Do you wait for company too?

[catnapper]

I am embarrassed to say I am not Suzie Homemaker who vacuums every day and never has dishes in the sink. Typically my house is a disorganized jumble of mail, drink glasses, laundry, homework, etc.

So now that we're having Thanksgiving at our house next week, and today is my only day off between now and then, I'm on a frenzied cleaning schedule for the day. Why do I wait til someone is coming over to clean my house? Does anyone else?

[Uabassoon]

Every week Alexa and I invite friends over to watch our favorite show America's Next Top Model. The only reason why we do that is because then we will at least pick up the house once a week! During the summer when all the tv shows are on reruns our house becomes a mess because we never get visitors!

[Pawsitive Thinking]

For the last month or so (since we stayed in a pristine apartment in Germany) I have been doing 30 mins housework every evening and I have to say the place looks so much cleaner!!! Also means that my weekends aren't spent dusting, hoovering and ironing

[Sirrahsim]

Sounds like my home It's hard to walk across a room without encountering toys, books, or clean clothes waiting to be folded

[Taz_Zoee]

I MIGHT sweep or vacuum one day of the weekend. But deep cleaning is usually only done when I know people are coming over. Bruce has even said - we should have parties more often. The house gets cleaned! LOL
But our kitchen is always pretty clean, as far as dishes not piling up in the sink. And we typicallly do not leave "stuff" laying around the house.

[moosmom]

I voted "other" because I don't clean, I just move!!!

Just joking. I wait till I can't stand it any longer then I clean. I almost never have company so it is what it is.

[slick]

Well, I have a housecleaner who arrives every other Thursday afternoon and I come home to a wonderful clean smelling condo.

I generally keep my living space tidy with few piles of junk hanging around. I hate clutter of any kind. The sad, and somewhat embarrassing part, is that I do a light cleaning a day or two before the housecleaner arrives. Figure that one out will ya????

[pitc9]

My kitchen HAS to be clean all the time.
It bugs the crap out of me if it's not.
I do dishes as soon as I dirty them.

My bedroom... now that's another story!

I can have dog fur tumbleweeds the size of a small child under my bed and the floor of my closet is heaped with dirty clothes and it's doesn’t' bother me.

The living room needs dusted twice a week during the winter because we have a wood stove. (Notice I said it needs dusted, I didn't say that it gets dusted twice a week! ) and the carpet in the living room needs vacuumed at least twice a week for the same reason plus because I have 2 massively shedding monsters living in my home.

If I know people are coming over, I can spend an hour and have the house ready for company.

[Miss Z]

My mother is a clean-freak. In our home, we have a no-fingers on windows/mirrors at any time policy, and the house has to be clean and tidy before the cleaner comes in, to make sure she doesn't think we have a dirty home.

[Edwina's Secretary]

The sad, and somewhat embarrassing part, is that I do a light cleaning a day or two before the housecleaner arrives. Figure that one out will ya????

Sad, embarrassing????? No quite normal! I justify the fetish as "I am making it easier for the housecleaner!" Makes me nice instead of nuts....

[krazyaboutkatz]

I try to keep my place clean but I only vacuum and sweep once a week and I usually mop every other week. I also dust as needed. I never ever have any dirty dishes in the sink or any where else except in the dishwasher. This is one of my pet peeves. I do have too much stuff for my condo but I try to put it away in my storage lockers or in my closets so there isn't too much clutter lying around. My bedroom is probably the messiest part of my place but company would rarely see this room any way.

[critter crazy]

I always try to do some cleaning daily, but even with that, my house never looks completely clean, unless there is company coming, especially if it is my mom!! Hubby loves it when my mom comes to visit! He says it is the only time he sees the house look so good!

[jenluckenbach]

I HATE cleaning!! So, under most circumstances, I wait until I know people are coming over. Of course the REALLY sad part about that, is that it happens so seldom (I never get company).............. Plenty of fur and scattered litter, not to mention dust. As a matter of fact, I wouldn't show you the inside of my house right now if you PAID me.

[Kfamr]

I do laundry, dishes, and vacuum daily.

Papers of all sorts are a different story though. We generally have newspapers on the table, mail on the kitchen counter, newspapers in the livingroom, etc.

[Alysser]

My mom generally cleans the whole house. Her job is paying bills, being a mother, cleaning, shopping, etc. and she cleans alot. She's somewhat of a neat freak. The only thing I MUST keep clean is my room, bed, fish tank and bird cage/area which is generally clean unless I am super busy, which reminds me of what I should be doing right now. My future house will be pretty clean, I can tell you now, I can't live in a dirty place!