A clean house makes me feel no one is 'alive' in there. I need SOME 'mess', to show that there is 'movement'. If rooms are too clean, they feel 'dead' to me.

Anyone else feel this way? Not that I want to live in a pigstye, I like things being :in their places", I just don't like it when things are a bit TOO neat...

I don't like dust, but I do like the occasional pile o' crap. Not dirty dishes or clothes, or receipts aor trash... just maybe just whatever project I am workin' on...

What I need is a bit more ROOM. A basement or something...where I can conjure a little...maybe finish up some of my old stuff...

lol - I know what yer saying
no, I do not feel comfortable in a "showroom"
but, I am a parent also

what really gets me is overpowering "air freshners". that sterile dry chemical smell.

I know how you feel. We're not exactly the housekeping Nazi's on our block, either. When it's too clean, I feel like a visitor.

I really know about needing room. Ten years ago, when my daughter was born, I converted the garage into a bedroom for our oldest boy (17 at the time). I lost my space. Now that he's moved out, I get his old room as my office/den/listening room. It's been ten years of hell!

I have a 3 year old and a 5 year old. I have long since forgotten what a clean house was.

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I've been trying to get rid of thirteen years of clutter so I can sell my house. Too bad one can't show a house when it's cluttered.
The good news is that I have about one weeks worth of cleaning to be done.

OMG!!! Hahahaha!! MY FAVOUrITE rant with Ellie!! Compulsive tidy-upper!! For instance... she wants me to make a hole for a hook for a picture frame...she puts the vacuum nozzle right next to the drill!! I can´t see what I am doing!! I spill CLEAN water drops on the floor, (two or three minor drops) and you would think it was thick black greasy axle grease!! If I move a magazine on the coffee table, she tuts and leaps up and puts it back millimetre perfect!! NEVER READS Them!!! She puts tools away as I am doing the job!! AAAAAGH!! 'Where the heck has my screwdriver gone? I had it two minutes ago!!' 'Oh..I put it bAck in the toolbox...in the garage!! I didn´t even see her DO IT!! Hahahahah! Ah well, you learn to live with it..but I wish SHE would too!! ERRRRMMM.. LOVE YOU DARLING!! (CASE SHE READS THIS )
BUT..I wouldn´t change her for the WORLD!!
Nick

What is a clean house? i have 4 cats, 2 dogs and 2 parrots... Used to have a son living with me too..

Yes

quote Originally posted by JazzMan: One of the few benefits of being an outcast is that I don't need to concern myself with the "audience". One of these days I'll get around to building a storage building out back to move it to. JazzMan

Looks about like my poor garage ( i wont even take a picture of my 'office' id be too embarrassed.. just no room at all here ) and yes, thats an OEM fiero spare leaning against the mill.


But spring cleaning is in process, so it looks a bit worse then normal out there. Normally there is a floor

quote Originally posted by fierofetish: OMG!!! Hahahaha!! MY FAVOUrITE rant with Ellie!! Compulsive tidy-upper!! For instance... she wants me to make a hole for a hook for a picture frame...she puts the vacuum nozzle right next to the drill!! I can´t see what I am doing!! I spill CLEAN water drops on the floor, (two or three minor drops) and you would think it was thick black greasy axle grease!! If I move a magazine on the coffee table, she tuts and leaps up and puts it back millimetre perfect!! NEVER READS Them!!! She puts tools away as I am doing the job!! AAAAAGH!! 'Where the heck has my screwdriver gone? I had it two minutes ago!!' 'Oh..I put it bAck in the toolbox...in the garage!! I didn´t even see her DO IT!! Hahahahah! Ah well, you learn to live with it..but I wish SHE would too!! ERRRRMMM.. LOVE YOU DARLING!! (CASE SHE READS THIS ) BUT..I wouldn´t change her for the WORLD!! Nick

This was just to funny, I knew a lady who was exactly the same way......AND had the same name Ellie. That may have something to do with it. :P

I am terrible because I need things visible otherwise I completely forget about them. I hate things put away in drawers/boxes etc.. I always want to put post-its up but everyone around me would throw me out of the house if I started doing that.

Gentlemen a woman is not just for a show piece or sex ..they clean and cook so well and look good doing it .exquisite is the well shaped bottom encased in tight white shorts busily moving the vacuum around the house dusting,bending over (a favorite) cleaning and organising the tools as instructed while I plot the overthrow of countries most can not find on a map
Jazzmans excellent dwelling makes me envious !!only the lovely Tender Vittles would have allowed this Garage quality enviroment in the kitchen & house (one of my biggest loses in life) of course I have known many great housekeepers ,,divorced a few times and kept the house..
She was eager to marry a man clever & smart enough to make a lot of money.,,and dumb enough to spent it on her..

I was cleaning my desk at work and people kept coming up to me asking if I got fired. Ha?

Jazzman.........................I take it ..you are single????????????

quote Originally posted by never2old: Jazzman.........................I take it ..you are single????????????

I asked the same question back when he 1st posted this picture 2 yrs ago. Funny thing is, I would be perfectly comfortable in his surroundings.

I now have one little corner where I can do as I like--where my computer desk is. I had a whole spare bedroom--till Jane's 30+ yr old brother suddenly showed up and moved in with us. That is beginning to be a strain............

quote ORIGINALLY POSTED BY: Maryjane Funny thing is, I would be perfectly comfortable in his surroundings.

Then maybe you should marry him.

User00013170, I think that's his living room and not his garage.

Fetish, my wife does the same thing when I drill. It drives me crazy.

Jim

quote Originally posted by User00013170: What is a clean house? i have 4 cats, 2 dogs and 2 parrots... Used to have a son living with me too..

Are you saying you haven't been able to find him?

Brad

When my wife met me, she teased me about my "Home & Garden House." I was a single guy, and she laughed at the fact that Home & Garden magazine could come in to my house to take pictures without any notice and they wouldn't have to do any prepwork or use their own props.

My wife is the opposite. I have washed many loads of clean clothes thinking they were dirty because she puts everything on the floor. She will lose things under huge piles of stuff even though she had it a moment ago.

But I don't mind. We balance each other out so well that I don't mind it one bit. And I love her for it. I could not live with someone like me.

quote Originally posted by SonataInFSharp: When my wife met me, she teased me about my "Home & Garden House." I was a single guy, and she laughed at the fact that Home & Garden magazine could come in to my house to take pictures without any notice and they wouldn't have to do any prepwork or use their own props. My wife is the opposite. I have washed many loads of clean clothes thinking they were dirty because she puts everything on the floor. She will lose things under huge piles of stuff even though she had it a moment ago. But I don't mind. We balance each other out so well that I don't mind it one bit. And I love her for it. I could not live with someone like me.

When i lived in an apartment, with my single cat, i was like that. But all my stuff was in storage

quote Originally posted by User00013170: What is a clean house? i have 4 cats, 2 dogs and 2 parrots... Used to have a son living with me too..

quote Originally posted by twofatguys: Are you saying you haven't been able to find him? Brad

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quote Originally posted by twofatguys: Are you saying you haven't been able to find him? Brad

I know he's here somewhere .... nah, he lives with his mom now.