is your house a showplace?

I'm more like you...i like things neat and clean but my place has used but comfortable furniture etc. I'm pretty laid back. I had my grandkids here today and they were pretty darn cluttery. I just dealt with it as I don't have them often and I know that at home they would never get away with it. If I had them each day, I'd be different. If I were living in someone elses home...I'd just go along with how they are as it is their place not mine. I think if I were in your shoes, I'd just bite my tongue on the daughter-in-law being so particular. I think if I actually worked and saved for an expesive piece of furniture, I'd be a bit protective also. Beyond all that...she is sweet to let you stay there and not give her sone a hard time about it.

ok my house is a mess! I try to teach my kids to hang their coats up, put their shoes away. They just don't care and it DRIVES ME NUTS!! I tell them over and over everything they have don't go on the floor, but for some reason they can't seem to understand that. No matter what it is in their hands they think it needs to go on the floor!! I know exactly what you mean, but the sad thing is it's my house! I do try to teach them, but they just don't get it through their heads. I am a step mom to three of them and I think their main problem is they were never made to clean up after themselves before and the mother didn't clean either! Yuck! I ask them to do one little thing and they act like it's the end of the freakin world. I could go on and on :) but i will stop. Happy mylotting and Happy thanksgiving!!

Nope. Like you, I like my house to look "lived in" but clean. I teach my son even in an early age to pick up after himself. And, I'm also teaching my husband that, too!I like things to be in their right places, but I can tolerate a little mess. Especially when my husband is the perpetrator.. My husband brought some of his friends to our house for an overnight stay. And they told him that they were very comfortable. And I was glad to hear that. I don't want our guests to feel uncomfortable, thinking that their every move is closely watched. And speaking of the couch, I remember my aunt. She had this big comfy couch and everyone was welcome to sit on it. The thing was, she totally refused to take off the plastic covering. So, anyone who sat on it, kept sliding and couldn't sit in a comfortable way.

Each home is different. My mom loves her living room...it looks more like a museum rather then a living room. haha however, we let visitors sit on it. If it`s just the family members, we would spend more time in the family room where the couches are less fancy. But everything is clean and neat. My boyfriend is the opposite. he`s messy and not organized. But after his mom came back from the long trip, things are back to their places :P

A month ago but still works.. I liked my house clean but when i have my grandbabies over everyday it wasn't worth the stress of worrying over them so now its semi clean..meaning i make them clean up but the baby is 1 and drops things so after they leave i let the dog eat the leftovers on the floor and then i clean up..the couch becomes the monster couch and they love playing on it and giggling..Kids will be kids for a short time..the couch was bought to sit or play on.. huggs for you

Yikes... a couch that isn't for sitting on, now that just sounds crazy. My house is not a show place at all, though I try to keep it picked up. I would say it is a messy home, not a dirty home. Right now, I'm sitting on the couch next to a phone book and my husbands shoes are on the floor. So there you go, messy... but not dirty.

Heck no..my house is lived in..I don't do the dishes right away but I do them. I don't make my bed as soon as I get up or start cleaning as soon as my eyes open. My house is clean but lived in..might be a book or sweatshirt here or there but that means it is just there when it is needed. It would drive me nuts to live in a totally clean house...wait till she has kids..things will change.even if just a little.

My house is for me and my comfort. I include my pets comfort as well. My house is not a showcase and I don't have a mess around, but I am not going crazy over cleaning....I do care about clean floors and I clean it every other day (because of pets), but as far as organizing, I am not perfect...

Hi bunnybon. I'm a neat freak myself and like my place tidy, clean and organized..BUT..it's not sterile looking with that "don't touch this or that" type of atmosphere...it's "lived in too. I'm one of those "sensitives" meaning I can pick up on vibes of a place that I visit especially a person I don't know well. If I pick up that a home is "sterile" kind of feeling and not warm, I usually will find out later that the person living there isn't particularly "warm" either. I often watch shows that showcase famous people's homes and I'm thinking to myself..do these people actually live there? Nothing out of place, and looks like a museum rather than a place to hang out and actually live in

Well, lol, you sure seem to have had a variety of experiences with the way people keep house. Mine is ok..comfortably untidy. With four animals romping around, which house will remain neat? However, it doesn't look like a pigsty either. I think you will be happy here, bunny!! Cheers and happy mylotting

im also like the clean room,i always do the cleaning of my bedchamber,i hate mess things...

I wish I was, but I am so not! Dont get me wrong I like clean and tidy but it never stays that way in my house, not with four kids. I think that it will be better when the kids grow up a bit and learn to keep things clean but at the moment I just have to do the best that I can!

No, my place isn't a show place. LOL Here we name the dust bunnies. I've told friends that ceiling fans were invented to move the dust to the baseboards. I try and keep it picked up, vacume once a week, dust and so forth, but I don't want a museum. My Dad's place is like that. Its loaded with antiques and immaculately clean. I joked with him the other day that I could eat off his bathroom floor. Hell its probably cleaner than my table is. LOL I even caught him once following behind me wiping out my footprints on the carpet with his foot. You know, how some carpets show every step you take? Well it bugged him, so he would smooth them all out. There is never a single dirty glass or dish in the sink either. I don't know how people can life in places like that. My furniture is comfortable and well worn. I don't worry about people plopping down on it for a snooze - just be warned you'll probably be napping with a dog or cat or two or three.

I wish that I could keep my house like that. Between my kids and my husand i am constantly cleaning and my house is never completely clean all at once. I think that if i lived by myself my house would be neat because i like or things to be clean but I am a pretty laid back person. I wouldnt go as far as to not want anyone to sit on my couch. That's what it is made for.

My house is a comfy place to be...kick your shoes up and curl your feet up on the couch under you. oops here comes a dog to snuggle up beside you. I see it this way furniture can be vacuumed as well. It is nice to see those house that they look like they are right out of a magazine but I don't want it. I prefer well lived in and comfy. My hubby isn't the foo foo type he is country so is all good. To me a room should be inviting

I can't say that I'm picky but I do love a clean house. My fiance and I have a house out of the magazines but it is lived in. Well obviously since we live in it. Dishes will sit for a bit after dinner till everyone is done and then I will start doing them. After people leave I tend to have to pull out the vaccuum since apparently some of our friends are pigs and can't eat properly and leave crumbs all in the couches and on the floor. I for one don't want bugs and it to grind into the carpet and get so far into the couch that you can't get out. Not to mention ashes all over the place and I am constantly throwing coasters at everyone cause we have glass coffee tables and I don't like the 1000's of rings that are always on the table so coasters is a must on the coffee tables. I don't like dishes left in the living room and I expect them in the sink. If the sink is full put it next to the sink and not on the stove. When you cook something and something boils over or you spill something clean it up right away. I really don't ask for much I just like to have a clean home. Oh and people who come in with muddy shoes and walk all over the carpet that really ticks me off.

Hi bunnybon7, I have a friend whose house is like a show house, it is so neat and tidy that you are afraid to sit down on her sofa, and when you do she would plump up the cushion behind you and it really annoys me, but my house is not messy but comfy and everyone just makes themselves at home here. Tamara

Hey bunny! I don't live in a showplace! That would drive me insane! I am presently fixing up my apartment so it will look alot nicer then it has in a very long time and when it is finished it will be comfortable, but not fancy! It will be a place for people to come over and relax and have fun! I don't want my company to be uncomfortable! I would never want a place like that! I bought a slipcover for my couch because I couldn't afford to buy a new one and some new curtains and some other odds and ends to just brighten up the place and give it a kind of different look. But I don't want to live in a "showroom". My parents had a living room like that. That's not for me

My house is far from being a showplace, but I used to, at least, be neat. However, with a two-year-old bent on mayhem around, I've given up, lol. The day starts with everything in place and I just tidy up at the end of the day. In between, the house looks VERY lived in (by a toddler - there's the difference, lol).:)

Hello Bunnybon7 nice to meet you: My house is so clean and organized now and I like it like that so much , I am so strict with the clean and order in my house because it is so important in my live,3 years ago I was living with my sister and nephews in the same house and that experience was so terrible for me because of we had to share many places in the house like that bathroom, the livingroom, the kitchen among others. I was living with her because her husband was working in Medellin for a big company, and My sister did not like it live alone with the babies, but I never thinked that this experience will be terrible for me. My nephews all the time were playing, jumping, and doing all the things than a child do and that is so normal I know, I was a child too, and when I was a child I liked so much play different games everytime and everywhere , but I had a problem , my sister never helped me to clean up the house and I was a kind of "service room" all the time, I was tied to be an slave of my sister and nephews. THen the husband of my siter came back to Ibague , and my siter and him were together again,and I told her: Johanna you must live with Oscar again, he is your husband is the better way ok. She ask me if I was boring with her in the house and I told her !of course! you are so irresponsible and for that reason I prefer live alone again, ok. She told me: Oh my God I am sorry, I am so sorry you are a great brother , so kind and polite and you love so much my babies , thank you. I think, ok it doesnt matter but please back off, back off. At the present time I am living alone in a little flat, its so nice, clean, great and fantastic and the best near to the university, my live is perfect like that, I love it. Bye Bunnybon7 , Good Luck.