I suppose the biggest annoyance to me when I was growing up was how she always said "This house is filthy!" even though it looked perfectly clean or maybe just a little cluttered. Even when it was cluttered, I wished she would say "this house is messy" rather than "filthy" because filthy was such a strong word and it was not filthy at all! I had to vacuum, clean and do chores constantly so I know it wasn't! (not that doing chores was bad for me)

She seemed unable to just relax, every Saturday morning it was get up and clean till we dropped. Hardly ever could we just take a day off and enjoy the day. Even if I tried hard to get the house cleaned up before Saturday came around, she would FIND something to work on, like scrubbing the corners in the windowsills or reorganizing closets, drove me insane . When I complained about it, always heard "This house is filthy!"

She's actually really relaxed more about that since she got remarried