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I said 5, average. I mean, I am an OCD neat freak so anything next to me looks messy. he's probably not that bad compared to most, but his messes drive me crazy.

I told my husband yesterday that he has "stuff blindness". There will be a pile of things by the stairs waiting to go up or down, and he'll just walk past it. Over and over. I think he's pretty average but I'm like a 9 so his 5 makes me crazy. (Although I'm more of a tidy freak than a clean freak)

I voted 8 for him. He totally is messy. Lucky for him that I'm OCD I am a neat freak so I just pick up after him willingy! To give him credit, since we had gotten married he had improved so much already!

I voted 4. he's fantastic about not leaving stuff around the house and really picks up after himself, but he will NEVER instigate actual cleaning, like I have literally never seen him pick up the broom or wipe off a counter without being badgered into it. So he's neat, but dirty.

I voted 2. I'm definitely the messier one in the relationship.

DH looks at this from a tolerance stand point. He says that I have a low tolerance for messes, and his tolerance is just a lot higher. Ugh. Once he does reach his threshold, he goes into super cleaning mode.

DH is pretty messy so I voted 8. You should see his car! Eek! However, when it comes to cleaning up, he's one mean cleaner. He does a better job than I do! It's impressive.

He is blind to messes and they just don't bother him. Drives me crazy. He'll clean up when I ask him to but never initiates.

We're both messy

My Dh is a 7 or 8. He piles stuff up and keeps clutter around and it drives me insane!! I cannot keep our house tidy between two kids and him so I just give up. It's a huge source of anxiety for me

He doesn't pick up after himself, he will clean when I ask him but it's always with prompting. dishes always on counter or in sink, bread untied on counter, knife from butter on counter, uses ketchup leaves it out instead of putting it back, never shuts his dresser drawer. little things that drive me nuts.

I voted 7, but my husband is both a 2 and a 10 at the same time! There are some things he is absolutely fastidious about, and other things that he could go years and never clean. Examples: He is absolutely fastidious about floors and toilet bowls being clean, and will full on mop/clean weekly or sometimes daily. BUT, he will never ever notice a toilet seat mess, or a countertop or sink mess. I cannot fathom how his brain works on this: the kitchen floors will be spotless but there are piles of dishes with moldy food on them in the sink. The toilet bowl is sparkly clean, but the bottom of the toilet seat is a spattered mess.

UGH.

I voted 3. He is constantly picking up and keeps things organized. He just doesn't do deep cleaning.

DH is a solid 7 and he knows it. He doesn't mind clutter at all so things pile up.

A 3- we are both super tidy people.

I consider DH extremely messy, but I'm also a neat freak. What I consider messy, no one else does. In my book, he's a 10, but I think others would probably say around a 5.

He's a 2 - pretty good about cleaning up after himself, although he can be a bit lazy when he's tired (eg leaves his dinner dishes on the counter instead of putting them in the dishwasher). In general though, he loves a clean house and is very good about doing his fair share to keep it that way.

I went for other because he's messier than me and tidier than me at the same time.... I like things to look pristine, so I'm always picking things up and ramming them in cupboards. As long as I can shut the door, I dont care where or how they are stuffed in. My husband likes things to be functional, so he frequently leaves things within easy reach and gets so mad with me for "playing cupboard jenga" as he calls it. He is forever getting hit on the head by tumbling tupperware! I get mad at him for dropping his dirty clothes on the floor, but he gets equally mad at me for stuffing laundry into the basket, where he cant see it needs doing and thus runs out of underpants (he does almost all the laundry - if I can fit it in the basket, I wont bother). He likes to leave paperwork lying about until such a time as he gets round to sorting and filing it, wheras I stuff everything in random drawers and then nobody can find anything. So while I would say he is messy, he would certainly say its me who is messier!

DH and I are both between 5-7. If there's a clean surface, we always find a way to clutter it up. I do clean once per week (with a little pickup through the week), which helps. We're both super sentimental too, which means we get rid of nothing.