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[quiltys41]

OH MY STARS!!!!! Never saw that show until now...and dh thinks I am a messy housekeeper...geeze my house sparkles compaired to those places! I am one of those that even pull out the fridge lol. I wanted to puke when they opened that guys fridge in "dirt in the desert"! I feel the need to go scrub something...

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[lunamother]

NOT looking, I'm NOT looking.....
I KNOW my house is a mess- we're all three of us packrats
BUT
every day the beds are made in the morning, the trash taken out and the dishes done every night
once a week we do a general 'pushing the messy piles into tidy piles', dusting, sweeping, vacuuming, mopping and bathroom/kitchen scrubbing
we do have 8' windows and 12' ceilings all around, so we get some fantabulous cobweb action goin' on :spider:
twice a year I'll attack those and take down all the curtains for washing.
but it's a 100+ year old house with no central a/c so dust, dog and cat hair, straggler hay, feathers, whatever ALL come in on a daily basis.
and we homeschool so there's always 'projects' strewn around and pinned up
I've always figured if someone visits us and is freaked by the mess they have three options-
a) leave
ignore it
c) I'll be happy to show them where the cleaning supplies are and they are welcome to knock themselves out

[Jeepers]

Luna Mother, ya gotta watch! These houses aren't about clutter. They are years of filth that people live in. Years! Filth! You make the bed every day? These people can't even find their bed. If they could, I'm sure they would have changed the sheets in the past year. I think I'm going to figure out a way to tape these shows to give myself occassional kick starts. I need them sometimes.

Go on and look. You will feel so much better about your 'lived in' house.

By the way, I'm not making fun of handicapped people or people who can't manage. Most of these people are healthy, young to middle aged with families living at home who can easily manage.