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A Poll: Housekeeping

How clean is your house?

• You could eat off any perfectly uncluttered surface at any time.
• It's usually clean and uncluttered.
• It's almost always clean, but clutter likes to pop up.
• The majority of the house is clean, but some rooms are a mess.
• It's pretty messy most of the time, but the important areas are cleaned regularly.
• It's usually messy and somewhat dirty.
• My place is almost always a complete pigsty.
• I'm a cheater and hire a cleaning person.

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The fact that Little Miss Fang has transformed into a glorified dust mop with her scooting habits (because crawling is totally overrated… didn’t you get the memo?), I had a sudden manic urge to mop the floors yesterday.

I’m glad I did, because now the front of her onesie isn’t full of crap.

It’s not like we’re dirty people.  We dust and sweep and I scrub the kitchen and bathrooms all the freaking time.  However, having kids has thrown in a huge not-so-pleasant factor when it comes down to housekeeping.  Not only is there a lack of actual time to clean, but they’re both comparable to a hurricane with the damage they inflict upon a clean room.

I’m about thisclose to hiring a cleaning person to come help me out on a regular basis.  Now, if only I could find a way to shit cash to pay for it.

Current Mood: Alarmed

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3 Responses to “A Poll: Housekeeping”

1. LaRaeven Says:
   June 8th, 2009 at 11:17 am

   I would come help you clean if I lived nearby. I love to clean other ppls homes just not my own. I chose the majority of my house is clean except for a couple rooms that are messy. My kids are tornados with their toys. I have finally moved all of them to their bedrooms and separated them per kid. So if I see one out I know who it belongs to. I don’t mind them playing with their toys out in the house but after they are done that toy better make it’s way back to where it belongs. I have been known to hold toys hostage at my desk. This house was built in the 70s and no matter how hard I try to clean it I feel like it is never clean enough. (could be the ocd) I just cleaned the bathrooms top to bottom yet today I decided that my daughter’s shower had to be bleached again. So now the house wreaks. I keep telling myself .. we live here .. it’s ok because this isn’t a museum.

2. Sally Says:
   June 8th, 2009 at 2:11 pm

   I don’t like clutter, and try to keep that to a min, but sometimes it kicks my ass. I try to stay on top of everything, but my room looks like a clothing bomb went off, and I’m soooo unmotivated to do anything about it.

3. Rosanne Says:
   June 8th, 2009 at 8:54 pm

   I’d give up food before I’d give up my housekeeper. The days she comes over are my two favorite days of the month. When my kids were little, I hired a teenaged neighbor to clean – anyone but me – it’s the most thankless task on earth – you do it, then five minutes later you have to do it again.