Are you houseproud?

No. I am now very very old and can't possibly be expected to much more than flick a feather duster around.

Haha MissAdventure Exactly what I need!

Clean kitchen and bathroom, reasonably tidy living room, wooden floors which need a vac every few days due to dog and cat fur, other than that, things get done on an as need basis. very little ironing done in this house, quick whiz in the tumble drier, then on to airer around tank, sorted!

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Tidy when no grandchildren visiting.
On days that they are with me, looks like we have been ransacked..

I leave DH to clean the hand and finger marks left by the little ones.
What gran could possibly wipe away their adorable little prints??

My Mother was exceedingly houseproud, liked everything 'just so' and rooms redecorated annually. The problem with that was that she did not see it as her job to maintain this state of perfection. Her contribution was to draw up rotas for my sister, father and I and refuse to let us out of the door for leisure activities until that days tasks had been completed.

My father called it 'pride and poverty' - an attempt to live a middle class life style without the means to hire a cleaner or send stuff to the laundry. So it was starched white linen tableclothes on the dining table in the living room with the full dinner service to be set out, used, washed and dried and put away again, table folded up and carpet hoovered after every evening meal. We were always late for the Youth Club and many 'dates' were 'stood-up' as we missed the bus.

Since I was married and had my own house, everything is arranged to need as little effort cleaningwise as is possible and as there are no longer any MIL or DM visits to prepare for I do no more than keep Kitchen, bathroom and toilet hygenic and to hell with the rest.

Am I houseproud? - absolutely 100% NOT!! The house is there to serve me and my family and not me to serve it!

We have wide low window ledges and the GC slither about on them and clean them brilliantly with their trousers;they also make finger marks all over the windows though! - we treat those as GC signatures and take delight in them!

He suffers from 'piles' then? That drives me mad, piles of stuff waiting for a forever home somewhere. I do it myself. Some things don't fit into a category though.

That is funny about your friend MissAdventure obviously I am not unique in 'hiding' stuff. I will just have to tell DH that all his stuff has gone because I had to do a 'bag job'. DH is the source of all heaps in our house. I took to piling them all up on his desk in the study but it didn't make him file things or put stuff away. Don't think there is a solution to it but I suppose I would rather have him and his heaps than not have him at all.

my cats play under the sofas, they like sliding round on the wood floor, so i guess they do the cleaning with their tails LOL

Christine that's what I should do - similar floors plus pets.
This morning I had a big cleanup in the bedroom, thinking my chest problems during the night might be due to dust and animal fluff. They've both been sleeping in our bedroom.
We'll see.

Well, as my leather settee took four burly removal men to carry it into my house, there is no way I can move it! So far, there is six years of dust underneath it! I find walking difficult (roll on new knees!) and my old vac was heavy so I bought a rechargeable, cordless one which is brilliant although I sometimes have to use it sitting down! I enjoy my retirement too much to stay in and do housework although I do clean my bathroom frequently - using antibacterial wipes as I am lazy as well! When I am in the house I prefer to crochet or do other crafts.

I vacuum every day as I have hard floors which show everything, three dogs and a cat keep me on the hop. Dust at least weekly as we have a wood burner which creates dust.
Hate ironing so no underwear or tea towels ironed here.

I also iron tea towels, because we usually buy one on holiday and I like to remind myself of the holiday.

My mother in law used to iron socks and I once saw her hovering the iron over a pair of tights as if thinking "shall I try and iron these?"

‘to’ not ‘or’

It used to be an ambition of mine, to be houseproud. I never achieved it and have (sensibly, I think) given up that ambition. I vacuum several times a week, mainly because we have 2 dogs, one of which seems to constantly moult white hairs. Thank heavens we don’t have carpets. I do admit or ironing tea towels, but I draw the line at socks. My mum used to though, I even remember her ironing her bras!

I used to be very fussy years ago. I ironed everything, and loved seeing a little pile of neat white vests and knickers ready to be put away. (Not mine, I hasten to add!) Grandson isn't so lucky these days. Crumpled up pyjamas for him, and I complain if he makes too much washing.

Our sofas have legs that give access to underneath easily and we have wooden floors so it is easy to dust underneath with the long handled duster thingy its done about 2/3 times a week but I am not obsessive about housework I just like everything looking nice.
giulia I must confess to ironing my childrens socks when they where at school the reason being was I could not bare the thought of them at school all day wearing socks that
had an uncomfortable seam across their toes (how soft am I)

I've just been thinking about trying the swiffer between the legs.. of my sofa

This thread is blinking dangerous. I've just felt the need to wash the blue glass plate in the bathroom. That looked so much better that I washed the conch shell and the glass dish that holds shells and bits of blue glass.

Unheard of!

giulia.........Just a little bit OTT I would say??

Recently had to move the bed out, what a surprise greeted me. Wont be going there again......

JackyB I shall have to have a word with your sofas to see if they object to being swished between the legs!

Our sofas have little legs and stand on a laminate floor - underneath them is the only place that dust and fluff bunnies gather. I have been cleaning the floor quite a lot lately because DGS is here from the States and they come round every few days, and I clean the floor so he can play on it.

I push the sofas out, clean where they stand, and then push them back. I also have to used a feather duster or swiffer to clear away the cobwebs which appear between the legs. It's a matter of seconds to swish under them, between the legs. There isn't much else to clean in our lounge - just a weeny bit of dusting and whisking away the cobwebs in the corners.

It’s all relative I suppose ( as we all have different ideas on clean and tidy.)
I don’t do nearly as much as I used to.Kitchen and bathrooms kept very clean and tidy, other rooms less so.
Only vac round once a week, and dust once a week.
Find that now we don’t have pets it stay much cleaner though anyway.
We have a lot of books which seem to find their way everywhere in the house, so tidy them up into piles and plump up the cushions, light a perfumed candle and hey ho it’s done!