I think both my husband and me are messy at times. He is more socks everywhere, hardly ever puts anything back into a drawer. He takes a shower and when he's done it looks like something blew up in there. When he cooks the kitchen looks like it blew up. He shaves and the razor, his comb and the shaving cream are all scattered in the bathroom. He doesn't close the drawers al the way when he takes something out of them. He leaves his socks and his pants and his shirt scattered throughout the house.
Mine is simply paper............but it's funny because his desk in organized mine is a disaster. I've started avoiding the office to not deal with it. I have another pile in the foyer. I have a chair in the bedroom that always has clothes on it but they're folded not thrown about.

I have to admit that I am not naturally neat, but I try to put systems in place to make it more difficult for me to be messy. For example, if there is an empty surface in the master bedroom (like a chair or large nightstand), I know I will end up putting clothes on it. So I don't have surfaces like that in the bedroom - which means my only options are to put dirty clothes in hamper and clean ones in closet or drawers.

Unfortunately, my husband is also not neat, and my "tricks" don't work with him. He brought a wooden TV tray into the bedroom and put it on his side of the bed, supposedly to use as a bedside table until we find and buy new bedroom furniture. In reality, he doesn't use it as a bedside table - he just piles clothes on it.

This goes on everywhere in the house. I got a portable file box, folders, and a label maker because I was tired of mail and other paperwork piling up on the dining room. I spent an entire weekend setting it up. It's very simple - open mail. If nothing needs to be done with it, file it. If bill that needs to be paid, put in unpaid bin. He has never used it, and I end up having to go thru paper stacks myself.

It's frustrating. Despite not being naturally neat, I find messiness at home stressful, and so I try to keep it under control - but it's hard being the only one who seems to care.

Im totally the messy one! I would have no houzz envy if i was neater:(

All the culprits in my house are messy apart from old nagging me, I've even on purpose left a sock in the middle of the living room, nobody picked it up, it was there for 2 days till I couldn't take it no more, I nagged the 2 kids who are adults and my hubby but to no avail, they roll their eyes and say ok mum no worries, can't wait for them to move out, I will have a big party lol.

My teenager, 2 dogs, and musician husband are vying for the honor of "Messiest." I'm the tidy one :)

me!! i start on something then wander to something else as i get bored.

I think my hubby and I are about the same, just in different ways. For the most part we are reasonably tidy most of the time.

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hubby is messier, he has a serious issue with papers. He has papers in the dining room, kitchen drawer, bedroom, even in the garage!

Things are so out of hand at my house, I have hired a professional organizer. After three years of school, breaking my shoulder a month after graduating, and working, as a widow of eight years with two sons in college, I am a bit overwhelmed. $80 for two hour blocks of professional attention to controlling my household is a deal. I think it will get me reset to where I can once again manage my own home.

I have to say we (husband and myself) both are at certain times. He's the type that can leave items all over, paper, empty jam jar, paper plate and I will go around picking up and discarding. But the man will vacuums everyday, does the marketing and many other things. Me, my craft room is always a mess, before I start a project everything willl be in place and when the project is done, the room is a mess again. We do have a rule, if something is not used within a certain time frame, it is donated or thrown away. This rule helps alot.

Times are a changin'! When we were first married I was the neat one and my husband was sort of neat. Then our daughter came and was neat except in her room. As long as it didn't creep out into our space I didn't care as she lived in her room not us. Now into retirement I am a little more messy and my husband is a little neater. However we need to define neat.....leaving clothes around, not wiping up bread crumbs, leaving papers all over, depending on what it is determines who is the messy one. At this stage I would like to blame it on Mollie our little chihuahua because her toys are found everywhere but we just don't seem to mind. Funny because I never let our daughter leave her toys all over.....LOL

Me. "Messy" is a really poor word, as I never finish what I've started, and leave everything all over for weeks. And I always start a lot of projects. The real mess is in my head first of all...

Kids, Kids, Kids

I realized years ago- and I suspect this is a marriage saver- that the answer is each of us. I see what my husband leaves behind and vice versa. We just don't see our own crap in the same way as others'

I agree. Both of us. My husband does so many nice things for me, it is a pleasure to deal with his messes, like tissues on the vanity he never puts in the wastebasket, socks on the closet floor; papers left on the breakfast table, rinsing dishes left in the sink and such.

i voted other..we both are messy BUT we both clean. but my husband is more cluttered! i dont like anything on the counters in the kitchen.unless it is a work station. to a point im the neat freak. Too much clutter gets greasy,dusty, and cobwebs. and that is just in a 2 day stretch.

Granddaughter likes to throw everything around. She is only 4 so hopefully will stop this annoying game.

we are equally messy, me in my craft space and he with books/papers.

I'm the messy one...but it's because I'm just SO tired a the time :( I don't have the energy!!

Didn't even have to think about this one when I saw the title. Definitely my husband. He tells me that I don't have to clean it. I say if I don't do it how do you think it'll get cleaned. I'm mostly at my mother's house because of recent illness. I get tired of coming home and not being able to enjoy the house - there's no one there but him. 3 bathrooms and not one clean enough to invite someone in to use it. Kitchen messy, family room messy, etc.Can you feel my frustration through this post?Rather than go insane I decided just two weeks ago that I am going to pay someone twice a month. In the words of Sweet Brown, "ain't nobody got time for that." -:)

I am the messy one. I am like a old female pigpen. How come that was not an option?

My husband AND my son are the slobs in this house. I'm outnumbered.

No one in my three adult household cares but me, and I no longer have the strength or energy to do much about it. My favorite fantasy is living in a neatly organized home where I would never be embarrassed if someone just happened to be in the area and dropped by to have a visit. I'd have some lovely homemade cookies and we would enjoy them with a fresh cup of coffee or tea.

suzyqisme, my gosh this sounds exactly like me! I have spent hours scrubbing grout just to have someone in the house walk all over it with dirty shoes, or organize and entire closet with baskets and tags of what goes in the basket to have someone toss in something random. I gave up just like you. I think if i did not give up I would go crazy, but it does make me sad sometimes when I want the house to look so perfect and organized and I can not keep up with everyone else thinking otherwise.

how do you define messy? HA! I qualify as A-1 -- more than anyone else.

I'm pretty tidy but ... did anyone see my cellphone?

I voted "Other" because I am messier than my husband. (There really should have been an option called "Self".) I have a bad habit of using something and not putting it away properly.

Well, this is a hard one because right now I feel like a slob and it is stressing me out BUT it is because I had about 1 1/2 weeks to pack up a 2500 SF home, find a rental, and get it all moved. The rental is a 2 bedroom, 2 car garage. In the Master Bedroom is a king size bed, triple dresser, highboy dresser, roll top desk, two easy chairs, large ottoman, 15 good-sized boxes, all my clothes, a hamper, a vanity chair, a walker,a sewing machine, and some other stuff. In my daughter's room -- Hurrican Sandy went through (bad joke) . . . I think . . . and that's a few hours after I cleaned it for her. The living room has as much furniture and the kitchen has more than it can handle. The 2 car garage is full 3/4 of the way up. My new house will be ready in December. But my daughter is going through a "Complete Slob" phase. I will admit, sometimes she gets OCD about cleaning. I said sometimes. Approximately every other blue moon . . . think I'm going to try the black bag concept. It'll be two bags though. One for her stuff and one for her tissues.

Every time mom washed the kitchen floor, never failed...one of us kids spilled something massive on it that night.

I'm definitely not perfect but I'm not a fan of visible clutter, and hubby tends to find open spaces on tables and put his clothes, socks, backpack, keys and etc. on there. Maybe because we don't have an entryway or foyer? Anyway, with laundry, he'd rarely put his clothes away so we made a compromise on the chores and now he does the dishes(which I hate doing), and I fold his laundry and put them away. Solved that issue! :)

Everyone is messey sometime but who do it take the longest to clean up is the question

ME! The stepmom! Trail of destruction left in my wake! What's the cure anyone?

ive watched lots of home staging by HGTV and getting ideas to help me love my house. and not dream for something else..unless i can do it at my house. plus i cant relax or think in a messy house..the worst chore is dishes. and i have a dish washer. and cleaning out the fridge. i rather clean the toilet or windows...lol

You don’t want a picture of the cat sand spread across the bathroom floor - my cats at the beach! Each of my 2 fellas can spend 5 minutes spraying sand, that includes the igloo shaped and high sided box. There’s a new stye that opens at the top. That will be next.

i dont do indoor cats. we have a cat that adopted us. his name is Free Loader. He lived in the barn with the llamas for about 2yrs. then we moved him to the garage. and yes we do feed him. but he still kills mice, and birds and rabbits. i let him in once in a while. for about 10 min. he loves our llamas

The other half! Splashing mirrors with water sigh* and flooding the bathroom floor after a shower!

me xD

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...I don't know the guy's name.... never seen him, just his work.

why isn't there a "Me" vote?!

The messy one in our house? Well, unfortunately, that would be me.

Other: Me! *blush* all it takes is some indecisive getting ready for the night out (most nights) , by the end of the week :S ...we won't even go there!

Definitely my husband. He complains about "clutter" yet won't lift a finger to pick up after himself. My kids are neat freaks but alas there is no hope for my husband.

Husband and I are equally messy, but in different ways.

The pets are the messy ones! With all of the shedding, vacuuming really needs to be done daily at home.

Tis I. I hate to admit it but I have had it. First there was the flood causing me to move everything in the basement anywhere upstairs in my small 1950s story and a half. Next the ceiling started to peel and I ran around trying to plaster around windows and ceiling moving things from one room to another. Then ICK I brought home bedbugs from the high poverty school in which I worked (everything had to be moved outside and thank goodness it was summer with 90 degree weather) because heat is the only thing that kills the eggs. Then I reallized my plastering and painting was for naught because the roof was the problem and had to be replaced. When that was finished all the furniture in the main floor had to be moved up or downstairs so the people could properly paint and plaster. Once put away, I am moving everything again because we are adding to the house and one cannot tear out kitchen cabinets, closets and so forth without putting the things somewhere. Again I find myself wrapping and boxing. I am thinking of putting this away one last time, building a "tiny house" in my backyard, and just leaving the main house "perfect". You know, I have never been with anyone who was not obsessive compulsive. Why they are attracted to someone like me is beyond me. Let's face it being a single working mother who gets up at 5:00 am and works until 5:00 pm is not advantageous to decluttering.

Lovanc, I feel you. If and when I get out I cannot find anything and everything is thrown everywhere no matter how early a start I get. I need messy anonymous.

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