Are you clean freak or a big ole mess?

[Amaya]

Me, I'm an irritating anal retentive clean freak. You'll find no rings on my tables or soap scum in my tub.
How about you? Are you the type that tracks in mud and leaves it there?
Are there chips in your couch that have been there for years?

Please elaborate on your pet peeves...

[Punkingal]

1. I'm a clean freak who is married....

to a slob. I have had to train him as much as he would allow, and then I just had to learn to live with less than perfect cleanliness.

My pet peeve is people tracking dirt and/or mud on my floor.

[SmileyBoy]

2. I'm a mutherfucking slobby ol' mess.

Although, I try not to keep ANY garbage in my living space. It's usually old, discarded artwork, dirty clothes and books laying around.

[SOteric]

3. Neither. Nicely in the middle.

I've trained myself to clean as I go, so I don't tend to make much mess. Still, if I leave the dishes in the sink overnight with nothing but a rinse while I visit with my dinner guests, - I'm not greatly bothered.

I vacuum once or twice a week, or if there's been some traumatic spill.

My cat used to claw at some of my furniture before I worked out how to stop that. I love my cats. It's not all that noticible. I don't much care.

[clyrc]

4. In spite of the thread I just started about clearing out my house

I am nothing close to a neat freak. I have definite slobbish tendancies. Married to someone slightly neater than me, with different cleaning priorities. Just today he called me a microcleaner, while he's a macrocleaner. He is content for the house to look clean, but when I clean I am much more thorough.

[KCDem]

5. I'm a comfy middle ground

Ideally, I like cleanliness, yet I don't get bothered by untidiness. Crumblies on the floor gross me out, yet books lying all over the place don't bother me.

However, now that I have small children, I don't have time to be as anal in the bathroom and the kitchen (the two rooms I really care about) as much as I'd like. I recently got over a bad bout of morning sickness and couldn't bother with tread marks. Eww.

The one thing I do at the end of each day that makes me feel better is put all the toys away, and, if I can, vacuum. For some reason, a freshly-vacuumed carpet makes me happy.

edited for subject-verb disagreement. Oh, the shame! I swear, I am NOT a Freeper! :hi:

[RC]

10. The things some people say....

"I don't have time to be as anal in the bathroom...as much as I'd like."

[KCDem]

12. ah... did you like that?

:spank:

I think I can guess which sex you belong to. :hi:

[Fenris]

6. Clean freak

I cannot stand dirt and dust inside. I have horrible allergies, and I find the best way to control them is by eliminating anything inside my home that could cause future illness. So my house smells chemical fresh all the time.

[geebensis]

7. I peg the meter on the slob side

I'm so bad I actually scrimp and save so I can have someone come in and clean once a week. I'd rather eat ramen noodles and wear old clothes than clean up.

I read today that they're marketing a pill for "social anxiety" (shyness). Maybe I'll get lucky and they'll come up with something for "sloppy pigness." Then again, the prescription would probably cost as much as a house cleaner...

mm

[Interrobang]

11. I *broke* the meter on the slob side, never mind pegging it.

(I've never pegged anyone or anything...cough...)

I just got my downstairs neighbour to come in and help me clean, because it was starting to bother *me*.

Actually, my problem isn't so much that I'm innately a slob, it's that I'm obsessive about the way things have to be put away, and I lack the energy to maintain the "filing system" (books in alphabetical order by author, divided by subject; clothes hung up by colour in the closet; specific things go in each of the storage closets, etc.), so when everything goes, it goes bigtime. Also, that, and I hate doing most housework. I hate sweeping and mopping, I hate doing dishes, and I somehow don't seem to notice clutter.

That said, "clean" for me is not the same thing as "tidy." "Clean" means all the *dirt* has been removed. "Tidy" means that all the *clutter* has been removed, and that ain't gonna ever happen.

The fiance figure is a clean/neat freak, so we're already figuring out how we can pay the cleaning person for when we finally move in together. :) When he first saw my apartment, he said, "You aren't housebroken, are you?" to which I said, "Of course I'm housebroken. I've broken every house I've ever lived in!"

[Amaya]

16. Ok I draw the line

at an alphabetized book self or CD collection, that's just freaky!

[Kenneth ken]

20. you are my laugh of the day

...of course I'm housebroken.


rotflmao :bounce:

:hi:

[BritishHuman]

25. There's a site for Squalor Survivors

It notes that ironically, people living in squalor are often perfectionists. If they don't have time or energy to do everything perfectly, they won't do anything at all.

http://www.network54.com/Realm/Squalor_Survivors/

[GOPisEvil]

8. I have named my dust bunnies!

My apartment is cluttered, but not filthy. I have SOME standards! :D

[Zan_of_Texas]

14. Yes!

I have a designated Dust Bunny Preserve at my place!

I find reading and researching much MUCH more interesting than cleaning.

Maid? Hah, I'd have to clean for two weeks to get one in here.

[dweller]

9. Clean enough to be healthy

dirty enough to be happy.

works for me.
dp

[HEyHEY]

13. 50/50

I am annoyed by mess. But never do anything about it. My desk, or car may be a mess. But my personal hygene or my kitchen is too clean.

[BlueJazz]

15. I'm rather the same way...

....I tend to clutter up something fierce but on the other hand I'm very clean personally and like the kitchen clean.

[youngred]

17. I'm a clean freak, but not a neat freak

I hate mud, dust, grime, etc. But my stuff gets thrown around everywhere until I am forced, by pending internatinal declaration of my room being labeled a toxic waste dump, to organize it

[SouthernDaisy]

18. Clean freak w/o the energy to continue

I've suffered bouts of CFIDS and had to give up. Besides, living with 2 males who care little doesn't help.

[maxanne]

19. bathroom and kitchen

must be clean. My desk and office .....are sadly disorganized and messy.

[Nikia]

21. Messy

And my husband is even messier. I starts to bother me after a while and there are people who we are afraid to have over for that reason. WE can clean the place reasonably within a couple of hours though. Part of the problem is that we both do not like to part with our junk that we haven't used in a couple of years. The other part of the problem is some disagreement about who should do what and when since we both hate cleaning. Perhaps, we can hire a cleaning person someday.

[Skittles]

22. half and half

bathroom and kitchen spotless; the rest of my apt tends to get a bit messy.

[Aristus]

23. Neatnick here.

My wife hates the way I fold towels. With surgical precision. But it's the only way to do it properly. No one else but me gets to fold the towels. I'm obsessed, I admit.

[BiggJawn]

24. I make Oscar Madison look neat...

No shit, the only thing I don't have piled up/built up is bugs. Why? I dunno, but I'm not complaining. Probabaly too filthy around here for them...

Hey, Martha Stewart doesn't live here. Deal with it....:7

[DEM FAN]

26. Clean Freak. Thanks To My Mother. I Got It From Her.

Nothing Wrong With A Clean Place. :-)