after speaking to someone yesterday who was living with someone really messy... i got to thinking, how clean in general is your house?

this guy i was talking too lived with his family- and they left ffood on the floor, let the dog poop where ever it wanted too, have clothes strewn all over the floor.. and this is from people eeven without MI issues

so, what about you?

are you in general a messy person, or do you try and clear up after you?

with me, i think it's a mixture of the 2

i personally don't clean the house as often as i should (things like vacume, put stuff away, etc), but then i live alone and so i don't particularly care

1 thing i do avoid though is leaving things randomly on the floor.. peaces of food, stuffed toys, etc- of course sometimes i just leave my clothes in a heap on the floor in the corner, but that's as far as it goes

your turn

I'm tidy but not necessarily clean. Everything is in it's place and obsessively tidy, yet I don't vacuum or mop as often as I should nor do I scrub down the kitchen all that often. I do these things monthly. The bathroom though is scoured nearly every day. The bed linens washed weekly.

I spent two years while I was at university living with family who were hoarders. The livingroom kitchen were tidy so people didn't know but every room and the basement were so disgusting and piled so high I had to create a canyon pathway to get to and from my room.

I can be disorganised but keep this to my one personal area of the bedroom I share, the rest of the house is tidy. In my messy corner (sports kit, books, random stuff) I have just reorganised it and it looks and feels a whole lot better - I have no idea why I let it get cluttered just in that one area.

The place is generally clean, I do bathroom and kitchen daily as I'm picky about hygiene there, I guess a lot of it is routine and habit.

[Sula B]

I am very clean but untidy at times which doesn't really bother me as I live alone and have few visitors. The bathroom and kitchen are always clean (weekly and as I go) - I clean out the fridge every week. I try to clean every week unless I am going through a deep prolonged period of depression when I just can't be arsed . I figure since I generally clean weekly then if I miss a few weeks from time to time it wont matter. However, the clean clothes sometime come off the line and into a pile on the spare chair in the lounge and stay there for weeks. Bed linen once a fortnight (I have a Queen size bed all to myself) so I sleep on one side one eek and on the other the next - this is a habit of sheer laziness that I have developed since living alone.

I also have a tendency to leave things lying around like footwear, magazines etc.

[Travelinglady]

It needs dusting and the floors need mopping, but it's fairly neat.

[Miss Laura]

It's needing cleaned it's untidy not messy but livable :-)

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[*Laurie*]

I'd say my gaff is pretty clean and tidy. I don't have a lot of stuff, for one thing.

[divine1966]

It's clean and tidy but we often mess up guest bedroom

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[Sabrina]

I'm pretty sure it's dusty under the beds, but I vacuum and disinfect floors 3 to 4 times a week. I have a black wall unit that loves a speck of dust - so I dust that every day. I do dishes several times a day - can't handle seeing a dirty dish. Cupboards are all neat and tidy. I've given up on my kids and try not go into their rooms at all. I can't wrap my head around how they can live like they do. I also clean the toilet and bathrooms every single day. I only feel calm once I feel the house is sort of clean and neat. I have a puppy and potty training is proving to be a bit of a challenge. So spots on the carpets are getting constantly cleaned too.

I had a daily routine.
Clean bathroom,kitchen, floors (i have a dog that sheds like crazy) ,make beds (3 bedrooms) laundry if there was even one med size load ,wipe any dust . Basically daily up keep to prevent it from getting dirty.

Now.. Not so much.
Been very depressed. Still do the minimum i guess. Dishes and obvious messes. Laundry when the basket overflows.

I used to feel so good about my daily routine. It would only take about an hour max because things never really got dirty. It also made me feel accomplished to do all this by 9 am.

I hate myself for slacking.

So I am reading that generally we aare pretty good - except when it comes to depression; which, breaks us of everything. I know for me nothing gets done. Looking at it only makes the Depression worse.

[Unrigged64072835]

I don't get it done as often as I need to, but the house still looks good.

[-jimi-]

I really can't stand being in a perfectionist's home, but I guess they feel the same about my home. I'm kind of messy and I don't scrub my place with bleach and a toothbrush when I clean.

[notthisagain]

My two upstairs floors are tidy with the exception of having tufts of hair from my three cats. Downstairs in my finished basement is a disaster. It's where I spend most of my time and I have a bunch of projects going. One day I will be motivated to clean it up.

[healingme4me]

I think I'm more prone to slide on putting away my own laundry-it's in my bedroom, who really gets to notice the pile on top of that stack of crates over there? And the other clutter is where the majority of my kids toys are. They insist they have these action figures all lined up in a competion. But it lasts for days and grates on my nerves. I try to mop at least every 2 weeks. I'm regular in taking out the trash. I don't dust as much as I could. I've let spots slide. Not everything gets put in its place everyday. I have a couple dishes that sat overnight. And I let sit cookie/baking sheets on top of my stove, space next to my sink is cramped.

[divine1966]

It's different when you have kids at home. Much easier to keep it clean when there are only adults. My daughter is messy. When she lived at home she wasn't allowed to trash up living areas but her room was a perpetual mess.

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[healingme4me]

Originally Posted by divine1966

It's different when you have kids at home. Much easier to keep it clean when there are only adults. My daughter is messy. When she lived at home she wasn't allowed to trash up living areas but her room was a perpetual mess.

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That area goes in spurts. Their bedrooms remain rather tidy, for the most part.

[Sula B]

Originally Posted by justafriend306

So I am reading that generally we aare pretty good - except when it comes to depression; which, breaks us of everything. I know for me nothing gets done. Looking at it only makes the Depression worse.

You're right. I always had a daily routine and I maintained it for the most part whilst my kids were young - till their mid teens. I battled a husband who grew up in an absolute pigsty - cat poo/wee, broken furniture from kids wrestling, filthy kitchen with dirty pots and plates everywhere, and his mother instilled in him that this was how 'normal' people live. She and he did everything to undermine my routine to my kids and they won - hence my giving up in their teens. As the depression became set in I gave up and lived like that for a while, hating everything about how I was living. Since leaving, once the kids became adults and now living on my own, I have a routine and when I'm ok I stick to it which lets me have those times when I just cannot do it, without a great deal of impact.

And you're right about the mess impacting the depression even more. Its a vicious cycle.

I don't want to disturb the dust bunnies, so I let them be...

[Mike_J]

I work hard to keep my apartment tidy at all times. I'm not OCD about it but want to make a strong contrast in how I live and how my ex-wife lives for our daughter. Somebody has to be a good roll model for her.

This thread makes me feel like a pig. I live in a 3 bed, 3 bathroom house, work full time, have one cat and am a carer for my elderly mum. Who mainly eats and sleeps and watches TV and does the crossword. Which is fine, she is nearly 85. I change beds once a month, Hoover once every 2, do 2-3 lots of laundry once a week, but always try and clean surface and dust when I can. I do a whole top to bottom house clean once a quarter and take stuff to the dump. We also have a garden, garage and shed, and I do my best to keep it tidy, but not as good as I'd like. It's tiring and I think this year I will start looking to pay someone to help. The outside stuff, I'm not keen on having a cleaner. Oh and we have a long driveway and leylandii and trees that need trimming. I wish I was rich enough to not spend all my free time doing chores!

[notthisagain]

When I am having difficulty due to a depressive episode, my mother offers to walk over and clean. She doesn't mind doing it because it gives her something to do. Yesterday I was able to pitch in by taking care of the dishes, cleaning the cat boxes, taking apart and cleaning the entire kitchen, taking out trash, and shredding mail which, if I don't keep on top of it, gets really overwheming. When I am depressed I barely have the energy to do that. It still took a few hours to clean. It's so frustrating because it's not even a big house but it takes a lot of energy to keep up with the neverending junk mail and three cats.

I'd say I'm in between. I like things tidy especially floors vacuumed and swept, and counters clean. But I'm not super tidy. Closets and other areas of the house tend to get cluttered, dust under the beds, etc. But every so often I'll get a burst of energy and do a deep cleaning, give away items we don't use and things like that.

[Row Jimmy]

As clean as my wife tells me she wants it......