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Post by genny on May 31, 2015 14:11:01 GMT
Mine is sometimes, but not always. We just got through a big graduation party, then graduation with out of town company staying with us and then a smallish memorial day get together. I have been just beat this week and have done very little in the way of housework. I have come home every day with no energy or desire to do a damn thing. And It all piled up QUICK!
A neighbor who has been away for a while on some military duty stopped by last night to see DH about borrowing some tools as he came home to find his truck not running. <Sigh> of course DH invited him to walk through the house to get to the garage...I was mortified! So I will spend most of today cleaning like a mad woman. It was my plan to catch up the house work today anyway, but now I won't give myself the option of half-assing it just in case he comes back today to return the tools LOL!
So is your house always company ready or am I the minority?
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Post by gailoh on May 31, 2015 14:13:52 GMT
nope...but it is clean enough but messy enough to feel comfortable...lol
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Post by moveablefeast on May 31, 2015 14:14:42 GMT
No, my house is not always company ready.
It is occasionally company ready. It is usually messy.
Today it is very messy. I'm working on it. If someone showed up today I would have to move stuff to make a spot to sit.
Low on my priority list right now.
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Post by Deleted on May 31, 2015 14:15:04 GMT
No, and I have no desire to live that way.
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Post by styxgirl on May 31, 2015 14:15:35 GMT
Sadly ... No. You would think I could keep one room (two, because the kitchen and living room are one big room) and a guest bathroom clean ...
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Post by Merge on May 31, 2015 14:16:55 GMT
Hahaha. It's been raining for years and my back yard is a giant mud puddle. I've given up trying to clean the dogs' paws every time they go out so the floor is a mess. Plus we're still only half unpacked.
My house isn't generally perfect, but it's rarely been quite this bad. And of course, for a variety of reasons, we've had sixteen people come through in the past three days.
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Post by MsKnit on May 31, 2015 14:19:27 GMT
No. We live here. I clean for us, not company.
Now, the coffee table is usually piled with my school work. Depending on if my husband is working or not, the kitchen may or may not be tidy. When he is home, I don't touch his part of the counter. He piles whatever he has in his pockets and hands there. I've learned not to fight it and live with it until he goes back to work. Then the kitchen is back to tidy.
The biggest thing is the pet hair. I do try to keep up with the daily vacuuming. But, sometime the press of other needs pushes the vacuum to the back corner. It's fine with me. It's the critters home too.
I will say, if I need to, I can whip this place into shape in 15 minutes, most of the time.
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Post by calgal08 on May 31, 2015 14:20:35 GMT
Mine somewhat is. I won't let myself go to bed each night until I've fluffed up the sofa pillows, picked up the dogs toys and wiped down the kitchen sink/counters.
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Post by mallie on May 31, 2015 14:21:14 GMT
If my kitchen were not visible as part of this 'modified open concept', then yes, my house is company ready 90% of the time...
When my kids are not home. LOL
The minute they get home, it's like multiple cyclones hit our house -- it's hard when they are just visiting for a while (spring break, summer break, vacation, etc) because it doesn't seem to make sense TO THEM to put stuff away for such a short period of time, so our foyer becomes a dumping ground. Reason #3698 that I wanted a mud room and why our next house will have a space off of the garage for this crap.
Before we had kids, our house was always company ready. It was easy when it was just the 2 of us!
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Post by johnnysmom on May 31, 2015 14:21:51 GMT
Not unless you stop by on Monday right after the cleaning lady has come (but you should try to make it before the kids get home).
But if you arrive at my house uninvited then you shouldn't expect it to be neat. You might get an "excuse the messy house" disclaimer but otherwise I'd only be embarressed if the sink was overflowing with dirty dishes.
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Post by Deleted on May 31, 2015 14:21:56 GMT
Most of the time but it's just DH and I at home. When our DS was here, I would say no. We call him the "leaver" because he left a trail of stuff everywhere he went.
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Post by Deleted on May 31, 2015 14:27:28 GMT
Nope, trying to keep my house company ready while my son is awake is pointless. Not something I'm willing to do and only get frustrated.
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Post by lorieann13 on May 31, 2015 14:27:48 GMT
I have two kids. Company ready to me means the living room area is not a mess but there are toys on the floor. The downstairs bathroom, while not sparkling clean, is clean. No tissues on the floor, trashcan may not be empty, items are put away. Kitchen may have a few dishes in the sink but it isn't a mess. The reality is a house isnt always going to be company ready. I would rather welcome people into a home that is lived in rather than a stale environment. My home is loved by 2 kids, a dog, dh, and myself. Its a warm inviting place. Do I get embarassed if there is a pile of dishes from breakfast that I havent gotten to yet due to something else and a friend stops by? Nope. Means I fed my family. Eh, bigger things to worry about
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Post by grinningcat on May 31, 2015 14:30:44 GMT
No, and I have no desire to live that way. Exactly. Striving to have the house ready for others is not a goal I strive to. We have the house tidy enough, but it looks lived in at all times. We currently have dishes in the sink and stuff on the coffee table in the living room. We'll clean it up so that it's neat and tidy for us. People can come over any time because the house is clean, but I'm not out to impress anyone. If they come over unexpectedly they get what they get, and if they judge us for it, then they are not the type of people I want to associate with. Why is being "company ready" something people strive to? Why is this so important and why should I put the effort into this? It seems pointless to live in my house waiting for others to come over while alienating the people who actually live in my house in an effort to impress outsiders.
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Post by oaksong on May 31, 2015 14:30:59 GMT
No, and right now I'm wishing it was! DD is at an all night graduation party and texted me at 2am that one of her friends is coming home with her at 8am to be picked up by his mom at our house. I am up early to clear mail off of the front table, tidy up the kitchen and downstairs bathroom.
It's been a crazy week, and I really need a housekeeper. My mom has been in the hospital, DS just turned 21, graduation was yesterday, and we're driving to Las Vegas at 9:30am. Why am I still peaing?
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Post by grinningcat on May 31, 2015 14:32:55 GMT
No, and right now I'm wishing it was! DD is at an all night graduation party and texted me at 2am that one of her friends is coming home with her at 8am to be picked up by his mom at our house. I am up early to clear mail off of the front table, tidy up the kitchen and downstairs bathroom. It's been a crazy week, and I really need a housekeeper. My mom has been in the hospital, DS just turned 21, graduation was yesterday, and we're driving to Las Vegas at 9:30am. Why am I still peaing? Why are you making that effort to clean? You've got enough on the go. Does it really mater if there is mail on the table or that the kitchen looks like it's been used and is the bathroom that bad? Sorry. I just don't understand why you'd go through such strain to get something done when it's a totally last minute thing and you've got a bunch of things on the go. I would not expect someone to have a perfect house at 8am. No way and anyone who is that snobby to think a house needs to be pristine first thing in the morning isn't worth your time.
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Post by Katie on May 31, 2015 14:35:11 GMT
No and I hate it, so you'd think I would make more of an effort to pick up the clutter. It's just DH and I at home, but I get in this pattern during the week that I save things for the weekend. Like I'll set a pile of crap on the kitchen table and tell myself I can put it away on Friday. Why do I do that??!
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Post by gramasue on May 31, 2015 14:36:28 GMT
My house is company ready when company is coming. Other than that, I do a bit each day to keep up with the day-to-day mess, but if someone drops by, then what they see is what they get. I don't think people care, really. They come to see us, not our house. [at least I hope so!]
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Post by moodyblue on May 31, 2015 14:37:46 GMT
I'm a teacher and it's two days until the school year is over - a lot of things have been let go "until school is over" so it looks a little (a lot?) worse than it usually does. The big clean and purge process will start later this week.
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Post by threegirls on May 31, 2015 14:46:24 GMT
No way is my house company ready ALL the time! We have three kids and a very small house. It doesn't take much to make it cluttered. We don't have a playroom, finished basement, extra bedroom, office etc. There is no space in our house that goes unused. I try to keep the kitchen cleared and clean and the half-bath clean ALL the time but the rest I don't.
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Post by crazy4scraps on May 31, 2015 14:47:05 GMT
Not a chance. I try to keep the mess mostly at bay, but I'm really the only one in the family that cares whether the house is a pigsty or not. No sooner do I get one area of the house picked up, someone is coming along right behind me scattering crap everywhere. Dog hair balls? Check. Fruit snack wrappers stuffed into the chair cushions? Check. Half full cups of water in every room of the house? Check. DH's junk mail piled up 6" high? Check. Kid's toys and books scattered everywhere? Check. Piles of scraps of paper "art" that DD has made? Check. Ugh, it never ends. When I am planning to have a houseful of people, I have to strategically plan what gets cleaned when so it will (mostly) still be clean when the guests arrive. You would never know from the looks of my house that inside my heart I'm really a neat freak. I need my husband, kid and pets to leave me here alone for two weeks and then maybe it would be totally clean. Until about five minutes after they got back home.
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Post by gavinsmom on May 31, 2015 14:48:31 GMT
Mine is usually pretty clean...but company clean for me is obsessively clean
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Post by back to *pea*ality on May 31, 2015 14:51:09 GMT
No kids here anymore, so it is more company ready than not. If someone pops over and things are not "in order",I really don't care. I will break out the coffee pot, or open a bottle of wine depending on the time of day and enjoy the visit!
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Post by anxiousmom on May 31, 2015 15:24:38 GMT
I would probably say no. Or a big fat no on some days. Today I would go so far as to suggest that a blow torch is what is needed. I will get up and start moving around soon. I can have the house good friend company in a jiffy, neighbor ready a while, but it would take all day to be ready for my mom.
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Post by Spongemom Scrappants on May 31, 2015 15:25:01 GMT
Threads like this baffle me... and make me a little sad.
Who ever defined company-ready to be "perfect?" If you truly believe that company-ready means antiseptically clean and not one single item out of place, then I can't imagine you ever let anyone into your house.
I clean my house. I tidy up. I try to stay on top of most household chores. But short of a concerted effort for a big-deal event, it's rarely ever perfect. But we have people over anyway. We love to have friends for dinner. Neighbors stop by. Family comes over. If there's a pile of mail out because I've been handling correspondance and paying bills, it's okay. If I just pulled clothes out of the dryer to fold and you stop by, it's okay. If my son's Lego project is half-built on the coffee table, it's okay. And if I go to your house and it looks like that, it's okay, too.
Maybe we need to re-define our idea of company-ready. It could be a lot less stressful that way.
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Post by Deleted on May 31, 2015 15:29:43 GMT
I would probably say no. Or a big fat no on some days. Today I would go so far as to suggest that a blow torch is what is needed. I will get up and start moving around soon. I can have the house good friend company in a jiffy, neighbor ready a while, but it would take all day to be ready for my mom. Isn't it funny, no matter how old you are, when you know mom is coming, you can get an amazing amount of cleaning done in a short time? I KNOW my mom does not care, but she feels she needs to help me with something when she visits. I don't want her to do anything (because she's my mom!), so that's when my house is most company ready. Oh, the irony.
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Post by Deleted on May 31, 2015 15:30:56 GMT
We keep our house in a state that if someone comes by, we aren't going to be embarrassed by the condition. But does that mean it's perfect? Absolutely not. We live here, and our son's homework might be out on the dining table while he's taking a break. Or there may be some dishes waiting to go in the dishwasher once the current cycle is running. Or the vacuum cleaner may be sitting out in my office because I hate lugging it back upstairs, or any number of other things. Overall, it's clean and tidy, but not like a cleaning service just walked out the door. If that's not good enough for you, I probably don't want you hanging out at my house anyway.
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Post by lindas on May 31, 2015 15:31:18 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 31, 2015 15:33:48 GMT
If that's not good enough for you, I probably don't want you hanging out at my house anyway. This is why there are a few people in my life that I do not invite to my home.
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Post by lesley on May 31, 2015 15:35:28 GMT
My house is rarely 'company-ready'. My DD is 20 today, and she had a bunch of friends over last night. I remember when she was young and we used to have big parties for her, with lots of family and friends, and I would spend a couple of days getting the house ready. Now we have no family, my friends don't come to her parties, and her friends don't care. It was wonderful just running a cloth around the bathroom, making sure the party room had enough chairs and a clear table, and laying out food and drink in the kitchen. No need to clean the cooker specially, scrub the shower, and vacuum and dust everywhere! So I had company all of last night and I didn't give a shit that the house wasn't company-ready!
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