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I've done it before when I was pretty sick too, but it drives me crazy so I usually bug DH to help out if I can't for whatever reason.

Yep... I have no problem, but it's actually a point of contention with me and DH. I'm a terrible housekeeper, and he has expectations of a house kept like his mother. I say if he sees something that needs to be done, just do it. And I'm definitely working on my habits.

I hate to do it, but yes it happens quite often. Especially right now with pregnancy fatigue/sickness. When I do clean up, i swear, I turn around for 3 seconds and its like a tornado goes through. Between a husband and a child, it gets disasterous.

Yes and no. We always do the dishes and clean up the kitchen but the rest of the house is a mess. I can't keep the clutter at bay! I clean it all up and within a day there is more clutter and stuff piling up. Then after a few weeks, I go around collecting things and putting it away only for it to get messy again in a few days. I need to work on organizing.

I can but I hate it and it makes me feel bad.

@mediagirl: I can... DH, not to so much. Before having a kid, I could never let the house go. But after having her, I'm so exhausted by the time I get home that I would rather sleep than clean. Plus, the "W tornado" comes around right after I clean anyway, so what's the point? lol

@BabyBoecksMom: ha! This is us. I've given up on tidying throughout the day. It's pointless! So I usually tidy up after she goes to bed. I know it's stressful for him to come home to a untidy home so I try to blitz that in between cooking dinner.
He usually tidies up in the mornings.

Just Monday he spent ALL day cleaning the house from top to bottom. It really needed it!

All. The. Time. I like it when it's clean and all, but I'm starting to think I'm a slob. I just don't have the energy or desire to clean all the time... and we don't even have a LO yet! I usually let things go a few days until it bothers me too much and I clean up. It's not *that* bad, I'd only be a little embarrassed if someone stopped by unannounced. =) But with 30 minutes notice, it could probably be spotless.

Yep! It drives me crazy but I just don't have the energy some days.

Yes. I then get irritated and go on a massive cleaning spree, but then get complacent and let it build back up. My parent's house is cluttered, so it's what I'm used to. My husband came from a house that was cleaned pretty much every day, so while he likes a clean house, he doesn't usually do anything about it (his mom cleaned it every day).

However, I cannot stand a dirty bathroom.

My house is usually somewhere between "going" and "gone." it's not worth it for me to keep things tidy because DH just blows through and creates a mess right away -- so I don't usually waste my time. I'm not a neat freak so I can tolerate some level of mess, and it generally reaches a sort of homeostasis where it's messy but doesn't really get worse. I try to make sure nothing is truly dirty but otherwise I've kind of given up caring on a day-to-day basis.

I feel like my house is never tidy.