neat freak and clean freak, with one exception, my closets are a disaster.

Tom said:

I really need the bathroom and my sheets to be clean. Everything else is on an as-I-have-time basis. I've gotten MUCH better now that I'm not living with boys, though. I feel like I'm finally living as an adult.

I'm really bad about certain things, like letting dishes and laundry stack up until I wash them because I'm out of clean stuff.

I hate clutter, but I've tended to live with it. I've started working on getting rid of as much stuff as possible: www.nevermiss.blogspot.com .

IrresistibleB1tch said:

IrresistibleB1tch said:

I'm the same. I don't think I live in filth, but I really have much better things to do the vast majority of the time.

CarrieMpls said:

just think how much cleaning i could get done if i deleted my org account!

IrresistibleB1tch said:

exactly.

Nah, I really don't like cleaning. I'd just read a lot more.

IrresistibleB1tch said:

oh man my house would be spotless!!!

brownsugar said:

As far as cleaning behind shit....Um, if you cant see it, it must not be dirty.
If it is not within vacuums reach, it isnt getting touched.

brownsugar said:

that doesn't work!!! I'm telling you!

ZombieKitten said:

i know!!

I go through phases - sometimes when I'll clean everything, as in really clean the toilets, wipe the windows, clean the stuff off the counters, vacuum.... Then I'll go through another phase where I'll clean the clutter off of everything, make sure the floors don't have a single thing on them that doesn't belong, etc. And sometimes I'll do both for weeks on end. Then of course, I have my "I'm not doing a thing except sitting around during all my extra time" phases.

The only chore I perpetually don't do though, is dusting. I rarely dust. I hate it.

SameB1tchDifferentDay said:

so we might as well org instead anyway!

ZombieKitten said:

damn if you insist

I'm not happy fighting a losing battle.

gemini13 said:

Seriously. And we're talking about entropy here. It's kind of the epitome of a losing battle.

HereToRockYourWorld said:

There's just NO END.

brownsugar said:

I had to twist your arms didn't I!

ZombieKitten said:

brownsugar said:

slackers

Both

I'm a balance. When I clean- I CLEAN! No half-heartedness about it and i do a half-ass job at it, i feel so unsatisfied! I hate mess- but it is inevitable cause i'm barely at home- i get ready, i rush and fuss about in my relaxed but rushed kinda way and things get left around and plus my room is so small so things look way messier than they should My car is the same deal. And i do feel embarrased to let my friends see my room and car in a mess but they usually are like cause it's the same deal with them anyway!!

I am both. I have to have a little bit of clutter. Whats the point of cleaning if one has absolutely nothing to clean? I usually let a room or an area of my house, Scion, or S-10 get really messy, and when I am repulsed or know I have some special company I clean it up and get a major high off of the accomplishment of cleaning an actual mess.

Oh man, I'm so compulsively neat and when I'm upset I clean and organize things to settle myself. I've had a hard couple years so I'm constantly cleaning. The people I have living with me right now don't like to clean anything,they think because it's my apartment and I "like" to clean so much then I should be doing it all. They're only staying with me temporarily and I love them both to pieces so I put up with it. I keep reminding myself that I'm gonna miss them like crazy when they're gone.

I tend to follow Quentin Crisp's philosophy of housekeeping: "After the first five years, the mess doesn't get any worse."

SnakePeel said:

the layer of dirt on my car protects the paintwork

My dorm room is clean with a little mess. My bed is never made. I just go to sleep. zzzzz...