amom23
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Post by amom23 on Jun 2, 2016 22:13:33 GMT
I would love to hire a team of cleaners who could come on a weekly basis lol. Why am I always cleaning, but the house never looks completely clean? You know how the kitchen is clean, but the bathrooms aren't or the family room is clean, but the laundry has piled up? So frustrating! Just once I wanna have that home on the magazine cover that looks just perfect.
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Post by gar on Jun 2, 2016 22:16:10 GMT
I would love to hire a team of cleaners who could come on a weekly basis lol. Why am I always cleaning, but the house never looks completely clean? You know how the kitchen is clean, but the bathrooms aren't or the family room is clean, but the laundry has piled up? So frustrating! Just once I wanna have that home on the magazine cover that looks just perfect. Sounds familiar:wink: I hate cleaning, SO dull and never-ending!
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Post by scrapaddict702 on Jun 2, 2016 22:21:26 GMT
That's how it is here. I give up on the day to day stuff and stick with deep cleanings before we have people staying over. It's impossible to keep up after a 1, 3, and 5 year old. They make a bigger mess in 5 minutes after I've spent hours cleaning up after them and I'm just tired of living my life on a broken record. We swapped out a TV stand for a dresser in my daughter's room and when anchoring it to the wall, I noticed how filthy the door was. As I was scrubbing it clean, I was telling my husband how I just wanted someone to come by every 6 weeks or so to do the detail cleaning that I rarely notice anymore but is probably obvious to anyone who doesn't live here. I have to be up close and personal which usually only happens during a furniture change up or painting a wall or room. Kid blind instead of nose blind, maybe?
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lindas
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Post by lindas on Jun 2, 2016 22:27:19 GMT
I would love to hire a team of cleaners who could come on a weekly basis lol. Why am I always cleaning, but the house never looks completely clean? You know how the kitchen is clean, but the bathrooms aren't or the family room is clean, but the laundry has piled up? So frustrating! Just once I wanna have that home on the magazine cover that looks just perfect. No, you really don't want that magazine cover because that's not a home, that's just a house. My DB and SIL have that house and while very pretty, not the least inviting or comfortable.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Jun 2, 2016 22:30:01 GMT
Sitting right next to you on that bench! It takes almost an act of God for my entire house to stay (mostly) clean and picked up all at the same time, and I'm not even kidding. It seems like the last several times I've hosted something here at my house and wanted to clean a little each day in the 7-10 days leading up to the event, it has poured rain so much beforehand that I end up having to do almost all of it in the last 1-2 days along with prepping all of the food. Makes me insane.
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brandy327
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Post by brandy327 on Jun 2, 2016 22:30:06 GMT
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Post by iamkristinl16 on Jun 2, 2016 22:32:15 GMT
I have the same thoughts as the OP every day. It seems all I do, especially on weekends, is clean but the house never looks clean.
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Post by Outspoken on Jun 2, 2016 22:37:09 GMT
We live in a 2 story house. 3300 SF of total chaos! I want a smaller house. I will never wish for a bigger house again! My DD asked me once why the bottom floor of our house looks like a magazine spread and the top floor looks like a disaster scene! I'm too freakin tired to go upstairs when I'm done downstairs! Thank you very much!
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Post by scrapaddict702 on Jun 2, 2016 22:44:23 GMT
We live in a 2 story house. 3300 SF of total chaos! I want a smaller house. I will never wish for a bigger house again! My DD asked me once why the bottom floor of our house looks like a magazine spread and the top floor looks like a disaster scene! I'm too freakin tired to go upstairs when I'm done downstairs! Thank you very much! Ha! Tell her to pick up some cleaning supplies and help make up for all the cleaning up after her you had to do in her younger years!
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Post by Rainy_Day_Woman on Jun 2, 2016 22:50:30 GMT
I had my existential cleaning crisis this morning too. Like really, is this what my life is? I just clean the same bloody things everyday over and over again.
No one in the house voluntarily helps until my head explodes and even then I only get a week of tidy before they stop tiptoing around. I have tried just leaving it but it turns out I am the only one who cares that there isn't mold growing on the living room floor. I am so sick of nagging people. I am not even close to being a clean freak, I just want a reasonable amount of clean and tidiness!
I want a whole team of cleaners too.
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Post by bigbundt on Jun 2, 2016 23:04:33 GMT
Sing it, sister! It is never ending, isn't it?
I just need my family to clear out for a couple of days so I can get everything. When I started staying home with a young child I had no idea how much cleaning would consume my day. When everyone was out of the house for 10+ hours a day, it was easy to keep clean. I didn't prepare breakfast or lunch, I didn't have a potty training kid destroying the bathroom every hour, my kid didn't really play a lot because she played hard at daycare etc. Going in and out of the house multiple times a day means more dirt and more people hanging around means more dust, surprised the hell out of me. I would clean one area, go to another one and my kid would destroy the first area, repeat all day. So I love it when people ask me what I do with all my free time now that I don't work in an office. I kind of crazy laugh because I feel like I work much harder now that I don't "work" and it is all cleaning all the time.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 2, 2016 23:18:04 GMT
I love a clean home. It's just my Dh, dog and me....I make the most messes.
I am trying to teach my adult son on keeping his apartment clean. TOUCH IT ONCE! Don't place a plate on the counter only to have to touch it again to put it in the dishwasher. Don't look at the mail and put it aside only to have to touch it again. Mentally say "TOUCH IT ONCE" when your tempted to leave the empty cereal box on the counter. I find this really works and I do get in arguments with myself every now and then when I get lazy.
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Jun 2, 2016 23:20:43 GMT
I am so sick of nagging people. I am not even close to being a clean freak, I just want a reasonable amount of clean and tidiness! This. Baffles me that I can provide laundry baskets in the bedroom, and yet laundry is on the floor. I just truly can't understand others not cleaning up their own messes. My mom told me that I was never like that, and I can remember that I truly never was. She says that I was always a do-er, and I am. Constantly. But it's too much for one person.
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Post by bigbundt on Jun 2, 2016 23:26:59 GMT
My husband has a fairy that puts away all the stuff he leaves out on the kitchen counters: cereal, condiments, drink mixes, appliances, magazines, mail, empty milk jugs, empty anything. I don't know where the heck my fairy is.
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Post by polz on Jun 2, 2016 23:34:30 GMT
A friend shared this pic on FB last night. Warning, swearing. I thought it was so accurate
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Post by workingclassdog on Jun 2, 2016 23:37:27 GMT
I had my WHOLE house cleaned once.. it was over Christmas break when I was working at my dd school. I never had so much time off. I had every single thing organized, laundry done, kitchen done, pantry organized. Even my towels all looked put away perfect.. and it was SOOOO wonderful. Then my 19 year old came home and it was over. Just like that. Now I am lucky to have a clean towel.
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Post by 950nancy on Jun 2, 2016 23:47:02 GMT
My husband left yesterday for Florida. Before he left he walked the dogs, took out all of the trash from every room, cleaned the bathrooms, mopped the floors and vacuumed. On his way to the airport he changed our insurance carrier and paid that for six months. I told him before we got married that I thought housework should be 50/50. He wanted to have sex and I didn't want to be the maid. That has pretty much worked for us for 29 years. Neither one of us picks up after the other. Now that we are both retired, it is so nice to clean up for 15 minutes a day and be done with it.
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Post by mrsscrapdiva on Jun 3, 2016 0:05:55 GMT
Yes, I have had that thought lately too. OP and others - I really get it. I don't think it was like this before kids.
It's like a rubic's cube, trying to get all colors completed at once. One room or section of the house gets decluttered and cleaned and then I come downstairs and the dining room or kitchen or bathroom needs cleaning. I get those cleaned and I noticed something else. I would love love love to hire a team to get it all done and just look sparkly for a little bit.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Jun 3, 2016 0:53:55 GMT
My husband has a fairy that puts away all the stuff he leaves out on the kitchen counters: cereal, condiments, drink mixes, appliances, magazines, mail, empty milk jugs, empty anything. I don't know where the heck my fairy is. Ha ha! Mine too! I swear, DH is probably the worst about leaving his junk laying around, followed closely by DD (although she is learning to pick up after herself). I don't mind a little bit of stuff sitting around and I certainly don't expect perfection. But it would be nice to be able to sit down at the end of the day and not have to look at a huge freaking mess everywhere my eyes want to rest.
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Post by maryland on Jun 3, 2016 1:00:04 GMT
I know! I feel the same way! I feel like if the kids went away to camp for a week and my husband had a work trip, I could get so much done, so I would be ready to maintain. It's hard for me to get things done when the family is home. But I also wish my husband could have a week off just for us to go through the house and organize. He doesn't have a lot of free time, and what free time he has he doesn't want to go through old bills and file. If I don't spend at least an hour maintaining each day (and cooking, laundry, etc.) my house is in disarray. I guess we are just a messy family! The house is "clean" but always cluttered.
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seaexplore
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Post by seaexplore on Jun 3, 2016 1:07:16 GMT
I'll join the club. Move over. Lol
I swear I have cleaning ADHD. Seriously. I noticed it the last time I was picking up around here. I had something that needed to go into the hall bath. Take it there. Oh, I need to clean this bathroom. I need windex and paper towels, back to the kitchen. Have to move dishes that are on the counter in front of the paper towels. Guess I'll put them away so I only have to move them once..... And so it goes. Takes me all damn day to get this place cleaned up. That's not even a deep clean! My house is only 2600 sq.ft.
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Post by 950nancy on Jun 3, 2016 1:22:56 GMT
I'll join the club. Move over. Lol I swear I have cleaning ADHD. Seriously. I noticed it the last time I was picking up around here. I had something that needed to go into the hall bath. Take it there. Oh, I need to clean this bathroom. I need windex and paper towels, back to the kitchen. Have to move dishes that are on the counter in front of the paper towels. Guess I'll put them away so I only have to move them once..... And so it goes. Takes me all damn day to get this place cleaned up. That's not even a deep clean! My house is only 2600 sq.ft. Small babies tend to fry your brain. Squirrel.
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AmandaA
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Post by AmandaA on Jun 3, 2016 3:29:33 GMT
I would just like to get from one end of the house to the other before my family starts messing up what I have already cleaned. Just for the rest of that day can I have an entirely clean house, please!? So demoralizing....
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Post by refugeepea on Jun 3, 2016 4:09:33 GMT
I would love to hire a team of cleaners who could come on a weekly basis lol. Why am I always cleaning, but the house never looks completely clean? You know how the kitchen is clean, but the bathrooms aren't or the family room is clean, but the laundry has piled up? So frustrating! Just once I wanna have that home on the magazine cover that looks just perfect. My neat freak MIL (who IS very understanding) is visiting in 2 days. My husband looked around and said let's not bother until our son is asleep Friday night. I have a house full of mismatched and hand-me-down furniture. Even if it's clean, it will never look like a magazine cover.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Jun 3, 2016 4:11:05 GMT
I would just like to get from one end of the house to the other before my family starts messing up what I have already cleaned. Just for the rest of that day can I have an entirely clean house, please!? So demoralizing.... That's exactly how I feel about vacuuming dog hair. Our main floor has a loop, and by the time I've worked my way around the loop there is already more dog hair starting to collect in the corners. It never ends.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Jun 3, 2016 4:31:20 GMT
I can't remember where I read this tip, but I'm going to try it next week once DD is off of school. It's called The Dump Method. To clean a room quickly (especially if you have kids to help), you go around the room and take EVERYTHING that is out of place and dump it in a big pile in the middle of the floor. Every single thing. Then have everyone race around putting away all of the easiest things from the pile first, all of the stuff that already has a designated home, and trash. Keep going until all that's left are the harder things you need to think about, and then find a home for those things to go--even if sometimes that place is Goodwill!
I wasn't able to weed out DD's toys and clothes this spring because I had surgery and am just now starting to get back up to speed, so the house is feeling particularly full and cluttery these days. Having less junk laying around all over will definitely help.
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Post by tuesdaysgone on Jun 3, 2016 10:51:01 GMT
My house is spotlessly clean and organized...for about 25 mins per week. If you're are planning to drop in, please stop by Saturday afternoon about 1 p.m. because that's just about the only time my house smells fresh and everything is clean and put away. I use to stress a lot about how gross the house gets; now I just accept it. This is real (and very frustrating) life. In the summer when I'm home, I do attempt to wipe down/freshen up for about 20 mins each day, but even with that I find things still are out of shape.
Given the choice between reading or cleaning, I choose reading every time. Life is too short.
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raindancer
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Post by raindancer on Jun 3, 2016 11:00:51 GMT
I had my existential cleaning crisis this morning too. Like really, is this what my life is? I just clean the same bloody things everyday over and over again. No one in the house voluntarily helps until my head explodes and even then I only get a week of tidy before they stop tiptoing around. I have tried just leaving it but it turns out I am the only one who cares that there isn't mold growing on the living room floor. I am so sick of nagging people. I am not even close to being a clean freak, I just want a reasonable amount of clean and tidiness! I want a whole team of cleaners too. Volunteerism is not something I wait for. I hate cleaning. We all live here and we all pitch in. Dont help? Then you also do t get to have priveledges. Plans with friends but the bathroom is on your list and you didn't do it? Better hustle. And hustle doesn't mean half ass it. It better be right or you still don't go.
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Post by bigbundt on Jun 3, 2016 11:22:28 GMT
If I don't spend at least an hour maintaining each day (and cooking, laundry, etc.) my house is in disarray. I guess we are just a messy family! The house is "clean" but always cluttered. I don't even think it is about being a messy, we deal with so.much.stuff these days. Awhile ago at a neighborhood party we were talking about how we seem to have a much harder time keeping up our house and wondered how our grandmothers maintained pristine houses (our moms tended to be a little more lax because most worked outside the home). An older lady laughed and said way back when moms didn't work outside the home, houses were much smaller, kids didn't have as many toys and played outside, people didn't have walk in closets full of clothes, houses usually didn't as much stuff, you didn't get a CYA piece of paper for every little thing, stuff like that. Even though we have things like washing machines and dishwashers that previous generations didn't, we are "processing" so much more stuff every single day. Junk mail and school papers from one kid alone is enough to knock my week out of whack if I don't stay on top of it. And yes, pets are lot of work too! Our dog sheds and drools on everything so I have no hopes for my hardwoods being clean. And I don't know what the cat does in her litter box but I am sweeping litter up several times a day.
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Post by maryland on Jun 3, 2016 11:29:46 GMT
It was so much easier for me when the kids were little. Less toys, I was in charge of their clothes, so their rooms stayed pretty clean. No activities, so we were home most of the day and everything was manageable for me. Once they got into school, had activities, homework, friends, it got crazy again! All we do after school is run to activities, and they are messy teenage girls! I nag and nag, but my husband doesn't support me. He never tells them to clean up, it's just me. I guess the rest of the family doesn't mind living in chaos and mess, but then when no one can find their stuff it's all "my" fault. So stressful! I guess I am the opposite of most people, the baby/toddler years were much "easier" for me than the teen years when it comes to a clean house!
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