How tidy or messy are you?

[yurbud]

[u4ic]

1. "Lived in"

My place looks lived in. ;) :hi:

[yurbud]

2. by Buddhist monks or a biker gang?

[u4ic]

25. I think they'd both be disappointed

;-)

I just tend to be disorganized and somewhat cluttered..there's no rotting food on the counters or anything of the sort...:puke:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

I picked "other..."

The house isn't usually too bad.......but I don't always make the bed....

And sometimes there's laundry in the laundry room....

I'm not too good about getting the inevitable spots off my kitchen floor!

Let's just say I'm an enthusiastic cook, and leave it at that!

So........That's the scoop on my house.....:shrug:

[yurbud]

7. sounds like my place. cleaning up a stain is like erasing a story.

[Nicole]

3. My house is always ready for unexpected guests

I, on the other hand, am usually not. I live in my pjs. :rofl:

[Skittles]

4. I am neat-challenged

my basic pattern is things get bad enough to disgust me, then I thoroughly pick up and clean from top to bottom and then, well, it slowly gets messy again until I am disgusted. :(

[yurbud]

8. that sounds like me except without the "thoroughly." I do it about half way and then realize

I don't care that much (unless I got a girlfriend yelling at me or my mom comes to visit).

[Skittles]

10. lol

I think my saving grace is I am never comfortable with my messiness - it makes me feel uneasy, yet I seem to be in a constant battle to clean up and keep neat - it just doesn't come naturally - we must be missing the clean-gene. :o

[wildhorses]

5. i voted other---

this place is basically a storage unit with a few amenities :shrug:

[yurbud]

9. think of it as extra insulation

[Broken_Hero]

6. I'm

If unexpected guests show up, there might be a few dishes in the sink or papers on the table, but nothing too embarrassing.



But, I usually have a pretty clean house...but at times, I do let the house duties go for a few days...

[ElsewheresDaughter]

11. dirty enough to be happy and clean enough to be healthy

[sakabatou]

12. Well seeing how I live in a dorm room...

[yurbud]

13. we built platforms and stuff and I put curtains on mine so I could just throw stuff behind the

curtain...

[PRETZEL]

14. We clean every day, sometimes twice

but not the whole house. The bathroom, living room and kitchen are ALWAYS done every day, even if we weren't home. But that's more my wife's doing. She's a bit OCD when it comes to that (and naturally I'm more Oscar Madison) so I've learned to live with it.

[NewWaveChick1981]

15. I'm not the world's neatest person, but I am ALWAYS clean.

:hi: A little clutter never hurt anyone. :) On the other hand, though, I am married to a total freaking slob. :yoiks: He's content to step over piles of junk and make little paths from point A to point B. I cannot STAND that. His side of the bed faces a wall with a window, and he uses that area as his personal junk hole. Thank God I don't have to look at it unless I actually walk around to that side of the bed. It pisses me off that he will take clean clothes that I have washed and pile them in the corner rather than taking 90 seconds to hang up what I've just brought up from the laundry area. Stuff gets wrinkled and stepped on, and nine times out of ten, he decides it needs to be washed again even if it's not been worn. :grr: I keep the kitchen and my bathroom and the downstairs bathroom clean all the time, and I vacuum the areas I use. I gave up trying to keep "his" areas clean years ago because it's a futile effort. His bathroom is a pigsty. The downstairs den, which houses his various collections, is also a junk hole with boxes piled everywhere. It would be a nice, large den with a sitting area and TV, but there is too much shit piled in there to use it. :yoiks: I keep the door to that room, the door to his office, and the bedroom door closed when people come over. Otherwise, the place is completely presentable.

I knew he was a slob when I married him, but I did NOT bargain for it becoming so much worse over the years. He'd rather buy new underwear than to actually take some time to wash the dirty ones. :( I will NOT pick up after him and I will NOT clean up after him. I'm not his mother (who, incidentally, did that, and I blame her as much as I blame him).

Ummmm... if you haven't guessed already, this is one area (out of many) that really gripes me. He knows it, yet he makes no effort to curb his slobbiness. It's a symptom of a larger problem. :(

[eyepaddle]

16. I'm moderately neat, but

I'm completely overwhelmed by my roommates. I do the dishes at leasst 3, usually 4, sometimes five times a week. But y'all guessed it--those are the only times it happens. Sometimes I can't tell if I'm caught between frothing rage, or stunned admiration at the the artistic level to which my baked-off-his-ass roommate can utterly fuck-up a ktichen and apartment.

He's a good guy and everything, but I think tidiness makes him feel nervous (yes, there are some neuroses goign on). The level of calamity seems to be directly proportional to the number of bong hits.

[GalleryGod]

17. I never left the military training behind: Always" Neat as a pin"

But that's me...I like clean;I like neat.

:rofl: :shrug: :rofl:

[trof]

18. I use hospital corners on my shirt tails.

;-)

[BarenakedLady]

19. I have three kids

two dogs (one who steals toys, shoes, etc), and two long-haired cats...You do the math. I'll be cleaning one area of the house as they are trashing another. *sigh* Most days, I just give up.

[youthere]

20. I'm pretty tidy....

I vaccumn a lot because I hate walking across the floor and stepping on stuff..ANY stuff.
My house is never dirty, but there is usually plenty of clutter (we have three kids). I make them do a final "pick-up" before they go to bed though.

My big thing is the bathroom. That gets cleaned a couple times a day...I have an obsession about the bathroom and I am constantly wiping it down with antibacterial wipes. I have this irrational fear of getting "sick" from the bathroom..but the funny part is I don't worry about public bathrooms, just my own.

[ganeshji]

21. I'm pretty neat with a few exceptions

I vacuum, make the bed, and clean the kitchen and bathroom every day. My downfall is all of the books and paper that I somehow accumulate. I'm not sure where it all comes from, but I can't seem to get rid of any of it. I try to organize my piles but I always get sucked into reading old books and looking at old drawings and poems and stuff so no progress is made, everything is just reshuffled.

[Little Wing]

22. I only post on DU because I've sealed myself into a corner with beer cans

and trash.

...so hungry

[Left Is Write]

23. I am tidy.

I could have drop-in guests pretty much any time, but I go through the house like a white tornado when I'm having planned guests, doing all those deep cleaning "in the corners" jobs.

[reyd reid reed]

24. I'm tidy...

my kids, on the other hand, have a completely bizarre perception of what 'tidy' is.

:crazy: