keep my house clean

If it were just me, I don’t think my house would be so bad. Certainly a little cluttered and dusty, but not like it is. We litterally have paths through the junk on the floor. For me, keeping a clean house isn’t so much about self-discipline as it is, changing my boyfriend’s lifelong habit. He has always, according to his father, lived in this mess. When I’ve complained, he’s either gotten annoyed at me for “harping”, or he’s told me outright that it bugs him to have a spotless house. It makes him antsy, or something. I told him, it doesn’t have to be spotless. Even I couldn’t hold myself to that standard. I just want it clean enough that if we should have kids and CPS came over to visit, we would still have kids. Is that so much to ask? My room mate told me he recently commented that he needed to start cleaning. This gave me hope. I had pointed out to him recently that not many people would put up with this mess, and I don’t know how long I can put up with it. Maybe that lit a fire under him, and he will actually get moving. If he does, that would prove to me that he’s serious.

Okay, so we’ve been in our new house for a month now and are trying to keep it clean—we still are not people who wash our dishes immediately or do laundry every 3 days. But one thing that is helping us get better is that we are having a lot more company over more often and we HATE people seeing our mess, so although we are not incorporating tidiness in our lives throughout the day, we do do some major cleaning at least 2 times/week in prep for company.

We bought a new set of dishes and our plan is to hide the old ones, so we have fewer plates available to pile up before we have to do dishes. Hopefully we this will prevent us from letting the whole kitchen pile up with dirty dishes (as long as we don’t cheat and pull the old dishes into the mix…)

Eventually I’d like to expand that to include my upstairs bedroom, my closets, my desk… but for right now I’d be happy for a clean kitchen, living room, dining room and bathroom.

I still don’t want people dropping by unannounced but I’d like to be ready if they do!!

But on the other hand, when I do it, it’s never as bad as I think it’s going to be.

There’s a job I’ve been putting off for ages – doing the living room floor. Because I live alone, there’s nobody to complain about it being less than pristine – and nobody to delegate to!

Finally I got around to doing it today – it didn’t even take long and it really wasn’t hard. I’ll have to remind myself of this for the next chore I tackle.

This would be great, however very hard with a husband, two children, and a full time job. Never know, it could happen.

with this goal. We do good for a couple of weeks and then BAM, the whole house explodes! I want to be proud when someone walks in my house. Not rushing to throw things in the bedroom and shut the door closed as fast as I can. I need help :\

My sister lives with me and she has a mess problem. I have a similar problem, to a lesser degree. With classes and work and sporting events and coaching, there is just so little time to clean. I have to get better at keeping up with it. It is so stressful having a messy house.

It just needs a little more work.
My boyfriend is going to stay for a few days at my house so maybe that will keep me motivated to keep my house clean (or even help mother fix it up a little more.)

I did my spring cleaning this weekend and did ALL my laundry! I mean I washed everything in the house. It was refreshing! I have yet to put it all away, I’m going to do that tonight, the longer laundry sits in bags, the more trouble your in…TRUST I KNOW!!! I have lived out of the bags, way to many times! But I’m proud of myself, and I will keep it up!

I’m trying to set up a system where I do a little bit each day to keep things under control instead of having to clean the entire house every time because things are so bad. The house is mostly clean right now so I’m hoping to maintain it.