Women domestically messier than men?

JohnCleary

I recently moved apartments. Before this I was living with 2 lads, so 3 of us in all. We shared hoovering/mopping the floor, we cleaned up after ourselves. Basicly the apartment was spotless.

I recently moved in with 2 girls and christ, they're pigs. The apartment was a MESS. After I moved in, as soon as they went out for a while, I hoovered the carpet, mopped the floor, did the dishes, disinfected all the surfaces, cleaned the windows inside&out (Egg all over them, totally minging)

They're sound girls but they just come in, and leave cr4p everywhere. We are all first year students btw (all 19)

So whats your experiences/opinions? Are lads generally cleaner/less messy than girls?

AngryBadger

I'd agree with this. I've lived with a lot of women through college and the like, and found them to be filthy, filthy creatures

To be fair, I don't know if their potential for generating mess is greater than guys, as in given the same number of pots & pans I don't think wemen create a bigger mess.

I think that generally when women are cooking it's more elaborate than when guys cook, they'll often cook for themselves and a friend, and ti'll be something, (relatively), fancy, but with guys you're looking at boil in the bag rice, chicken fillets, and sauce from a jar....and that's at the highest level of guy cookery.

Similarly when deciding what to wear, women tend to go through their entire wardrobe, and don't get me started on make-up ad so on. whereas a guy will grab the nearest pair of pants, a reasonably decent shirt, and a jacket. problem solved, although some of the more cosmopolitan guys will trow a tube of gel into the hair as well

I could keep giving examples like this, but I think I've made my point.

JohnCleary

The whole make-up thing is madness altogether, im just glad I have an en-suite, so theres no bathroom mess.

Another thing that surprised me is their lack of ability to cook. They only cook out-of-the-packet things. I felt sorry for them (and their friends) that I ended up cooking a feast for 6 of us last night. Nothing fancy, just a lasagne, spuds, veg & salad (They now consider me a legend)

They were also shocked at how domesticated I was, being able to cook, and being religious about hygine/tidyness. I was shocked at their mess... It's a crazy world

ST*

Nah, its either one extreme or the other. messy bitches or brie vanda.. vandy.. -women with sad existances with nothing better to do :v:

daiixi

As much as it kills me to say this, I do think chicks are dirtier than guys.

The blokes I've lived with have been happy to make a mess, but they'll clean it up pretty much straight away (dishes may get left for a night, but not a week, party messes cleaned up the following morning etc). I'm living with one girl atm and she'll go away for a week and leave her dishes in the sink! (though she is pretty sound usually).

Seriously? How hard is it to wash the dishes *as* you cook? To wash your dishes up straight after dinner? To put your coat/bag/mail etc away when you get home rather than leaving it all over the flat/house where it gets in everyone's way?

I don't care how messy people in share accomodation keep their rooms, but shared space should be neat and CLEAN!

JohnCleary

daiixi wrote:

Seriously? How hard is it to wash the dishes *as* you cook? To wash your dishes up straight after dinner? To put your coat/bag/mail etc away when you get home rather than leaving it all over the flat/house where it gets in everyone's way?

I agree here, I always clean things as I go along, then when im finished the dinner all I need to clean is the dishes. It's a brilliant system

lazydaisy

Im a female. And a total slob. Im very messy and disorganised but I am clean. I disinfect, hoover, dust etc etc, but I leave my crap everywhere. It really is a struggle for me. I find it very hard to decide where to put things.

I know a lot of women like this.

Ive shared housing with men. And some were tidy and organised. And some were slovenly beyond the beyond. But when it came to cleanliness, as in toilet hygeine, personal hygeine, keeping things santized, etc, Ive always found women to be more fussy there.

NoDayBut2Day

I think it depends on the person. I've met guys and girls who are messy and really clean; just depends on the person. We're all different.

PlayGirl

lazydaisy wrote:

Im a female. And a total slob. Im very messy and disorganised but I am clean. I disinfect, hoover, dust etc etc, but I leave my crap everywhere. It really is a struggle for me. I find it very hard to decide where to put things.

I know a lot of women like this.

Ive shared housing with men. And some were tidy and organised. And some were slovenly beyond the beyond. But when it came to cleanliness, as in toilet hygeine, personal hygeine, keeping things santized, etc, Ive always found women to be more fussy there.

I'm the same.. i wouldnt exactly be too annoyed if i didnt hoover/polish for a week or so, but thats not the point!, :rolleyes:

weemcd

back to the old days to where they belonged, makin babies and cleaning.

jimmycrackcorm

I once shared a house with some gals and they compained about the odd loose pubic hair left in the shower. much as I protested about DNA testing the samples they were adamant that I being the only fella was the culprit.

chuckles30

I've lived with both guys and girls over the years and I'm afraid I have to agree that the guys were much easier to live with. They are much more likely to clean up after themselves. I recently moved into a house with 3 other girls who had been living there already. I had to clean the kitchen, cooker, grill etc before I would even cook anything. It looked like they hadn't really bothered much with cleaning - I just can't understand it!! Now the place is spick and span - they're good enough to put their stuff in the dishwasher after they finish - it's just the additional cleaning that they don't bother with. I reckon if we didn't have a dishwasher, it could get very messy!!!

Sleipnir

My girlfriend doesn't know how to clean. She'll clean so the place *looks* tidy but everything will just be piled inder the sink or under the stairs.
She can't even do the washing up.

I lived with another girl before who's idea of doing the washing up involved the following steps.

1.) Fill sink with hot water.
2.) Add Milton
3.) Insert the dishes into the sink.
4.) Leave for several hours
5.) Take dishes out and put them away.

They used to still have food on them but she honestly thought they were clean!
Plus she didn't dry them AT ALL!

The Bollox

Sleipnir wrote:

My girlfriend doesn't know how to clean. She'll clean so the place *looks* tidy but everything will just be piled inder the sink or under the stairs.
She can't even do the washing up.

I lived with another girl before who's idea of doing the washing up involved the following steps.

1.) Fill sink with hot water.
2.) Add Milton
3.) Insert the dishes into the sink.
4.) Leave for several hours
5.) Take dishes out and put them away.

They used to still have food on them but she honestly thought they were clean!
Plus she didn't dry them AT ALL!

how visible was the fungi on the plate?

Pigman II

I guess it all depends from person to person but from my own experience women are definetly messier (especially when it comes to household possessions).

They seem to accumulate more stuff over a lifetime and then have no way of organising such that anything is accessible or easily located so the house/apartment just becomes a big tip with bulging shelves/presses and the rest just dumped on the floor.

Lux23

I am quite an untidy person as far as my room goes but I can't stand dirt. I couldn't leave a cup or a dish unwashed, it would drive me mental. One of my male housemates is always complaining about the cleaning being left undone but he never actually does it himself. He is also the only person who would leave jackets and shoes lying around in the sitting room. But he then has the cheek to say he is the tidiest in the house. :mad:

Ickle Magoo

In my experience women are messier but cleaner.....

I shared a house with four blokes once and 2 blokes on another occasion and although they would do the dishes, they often didn't do them very well...washed glasses in scummy water, that kind of thing.....they would pick up their towels from the bathroom but never clean the sink, bath or loo....hoover but not move a chair or table to hoover underneath....I have always been pretty messy & really terrible at tidying but every so often (every couple of weeks or so) I do a huge tidy & clean-up and the house gets blitzed & scrubbed from top to bottom.....works for us....now we have a small child that ensures the place is never tidy! lol!! :rolleyes::)

simu

In 1973, a girl dropped a banana skin on the Street... need I say more?













lollers to all!

dundalk cailin

i live with two girls and they're really messy,it drives me mad! cos im a really tidy person so i end up cleaning up the kitchen cos i hate sittin in mess!but they're not 'pigs'just accumulate a lotta stuff! i accumulate a lotta stuff too but in a neat fashion

The Bollox

simu wrote:

In 1973, a girl dropped a banana skin on the Street... need I say more?

yes

Pigman II

simu wrote:

In 1973, a girl dropped a banana skin on the Street... need I say more?

You see The A-Team wouldn't have been nearly as good if they'd opened with

"In 1972 a crack commando unit was sent to prison... need I say more? "

Civilian_Target

Depends on the person, you've got unlucky. I know guys who can't clean up after takeaway pizza, and who manage to remain undisgusted by massive toilet skidmarks.

And I've seen the mountain of pots and wrappers, and the overflowing bins that women can create. So you get both, but they're generally different types of messes.

But there's tidy and untidy people, and that's that. I won't deny, I'm not the tidiest person about