Please tell me your house is as messy as mine is!

[OpenRoot]

Be honest...on a scale of "ready for afternoon tea with the queen" to "oh dear God, I hope noone calls the Hoarders show on me" how messy is your house when you're getting ready for a test? I was looking around today and holy cannoli - this place is a disaster. Between taking care of the kids, work, and school I haven't picked up GI joes all week, did the absolute bare minimum of laundry and went with paper plates because I couldn't jam even one more dish into the dishwasher and I just didn't have the energy to handwash or unload the machine. Off to clean this place up and do some laundry so I don't have to buy new work clothes on the way to work. Again.

Please tell me I'm not alone!

[sanantone]

I'm like this now because of work and graduate school. It'll probably get worse soon since I'm preparing to complete some science prerequisites for a PhD program. It doesn't help that I show signs of having ADHD.

[IrishJohn]

Wait, you actually clean? Hmmm... I forget how that goes.

[af2012]

hilarious What is this "clean house" you speak of?

[Lindagerr]

My house is "ready for afternoon tea with the queen" :coolgleam:

Of course I only moved in 9 months ago, I do not work since moving here, my last degree was finished 3 months ago and only my husband and I lived here until last week.

Now if you asked me that question a year ago the answer would have been "oh dear God, I hope noone calls the Hoarders show on me" :reddevil:

While I was finishing my BA and working and taking care of 2 grown kids, I decided if they wanted a clean house they could do it themselves I just did what I needed. Houses will always be there, now you need to take care of your kids and your degree.

[mrs.b]

When I finished a few months ago, it took weeks of steady scrubbing before I could stand looking at the place again. We could have named our dust bunnies. My husband was in charge of cleaning while I was in school, and his definition of clean is definitely different from mine. Since then, I've made it a mission to stay on top of cleaning, but we do have pockets of mess where we're working on home projects. I'd say we fall somewhere in a comfy middle ground between afternoon tea with the queen and Hoarders depending on the room.

[marianne202]

My dust bunnies do have names and they have multiplied just like the real thing! I'm looking forward to this summer when I will finally be done with school after 4 yrs and I will be finished with several committees I'm on at work so I will actually have my summer off. I plan to clean my house top to bottom and finally see it again after all these years. I actually think during my heavy testing days someone did come by from the hoarders show, but we haven't seen him since. Maybe I will uncover him when I get a chance to clean, I just hope that by the time I find him we will no longer qualify to be on the show!