become a neat freak

I need to learn to be a clean freak. My home is clean, but not clean enought, and it upsets my husband. I need to learn how to keep my home cleaner. Can anyone help me.

I MUST get a handle on this!

I had an allergy test today and just found out that I’m allergic as fuck to the house dust mite – so I had better start getting my shit together – tidying, washing my sheets/blankets more often than I do (maybe a couple of times a week) and possibly steaming the mattress – or maybe getting a new one.

Time to re-visit this one.

i think becoming a neat freak isn’t really necessary by means of happiness. i’m neat enough to not be a slob, yet still have that comfortable, not so uptight look when it comes to my bedroom. i’m satisfied with where i am when it comes to this, so this goal is no longer necessary.

So..I live with my boyfriend and child and it seems asthough Im ALWAYS cleaning and if I dont my housa becomes a pig sty FAST! My 3 year is a better cleaner then her daddy. She will clean her room very well when asked. However my boyfriend is a whole different story. He always says he will do work when i ask, then he pushes it off, pushes, it off, pushes it off, somtimes days, and somtimes wont do it at all. I ask him to do the dishes and he says yes, then will let them sit, so I end up doing them. One time i left them for 3 days and they piled up. He still didnt do them!!! It seems asthough if I want anything done i need to do it myself. He will also always bitch about messes I leave around, yes he doesnt clean anyways lol. So I end up cleaning whatever mess we make anyways. I almost feel like saying “Listen buddy-I CLEAN the house, you dont, there for i will leave my stuff whatever damn place i like. LOL Anyways my point of joining this site is hoping I can change things to keep up on the house work, and see if my bf will chip in. I would like to eventually have a routine where everything is done on schedule so Im not left cleaning all weekend. As it is now I seem to also have a problem with clutter!! OMG my house is overwelming dont even get me started.

I don’t know why, but I just have a tendency to just clean up where ever I go and its a really good habit. However, there are days when I just don’t feel like cleaning and then things get all messy, but that doesn’t happen often. Its always nice to come home to a clean home, especially if you had a bad day!

i can almost not see my floor! i REALLY need this.

My flat mate is starting to have better cleaning habits now, but only because I typed up list of all the things that need to be done to clean each area of the house (we each do one area and rotate different areas weekly), he seems to lack a lot of common sense, like he didn’t know you need to sweep/vacuum the tiles before you mop them -other wise you’re just wetting the dirt… but he seems to be catching on.
He still can’t clean dishes, he doesn’t rinse the plates before he starts washing them so the water gets greasy quick and then the dishes are greasy, I’ve pointed this out to him and told him that he needs to change the water in the sink, but he doesn’t want to because he doesn’t want to waste water… but they have to be done again any way, so more water will get used regardless. Grrr. Tonight I even arranged the dishes on the bench so he would do the glasses first then the cutlery, then plates, then the more dirty and greasy stuff, because he just has no idea that if you put the grill drip tray in the dish washing water first and with out having rinsed it then the water will be greasy from the start.

He’s just so absent minded… I hate having to mother him.

I have two kids and a grown man living in my house that seems helpless seeing how he does nothing. I dream of having a clean house that doesnt have remains of breakfast on the floor and piles of laundry scatterd every where. I soooo need help.