I’m using a product called Nature’s Miracle. It’s great on the mouse blood (and cat puke, too).
Oh, at the moment about a 4, in an hour or two, about an 8 (we have someone coming to stay). I have little to do over the next 2 months and we’re moving out of our place at the beginning of july, so it should be a 10 by the time we leave.
Usually about an 8 or 9 (though I still feel the need to “clean up” if anyone is coming over). My realtor put it nicely when she called me “meticulous.” 
I live alone, which makes it easy.
You mean anal-rententive (or something like it), not pedantic. Pedantic means “making a show of knowledge,” “narrowly, stodgily, and often ostentatiously learned,” or “unimaginative, pedestrian” – it has nothing to do with neatness and/or cleanliness.
Now that was pedantic. 
I second the Nature’s Miracle recommendation.
Our place never gets really bad, but it’s also never Good Housekeeping looking. I’d say we average between a 4 and an 8. If you came over right now I’d smack you, because it’s baking day and I’m doing all the cooking for the weekend, and the kitchen is messy. Unless you came over to help, of course.
That’s me (but no kids’ rooms). Most things are in their place, or in areas which are designated as junk or transitional areas, but it is not clean. I wash dishes when they start to smell, clean the toilet when it starts to smell,…
Really? (checks dictionary) Fancy that. In Swedish, a “pedant” would clean excessively, and I’ve until now just assumed the English meaning was identical. Thanks for fighting my ignorance.
Um … walks over to the 2 group
And don’t come over because I won’t let you in.
I’m probably a 3. I take the trash out and empty the litter box regularly but I’ve got boxes piled in my living room from the last time I went on a sorting binge and my kitchen’s a bit messy. It’s not in a state wher I would let other people inside yet it’s not near those houses that you see being dredged out on TV.
Well, I’m assuming you want to average out the entire house, which would lower my score, as we have about 1/4 of the upstairs of our house (extra bedrooms) that are not really needed and therefore are currently holding things we need to get rid of, but haven’t, yet. Then there’s the whole lower floor of the house that I don’t consider “my territory,” as it houses my husband’s home office (with the exception of one room, which is “my” office, and is pretty tidy if a bit full of more “storage” items).
So - the parts of the house we actually live in would get a solid 7 or 8, 95% of the time. The other parts would probably be about a 4 or 5, I think. But I’m working on getting the whole upstairs up to snuff - currently in the processing of fixing up a bathroom, but will definitely be needing to get rid of a bunch of stuff in those bedrooms to paint them before my parents visit in August.
About a three. I do dishes and litter every day, but I have six cats, so there is fur everywhere. EVERYWHERE!!! ARRRRGH.
Clean enough to be healthy and messy enough to be happy.
About a 7. Under normal circumstances, I keep a house at around a 4.5, but I just got married to a very tidy person and moved into his clean house, so I’m trying to change my ways. Every afternoon when I get home, I run the vaccuum, scrape the cat fur off the couch, and clean the litterbox. I have one child who does breakfast dishes and one child who does dinner dishes and daily dusting. In the mornings, I clean the litterbox and make my bed. (My mom would shoot me if she knew I was willingly making a bed, after all the years I’ve flat refused to.) Weekends I do laundry. That keeps things pretty decent, and really doesn’t take much time…just don’t examine the baseboards or toilet bowls too closely.
Well, since I’m an admitted Half-Assed Housekeeper, my standards are clean kitchen, clean bathroom, garbage taken out, house not stinking too bad or attracting bugs. Beyond that, it depends on the day and who’s coming to visit. On average, I’d say we run about a (looks around house quickly) - 4.5, losing a full point for clutter everywhere. {Shakes fist at clutter} Damn you! Damn you to hell!
Single male student. My apartment naturally stays about 5 or so. Vacuum when it needs it, keep the dishes clean, trash goes out regularly. It’s probably about a 6 right now, but that’s because it is on its way down from an 8 a few weeks ago, when my mother visited me.
Married couple. No kids. 1 cat.
Right now, our house would rate about an 8 to 9 or so. We’ve got a rental inspection today, so the last few weeks have been slowly working at cleaning it up. It’s pretty tidy right now.
The normal state of affairs is somewhere around a 3. On good days, maybe a 4.
Neither of us like cleaning, and we’re both full time workers who rely on public transport, so our leisure time is really precious to us. I know if we kept it clean, it would take less effort to clean up, but I’m just a chaotic person.
However this time I’d like to try and keep our house up around a 6-7. I want to move out in a few months, and the less mess there is the easier it’ll be to move everything out to a new place.
10. It’s on the market.
Before real estate agents started calling on their cell phones from the top of our driveway, asking if they could show it “right f’ing now!,” it was usually around a 7.5.
I’m about a 2 and I won’t let you in the house.
I have no excuses. I hate housework and I’m lazy. No one lives here but me and the dog, and he doesn’t care how crappy things are because he’s, well, a dog.
Well, I live at home with my father (48), younger brother (16) and sister (18), and I would rate out house as a solid 3.0. However, certain rooms are much better than others. I would give the bedrooms (at least mine and my sister’s bedrooms) a 3.5 to 4.
My last apartment was definitely a 1 (if not a total zero). Since when I moved last July, I’m working at keeping my new place at least a 5 (which is major steps up for me). I live alone and clutter doesn’t bother me, so why bother?
It is shedding season. 3
Plus, we don’t have a back door, so we let the dog in and out through the bedroom window, which brings in lots of leaves and twigs.
I need to vacuum now.