How important is a clean house to you? (187)
i HATE to have to pick up after someone...to me, its just disrespectful to leave a mess and not clean up after yourself...my house keeping skills are'nt the best but, it drives me crazy to be around or have to deal with a slob
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oh yea,....hi dru! 
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I like for my home to be clean and like it when I put things in a partiular places find that it does make it alot easier to find them.But at the very same time I never tried to make my late husband and my sons feel uncomfortable to reside within their own home.
My late husband had his own 'Mans Room' so to speak and kept his mess/clutter confined within that room and just kept the door closed. Same as for my sons rooms. They just kept the doors to their room closed as well.
My late husband had his own 'Mans Room' so to speak and kept his mess/clutter confined within that room and just kept the door closed. Same as for my sons rooms. They just kept the doors to their room closed as well.
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jlw45: oh yea,....hi dru!
Hi, Joel!
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jlw45: i HATE to have to pick up after someone...to me, its just disrespectful to leave a mess and not clean up after yourself...my house keeping skills are'nt the best but, it drives me crazy to be around or have to deal with a slob ......
I agree that it's disrespectful. My younger sister was famous for leaving a trail behind her when she lived with my parents and when she lived with me...and yet, when she lived on her own, she kept her place spotless. She really doesn't respect others, though.
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somechick: I like for my home to be clean and like it when I put things in a partiular places find that it does make it alot easier to find them.But at the very same time I never tried to make my late husband and my sons feel uncomfortable to reside within their own home.
My late husband had his own 'Mans Room' so to speak and kept his mess/clutter confined within that room and just kept the door closed. Same as for my sons rooms. They just kept the doors to their room closed as well.
My late husband had his own 'Mans Room' so to speak and kept his mess/clutter confined within that room and just kept the door closed. Same as for my sons rooms. They just kept the doors to their room closed as well.
Yes, I find the closed door policy does work well, if they can then respect the orderliness I like to keep in the rest of the house.
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Hi Dru,
Sometimes I think I suffer from OCD.........
Yeah I like a clean house and more importantly if I have something theres a place for it.......
Sometimes I think I suffer from OCD.........
Yeah I like a clean house and more importantly if I have something theres a place for it.......
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I am not a fanatic but do like my house clean enough for company to stop by. I love it when I am the only one home and can make the house perfect.. that is a good (and short lived) feeling. I have 3 teenagers so the house isn't perfectly clean at all times but it is comfortable and not too cluttered...
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It's gotta be clean...
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Sure its important but just impossible. I designed this house too but forget keeping it neat.
If there's a mess I confront my oldest Huey 16 "Clean this up please right now!" He turns to his little sister Hattie "Hattie this is your mess" Hattie looks around and notices Alex Possum and says "Alex was climbing and did this!" Alex Possum looks me squarely in the eye and says "Hey I'm a possum ...sue me!" and smacks his long tail on the floor for emphasis. Sure I'm an attorney but a smart lawyer knows when he can't win. I go back in my room and hope it cleans itself up.
If there's a mess I confront my oldest Huey 16 "Clean this up please right now!" He turns to his little sister Hattie "Hattie this is your mess" Hattie looks around and notices Alex Possum and says "Alex was climbing and did this!" Alex Possum looks me squarely in the eye and says "Hey I'm a possum ...sue me!" and smacks his long tail on the floor for emphasis. Sure I'm an attorney but a smart lawyer knows when he can't win. I go back in my room and hope it cleans itself up.
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jlw45: i HATE to have to pick up after someone...to me, its just disrespectful to leave a mess and not clean up after yourself...my house keeping skills are'nt the best but, it drives me crazy to be around or have to deal with a slob ......
agree, I do clean my house all the time though especially the vaccuuming and sweeping... The little one keeps dad pretty busy in that department...
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jlw45: i HATE to have to pick up after someone...to me, its just disrespectful to leave a mess and not clean up after yourself...my house keeping skills are'nt the best but, it drives me crazy to be around or have to deal with a slob ......
I refuse to pick up after someone too just because they're too lazy to pickup or clean up after themselves.
When my two sons were little I cured them very quickly of leaving their toys laying all around the house and expectd me to pick them up. I went and bought some storage containers with lids.I labeled the lids with words Yard Sale goodies. I told my sons that everytime they left one of their toys out and didn't pick them up I was going to sell them at the yard sale. They thought I was just bluffing with them. By the time I was having my yard sale those storage containers were pretty much full of their left out toys. The day of that sale they stood watching while I sold their toys.After that they were more then happy to keep their toys picked up.
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I keep my place picked up, dusted and vacuumed...but I'm not a fanatic about it. There's more to life than being a neat freak - I've been with 2 people when they were just hours and minutes before dying - in listening to them talk - neither one said that they wished they had kept a cleaner house, made more money, or drove a nicer car....life is what happens while your making plans for living. enjoy it 
don't wait for the right job, the right weight, the right person to start your life....it's already began - live it!
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Since it's just me now it's easier to keep things picked up. Although while I was married it was expected of me to pick up everyone elses mess. I thought spending time with the boys was more important than an immaculate house....my ex wanted the immaculate house. It didn't work too well when I tried to get across to him that he needed to do his part by picking up his own stuff and helping me with the boys.
When I moved up here from Antioch I went through quite a bit of stuff so there's not that much any more that doesn't have a home (just don't go into the spare rooms...lol)
When I moved up here from Antioch I went through quite a bit of stuff so there's not that much any more that doesn't have a home (just don't go into the spare rooms...lol)
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vinny1967: Hi Dru,
Sometimes I think I suffer from OCD.........
Yeah I like a clean house and more importantly if I have something theres a place for it.......
Sometimes I think I suffer from OCD.........
Yeah I like a clean house and more importantly if I have something theres a place for it.......
Virgo, by chance, Vinny? Just curious...that's the "neat freak" sign of the zodiac, and most likely to have OCD. Though, I admit to a bit of it myself. I have to have one spot to clutter, though. A "drop zone", if you will, just for balance.
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hrt4lse: Since it's just me now it's easier to keep things picked up. Although while I was married it was expected of me to pick up everyone elses mess. I thought spending time with the boys was more important than an immaculate house....my ex wanted the immaculate house. It didn't work too well when I tried to get across to him that he needed to do his part by picking up his own stuff and helping me with the boys.
When I moved up here from Antioch I went through quite a bit of stuff so there's not that much any more that doesn't have a home (just don't go into the spare rooms...lol)
When I moved up here from Antioch I went through quite a bit of stuff so there's not that much any more that doesn't have a home (just don't go into the spare rooms...lol)
And part II....it'd be nice when I find my guy that he likes to help out and keep things picked up too. No more of me doing it all....we're partners and we should both help out...gets done faster that way.
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robinmarie43: I am not a fanatic but do like my house clean enough for company to stop by. I love it when I am the only one home and can make the house perfect.. that is a good (and short lived) feeling. I have 3 teenagers so the house isn't perfectly clean at all times but it is comfortable and not too cluttered...
Ah, company cleaning. Yep, I do that one, definitely. I clean once a week, and if company is coming, that's when it gets done, even if it's not my normal cleaning day.
I'm a balance on this...not a neat freak, but not a slob, either. You might come over to find a couple of dirty dishes, and that doesn't bother me...or you might find a drainer full of clean (and still wet) ones.
I'll never pass a white glove test, though.
Thankfully, I got my mom to stop doing that. And yes, she carried them with her on the plane to visit me out-of-state. 
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My best friend is a Virgo, one of the pickiest signs when it comes to housecleaning, and yet she's not that particular...lots of Pisces in her chart, it rather overrules it, I guess. However, one of her sisters does nothing but clean her house all of the time. I am not the pickiest of house cleaners, but I do like my home to be clean. However, I warn everyone, especially my mother (she has white-gloved my apartments when I was younger), that my house will never be immaculate for long...I have two rather large, rambunctious, young and energetic dogs. If you want a place to come to that is bright and cheery, yet comfortable to hang out in, and a two year old can't destroy anything (again, refer to the description of my dogs, all was bought to withstand them
I have clutter still in my home, though I hate that. One thing I am picky about is everything having its place. My problem is that I'm still sorting through everyone's stuff, and still trying to figure out what to do with some things, so they don't have places yet. One of these days, all will have its place. It does drive me nuts to look for something where it belongs and not find it there...and usually that's my fault, which upsets me more.
So...how clean do you need your home to be at all times? Can you date someone who is less neat than you, or would it drive you crazy to feel like you were constantly cleaning up after someone? And I do understand that there are men and women who fall into all levels here, it's not a gender-biased question, so I hope all feel free to participate.
And yes, to answer my own question, it would drive me crazy to live with someone who couldn't pick up after themselves, or put things where they belong. My late husband drove me crazy because of that, and his clutter. But, it was contained to his room, and that was his territory...so I lived with it.