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.

[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....

[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.

[Twisterdog]

My house is always neat. I'm a nut case about it. I always put EVERYTHING away all the time. Nothing is ever out of place. I need help, I know.

Now, I didn't say my house was always clean. It's never filthy, that would drive me crazy. But the carpets generally needed vacuumed, the floor needs mopped ... you know, pet stuff.

So, if I have company coming, I'll vacuum and mop, clean the bathroom extra well. Unless it's just my parents, they are used to me by now. lol

[sirrahbed]

Does anyone else?

clean one week in advance of company even if it was my only available day off? I'd have to get up extra early or clean again in between cooking.

I do like the look of a neat house and have been known to put unused softener sheets or a few drops of lysol in wastebaskets. I would probably do it the night before or soon before company arrived

[Pembroke_Corgi]

We generally clean once a week- except our bedroom which is always messy (though the dishes, sadly, need to be done more than once a week). But, we are generally sloppy in between cleanings so the house NEEDS it once a week. I do a far more complete job when company comes, though.

[G535]

I never have company but I do keep the dishes and laundry up to date, the heavy work gets done when the arthritis permits it. I love seeing cat hair all over the place, feels more like home!

[Lori Jordan]

When you have kids it is impossible!In order to have a home that you can eat off the floors,That would mean i would have to follow them around and watch there every move****I REFUSE TO DO SO*****

My house is clean,But i have kids that use a different glass everytime they get a drink,So i always have dishes,But now they know to put it in the dishwasher.

I have a teenage daughter who is a disaster!!!Literally she did her laundry i told her for 2 days to get it out of the laundry room,It was moved from there to the upstairs hallway,So instead of her putting it away she started throwing her dirty laundry ontop of her clean.Makes no sence,So i got rather mad at her and told her she better move it the hallway is not a laundry basket.

Needless to say i have to scream at them to get there stuff done

My space in the house is always cleaned,The kids on the other hand.....I hope they keep a better house when they have there own lol!!!