How neat are you?

[fuzzybuddy]

How neat are you?


When I was working, some might have called my place a "sty", and they wouldn't have been that far off. Since I got retired, I've cleaned up my act and my place. I even make the bed everyday.
How neat are you?

 

[Aunt Bea]

I’m neat but dusty.

My little apartment is much more presentable since I’ve made a serious effort to shed possessions.

The dusty collection of framed family photos on top of my dresser is the final frontier, many of them are going into a small album that can be slipped into a drawer.

 

[PeppermintPatty]

I make my bed everyday, fill and empty the dishwasher daily, and get the floors cleaned once a week. Our house isn’t spotless. We have 2 dogs so you can’t eat off the floor but it’s far from a pig sty! My husband is quite helpful in helping keep the house clean. He helps clean the floors. Yesterday he was cleaning each floor tile by hand with a magic eraser. He does jobs like this while talking to his father long distance. Our place is fairly clean but not spotless.

 

[hawkdon]

I'm liveing in a near sty LOL....got too much stuff....

 

[StillLearning]

I like to say that I’m messy but I’m not dirty.
My husband was very neat. My craft room is messy but as long as I kept the mess inside and could close the door, we were good.

 

[Rossana]

We are both very neat and keep the house very cleaned and organized. It is however cozy, warm, and inviting!
The only clutter is the kitties toys and beds!

 

[Oldeagle66]

I'm a real neat freak, but since getting older and battling health problems, it's not looking as clean no matter how much I try. I need to start buying newer things to replace the things that are looking old, dingy and faded. Nothing lasts forever and I'm just cheap. Next month I'm going to start replacing things and upgrading.

 

[Fritz]

i live alone and work full time. there's no one here to help with things around the house and i have health issues so i do what i can when i feel up to it. but yeah it's not clean right now. but i never have company so it's not that big a deal to me. i just do the best i can.

 

[Murrmurr]

Extremely neat. Obsessively neat. Borderline OCD.

But I hate to dust. I do it once in a while, but I don't use that spray stuff and a dust rag; I use a feather-duster. So, most of the time, this is a very tidy home under a layer of dust.

 

[MACKTEXAS]

I used to completely clean the house each week; each room, but it really didn't need it, so I changed it to once each 3 weeks. But, everything has to be in it's place all the time, except for my own bathroom. I allow myself clutter for the sake of convenience (in that ONE room only).

I still remember a co-worker from years ago who spent every Saturday doing different phases of house cleaning. She had a rotating schedule on what week-ends to do what kind of cleaing, and she carried it to extremes I'd never heard of before. She removed light bulbs for individual dusting, used a toothbrush to go around dusting baseboards in each room, and completely dissasembled chandeliers periodically for deep cleaning - I forget what else.

And I knew another woman who lived nearby (she's now deceased) and she told me it was her rule that all guests remove their shoes when they came inside her home. We only talked on the phone instead of visiting. I once took her a birthday gift, but just talked with her at the door and handed it to her. I have no plans to remove my shoes to visit anyone.

 

[astralcat]

Neat freak here. I keep my house very neat and clean - no clutter anywhere, except maybe in places I can't see like closets and I even cleaned that out a few days ago. I just function better if everything is neat and tidy - I was the same at work. Sigh.

 

[Oldeagle66]

I used to completely clean the house each week; each room, but it really didn't need it, so I changed it to once each 3 weeks. But, everything has to be in it's place all the time, except for my own bathroom. I allow myself clutter for the sake of convenience (in that ONE room only).

I still remember a co-worker from years ago who spent every Saturday doing different phases of house cleaning. She had a rotating schedule on what week-ends to do what kind of cleaing, and she carried it to extremes I'd never heard of before. She removed light bulbs for individual dusting, used a toothbrush to go around dusting baseboards in each room, and completely dissasembled chandeliers periodically for deep cleaning - I forget what else.

And I knew another woman who lived nearby (she's now deceased) and she told me it was her rule that all guests remove their shoes when they came inside her home. We only talked on the phone instead of visiting. I once took her a birthday gift, but just talked with her at the door and handed it to her. I have no plans to remove my shoes to visit anyone.

To each his own but I have to have people take their shoes off. Ever since someone almost tracked human feces in. There is a homeless guy on my street and he poops everywhere. I even watched him poop on the side walk in broad daylight.

 

[oldman]

My kids call me a neat-nick. I totally believe in putting things back where we got them when we are done using them. My kids never learned that until they got their own home.

 

[MACKTEXAS]

To each his own but I have to have people take their shoes off. Ever since someone almost tracked human feces in. There is homeless guy on my street and he poops anywhere.

And that's fine, it's your house and your right. I won't hold your rules against you anymore than my friend's rules I wrote about. BUT - I don't think you were expecting me to show up at your house, so we won't have to deal with that little worry ......

 

[Trade]

About average. For a guy.

 

[IrishEyes]

Not as bad as I used to be when I had a Licensed Day Care in the home, That was for many obvious reasons:
State Licensing laws, health/safety of the children, reputation of my business and daily cleaning and taking care of things
is a valuable lesson for the kids.
Hubby's room is the only one I do not, and I mean not clean.
He has collections of a few things and no one dare to put one in the wrong place.
I will present a well kept clean home when visitors come. During their visit. I just enjoy them and overlook things
I may not otherwise. After they leave I have all the time in the world to clean it up.
so ehhhh.. life happens sort of housekeeper.

 

[Della]

he was cleaning each floor tile by hand with a magic eraser.

Now I'm going to have to do that!

I'm definitely a neat freak, I go through the house every morning make every bed, tidy every room, empty all waste baskets, unload the dishwasher -- then have coffee -- then do my once-a- week chore of the day (Wednesday bathrooms, Thursday dust and vacuum, etc.)

We all take off our shoes at the door but we wouldn't think of asking guests to do it.

 

[Jules]

We all take off our shoes at the door but we wouldn't think of asking guests to do it.

We don’t ask; they ask if we’d like them to take them off. The answer is yes.

All workmen automatically remove their shoes or put booties over them. They don’t even think of asking.

 

[Jules]

Neatness level 8/10. My desk 2/10.

 

[Grampa Don]

I'm somewhere between neat and disgusting. It depends on how I feel. Right now the shower needs cleaning, and that's a tough one. Maybe I'll do it tomorrow. Or, maybe the next day. Or.

 

[Paladin1950]

I'm very neat at work in the nursing home. I'm paid to be neat there. Home, no one pays me so, I'm not so neat.

 

[outlander]

I'm pretty neato and cool too, the Fonz ain't got nothin' on me

 

[raybar]

I am extremely neat in the sense of cool or hip or trendy. But I am the opposite of neat in the sense of organization or cleaning.

 

[debodun]

More than some, not as much as most. I will certainly not win the Martha Stewart award for housekeeping.

 

[Grampa Don]

I tried growing potatoes on the coffee table but there wasn't enough sunlight coming through the dirty windows.

My favorite Phyllis Diller line: My oven is so dirty I can only bake one cupcake at a time.