Hope I didn’t come off too sanctimonious. It’s actually such a new thing for me that I’m still in proselytizing phase!
I do like to clean as i cook. I agree that it ends up being less total work. But there are a few things that i like to soak.
I don’t like having dirty dishes on the counters or left on the table, but once they are in the sink it feels like they are “in progress” to me, like being in the dishwasher.
My house is basically always photoshoot ready. I find mess stressful, I don’t have a lot of clutter and we tidy up as we go along. My wife and I have our routines very well sorted, so if one of us is walking the dog before work, the other one is cleaning the kitchen and fluffing the living room cushions.
I love my home and would hate it to be messy. Tidying as we go takes no time at all, and I find it quite therapeutic. Of course, I don’t have kids.
We do a proper clean and bed change once a week.
I also always have plenty of food and wine in the house, so drop in any time!
A half day’s notice would be more than enough time. I would just need to vacuum, wipe the counters and tables, give the bathrooms a quick clean, give the floors a quick mop (3 dogs coming in and out!), light some nicely scented candles and pick up anything that’s out of place. All of that would take about an hour.
Thanks for the replies, everyone. I’m happy to know my house is somewhere in the middle of the “cleanliness” spectrum.
This. I clean my house, but it does have clutter due to unfinished spaces and stuff still in boxes. But it is clean. Big difference between dirt and looking cluttered.
I keep most of the house fairly clean, so I’d just need about an hour or two to go through, scrub bathrooms, vacuum and the like if someone were just coming to hang out. The kitchen dishes, on the other hand, are my husband’s responsibility, but we have…differences…about when they should be done (meaning, I want them done as soon as we’re done using them; he thinks they should be done when he feels up to it - there’s gotta be a sweet spot in between but we haven’t quite found it).
Anyway, I’d have no problem having guests show up in a couple of hours to visit; to spend the night might be tricky, only because we are one of those households where we really don’t fix things that require calling someone until we have a fairly decent list of things to fix. For example, unless a toilet or sink is completely non-functional, we’d probably wait until we have 2-3 things for a plumber to check in before calling one. Which is why our front door doesn’t quite close the way it should, we still haven’t replaced our family room floors and that small crack in the french doors in the back hasn’t been repaired. All that’s to say that we by no means have a magazine cover home, but it’s “well loved,” code for not an eyesore, not terribly cluttered, mostly sanitary and generally functional.
Sorry, wrong forum.
Lol, when I read the title I was assuming they would be at my door.
Single man, living alone, I keep a very tidy home. Would have zero problem if anyone just showed up, and a full half-days notice allows me to prepare one of my guest rooms for an extended stay (washing sheets, sweeping, dusting, etc).