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Clean. Super clean. I was always messy as fuck growing up & since I broke the habit, i have so much less stress. I highly, highly underestimated how much a messy house affects mental wellbeing.
I like to be clean and organized. Better for a healthy feeling home and mind, also not being able to find stuff pisses me off.
So I'd say, clean but lived in.
Mentally I'm hygiene-oriented but I would not let someone in my home in its current state.
Kinda both, we have 2 dogs and 3 cats so theres always something whether it be hair, mud or water on the floor since my dogs are sloppy but generally we try to keep it pretty clean.
Why worry, the mess will be there tomorrow if you do nothing.
And if you die overnight, well...
It will still be there.
My house is mostly tidy. It's not perfect tidy, but tidy enough. Having a girlfriend increases home tidiness and cleanliness a lot too.
When I was single I was messier.
Tho I have to say the tidiest things in my life have always been my cars. Perfectly vacuumed, no dust, leather cared for with the proper leather care products... Wood trim maintained with the correct wood care stuff. Especially proud of my E-class and C-class. They are in showroom condition. Engine detailing is a hassle, but it's worth it. When I go in for a service, they'd ask me "Do you even drive this car?"
Yes I do and I feel proud as fuck when people think my cars are new. When you take care of your car, your car takes care of you. So better make her shine...
I was in the Navy for nearly a decade, and I got used to being neat - a place for everything, and everything in its place. It's not a compulsion or anything, just that I learned that putting things back where they belong makes life a lot easier because you know where something is when you want it.
My wife grew up with a mother who is obsessively tidy, and her reaction has been to become a total slob.
I decided it was a battle not worth fighting, so I keep my personal stuff organised as I like, and if I want something of ours that isn't where I left it, then I ask her to get it or to at least point me in the right direction. Early on, I wondered if she might eventually get fed up with that and become a little more organised, but there's no sign of that after twelve years together.
As for general hygiene, I'm pretty relaxed about that, since I think the modern obsession with blasting germs and removing dust at frequent intervals is the result of businesses brainwashing consumers, and there's evidence that having a slightly grubby house is actually good for children.
I go through phases of keeping everything tidy, but it only takes one day of throwing my clothes on the floor to turn it into a pig sty
Mine is neat, not perfect though. I used to try to keep it perfect.
One thing it took me a while to realize is that perfection is too easy to ruin. I mean a home could be perfect but so much as one stupid sock laying on the floor ruins the perfection.
generally i keep it perfectly, exactly, to the dot, directly in the middle between messy and clean
I clean obsessively, despite the fact that I have several young children, a baby and pets that make the place messy again straight away.
I would actually really like to clean less as it stresses me out and I don't want my kids picking up on that show-home vibe. Also I'm heavily pregnant right now so any precious free time I get should be spent napping/resting. I just don't know how to relax unless the house looks perfect. It's a bit sad really, a family home should be for living in and enjoying, not being afraid to touch things because mummy will swoop in and start cleaning like a nutcase.
God knows that mothers get loaded with enough guilt from all quarters as it is, so I hesitate to mention this, but are you familiar with the research that indicates that children who grow up in houses that are very clean are more likely to develop asthma, allergies and other autoimmune problems than children who grow up, for example, in a farmhouse where there's always at least some muck around?
Humans evolved to deal with an environment that's full of microbes of all sorts - beneficial, harmful and neutral - and a young child's immune system is set up to deal with these invaders. The hypothesis is that if children are not regularly exposed to germs, their immune system basically goes into overdrive and starts responding violently to harmless things, such as pollen.
Because of my career and my husband's career I am very aware of all of these things already. We grow all of our own vegetables and keep animals which the children are heavily involved in so they are exposed to a lot of muck, I would say. They're very outdoorsy kids.
Absolutely love tropical Australia, I wouldn't let my kids roam around barefoot all day all year round in the UK, no way. I think they're having a healthier childhood here.
My house is small. Messy but organized. I bleach my walls and soapy scrub my carpets on a regular basis. But stuff is always everywhere.
I just cleaned it a few weeks ago for the first time in so long, and it is so much better. If anyone that has a messy room has just a few days, spread it out, and take it slowly. That's how I made cleaning bearable for once.
It's actually pretty clean. My car on the other hand, is a big mess. It's just got snacks, empty water bottles, and old laundry scattered in it.
I chose other because one week my room can be messy and next week is clean
I can't stand a dirty house especially the kitchen and bathrooms. But my car looks like a homeless man lives out of it. I don't know why I put so much into cleaning my house but not my ride.