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Living in a show home

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By *yron69 OP   Man
over a year ago

Fareham

Is it possible to keep your house over 90% of the time like a show home? Or is the lived in look totally unavoidable?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I wouldn’t want a show home. I’d feel uncomfortable, my house is tidy, but cosy and obviously lived in.

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By *allySlinkyWoman
over a year ago

Leeds

My friend's house is permanently like a show house but to me it doesn't feel like a home.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Is it possible to keep your house over 90% of the time like a show home? Or is the lived in look totally unavoidable?"

Mine looks unlived in, i cant bare mess, hoover daily because i like to see hoover lines in the carpet, clean the bathroom top to bottom daily because i hate water marks and dont get me started on the kitchen it looks unused yet is used 3 times a day.

everything has a place or its in the bin.

Its ocd and time consuming but its a stress release for me.

Also a reason i only do hotel meets because i get people dont obsess like me over home cleanliness and order and i cant handle being in someones house thats not to 'my' obsessive standard.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I own a German Shepherd, no chance of my home looking like a show home

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

We’ve got kids. It’s tidy for about 12 hours a day between 7pm and 7am

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Is it possible to keep your house over 90% of the time like a show home? Or is the lived in look totally unavoidable?

Mine looks unlived in, i cant bare mess, hoover daily because i like to see hoover lines in the carpet, clean the bathroom top to bottom daily because i hate water marks and dont get me started on the kitchen it looks unused yet is used 3 times a day.

everything has a place or its in the bin.

Its ocd and time consuming but its a stress release for me.

Also a reason i only do hotel meets because i get people dont obsess like me over home cleanliness and order and i cant handle being in someones house thats not to 'my' obsessive standard. "

I don't have your levels of OCD bud, current house is a tip and I can just about cope, it's because there's others here and a dog that I gave up trying to tidy up after.

But when I had my own flat (working away), I was the very same. I never had any dirty washing, clothes went straight in the machine when I undressed!

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By *allySlinkyWoman
over a year ago

Leeds


"I never had any dirty washing, clothes went straight in the machine when I undressed! "

How did you sort whites from darks ?

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By *affron40Woman
over a year ago

manchester

I don’t even try.. my house is very much a home and it has an element of chaos.

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By *uke olovingmanMan
over a year ago

Gravesend

They make special show home furniture a bit smaller to make the house look bigger...a bit like cock pictures on here

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I've been following various accounts on Instagram to get some inspiration for decorating our home, I said to Doughnut the other day "do you think they have a shit room?".

I like a tidy and clean house after years of living with my ex husband who was just a slob, for the most part it's kept that way until our various children come to stay and I kinda give up until they have gone lol.

Our bedroom is the worst for mess, I tidy it up and make it look nice and it's just messy again in the evening

Danish x

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By *a LunaWoman
over a year ago

South Wales

I am very maximalist. If there’s a bare space I fill it!

I also have hoarding tendencies.

I have two kids, two dogs and a doddery mum. Our home looks very, very, very lived in.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

it is possible if you live alone or as a couple and all of you work/ Easily throw everthing into cupoards etc.

The bigger the apartment/house the eaier it is to keep it a show home.

It is not practical for most nor do they want theis other than b4 guests arrive

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By *allySlinkyWoman
over a year ago

Leeds


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The bigger the apartment/house the eaier it is to keep it a show home.

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But the bigger the house the more cleaning there is to do !

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"it is possible if you live alone or as a couple and all of you work/ Easily throw everthing into cupoards etc.

The bigger the apartment/house the eaier it is to keep it a show home.

It is not practical for most nor do they want theis other than b4 guests arrive"

Size does make a big difference. The cupboard under the stairs contains my mountain bike (too expensive to store in the shed) the tent and other camping bits. The only place left for the SUP's is behind the sofa with the kettlebells. The one wardrobe we have room for looses some space to wetsuits etc etc. Storage is a massive problem in a small house.

Mr

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By *entleman JayMan
over a year ago

Wakefield


"I am very maximalist. If there’s a bare space I fill it!

I also have hoarding tendencies.

I have two kids, two dogs and a doddery mum. Our home looks very, very, very lived in. "

I’m the opposite. My shelf’s have got one item on them. Less dusting.

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By *immyinreadingMan
over a year ago

henley on thames


"Is it possible to keep your house over 90% of the time like a show home? Or is the lived in look totally unavoidable?

Mine looks unlived in, i cant bare mess, hoover daily because i like to see hoover lines in the carpet, clean the bathroom top to bottom daily because i hate water marks and dont get me started on the kitchen it looks unused yet is used 3 times a day.

everything has a place or its in the bin.

Its ocd and time consuming but its a stress release for me.

Also a reason i only do hotel meets because i get people dont obsess like me over home cleanliness and order and i cant handle being in someones house thats not to 'my' obsessive standard. "

Do you actually have ocd?

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over a year ago

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By *uenevereWoman
over a year ago

Scunthorpe

Not a hope in Hell of the show home look here.

Apart from anything else, I prefer a house to feel warm and lived in not clinical.

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By *oodmessMan
over a year ago

yumsville

I hoover up around the dust.

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By *yron69 OP   Man
over a year ago

Fareham


"I hoover up around the dust. "

I hate dust….settles on me now!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I like to keep my home very clean and tidy but then that is very easy for me to do as there are no rug rats running around to mess it up.

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By *acey_RedWoman
over a year ago

Liverpool

I know a couple of people who try to keep their homes like that. I'd be uncomfortable in it personally. I like it clean and tidy but I'm not hiding the fact that I live there .

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By *andyfloss2000Woman
over a year ago

ashford

Wouldn't want to! Used to b such a waste of time! Sadly now one of my daughters the same! Loves mrs hinch! Pmsl! Live is short to short to b cleaning all the time x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I occasionally wish I lived in a show home when I survey my own home. I quite like when going on holidays somewhere neat. But dogs and cats and kids and an old tired house with open fires doesnt make for easy cleaning. I am much more relaxed somewhere a bit chaotic though.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

If you don't have kids or free roaming pets it's perfectly possible. Throw in either of these two factors and forget it.

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By *edsmudgeMan
over a year ago

oxford

Hah back in my child hood you would have called my mother ‘house proud’ which translates to a fat lip for watermarks on the draining board or foot marks an a freshly hoovered carpet so I’m saying yes a 100% of the time

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

God no, my house is definitely lived in. I love it when it’s clean, but don’t feel bad if it gets a bit messy x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


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The bigger the apartment/house the eaier it is to keep it a show home.

But the bigger the house the more cleaning there is to do !"

Not if you have madoenised you home with real wood floors throughout inc stairs etc etc and minilmist with leather funture minial beeding, cutains etc and blinds etc, hardly see any dust eesically if you are out a lot at work etc.

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By *iltopbearMan
over a year ago

Norfolk

My home is very much lived in, clean at the weekend but lived in by Friday!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I have two children, my house is definitely lived in

It's not small exactly but doesn't have a lot of storage and I like things that show off our personalities. It's clean and mostly tidy but I refuse to spend every waking hour doing housework.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Is it possible to keep your house over 90% of the time like a show home? Or is the lived in look totally unavoidable?

Mine looks unlived in, i cant bare mess, hoover daily because i like to see hoover lines in the carpet, clean the bathroom top to bottom daily because i hate water marks and dont get me started on the kitchen it looks unused yet is used 3 times a day.

everything has a place or its in the bin.

Its ocd and time consuming but its a stress release for me.

Also a reason i only do hotel meets because i get people dont obsess like me over home cleanliness and order and i cant handle being in someones house thats not to 'my' obsessive standard.

Do you actually have ocd?"

Unfortunately, its the bane of my life.

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By *ynecplCouple
over a year ago

Newcastle upon Tyne

We wouldn't want a show house. Our home has beautiful things but it also has photos, ornaments etc that remind us of good/fun times. It also has things that make our life comfortable or easier. A show house always looks sterile and cold.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Would love someone with OCD to come and do my house.

I was a domestic cleaner for 12 months before I did my biohazard waste engineering training to do crime and trauma scene cleaning. I’m fully qualified to clean. I could remove all traces of a month old decomposed human body that’s been absorbed by the floor and walls but yet I can’t tidy my own home.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Would love someone with OCD to come and do my house.

I was a domestic cleaner for 12 months before I did my biohazard waste engineering training to do crime and trauma scene cleaning. I’m fully qualified to clean. I could remove all traces of a month old decomposed human body that’s been absorbed by the floor and walls but yet I can’t tidy my own home. "

Remind me never to piss you off

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By *UGGYBEAR2015Man
over a year ago

BRIDPORT

I have a sign hanging in the porch inside my back door. It says ‘ A tidy home is the sign of a wasted life’.

Someone gave it to me , can’t imagine why.

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By *yron69 OP   Man
over a year ago

Fareham


"Would love someone with OCD to come and do my house.

I was a domestic cleaner for 12 months before I did my biohazard waste engineering training to do crime and trauma scene cleaning. I’m fully qualified to clean. I could remove all traces of a month old decomposed human body that’s been absorbed by the floor and walls but yet I can’t tidy my own home. "

I knew a dental hygienist whose house was a tip. X

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Would love someone with OCD to come and do my house.

I was a domestic cleaner for 12 months before I did my biohazard waste engineering training to do crime and trauma scene cleaning. I’m fully qualified to clean. I could remove all traces of a month old decomposed human body that’s been absorbed by the floor and walls but yet I can’t tidy my own home.

I knew a dental hygienist whose house was a tip. X"

Hardly the same. A dental hygienist who had yellow teeth full of plaque would be the equivalent to a professional cleaner having a messy home.

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By *2000ManMan
over a year ago

Worthing

It's easy to tidy as you go along rather than let things get too untidy. I always ensure washing up done before bed.

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By *a LunaWoman
over a year ago

South Wales


"I am very maximalist. If there’s a bare space I fill it!

I also have hoarding tendencies.

I have two kids, two dogs and a doddery mum. Our home looks very, very, very lived in.

I’m the opposite. My shelf’s have got one item on them. Less dusting. "

This is very true. It is much easier (and quicker) to clean a minimalist sort of home. And part of me yearns for that

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By *elvet RopeMan
over a year ago

by the big field

One of the terrible things about not having kids is having a clean house...the other things including stuff like a lie in when im not at work, spare money and peace & quiet

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By *a LunaWoman
over a year ago

South Wales


"One of the terrible things about not having kids is having a clean house...the other things including stuff like a lie in when im not at work, spare money and peace & quiet "

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

If I didn’t have kids and a dog then yeah my house would be spotless

It’s driving me insane at the moment because I can only clean when the baby is settled so I’m doing bare minimum and I really want to do a deep clean

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Ha ha, i know who to come to for a flat share should the need arise, you could come home to me making bait that's a regular got my tackle strewn about the place probably just wearing my underpants and a flowing bathrobe that has the potential to crash into any object containing liquid such as my bong, you will think three dogs farted when i spill that.

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over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Just myself and OH live here and both OCD over cleaning and order!! (I blame the military careers, personally!)

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By *iamondCougarWoman
over a year ago

Norfuck! / Lincolnshire

There is only me here so it’s always clean and tidy. I blitz every couple of weeks

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