Do you live in a dump?

[leftyladyfrommo]

We need to also hear it for everyone who isn't into housecleaning.

My house isn't that bad but its only because I got rid of the furniture.

I absolutely love people who dare to be bad housekeepers. It is the last true sign on an individual who refuses to go along with the herd.

[Floogeldy]

1. I would characterize my house as . . .

. . . horribly embarrassing.

I don't even let people come inside.

:blush:

[catmandu57]

2. No

Not a dump, but not white glove clean either.

[SofaKingLiberal]

3. Imagine Monk's House.

Now imagine the opposite. }(

[Catshrink]

8. I couldn't say it better...

[EstimatedProphet]

4. Feh. It could be cleaner

I prefer to think of it as "cluttered".

[momophile]

5. I did, literally...

for years I lived within a wrecking-yard's compound...

[justabob]

6. I dare to be a bad housekeeper

I really can't get worked up over putting the clean laundry away, or shelving the books I have read, or even the toys strewn in every room.... though the toys sometimes get to me. You can only step on so many legos and other small plastic landmines before the cuts, bruises, and scrapes on your feet get to be too much. Cluttered is the best word to describe my house... I am a 'piler'... stacks of papers, books, mail etc all over. Its not "dirty", but my home won't be featured in any magazines any time soon.

[Evergreen Emerald]

7. my daughter says I am a "clean freak"

I depends on how you define clean. I think clean is when you can have people drop by without the need to shove stuff in a back closet or spray air freshener to cover the smell from the unknown green thing that thrives under the couch. She thinks clean is creating a path to the door.

[skygazer]

9. Three threads about lousy housekeeping?

I'm starting to worry about you....

[leftyladyfrommo]

28. Just a bad day.

Sometimes people make me feel guilty. Or I make myself feel guilty.

Why is it that women are always judged by how clean their house is? You could be a total genius and the first way people would describe you is "she isn't a very good housekeeper but boy is she smart."

It is just so discouraging.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

10. boy you would LOVE one of my ex-es

it drove me to insanity though

[tinfoilinfor2005]

11. Oh boy, I've got one of those.

My daughters recently helped him clean and move to another apartment because they were too embarrassed to allow cleaning people to go through the door. They visit him but don't bring the kids because it is just too filthy.

[taterguy]

12. in my bachelor days

Friends called it squalor. I called it home. Wife and I compromise. Upstairs stays nice but the spirit of the old days is preserved in my basement Lair.

[spinbaby]

15. Ah, squalor

Someone posted this Web site in here some months ago:

http://www.squalorsurvivors.com/index.shtml

Amazing photos.

I don't think I live in squalor but we just had a young lady selling Kirby vacuums in here and she pulled some amazing stuff out of our carpets.

[alarimer]

13. Hell yes!

There is so much clutter in my apartment but, you know, I don't give a rat's ass!! I am more or less a slob and I don't care.

[necso]

14. I'm incredibly messy.

I'm not proud of it, but I'm not ashamed of it either.

I don't see it as a big deal, and from time to time I clean up a little... sometimes even a lot.

However, if I'm on someone else's turf, then I respect and go along with their ways in this... generally.

It's my character -- I'm usually thinking about other things. And home is a sanctuary.

[zanne]

16. Messy all my life.

One day when I was in grammar school, the teacher (a nun) inspected the inside of our desks. When she was done, she pointed at me and said "This girl will not have a clean house". I am proud to say she was right. Right now, on my living room floor, there is an entire packet of gift tissue that has been crinkled up and put in a pile so my cats can run in and out of it. I'll keep it there for a couple of days. You could eat off my floors, but it would probably kill you. I'm a happy slob, living with a happy, sloppy family.

[purr]

17. does a bunch of kid toys that keep getting thrown around day in/day out

constitute bad house cleaning? I hate laundry so I constantly have loads to do.

[LSK]

18. No

It can never been clean enough. While I hate housekeeping, I hate a pigsty.

[Wcross]

19. Yes I do.

I have eight animals that live in my home with me. I rarely have visitors. I am a guy. I have learned that no matter how much you clean it will only get dirty again.

[Lady Freedom]

20. WHY YES! it is called Joplin!

Oh you are talking about dirty houses not stinking cities. My Mistake!

[Thtwudbeme]

21. OMG. I hate Joplin

I am so very sorry. Hell, even Springfield is better, and I didn't think that was possible until I drove through last year.

[Lady Freedom]

24. try living here!!

It is all Rep. and there is so much back stabbing here. I have my little group of Liberal Friends here at the College and we all have one objective, GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE!!!

[Thtwudbeme]

25. I dated a man from Joplin when I went to school in Springfield

no fucking way I would live there. I really, really hate it for you. I would rather shove hot coals under my nails, seriously. I feel that way about much of Missouri.

[Lady Freedom]

26. That would be more pleasant that living here.

If there's a bright center to the universe, you're on the planet that it's farthest from.
-Luke Skywalker

And Joplin is on the other side of that!
-Lady Freedom

[xmas74]

22. First time I think I've noticed you on the boards.

From one MO girl to another-Welcome to DU!

[Missy Vixen]

23. We're the messiest in the neighborhood

We're surrounded by surgical clean freaks. I'm happy for them.

>It is the last true sign on an individual who refuses to go along with the herd.<

My lack of motivation on the surgical clean front can be expressed in the idea that we're MESSY. Both of us. We both work a lot of hours, too. (That's my excuse. I'm sticking with it. :eyes:) One of my New Year's resolutions is to get with the Flylady program so I don't have to worry about it anymore. (www.flylady.net.)

Julie

[JitterbugPerfume]

27. Phyllis Diller used to say

"I hate house work---you make a bed , and six months later you have to do it all over again"

That said, my place is pretty presentable most of the time


FLY LADY is a cool web site

[tjwmason]

29. Messy - but never dirty.

and occasionally spotless.

From time to time something clicks and I tidy everything within sight and make the place absolutely perfect - then things stay that way for about a week, then one thing will be left out of place (such as a newspaper) and within two days it will look as though I never tidied in the first place.

Kitchen is a different matter though, that's kept clean and tidy.