Ain't Nobody Here Posted May 17, 2008 Share Posted May 17, 2008 If my mother came to stay, I'd move out . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Webmuppet Posted May 17, 2008 Share Posted May 17, 2008 My MIL has never visited us up here - she doesn't like me anyway. My Mother is a wipe a finger along the mantlepiece type but she doesn't visit too often and has come to realise that I just don't have time to have a show house ( not with a 7 year old and a OH who leaves stuff laying around) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olly Posted May 17, 2008 Share Posted May 17, 2008 This thread has made me smile ... my mum was not a tidy person, she hated cleaning and believed her time was better spent on other things. It would be fair to describe the house where I grew up as 'chaotic'. If we got home from school and she'd had a tidy up, the immediate question was 'Who's coming?' My former MIL, on the other hand, verged on the obsessive - not a speck of dust anywhere, and bleach used on everything. Bless her though, she was lovely to me and never once commented on my housekeeping, although I must have been a sad disappointment as a DIL! I try and steer a course somewhere between these two extremes. 'Lived-in' is about right, feels fine to me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura & CTB Posted May 17, 2008 Author Share Posted May 17, 2008 If my mother came to stay, I'd move out . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lisaroo2 Posted May 17, 2008 Share Posted May 17, 2008 Shortly after we moved in to our house (3 months ago) I found a sign that said 'you can touch the dust but please don't write your name in it!' It hangs on the wall as a forewarning to people as they come in through the front door! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purple hen Posted May 17, 2008 Share Posted May 17, 2008 I've got a sign hanging up that says "An immaculate house is a sign of a wasted life". Val Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 17, 2008 Share Posted May 17, 2008 I don't fuss about cleaning and tidying when Mum comes to visit. Mind you since we lost the key to the door between our houses she comes in about 100 times a day! She NEVER even uses her own front door! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura & CTB Posted May 17, 2008 Author Share Posted May 17, 2008 I've got a sign hanging up that says "An immaculate house is a sign of a wasted life". Val I want one of those Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 17, 2008 Share Posted May 17, 2008 Someone on here once said "No-one ever lay on their deathbed wishing they'd done more cleaning" I've never forgotten it and remind myself of it frequently! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted May 18, 2008 Share Posted May 18, 2008 That's a good one Ginette! - I'll try to remember it I bought a sign which says "My house was clean last week - sorry you missed it!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One Man Banned Posted May 18, 2008 Share Posted May 18, 2008 I'm liking the idea of signs to put up at the front door as people arrive. I never bother doing a mega clean if my mum is coming (about once a year normally) and her house is always filthy anyway - but she's happy I guess We try to keep it relatively tidy, the cleaner keeps on top of the everyday and we go through the rooms now and again - Joe's been washing the walls and skirting off all the downstairs rooms, but they do look better for it. When I lived at my parents, the only carpet that could be seen was the bit where the door opened, I lived in a right mess, but like a nice tidy house these days - why is that I think it was because my brother used to nick anything that wasn't nailed down, and if it was tidy I wouldn't realise what I wanted was missing until I went to get it, whereas when everything is a mess I could tell if he'd been in my room A xx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 18, 2008 Share Posted May 18, 2008 I think it's because we have more pride in our own homes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
