Bad homemaker

I'm hopeless. I have finally cleaned my upstairs bathroom which hasn't been done since before Christmas... luckily no one goes in there except my son!

Houses, housework and 'things' are very low on my priority list. When I was younger it was more important. I wanted timpress/keep up.

Posted too soon. I am rubbish at housework. You clean/dust one thing, turn around and something else needs cleaning/dusting/washing. It's not for me. Out house is ok. Clean (ish), in a reasonable state of decoration (ish). I couldn't care less. Not important with what else is going on around me.

I’m useless. I only really learned to cook during the pandemic due to worrying about food supplies. Trouble is my lack of domesticity means that I’m always cleaning and tidying up and decluttering because I’m so disorganised. I really want to be doing other things.

I hate cleaning.
I've bought robot vacuums and it seems to make things look way better to have that vacuuming done early morning.

I'm fussy about sparking crockery and cuttlery and the kitchen table. I like a clean bathroom/toilet but I'm really untidy.
I used to think it was the children that made all the chaos but as they left home one by one the mess didn't diminish!

Unlike you, however I also love "home things" of beauty. I like a few beautiful pieces (a painting, a lamp, a chair, a kettle) and am very fussy about colours. I will spend a long time (way too long) on details but they do give me lots of joy. I try out numerous colours on A3 or larger sheets before I decorate and take pride in finding just the right colours for me.

In terms of "household things", carpets etc, if I can't afford what I really fancy I can happily live in a half-done space till I find something very similar or at least as lush.

One of my good friends is hopeless at making things look lovely - however I love her for who she is, not for her home! It's quite irrelevant if it doesn't make you happy!

I do have some nice things round the house but they are rarely seen at their best because I loathe housework. Cooking is fine, I enjoy cooking, although even that is beginning to pall after so many decades doing it. My daughter once bought me a fridge magnet that said "A mind is a terrible thing to waste on housework" and I have to agree.

I love a clean, uncluttered, tidy house and am happy to spend time to keep it that way. With just the two of us nothing gets very dirty or untidy and I find that around half an hour a day keeps my house as I want it. My husband does all the cooking, after 40 years of it I felt that I had had my turn now it's his turn, so the kitchen is his domain. Works well for us and we get a lot better meals than when I did the cooking.

When I was a child, our house was a show home, and we spent most of our time in the kitchen. My mother worked as a ward sister with one day off a month, but the house came first. It was sparkling, and she washed the kitchen floor at least daily.

My house is modern and well-furnished, but I have employed a cleaner for many years. I do as little as possible.

You’re the complete opposite of me. But I envy you, not being bothered about your home, it must be very freeing to be able to think about other more interesting things. I spend far too long cleaning, and making things look nice in my opinion.
Then when the housework is done, I can spend hours looking at paint, furniture etc for the next project 🙈

But Katyj, paint is SO lovely - and choosing colours that go together (and with the things you already love) is such a nice thing to "waste" time on!
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I would far sooner be occupied in our craft-cum-office creating something pretty from my ever growing stash of fabric and haberdashery than polishing broom handles!

I love my home and love to keep it looking lovely. We are lucky enough to be able to have a cleaner. Not only does she clean but knowing she is coming means we have to tidy before she arrives. Win win.

I fall between two stools. I cannot function unless I have a tidy environment. Ihave ADHD and dyspraxia and hav eproblems with concentration if my environemnt is cluttered.. I am also very responsive to what my surrounds look like.

However, I find cleaning mind-numbingly boring, so over the years I have done everything I can to limit the time I spend on housework. All the furniture in the house is on legs or has no legs and is flat against the ground so that I can clean the floors without having to move furniture. I dust with a feather duster, so much quicker than using a duster.

I put things back where I find them - all though this policy comes in conflict with DH's custom of abandoning things where he last used them, another form of 'efficiency'. I am constantly asking myself whether something needs to be done, can be done less frequently or not done at all.

I have lots of guests, so have had no choice but to up my game in recent years.

I had to cut back on some other interests to manage it.

I have nearly finished a huge tidy up and reorganisation of the house.
I am hoping to go back to some of the interests again soon.

There will be some diy left to do. Hopefully by someone else!

I like a home to be lived in, having a house proud wife who wants everything perfect would be a nightmare for me.
My wife also dislikes housework so when I think it’s too bad I do couple of hours tidying and cleaning.
Cooking too although she is a good cook and enjoys it when the mood is right, I do about half the cooking, it’s all very relaxed and works well for us.

I am probably the opposite I
have very few outside interests and spend far too much time cleaning and gardening. This is not a good balance and I am looking to change it.
I hate the house not being exceptionally clean and tidy it makes me feel uneasy.
Can't wait for the better weather much prefer outside jobs my patio is my next big job it's beautiful grey porcelain but winter has taken its toll and the grout has become very dirty. Good form of exercise it's a very big patio !

I love my home but wouldn’t say I’m house-proud. It’s very important to live in an environment that brings me calm and I’m a visual person so my home is full of art, interesting (not expensive) furniture and treasured objects.
I don’t like housework (who does) but I find if I do about 20 minutes every day, I can keep it clean and tidy.
But we all have different priorities and at our age especially, shouldn’t fret about things that in the grander scheme, aren’t important.

I love homemaking but hate housework, so my compromise is to not think about it, or give myself the option not to do it. I just do it as mindless routine, first thing in the morning. I have a plan, set a timer, run a playlist, and go flat out for that amount of time, which helps keep me fit too. I hate every minute of it, but it’s worth the pain to sit down by 9.30 knowing I haven’t got to waste more thought or energy on it that day.

I’ve always thought that if my house is clean enough to be hygienic and untidy enough to looked lived it. It’s OK

When my children were small,, housework was very low on my agenda. Okay, I tried to keep things like toilets etc clean, but dusting and hoovering, etc were not a real priority,
When I was nursing my twins, and had three others under 6 years old, I can remember saying that the dust will be there when the children are grown up, but these vital, wonderful early years, can never be repeated.

Strangely enough, my children were very rarely unwell. Suppose their immune systems were properly tested and expanded on a daily basis. They had their 'peck of dirt'.
Others, from their impeccable clean and tidy homes, got colds, coughs, etc. Mine just sailed through it all. Clean clothes they had - bless that overworked washing machine, and good, made from scratch meals (mainly because these were cheaper than any other kind).

But, they had my time, to read books, do messy play, outdoors somewhere every day where they could run wild and explore nature. Did it really matter if we came back home to untidy bedrooms?

Now, in my eighties, I live by myself. My lovely flat is my pride and joy - and is always clean and tidy and neat. My children all in their 50's now are fortunately, still healthy and all in good careers and their own family homes.

Different time, different me.

Gosh so many of us with a like mind, not enjoying cleaning! I have two friends who spend hours each day with a mop or a duster although their houses are bigger than mine.

I prefer cooking to cleaning but am very tidy as I find clutter unsettling and I couldn’t sit and read or watch a film if the sitting room was in a state.

All rooms are colour coordinated in different shades and pictures need to be straight, cushions plumped, curtains neat and worktops cleaned etc

As long as you are happy with your home, no one else opinion matters.

I am very dull in that I have a cleaning routine so everything is done weekly and each week, I don’t mind doing it.

I am tidy and organised and love to cook.

I make all our bread and butter and we eat almost zero processed food.

Bit of a Stepford wife!

I do however hate admin and I’m not very good at it, I can procrastinate for days before form filling.

Now that my house ( well, most of it) has less clutter it is much quicker and easier to keep it looking clean. As the sole occupant, I find it doesn’t get so dirty, just dusty really. Just as well, as I dislike housework, especially window cleaning. I think they look ok until the sun shines, then I think I have wasted my time and energy.

I'm a neat freak, hate unnecessary mess, I also hate housework/cleaning, it absolutely bores me into a coma so from the second I rented my own flat at 18-I'm now 59 and have owned my own flat for yonks - I've employed a cleaner.

The regular cleaner I've had for years is brilliant, he keeps the place squeaky clean!