Jenn - posted on 04/12/2011 ( 132 moms have responded )
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On a scale of 1 to 10 (1 being spotless and 10 being a absolute disaster zone) how clean is your home RIGHT NOW?? Be honest!!
My home right now is about a six...I am trying to gather the strength to clean my nasty bathroom and my four yr old sons bedroom is downright scary:l
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Summer - posted on 11/07/2012
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I'd say about a 6, if 1 is movie set clean and 10 is Hoarders. I am a stay at home and homeschool mom of 3 ( ages 1,3 &5). Before I can finish cleaning one thing, they've messed up 5 others. It really is dragging me down. People tell me to lower my expectations, but my husband is already frustrated with me...if it gets any worse, he might stop coming home!
Rebecca - posted on 08/07/2011
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my house is about a 3. theres a couple dishes in my sink. and with the babies swing and bouncy chair and stroller and such, my house just looks cluttered.
Nicole - posted on 08/06/2011
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about a 3 everything pretty clean except i need to clean the blinds corners of the floors stuff like that.
Bobbi - posted on 08/05/2011
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probably a 5 on any given day (unless we're expecting company LOL) As I clean my 5 4 and 3 year old boys follow behind me and promptly destroy what I have down. I have a dog and a cat that, judging by the amount of hair on the steps and in corners that I find daily, they must secretly explode hair when they are alone. I am surprised they are not naked. My husband doesn't hep much...though he thinks he does :) Plus we just moved in to our fixer upper, so it needs a lot of work and there is often a lot of dust from the work we're doing. But it's my dirty house and I love it lol
Bobbi - posted on 08/05/2011
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probably a 5 on any given day (unless we're expecting company LOL) As I clean my 5 4 and 3 year old boys follow behind me and promptly destroy what I have down. I have a dog and a cat that, judging by the amount of hair on the steps and in corners that I find daily, they must secretly explode hair when they are alone. I am surprised they are not naked. My husband doesn't hep much...though he thinks he does :) Plus we just moved in to our fixer upper, so it needs a lot of work and there is often a lot of dust from the work we're doing. But it's my dirty house and I love it lol
Leilani - posted on 08/05/2011
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Amber - posted on 08/05/2011
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hahahahaha lol actually about a 3 but in all fairness I havent cooked dinner yet!
Nicole - posted on 08/04/2011
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8. Not bad enough to go on a television show, but the house itself is so old and falling apart that no matter what I do, it always looks "dirty". Only paint, leveling and replacing stuff will help there. for disorderliness, I would have to give it a 4. With four boys, a 2 is pretty much the best it ever gets!
Jana - posted on 08/04/2011
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Angela - posted on 08/04/2011
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A 5.5, It is about 9:30 am here and we been up since 7am and I am still drinking my coffee to have the energy to clean urgh. Clarie did manage to keep the breakfast from exploding and today she has yet to give herself a yogurt bath so that helps! The last few days have been hectic, my son came for visit, had a good bye party for him, had a couple bday parties to attend and I was just too busy/lazy to do much. I can't believe it is already Thursday!
I will have it an 8 or 10 by tonight. But it is not awful dirty except I need to mop my floors urgh and the bathrooms urgh! I already started the laundry but got folding to do urgh....After writing all this to do I am going to make another pot of coffee!
I do manage to keep the bedrooms neat and clean and I have to a good system for keeping toys from being all over the place. We got a wall unit that has shelves, on the shelves I got boxes for Claire's toys. One has blocks, one for baby dolls etc. I only allow her to get a new box when she puts all the other toys from the old box away. It is easy for her to just put them in a box and she almost always does it.
I also have a rule for myself that every time I enter a room, IE go to the kitchen to get a cup of coffee, I will load a few dishes in the dishwasher or I see something needs to be put away I do it. Little by little it works and it keeps things from going out of hand...
Sal - posted on 08/03/2011
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right this moment i am at a solid 2.....so i thought i'd have a small brag....the sad thing about being so high....it will slide and it will slide hard and fast!!!!
Carmina - posted on 08/03/2011
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2, my house is spotless except under the couch needs a good vaccum!
Jessica - posted on 08/03/2011
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Today a 3. I really dislike CLEANING. I just think how I don't want our 15 month son to walk around in a disgusting place, so that motivates me. There will be days I am anal and walk around with a dust cloth and constantly pick everything up I see. I do clean the floors and counters daily. But today The bathroom needs a scrubbing and laundry is never ending and the sink is full of dishes. We live in an old farm house(ughhh) so the old musty basement keeps me from going down there on a daily basis to do laundry. My husband is not too bad with picking up after himself but that took work to get him motivated. His mom definitely did everything for him. I am already showing our son how to pick up toys and put things away.
Sarah - posted on 07/27/2011
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my house right now is about a 5 we moved into this apartment in October 2010.. we still have boxes in the basement to go through and we don't see a point now becasue we will be out of here by Christmas. There is a huge piled of folded clothing on my table. As for over all cleanliness my house is never REALLY DIRTY! We are more disorganized then anything else. I'm really picky about my kitchen and bathroom and the dishes
Jessica - posted on 07/25/2011
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between 3 n four most is just needs orgnization .
Shannintipton - posted on 07/25/2011
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It is bad. I mean really bad. It gets cleaned every two weeks. But until then anything that hits the floor stays there until the cleaning gal comes. Then the night before she comes I do a mad dash and try and pick everything up. I do this because I do love my cleaning gal. She is like family to me. If it were not for her I would never clean. ha ha
Racheal - posted on 07/25/2011
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@ Key Benway, Weekends are pretty much everyone's time to relax so in answer to your question, right now my house is a 8 in terms of needing pick up, but no worse than a 2 or 3 in terms of cleanliness. life is too short and children won't remember how clean your home was, but the quality time you spent with them instead. Case in point, instead of busting our buts cleaning, we grabbed our kids and our suits and rented canoes for the day.....theres always going to be cleaning to do, our kids won't be kids for long, so I'd rather their memories be of family fun.
**This is exactly my thinking too!! Life is definitely way to short!! My house is always "messy" as far as clutter everywhere, but it is clean..dusting and mopping/vaccuming etc.. but our kids are real young and our place is small for all of our stuff. we have an apartment with only one "common" room which we use for watching TV and a toy room. we dont want the kids to be "banished" in their room just so we can keep the living room neat. we are not that kind of a family..when we know we have company coming we will "straighten up" I dont fret letting clutter around. especially since it will just be trashed later when we all get home anyway. i'd rather enjoy our time as a family also!
VERY GLAD to know im not the only one :)
Kay - posted on 07/24/2011
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You talking "picked up" Or "Clean". Right now there are pillows all over the floor, and the kitchen is full of the after effects of yesterday's huge dinner (dish washer needs to be reloaded) but my house is clean, carpets vaccines every other day, bathrooms are spot cleaned (I keep clorox disinfecting wipes in each bathroom because I have all boys and at times they seem to have directional issues (if you know what I mean) between major diinfectings which
happen weekly and between as needed. Weekends are pretty much everyone's time to relax so in answer to your question, right now my house is a 8 in terms of needing pick up, but no worse than a 2 or 3 in terms of cleanliness. life is too short and children won't remember how clean your home was, but the quality time you spent with them instead. Case in point, instead of busting our buts cleaning, we grabbed our kids and our suits and rented canoes for the day.....theres always going to be cleaning to do, our kids won't be kids for long, so I'd rather their memories be of family fun.
Deena - posted on 04/21/2011
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I wil Have to say a 6. And my reasons are personal.
Boni - posted on 04/21/2011
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its now a 1 :D yay minus 1 room its a 2-3
Charity - posted on 04/20/2011
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Shawnn - posted on 04/19/2011
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LOL...I love it! I'm NOT the ONLY one!!!
Mine is generally a 3 or 4, depending on season and activity level. I stopped hoping for 2, and completely gave up on 1! Right now, were sitting at about an 8 on the scale, but we'll be at 2 by Thursday because my MIL is on her way for Easter...LOL
Wonderful thread! It really helps to realize that not everyone can keep the "perfect" house, and to know that it's OK to not pass the "white glove inspection"!
Thank you so much for the giggles as I read the different responses!
Misty - posted on 04/19/2011
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i'm around a 2 or 3...we had guest yesterday, so everything was clean...but now there are dishes in the sink, dishwasher needs unloaded and i need to fold and put away laundry...i'll go with 3!
Virginia - posted on 04/19/2011
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Wow, I like a clean house. I like cleanliness, but it's just not realistic for me to clean everyday(the kitchen is an exception). I would say my house is a 6. Not to clean. Tomorrow I am hoping to get it to a 3.
Racheal - posted on 04/19/2011
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Jenn- I am so glad to know i am not alone!!! I have shirts laid out on the back of the couch now..(they have been there for 4 days)! right now, my 'excuse' is that i have finals coming up and i've been to busy studying! LOL Also it doesn't help that our apartment is very small and we have enough 'crap' to fill a decent sized house!!! haha.
KRYSTAL - posted on 04/19/2011
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i would give mine a 2 the floor need mopped and the house needs dusted
Boni - posted on 04/18/2011
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Tonya - posted on 04/18/2011
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I'm not bragging but my house is a 2....When I get up of a morning I don't sit back down till bedtime....
Joanne - posted on 04/18/2011
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Hayley - posted on 04/18/2011
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'bout 6...maybe 7! I'm not bothered by a bit of mess but dirty cutlery, rubbish and anything else thats dirty you will not find in my house!
Jenni - posted on 04/18/2011
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lol Yeah! well kyle came home from deployment TWO weeks ago now- and loaded all his stuff in our room. and clean clothes became dirty- so weve been working on getting snacks, sippys, and clothes sorted according to color and EVERYTHINGS getting re-washed so theres no confusion! but with a 1 yr old and a 2 yr old.. i dont think it will last!!!
Stifler's - posted on 04/18/2011
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LOL my house is a bit like that sometimes. I think WHY IS THERE AN EMPTY BOTTLE OF COKE IN MY WARDROBE? Because someone has left our door open and Logan has rolled it in there and opened the doors bahaha
Jenni - posted on 04/17/2011
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10- and NONE of it is even mine... Worst part of the house is MY room.. the floor is covered in a spilled box of cheerios! WHY ARE CHEERIOS IN MY ROOM?!?
Nicole - posted on 04/17/2011
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we are usually around a 4 here. It is hard to keep clean If one is absolutely spotless id say we average that about 2 x a month for an entire day then it goes right back to being trashed. its easy though cause i only have one child and she is now 13 months. yeah her toy area is ususally the only thing that looked like a tornado ripped though there but i can live with that as long as there are no dishes are in my sink and my toilet is clean.=)
Sarah - posted on 04/17/2011
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I would say about a six, been working on getting it together before we leave for the inlaws next sat. the basement is always the hardest for us but we are getting there. My kids are at the perfect age to want to help right now ( 3 and 4) so they help with their rooms and then get to put a sticker on their charts for doing it at night and same with other chores like putting their clothes in the right draws and stuff
Samantha - posted on 04/17/2011
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Danielle - posted on 04/17/2011
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about a five
Janice - posted on 04/17/2011
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On a scale of 1-10, probably a 8, but only because the cleaner comes on a Thursday!!
Julianne - posted on 04/17/2011
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2 Gabbys toys are the only mess right now. I have a load of laundry to do too..
edited to change the number...i did it backwards :P
Meghan - posted on 04/17/2011
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I just realized I did mine backwards!
Gabrielle - posted on 04/17/2011
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My house was at a 1 this morning now it is getting to an 8 and i so dont want to tackle my washing up aaaar
Stacie - posted on 04/16/2011
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My house is a 2, In my girls routen they clean there rooms after dinner n the 2older girls(4&6) help me clean the toy room wen my 2yr old go's to bed. Dont get me wrong my house gets to a 7 or 8 sometimes but once i FINALLY get in there it takes me like 15mins.
Kori - posted on 04/16/2011
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I'd say about a 5 :P
Erin - posted on 04/16/2011
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Right now I'd say a 6 and a 1/2 . It's a kinda picked up with a couple toys on the floor but dishes are done, and there's no food left out (my pet peeve). other than that we're moms what else can you ask for?
Camille - posted on 04/16/2011
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Anita - posted on 04/16/2011
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mine is about a 8 I guess atleast the floors are clean and the dishs and only one load of clothes to wash tonight. been a good day don't know about tomarrow
Crystal - posted on 04/16/2011
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I would say about a 5 only because my son just got over having a horrid flu, Ive got a 8 a 6 a 2 year old and a newborn at home but I preffer my house to be realy clean, but ifit interfeares with my childrens happieness cleaning can always wait a day
Tara Mekosh - posted on 04/16/2011
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for us - because you know it all relative - our house is about a 6 today.
Melissa - posted on 04/16/2011
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i SAY ABOUT A 6 ALSO...HAHA IT IS MUCH MORE FUN ON THE DOWN TIMES TO BE ON THE COMPUTER THAN IT IS TO CLEAN...LOL!
Katie - posted on 04/16/2011
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My house is always a 1 or a 2. I have a really bad ocd problem :(
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