Bad homemaker

I find cleaning mind-numbingly boring like M0nica* - so don't do a lot of dusting and polishing but my friends and family know this and don't care.

There are too many other interesting things to do in a day!

Of course some of us like details and can "waste" time on that easily! I've just spent a happy two hours selecting "just the right" hinges for example. Four of my five children would think that was mad!

Thank you for all the comments which are all very helpful and motivating. I’d welcome any more thoughts or comments. Thanks for reading the post too.

I’m an absolutely rubbish “housekeeper” bathrooms and kitchens are always clean, but everything else is a tip!

Don’t like it and will have the odd mad cleaning and clearing fit, for it to look just as messy in a few days!

Mind you with 6 adults and 4 dogs it’s not surprising.

I used to be very very neat and tidy and clean and then it all went pear-shaped after baby number 4.

I don't enjoy housework but it's an evil necessity. My flat is reasonably tidy as I hate mess and I keep everywhere clean but not sparkling.
I feel at my age there are much better things to do than cleaning.

My home is tidy but I only clean the toilet and basin everyday and give the kitchen a wipe over. If I spill anything on the shower room or kitchen floor it's cleaned up straight away . But it's been over a month since I last cleaned the whole floors. I only dust and polish once a week. And vac where it's needed . I didn't inherit the cleaning gene from my mom. But when people come to my home they can be themselves and not worry about dropping anything .

I had an aunt who was house proud and she had large wooden animal statues and lots of expensive china ornaments. It was fine with our daughter as she never touched anything but we had to hold on to our son as he would have broken things. She said let him go and it didn't matter if he broke anything but I knew it would. We loved going as she always made us welcome and baked brilliant cakes . And the children loved playing in the garden but they always moved her garden statues about but she left them where they put them.

My home always smells nice just ignore the dust and the inside of my windows haven't been cleaned for years as I can't do them anymore. But the outside are cleaned every month by my lovely window cleaner.

It better to have a home where people feel comfortable than a show palace where people sit on the front of there seat.

My Mum was relieved that I lived very tidily because it 'gave the impression' of being clean. Some you win!

Deedaa

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.

This post reminded me of the fridge magnet my daughter bought me. I loathe cooking and the magnet said, ‘I only have a kitchen because it came with the house’!

I’m also a neat freak and can be too obsessed with housework. I get on my own nerves tbh x

I'd rather clean and do laundry than cook.
I'm with crosstitchfan, and wonder whether I could replace the cooker with a bookcase.
Sadly, that won't work for visitors.

It's taken me nearly all morning to tidy my kitchen table.

Sago

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.

You make your own butter??

It is hard work keeping a house tidy, as i have realised since I retired; before I wasn't there to make a mess and I could always shut the door on it while I did something really important: earned money to pay for it.
Now there is always something more important to do as there is always tomorrow for housework, (or the evening before someone comes.)

A home does not have to be tidy to be a good home. A home can even be shabby and be a good home.

I think being organised is important but that's not the same thing as super tidy and pristine.

Agree about the shabbiness baggs but this mum operates better in a fairly tidy environment.

I hate having advance warning of visitors because I run around like a headless chicken trying to make the place look fit for royalty! I love it when someone just drops in unannounced because it removes all the angst. Perhaps oddly, the people I like going to see are the ones with lived-in homes -- you don't have to worry about disturbing the immaculately-plumped cushions and you don't get the impression that, if only you weren't there, they'd be having a wonderful time casting their eyes around their impeccable, empty homes....

Sure. Whatever works, kitty , but a lot of people seem to think only perfection makes a good home, which is nonsense.

I'm a real home-maker and actually enjoy housework (sad, I know). I can't relax until all my chores are done and just couldn't sit relaxing in an untidy or grubby room. I have 3 grandchildren and the house looks like a bomb has hit it when they visit; I'm not precious about my home, it's for living in, but as soon as they leave, I can't wait to get it back to 'normal' so I can relax.

My house is clean and tidy and has very little clutter. I enjoy keeping it that way and am happy with a routine of the morning being for housework and cooking so the afternoon is for hobbies.

What makes a house a home is the atmosphere rather than the decor. We try to make sure everyone feels relaxed and welcome - we have toys for the Gchn, board games and books for AC and can usually rustle up a biscuit to go with a cup of tea.
As far as I know the only person who hasn’t felt at ease in any of our various homes is my mum - I found her on more than one occasion running her finger along the ledges to test for dust!

My house is tidy, but don't look too closely at the surfaces, there are many dust bunnies around. I have far more important 'crafty' things to fill my days!

I have far too many lovely hobbies to be a domestic skivvy. Cycling, my new allotment, spinning and knitting, sewing, my garden. I do my own maintenance too and that gives me more satisfaction than cleaning

All the important areas are clean but as for the rest, pah!! I don`t see dust unless the sun shines and I don`t hang about when I can go on a long bike ride in the sun, along tranquil country lanes and past orchards.

I have skirtings, so what? I might give them a tickle on a winters day

I do make sure my kitchen is tidy and that my sink area is clear and shiny before I go up to bed but only because the act stops me from napping

I do batch cook for myself, only because I want my own home -made ready meals in the freezer. The days of me being a domestic goddess are long gone, now is my time. I would rather be putting hinges on my shed than being a domestic in my own home

It’s not called ‘doing chores’ for nothing, tedious indeed.
Bathrooms and kitchen are clean and tidy, the rest gets dusted and vacuumed weekly usually, there’s only two of us, no pets and it’s clutter free.

We've dogs, often many small children come round. Hoover daily (pet hair), worktops completely clean after cooking. Bathrooms daily. I like tidy, can't accomplish much in a cluttered space, easy if we tray on top of it.

tray is stay

I would rather go out to my social groups, paint my watercolour pictures, knit and watch tv, go for a walk, attend exercise classes twice a week, and generally enjoy myself than do housework, so I have a cleaner. 😊

My excuse is on a fridge magnet- ‘dull women have immaculate homes’- with apologies and respect to all grans with immaculate homes 😀