What kind of housekeeper are you?

I like a neat and tidy house, only because I'm raising children who will one day jet rocket out of the house and look for a mate. I don't want them to be the crutch that their mate has to work around in order to make a good relationship great. I'm might be a bit on the clean side but my wife doesn't mind. She didn't make me this way but she likes it that she doesn't have to tell me to pick up my clothes. I still spend time with the kids and we do tons of stuff but clean up time is done with loud music instead of loud yelling.

I am a horrible housekeeper! I have to force myself to tidy up and clean in order to maintain a suitable home for us to live in. It is sometimes hard to admit, but I could easily live in a mess and have in the past.

As long as I stay by myself I am a good house-keeper. My Hubby was a pig. He thought I was his Maid.

I just must not have dirty dishes in the kitchen sink. My landlord is even worse. You must not have little pools or bits of water anywhere - kitchen counter or bathroom. My apartment, between the landlord who does piss me out, and myself, will drive a novice mad.

The lived in look is definitely my house! I am not fond of cleaning, but am also not fond of living in filth so I do clean. But I don't spend hours a day sterilizing the house. There is too much living to do to put cleaning first in my life!

I've always liked things very neat and tidy, but since I've been married, I've just learned to deal with a few things lying around here or there. I guess that'll make it easier in a year or two when we start having kiddies! It's stupid to fight over or to get miffed about socks left lying under the coffee table. :)

I am pretyt busy with work and a two year old so I try to clean once a week. Usually the weekends when there's not alot going on. I guess I do the lived in look. I need to dust bad and vaccuum too.

mine has more o f a lived in look, more like an abandoned look, I am disabled and it is so hard to for me to do housework now.

I used to be obsessed with having it clean all the time but in the last couple of years I have become a slacker. I guess I found out that I have better things to do with my life then clean this house 24/7! So it now has that lived in look! LOL

My house has the "lived in" look. I have clutter, I have dishes next to the sink waiting for me to wash them, I have clothes in the closet that need to be washed, too. I'm doing better at my housekeeping skills now that I did from 16 to 30 years ago. I was awful at keeping house. I'll not go into it though. At my job, though, I'm a neat freak. I cannot stand going to my assigned register and find that no one cleaned the scale area, the belt that the items are put on, the top of the turnstile, and NO BAGS put on the spindles so that I can put customer's items into them. I do MY share of all that. Why can't the previous cashier do that, too?? Anyway, I'm just comfy the way my house is. I'm not ashamed to have company to come into my house now. But I did not have anyone come into the house 20 years ago....that's how bad it was.

Hi there's only my husband and me living in a 700+ sq ft apartment so it very easy to keep things organized and clean. I work from home as a music teacher and a tupperware star consultant. I don't open a tupperware shop so I use my kitchen as a model showroom to my customers. So its very well organized....and by keeping it that way has earned me lots of sales.. I am also quite freaky about mopping the floor and scrubbing bathroom walls. Can't stand grime and slime on the bathroom walls and seeing strands of hair on the floor. I don't sweep the floor then mop. I use a microfiber mop and mop our apartment floor. Its time saving as the mop will pick up whatever thats on the floor. My husband is also an organized person but he says that sometimes I get to freakish with the floor!!!

I can't seem to get anything done now a days. I have a 3 year old grandaughter that is very energetic. She will help pick up her toys but then they are right back out and she wants to pick them up again. So, our home has the lived in homey look. Of course, I do try to keep it clean but is definitely lived in. My 83 year old Mother says to let her play and then she can help pick up her toys that is what she used to do.

i'll admit that i don't clean my room sometimes but when it gets so untidy and i was not the one who did it, i will definitely go crazy... my temper will rise and i tend to keep on saying bad words.. i just hate it when people leave their mess and i do the after care... but when i clean my room, i make sure that it's really clean. even a single thing not properly placed will drive me mad...

My house is not spotless, but it's not messy, either. One thing I have to do is make my bed every morning. I can't stand it if it's messed up and I'm not in it. My biggest problem is keeping up with the mail. It seems to pile up on the kitchen table quicker than I can go through it. I don't have to sweep or mop much, mainly dust every week. One of my most favorite quotes is, "A clean house is a sign of a broken computer."

We go for the lived in look. I like how you put that. I clean what I can and don't stress about what I can't get to. I just do it the next day. With 2 little kids I can't always clean. They like to come behind me and pull out while I'm cleaning so it makes it hard to keep everything clean and in its place.

I am much like you. I don't mind the lived in look. Besides.. life is much too short to fret over the condition of ones home. My computer desk is cluttered.. you know "avalanche warning" cluttered. One more thing stacked on top and it will all hit the floor. The house itself is clean.. If someone were happen to stop by, I wouldn't be horrible embarrassed. I have a clean freak friend whom I sometimes envy. Then, If I want to spontaneously go somewhere.. she can't go because she has to fold a load of clothes, or the to of her doors need to be dusted.. I got her to leave her house with 4 dishes in the sink, and she could NOT enjoy herself. She worried about those dishes the whole time we were at a theme park with no kids, no hubby, just her and I. She couldn't have fun. I found that to be pretty sad.

Our house is clean but lived in. Every Friday it is spotless but by the end of the weekend it is back to looking lived in again. With three kids it is kind of hard to keep a spotless home.

When I was younger I make sure everything inside and outside my house is spotlessly clean and all in order.I always teach my children to make their room always in order.I hate to see things cluttered.But now that my movements are limited I tend to fix everything slowly.I have to be contented to what energy that is left with me.I can't do everything I used to do.Cleaning the house,cooking washing ironing and sometimes some carpentry work.

I am a housewife and mother and prefer to keep my house tidy if I can. Even if I worked outside of the home I would act the same way. I don't mind a lived in look it is just the clutter and things scattered on the floor and upset me. I want things in an orderly fashion and I like the house to be clean before I go out anywhere so I don't have to mess with it when I come home.

I do the cleaning and the cooking just day to day stuff.