Comments on: From Spotlessly Clean To Comfortably Lived In To Call The Health Department

By: Brent Patton

Brent Patton — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:18:29 +0000

Wow – what a great post. I inherited a lackadaisical approach to housecleaning from my maternal grandmother and then married into a family who embraces clutter.

By: marci

marci — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:15:45 +0000

Dishes done,
laundry kept up,
bathrooms clean,
kitchen table and counters cleaned,
and beds made…..

The rest tends to be cluttered!

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The Simple Things Volume Six. | Simple. Organized. Life. — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:37:42 +0000

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By: moonablaze

moonablaze — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 05:46:53 +0000

when it was just me and my now-ex boyfriend, my apartment was messy (piles upon piles) but always clean. I would lift up the piles to wipe down the surfaces or vacuum the floor at least once a week, and dishes never stayed out more than 12 hours (12 hours being the time from a late dinner to getting cleaned up first thing in the morning)

now I’m living with two roommates and all of us have our own busy schedules (although mine is acknowledged to be the busiest with 40 hours of school a week plus homework and working 5-10 hours a week). because of this none of us wants to be the one who sucks it up and cleans the bathroom or mops the kitchen floor. actually, just today I discovered that we didn’t HAVE a mop! (I went and bought one and mopped up the mess somebody else left on the kitchen floor that was staining my bare feet yellow…)

By: Nancy

Nancy — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:07:18 +0000

I guess I am like your maternal grandmother. I keep the kitchen and bathrooms clean, but dusting and sweeping/vacuuming are haphazard. Laundry I am pretty good at. Recently I have gotten better at getting control of the incoming paper – the mail. I am recycling/shredding most of it as it comes in., which is keeping it off of the countertops. Clutter – I am bad at clutter. The kids toys drive me to distraction.

By: Stacy

Stacy — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:50:41 +0000

I really related to “That Bobbie Girl” because our house has been somewhat of a construction zone for going on three years. Before that, it was actually a construction zone. We ran out of money to rent another place while building this one, so we moved in. Jobs are getting done, but slowly. So, the wood floors, which will be lovely, are still unfinished and never really look clean. The kitchen has areas of clutter-freedom, and areas of…well, not-so-clutter freedom.

I have always struggled with being a pack rat, so that is a cleaning challenge. However, I’m slowly reforming myself. I recently purged a great deal of stuff by asking myself 1. Do I actually use this? 2. Do I really love it? 3. Will I regret it if it’s gone? It worked fabulously, and I unloaded tons of stuff from the garage and the house. The house feels so much better now. Not done, but better. I look around and see mostly things I really use, like and want. As for daily cleaning, I’m much better during the summer when I’m off work, but overall, I’m just learning to be more consistent. I always feel like the house is a mess, but I think that’s partly insecurities from growing up–I always felt like we were the ones who had the “yucky” house because we rented and didn’t own ours–my mom was a single mom, so we had to just get by. So, when I saw this website, I was drawn to it because I do wish I’d learned these things better. All I can do is work on it now!

By: Erin

Erin — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:41:56 +0000

Oh, I’m random, too. That describes me exactly. I’m not unorganized, but I am not as consistent as I’d like to be.

By: Keter

Keter — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:56:31 +0000

I live in a house that is slowly being remodeled as I get the funds to do it, so there’s always some degree of mess, but I try to keep it confined. Dust on the other hand is everywhere. Not only from remodeling, but also from three big dogs, a husband who makes vast messes in the garage and then tracks it into the house, and from the fact that the house is made of concrete and concrete makes its own dust. So I dust every other week, and a day later, it looks like I haven’t touched a thing for a year. *sigh* I’m slowly coating the concrete surfaces with paint, tile, and stone, so I’m hoping that eventually the dust will become manageable. I also try not to think too much about the possible consequences of breathing it.

My closet, bathrooms, and kitchen are always organized; I can’t function otherwise My desk, however, is a stinking mess from two weeks of trying to get things done at 2 AM and not being awake enough to deal with the consequences. After the long weekend, it will be straight again.

By: gracie

gracie — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:53:13 +0000

yeah!!!! i’m not the only one! diaper cake becca i didnt’ read the comments till after i posted, i’m not the only one who grew up with a ‘fairy’

and i forgot to mention, i’ve got 3 children, 2 cats, 2 dogs (large ones – so lots of fur), and me — and various sundry neighborhood children that wander in looking to play, and the bugs my 4 year old brings in……..sigh cleaning up lady bug and firefly carcasses

By: gracie

gracie — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:46:06 +0000

childrens’ bedrooms clean, bathroom clean, dishes get done, kitchen stuff is clean, don’t dust, child broke the hoover two weeks ago so that should tell u what the floors look like – yuck – waiting for a part to fix it and trying to find the shop vac in the garage (now that’s a disaster area!)

even with a degree in home economics (which gets great laughs from my family), my house is on the down side of ‘comfortably lived in’ but definitely not ‘call the health inspector’ — i guess you could say my house is messy but not dirty

my mothers house though — spotless — beyond spotless!, as a child i never saw my mom clean — she didn’t’ want our help because we couldn’t clean to her expectations. — so i came up with the ‘fairy’ story, while i was asleep or at school the fairy would come in and clean – which might explain why i’m clueless (but learning!)

my aunt’s mother-in-law though — when she died they had to pitchfork / shovel clean out the house — she lived on a farm and if things got too much she would pack the dishes up in plastic bags place them in trash cans outside the back door put a lid on them and say to her self she would get to them later………. they threw the whole lot out