My house isn't spotless but I hate having mess around the house, especially the kitchen. I'm completely anal about hygiene in the kitchen. I wipe the counters down with bleach about a million times a day during the weekends. It also doesn't help that he-who-must-not-be-named does not help. I end up always vaccuuming and cleaning the kitchen floor because it drives me batty if I feel any crumbs on my feet when I walk through. We have Mexican clay tile floors as well as hardwood floors. Lots of floors to clean.


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I get very stressed out when the house is cluttered and messy and even though it can get that way sometimes, I never let it get too dirty. To me, there is a difference between messy and dirty.



I am constantly trying to re-organize and declutter. Right now I am working on the closets, I am convinced that there is a more orderly way of storing things. I am a clean freak about the kitchen and the bathrooms. I cannot stand it if either are dirty. The rest of the house I am more lax about, I hate dusting and vacuuming so that doesn't get done as much as it should.



Thank God for this gadgets. Meet the iRobot Scooba. I don't like mopping. Neither does anybody in my household. The hardwood floors never gets mopped. The kitchen floor always looks like (uhm excuse my french)shit most of the time. It works great on mud, dried food and dried spills. When you are done with the Scooba, you do have to empty it out, give the tank a rinse, and clean the brush and a removable tube. It's always nice when you can make somebody or in this case, something to do a hated task.

You also need to buy their special cleaner, which isn't that bad since you need need to use a cleaning solution anyway. It is economically efficient, too. 1/8 cup of the cleaning solution and a quart or so of water on my floor work wonders. If I were mopping, I'd be using more of both. I tried vinegar and hot water, which did pretty good. Clorox appears to work better although it leaves a sticky residue. A big no-no for me.

My other thing is the dishwasher. All dirty dishes must be in it. Who-must-not-be-named likes to leave dishes on the counter and that drives me absolutely nuts! I put the dishwasher on every night before I go to bed and always unload it when I wake up. There is no reason to put dishes on the sink or counter at all.



I can't stand clutter either. Do you understand Clutterbug mentality? Do you know someone who is "organizationally challenged?" Here's a little trivia for you. Did you know in the land of Clutterbuggedom, to "trash" a piece of clutter is 20 years to life - in prison? Yes, I kid you not. Do not dare it. You will be attacked! Thrown and then wrestled to the ground. The piece of clutter will fly *in slow motion* up into the air & the clutterbug will ALWAYS catch it. Before it falls, smashing to the ground, into little cluttery pieces. *sigh*

I live with a clutterbug. His siblings are clutterbugs; they are all descendants of the matriarch of a clutterbug dynasty. They may even be clutterbug royalty for all I know. Blue blooded. Queens, Princes, Princess clutterbugs. From the faraway land of Clutterbuggedom.

I was asked to help (they-shall-remain-nameless), a beloved clutterbug pack her house, for a soon-to-happen move. A cluttered house filled to it's rims with clutter. Clutter, piled upon clutter, upon more....yes, you guess it, clutter.

In a perfect world, there will be no mess, there will be no dirt and everything will be organized. Clutter-free for the motherfuckin' win!