Are you house proud?

I tend to blitz things when I get the urge - like the airing cupboard after the boiler was serviced and I felt shamed into taking out all the towels etc for the engineer to check the tank!

But if the urge doesn’t strike…….

No comment!

Kitty I see a sort of quiet smugness in "houseproud".
I'm sure your cleaner didn't mean it like that!

I expect she meant you love your home.

Excessive cleaning and organising is a waste of time. My mother used to say that dust would still be there long after her. and 'You're a long time in your box!'.

I am pretty chaotic and have, what a friend of mine's husband- once said about her - flatsurfaceitus. Every empty surface must be filled up as quickly as possible with projects "on the go".

I used to think the chaos in our house was the children's fault - but now they are gone, I know that it's actually me!

I am only fussy about scrupulously clean china, pots and pans, cuttlery, kitchen tools and so on (basically anything to do with food).

And I like my bathroom to be sparkly and sheets to be changed regularly!
I do have robot hoovers.
I wish they'd do the stairs... everything else has to wait wait.

Dust if you must….by Rose Milligan

I like to be clean and tidy but welcoming. I think there is a balance between a show house and a hoarder’s paradise. I like everything to be in its correct place, but I also like a house to reflect the personality of its owner. It would be a constant battle if l didn’t keep on top of things because DH is a hoarder (he calls it “prepping”) and cannot see that when you have finished doing something you need to put things away, not just leave them where you have been and forget about them. It means that l have to go behind him tidying up, but it is worth it. I have friends with different levels of acceptable tidiness. I am squeamish when it comes to dirt, though, and it amazes me how many people who are generally clean and tidy have a filthy dishcloth teeming with germs. I change my cloths at least once a day. We do, however, have one set of friends who have completely hoarded a large house as well as other buildings. The whole house is filthy and l am sure that rodents have made their home amongst it all, despite the fact that they have several mangy cats. The wife has been very poorly with a rare condition, contributing factors being dust and mould spores. Very sad.

merlotgran

Naughtyneine

Um...as someone who gets to wear the Domestic Goddess crown very infrequently ( but tries hard in between times) could someone tell me what 'bottomed' a room means please.

Is it a north country expression? I’m sure my late Yorkshire mother in law used to say it.

I loved it when she came to stay and said, ‘Anything I can do to help?’

I think she packed her own dusters. 😂

Miss Read used the word bottoming in her books and she was from the far south of England.

downtoearth

Kitty whenever you have posted a picture of your home it looks warm and welcoming,I am sure it is a compliment.

Thank you for that- I do hope it is.

Calendargirl

My sister is ‘house proud’.

Never misses an opportunity to say how she has ‘bottomed’ somewhere, re- decorated yet another room, changed the curtains, power washed the drive…. One upmanship.

Me, er, no.

Your sister sounds just like mine@

I am proud of my house as it is rather unusual, and surrounded by trees. But I am not’houseproud’. Cleaning gets done when necessary and with a bit more vigor if we have visitors coming.

Most amusing Naughtyneine.. love your dog's names..

I've recently hired a cleaner for 3 hours every month and it is bliss when she leaves the house sparkling.. Then I am very proud of my house..

I am up to a point. I like things to be clean and tidy, and put things away once finished with them. I dust and hoover, of course, but perhaps not as often as my Mum did (but then we did have a coal fire then, which created a lot of dust and smuts, and there were more of us in the house, too. My house is heated with gas and radiators and there’s only two of us living in it).

I’m fastidious about having clean toilets, kitchen and bathroom, though.

It is by no means a show home, more a comfortable one (I hope).

Like other posters, if I’m expecting visitors, it gets an extra clean, and every so often, if the urge strikes me, I give it a deeper clean than its usual going over (Spring clean/autumn clean type of thing)😁.

I have three big dogs all moulting. I have given up on house work and thinking of breeding dust bunnies.

No, I'm not. I used to clean the house a lot, but now I do the essentials - toilet, kitchen, bathroom - every day, and the rest gets done when it needs doing/looks bad/I feel up to it. I tidy up as I go along.

Dull women keep immaculate homes

I'd rather see a lived in house with character instead of an immaculately cleaned house where it looks like the owners spend all their time plumping up the cushions or wiping things down.

biglouis - welcome here then!

Nope sorry mines lived in

A friend of mine says 'dust when it offends'!!

This thread was on my mind when I woke up.So I got up and dusted the lounge, threw out old magazines, tidied yarn away, hoovered thoroughly and tidied it. Did the hall and kitchen, wiped surfaces, dusted, tidied paperwork. Hoovered then washed the floor. Washed the bathroom floor too.
Put clothes away in bedroom. Sprayed rooms with lavender mist. Everywhere smells lovely now.

Had lunch made by husband as my back was aching after all my activity. 😉. Then had a shower and now drying off in the sunshine on my bed.

I’ve just got the dustpan and brush out and swept up the crumbs under my chair 😉

Oops, I read that as “swept the crumbs under my chair”, aggie

No I’m not house proud. But I like the house to be tidy because I find it more relaxing.

I clean through once a week and completely ignore it for the rest of the week.

TBH after visiting someone I couldn’t tell you what the house was like as I rarely notice.

I often sweep the room with a glance, mind you.

Usual old cliche trotted out biglouis

Good to have a change on here where posters actually admit to liking a clean house instead of sneering.

I don’t like clutter, so apart from MrJ’s side table, next to his seat, the surfaces stay tidy in the main rooms.
Bathrooms and kitchen are always clean, but check the odd skirting board around the house with a finger, then I’m remiss!
So I’m not fastidious, I’m assuming visitors come to visit us/me, not for an inspection.