How clean is your house?

House cleaning has to be one of the most contentious issues in any household. People can be generally divided into five cleaning types:

1. Those with OCD. This is a mental illness and as annoying as it is, thread carefully, they really can’t help it and may need professional help, not smothered giggles or dirty looks to change their cleaning habits.
2. Neat freaks. These are people who are cleaning obsessed and get to every cleaning task before anybody else can, while also complaining they are the only ones to lift a finger in the house.
3. Clean and tidy types. These types are tidy and clean in nature and generally clean up after themselves
4. Wishful cleaners. This is a person who means well, but sometimes doesn’t getting around to cleaning up after themselves when they mean to.
5. Sloths. These are people who just do not care and leave the cleaning up to someone else.

What type of cleaner are you? Participate in our survey.

Rotas and rows

Whatever your cleaning type it’s quite plausible that you’ll end up washing somebody else’s dishes or get given to for forgetting to put out the bins.

There are pros and cons to rotas. In a household where someone is a bit slow to lift a cloth or take out the sweeping brush a rota can embarrass someone into doing a bit of cleaning. But sometimes rotas just do not suit people. Maybe it’s your week for bins but you fancy a bit of hoovering, what do you do then, put it in writing that you wouldn’t mind swapping shifts?

The simple advice is to pull you weight around the house, clean up after yourself and don’t get into the trap of cleaning up after others. We’d love to hear your confessions of your own cleaning misadventures and to hear your stories about the extreme cleaning or non-cleaning habits of those you’ve shared living space with.