but he will help with cleanup. I just don't like a stranger cleaning my house but who knows...I might change my mind if circumstances change.
 
Want an inspiration to do some deep cleaning??? I came home and my son came over with a funny look on his face..." Um, Levon was playing with something earlier and it looked too lifelike to be a cat toy...I took it away and got rid of it...but poor Mr Mouse had no head...be on the lookout". EEEEEEEEEK

For the record we have six cats, and a bit of a mouse problem...lazy beasts...not to mention the gonads on those mice...to set up housekeeping in a house of six cats and two huge dogs...
 
I must confess, my home is not at all clean at the moment. Crumbs on the kitchen counter, fridge needs cleaning, bathroom needs scrubbing, windows need washing, dust dust dust dust everywhere ....... Oy Vay! Thank god my mother is not alive to see this mess. The shame, the shame! Perhaps I should call in the troops at Molly Maid to help.
 
My new stick vacumn cleaner has a soft dusting tool I have been using it to get rid of ever ending crumbs on the breakfast bar ( I measured the BB yesterday to get a quote to replace to top) it's 3.3 mtrs long
Anyway after vacuuming the top ,and what other dust I can see ,without putting my glasses on .....I just put the long attachment on and vacumn the floor it's cordless makes my jobs so much easier
 
Quotes on housecleaning

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing. —Phyllis Diller

My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint. —Erma Bombeck

I'm not going to vacuum until Sears makes one you can ride on. —Roseanne Barr

My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance. —Erma Bombeck

You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty. —Cecil Baxter

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why. —Katharine Whitehorn

My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors. —Bette Midler

Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day. —Simone de Beauvoir

I am never five minutes into stripping the clutter from my life before I start running into the clutter that is my life. —Robert Brault

I always clean before the cleaning lady comes. If not, when I come home, I can't find anything. Cleaning ladies are always hiding things you leave out. —Celia Cruz

I have sporadic OCD cleaning moments around the house. But then I get lazy and I'm cured. It's a very inconsistent personality trait. —Chris Hemsworth

A bright person can always think of something better to do than housework. —Ruby Lou Barnhill

At worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived. —Rose Macaulay

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture. —Mario Buatta

For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt. —Edith Mendel Stern

Have you ever taken anything out of the clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing? —Katherine Whitehorn

Housekeeping ain't no joke. —Louisa May Alcott

Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance? —Phyllis Diller

Housekeeping is like being caught in a revolving door. —Marcelene Cox

Housework, if you do it right, can kill you. —Erma Bombeck

Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity. —Erma Bombeck

Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it. —Evan Esar

If your house is really a mess and a stranger comes to the door, greet him with, "Who could have done this? We have no enemies." —Phyllis Diller

I'm eighteen years behind in my ironing. There's no use doing it now, it doesn't fit anybody I know. —Phyllis Diller

I hate housework. You make the beds, you wash the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again. —Joan Rivers

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy. —Shirley Conran

My favorite way of getting out of doing chores is by acting like I'm asleep. But it never works. —Devon Werkheiser

Nature abhors a vacuum. And so do I. —Anne Gibbons

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. —A.A. Milne
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Cookie, have some wine, and forget about housework for another day!

Pass the bottle, my parents house was so clean you could eat off the floors. Our creatures get fleas we do what we can. Once, just once my mother's cat got fleas. They almost gutted the house...new carpet and half the furniture replaced plus an exterminator and vet treatment.
 
9.9 (I'm a fulltime homemaker).

We enjoy company and welcome people into our home with open arms.

Even when my kids were babies, I washed floors daily. Couldn't stand the thought of dirty floors with them dropping their soothers and bottles on the floor, then picking them up and putting them back in their mouths, not to mention, they spent their days crawling and rolling around on the floor, so I was at it all the time.
 
I use a lot of body powder and that stuff is insidious. It is carried through the air and settles on and in everything upstairs, even the VCR. Makes the whole house look dusty. It's difficult to clean up and even if I do, a few days accumulation and it's back to square one.
 
debodun said:
I use a lot of body powder and that stuff is insidious. It is carried through the air and settles on and in everything upstairs, even the VCR. Makes the whole house look dusty. It's difficult to clean up and even if I do, a few days accumulation and it's back to square one.
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ROFLMAO!

Just how much is your definition of "a lot", Deb? :)

You're supposed to just dust yourself with it, not bath in it. :giggle:
 
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