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How untidy are you people?

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  • #32
    holystungun9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,933 ✭✭✭holystungun9


    Renegade Mechanic wrote: »
    I literally have car parts under my bed..

    A neighbour of mine used his kitchen for fixing motorbikes before he had his garage built. The divorce happened before the garage happened.


  • #33
    groucho marx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,556 ✭✭✭groucho marx


    I cant relax in an untidy house.
    Always pretty clean. Be mortified if people called and it was a mess.
    Same with the car,try to keep it clean.


  • #34
    BrokenArrows
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,548 ✭✭✭BrokenArrows


    In the common areas of the house I'm very clean and always keep everything in its place, however my bedroom is a dump. The floor is covered in clothes. Lol.


  • #35
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    I've been known to leave the bed during sex to wipe a cobweb off a lampshade. :o


  • #36
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,219 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I'm very tidy and very clean, which is easy when it's just me. I hate coming home to a mess and like the place uncluttered.

    I try not to judge other peoples houses but sometimes it can be hard. I've been in a house where I've peeled my feet from the kitchen floor, been given tea in a mug with someone elses lip gloss still on it, the bathroom was useable because the seat was filthy and the loo entirely dark brown below the waterline. The bath was covered in scum. The open bedroom doors were portals to the most stale, disgusting, fetid smell ever, presumably because the bedlinen is rarely changed. Small children lived in that house, and if the conditions don't kill them first then they'll have the strongest immune systems in the West.

    I couldn't live like that.


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  • #37
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 53,068 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    It's probably a good time for me to say it's not like I'm the tidiest person in the world! I can leave stuff lying around and I even sometimes leave cups in the sink! I just would be freaked out if someone saw that I did that :pac:

    I have a cleaner once a week too and I loves her sooooooo much but I'd like her to here all the time to run around and pick up after me :o:D


  • #38
    Smidge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,541 ✭✭✭Smidge


    Candie wrote: »
    I'm very tidy and very clean, which is easy when it's just me. I hate coming home to a mess and like the place uncluttered.

    I try not to judge other peoples houses but sometimes it can be hard. I've been in a house where I've peeled my feet from the kitchen floor, been given tea in a mug with someone elses lip gloss still on it, the bathroom was useable because the seat was filthy and the loo entirely dark brown below the waterline. The bath was covered in scum. The open bedroom doors were portals to the most stale, disgusting, fetid smell ever, presumably because the bedlinen is rarely changed. Small children lived in that house, and if the conditions don't kill them first then they'll have the strongest immune systems in the West.

    I couldn't live like that.

    You should have told them how to combine cleaning fluids to create a magical solution that would have that place spotless in a jiffy.


  • #39
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    Deleted User wrote: »
    It's probably a good time for me to say it's not like I'm the tidiest person in the world! I can leave stuff lying around and I even sometimes leave cups in the sink! I just would be freaked out if someone saw that I did that :pac:

    I have a cleaner once a week too and I loves her sooooooo much but I'd like her to here all the time to run around and pick up after me :o:D

    You filthy human :pac:

    In fairness I can't say anything :o


  • #40
    Menas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    We have a cleaner but I like a good tidy up before she comes around...just in case she thinks we are savages like.

    That's normal, right?


  • #41
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 53,068 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Trigger Happy wrote: »
    We have a cleaner but I like a good tidy up before she comes around...just in case she thinks we are savages like.

    That's normal, right?

    Totally normal to tidy for the cleaner :pac:


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  • #42
    Cupcake_Crisis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,448 ✭✭✭✭Cupcake_Crisis


    The communal areas of my house are generally very clean, unless my niece is over in which case I don't bother tidying around after her as it's just pointless. My bedroom however, is a whole other world, organised chaos. It's not dirty persay, but there's clothes (clean) absolutely everywhere. If anyone ever went in there I'd be mortified, but I'm so comfortable in the mess.


  • #43
    AulBiddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 348 ✭✭AulBiddy


    I can make a mess sometimes but it will be cleaned, by mess I mean clothes on the floor or something that can be fixed quickly.

    On the same note, I hate people who think their houses are clean but they are really only tidy.. If you understand me.
    For example my friends house - the house looks tidy as you walk in.. Then you take off your shoes and you walk across the tiles and you can feel crumbs on your feet and your socks are black from dirt. You open the drawers in the kitchen and all the cutlery is put away neatly but still has grease on it.. Make up is all put away but the jars are filthy with no caps, open eyeliners all jammed together begging for infection... I'd rather someone who had some things lying around rather than things actually being dirty


  • #44
    Teyla Emmagan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,638 ✭✭✭Teyla Emmagan


    Renegade Mechanic wrote: »
    Now the breakage.
    Walking down the hall I spotted, under the kitchen table, white dog sh*t.
    His dog was a good while dead.
    We had words..

    White as in dog poo from the 80s, or from age? Not sure why I'm asking, dog poo left around the house is mental health territory, regardless.

    My Dad always tells a story (not sure why I feel this is relevant) about a car salesman going out into the sticks somewhere to sell a car, a long time back. The potential client was an auld bachelor, of the type no one visits, so lonely an' all. He had plenty of money, but never had guests. And he was delighted this fella turned up, so asked him to stay for a sup of tae and a bit of lamb. Your man says yes. The auld fella pulls this leg of lamb from out of the chimney (open fire, there was no fridge in the house). It was crawling in maggots. He carved a bit off, poured the tea, and they had a good old chat while they enjoyed the repast. Your man puked the whole way back home. He sold the car though :)
    August Important Trapeze wrote: »
    Do any other glasses-wearers just take their glasses off to get another couple days between cleaning the house?

    No. You dirty skank :pac:


  • #45
    Menas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    AulBiddy wrote: »
    On the same note, I hate people who think their houses are clean but they are really only tidy.. If you understand me.

    This.

    A buddy of mine has a nice tidy house but the place is minging. I remember telling him that we changed our bedclothes weekly and he nearly fell off his barstool laughing.
    He changes his every 6 months or so.

    I did not mention that we iron the pillow covers. The shame.


  • #46
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 53,068 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Oh and people who do selfies in their bedrooms?

    Make your feckin bed ffs!


  • #47
    Menas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Oh and people who do selfies in their bedrooms?

    Make your feckin bed ffs!

    A lot of the time bedroom selfies involve nakedness and the text starts with "you won't show this to anyone will you?"
    The state of the bedroom tends to pale into insignificance in such circumstances.


  • #48
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 53,068 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Trigger Happy wrote: »
    We have a cleaner but I like a good tidy up before she comes around...just in case she thinks we are savages like.

    That's normal, right?
    Trigger Happy wrote: »
    A lot of the time bedroom selfies involve nakedness and the text starts with "you won't show this to anyone will you?"
    The state of the bedroom tends to pale into insignificance in such circumstances.

    Um...


  • #49
    Menas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Um...

    Selfies received, not sent!

    Jeez, if I sent a naked selfie I would be up in court on an offence against humanity charge.


  • #50
    Teyla Emmagan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,638 ✭✭✭Teyla Emmagan


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Oh and people who do selfies in their bedrooms?

    Make your feckin bed ffs!

    On the internet, somewhere, there is a photo of a woman, taken by herself. It's in the bathroom, and she looks pretty well. However, in the background you can see the toilet, with a MASSIVE unflushed turd in it.

    A genuine epic fail...


  • #51
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 53,068 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Trigger Happy wrote: »
    Selfies received, not sent!

    Jeez, if I sent a naked selfie I would be up in court on an offence against humanity charge.

    Boards is acting all weird. You had a deleted post that completely contradicted your undeleted one about selfies. It obviously decided to quote a random post in its place!


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  • #52
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 53,068 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Teyla Emmagan wrote: »
    On the internet, somewhere, there is a photo of a woman, taken by herself. It's in the bathroom, and she looks pretty well. However, in the background you can see the toilet, with a MASSIVE unflushed turd in it.

    A genuine epic fail...

    Oh there's another one with a rather giant vibrator too :D


  • #53
    SweetChaos
    Closed Accounts Posts: 306 ✭✭SweetChaos


    I like the house clean and tidy but I must confess I do have a monica closet where everything goes when I need to do an emergency clean when I get unexpected visitors and the door needs to be wedged shut its Ill sort it one day


  • #54
    Menas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Boards is acting all weird. You had a deleted post that completely contradicted your undeleted one about selfies. It obviously decided to quote a random post in its place!

    Ah, caught out by the ninja edit.


  • #55
    pq0n1ct4ve8zf5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,070 ✭✭✭✭pq0n1ct4ve8zf5


    SweetChaos wrote: »
    I like the house clean and tidy but I must confess I do have a monica closet where everything goes when I need to do an emergency clean when I get unexpected visitors and the door needs to be wedged shut its Ill sort it one day

    I have bunk-beds in my bedroom at my parents' house, the bottom bunk is full of boxes of stuff that I definitely might maybe need some day, you never know. A while ago I got a notion that I might clean it out, but couldn't go through with it. Got some sheets of fancy fabric from on top of the wardrobe and pinned them up over it instead! And people told me I was mad to hang on to those sheets of fabric...


  • #56
    --LOS--
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,028 ✭✭✭✭--LOS--


    I can be kinda messy, not so much around other people, but on my own ye. I prefer to call it 'easy-going' or 'laid-back' though :P


  • #57
    Renegade Mechanic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,928 ✭✭✭Renegade Mechanic


    Teyla Emmagan wrote: »
    White as in dog poo from the 80s, or from age? Not sure why I'm asking, dog poo left around the house is mental health territory, regardless.

    Nah, it wasn't from the 80s :D
    Ah, he was sound. But had a few problems. He would make a good fried but he cared about everything except himself.


  • #58
    Penny Tration
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,687 ✭✭✭✭Penny Tration


    I'm fairly tidy. My bf is coming over tonight and although the place is clean, I've spent the last 3 hours scrubbing it anyway :o


  • #59
    Ave Sodalis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,555 ✭✭✭Ave Sodalis


    Trigger Happy wrote: »
    We have a cleaner but I like a good tidy up before she comes around...just in case she thinks we are savages like.

    That's normal, right?

    I used to work in a place that provided accommodation as payment. Part of the accommodation included a cleaner every so often. Me and the other girl who lived there kept the place fairly tidy as we didn't know when the cleaner would be about so the only thing the cleaner had out of place was maybe a few breakfast bowls and at a push, the dinner plates from the night before. She didn't clean our rooms so it was really just the communal parts of the house. Despite this, every single time without fail, she would ring our boss to complain about how untidy the house had been left and in turn, we would get an earful from the boss for being messy (we'd get an earful every time she came into the house too). The best was when the boss was actually giving out that it wasn't fair on the cleaner that she had to tidy up after us and she wasn't paying the cleaner a couple hundred to do that. We were like "um what? It's only a few dishes at most and isn't that the point of a cleaner?". Seriously, I wasnt getting paid at the time and would have been glad of the few hundred the cleaner was getting...


  • #60
    Titzon Toast
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,610 ✭✭✭Titzon Toast


    I like to keep my place as clean as I can, especially the bathrooms, the kitchen, and my floors.
    With the job I do I literally go into hundreds of people's houses everyday. I've seen and smelled things that would make a Billy goat puke!
    It's given me great incentive to keep my own house in order though I'll tell you that much.


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  • #61
    Fat Christy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Fat Christy


    My room would be a complete an utter bomb but communal areas must be tidy. I can't handle dirty kitchens/bathrooms at all.


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