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What kind of housekeeper are you?

What kind of housekeeper are you (more than 1 OK)

  • If dustbunnies could feed snakes I'd never hafta buy mice again....

    Votes: 8 38.1%

  • My home is immaculate, you could eat off the floor

    Votes: 2 9.5%

  • Generally I'm fairly tidy but there's dust here and there

    Votes: 4 19.0%

  • I can't even walk across the floor there is so much junk in here

    Votes: 5 23.8%

  • I hire a maid to come in and tidy up for me

    Votes: 2 9.5%

  • There are 5,000 TV dinner boxes in the living room

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Cleaning is women's work, I don't do it

    Votes: 1 4.8%

  • That's why my bathroom smells like a latrine

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Cleaning is men's work, women are busy running the world

    Votes: 3 14.3%

  • There is some stuff not put up but I am generally tidy

    Votes: 3 14.3%

  • I am a neat freak and vacuum constantly

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • When it gets too filthy I just move.....

    Votes: 1 4.8%

  • What, we're supposed to clean?

    Votes: 2 9.5%

  • I'm comfortable in my home and that's what counts....

    Votes: 10 47.6%

  • Other, describe

    Votes: 2 9.5%
  • Total voters
    21
If I still lived alone my house would be immaculate. I find it's easier to keep something clean than to let it get dirty and try to clean it back up. HOWEVER......having children changes everything. They don't care if the clean clothes are mixed in with the dirty (so I end up doing twice the laundry) or if the toys are mixed in with the dirty clothes, or even if there is dirt on the floor. One of my boys wanted to take the broom outside to play with it. I explained that it was for sweeping the floor and you'd have thought I was speaking a foreign language. (I sweep while they're in school so they didn't realize it ever got used.)

I don't want mammals because they leave hair and young ones have excretory accidents inside. There are dogs in the house now, but they are the last. The rats don't count because they are snake food :rolleyes:

When the kids are grown and gone my house will be immaculate again, but for now it goes from almost clean enough to a post tornado state.
 
Wow, I just actually read this thread. (I voted then posted.)

I feel much better about my set up now! I have a corn snake in a 20L and a pair of Tokays in a 20H in the livingroom. The diningroom table has the young female rats and the china cabinet has a 5 gallon tank with my female AFT (who lost way too much weight after laying eggs and was moved to relax and get fat) and two shoeboxes with baby king snakes. Oh yeah, the 66" boa I am snake-sitting for the summer is in a 50L tank on a stand next to the diningroom table. My sons bedroom in the basement has my newest female boa who is in quarantine. My bedroom has 3 Natures Spirit Snake Shacks, 2 boaphiles, a 10 gallon with 2 flying geckos, a 10 gallon with crickets, a 10 gallon with a small BP, a 10 gallon with a baby king, a sterlite with 4 Leos, a sterlite with the male AFT, and a sterlite with my male blood python. Oh, a sterlite with my male rat!

No critters in the kitchen or the bathrooms! (No room or I might consider it.)

When my kids are out on their own I'll have a 3 bedroom house. One room for me, one for breeding critters and one for baby critters. Then I'll have rats and mice in the basement. I don't plan on having a live-in significant other.
 
The PERFECT thread when procrastinating about cleaning!

My "vacation" is over... the kids will be arriving at 11 pm tomorrow night. barely 26 hours before they'll be here. (Summer school was over yesterday, so actually I'm beginning vacation, but if feels like the end). So in the next 26 hours we have to do all that cleaning we put off for the last six weeks! Hubby is picking them up at the airport, so I will volunteer to put the finishing touches on the kitchen.

And then the house will be SPIFFY... for at least 24 hours before relaxing back into it's normal mode.

Hubby and I are both untidy in our own ways. He loves to read newspapers, and "his half" of the living room always has stacks of mail and newspapers. When we got married he ended up inheriting the job of paying the bills... he thought that was fine once I told him I would be the one to do taxes. For him it's a great trade-off, and for me the same. So he has newspapers and bills and the occasional dish that has yet to crawl back into the kitchen.

My "half" is the computer desk. It's chock full of STUFF most times, three or four projects and half a dozen dishes or other things. I'm awful about getting it spick and span, and it NEVER stays that way.

Our kitchen (the worst thing about our house) is VERY narrow, and not a pleasant place. The kitchen table is shoved against a wall and has snake cages piled on top and beneath. (10 3'x1.5'x6" cages, a 40 gallon, a 15 gallon four little and 2 medium sized cages). We always have a load of dishes that needs doing, but generally nothing in the kitchen could grow tentacles and strangle us.

Outside our house has it's ZONES also.... the front is "desertscape" boring.... one side of the house is "wild".... hubby's garden, my mouse house, then there's the back porch, with various and sundry projects going on.... then behind the wrought iron face, simplicity and decadence... our swimming pool, no clutter, very nice. :)

If I didn't have hubby here... I'd use more paper plates, curse at the washingmachine, and in general be worse off... he's a better housekeeper than I am... but darnitall he makes more money too. .... He's just better at being HIM and that's pretty good. :)

I've tried super cleanliness.. but never was able to keep it up longer than a few days.
 
Unfortunately my place is nowhere near as clean as I would like it. I use to be immaculate until I took a 3rd shift job that is 6 days a week and 13 hours a day. Then I come home and start the process of feeding somewhere over 100 llizards. It doesn't help that my place is not abundant in the space department and the big bedroom is where all my reptiles are. My girlfriend and I use the small bedroom that doesn't even have a closet. I at least make sure the reptile cages are clean and full of food. As for dust bunnies, we have 2 dogs(an aussie and a shiba inu) and 2 cats. It's like an old western with tumbleweeds rolling in front of you. :hehe:
 
Saheena, I'm guessing you chose the "comfortable" option then? :) That is what counts!

Matt, I'm still laughing! I got a fleeting mental image of fellas with six-shooters and ten gallon hats hiding out behind your couch! :rofl:
 
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