Yesterday, I showed you my house, prepared for Pseu’s visit:
Below is my house on Monday morning (and every morning) before the great clean up that takes a huge chunk of my day; at least six minutes. What a waste of blogging time.
If a cushion falls in the front room, does anyone care?
The house often asks me, If you clean me, do I not get messy all over again? And I have to answer, Yes.
I wouldn’t say we look like this every single day, because we don’t. We only almost always look like this every single day. The distinction is important.
Especially when I’m arguing with the Hub.
In everyday life, no one can hear you clean.
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The Laughing Housewife 
Housework is a never-ending story. Monday is my worst day for losing out on blogging time. 🙂
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Rubbish, isn’t it?
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Brilliant. No-one notices but the clearer upper anyway, so why bother!
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Because mess irritates me. It’s my worst habit. 😦
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If I am having company in 3 weeks, why clean now? I’ll wait until the time gets closer.
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Excellent logic!
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what an outstanding photo of your packet of Maltesers….
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I think so 😀
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There’s a poem in that last line
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I think that might be where I stole it 😉
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Having already established my own “un-Martha-ness,” I don’t feel I need describe to you the regular state of affairs as far as housework goes at my home. Certainly the whole idea of trying to make a place that is lived-in appear NOT to be lived-in is quite ridiculous. I do it when guests are coming-that’s it. Oh, and double for parents.
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Because they NEVER judge us 😉
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Exactly my thinking.
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If a cushion falls in the front room, does anyone care?
Yes. Jesus and sparrows and all that.
Everything is eternally significant. Even cyclical tidying.
*faints from own profundity*
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*Gazes in awe*
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My sentiments exactly.
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So you have a few odds and edns laying around. So what. Lay around the world lays with you. Clean and you clean alone.
I like your floors. The dogs have ruined mine. Dianne
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It’s a rug, covering the dirty marks.
From the dogs 🙂
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very nice room!!!! and i saw the package of maltese!!! lol
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Hehe 🙂
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We host various book and Bible studies on a regular basis – it’s about the only thing that could force me to clean on a regular basis. I like that phrase – in real life no one can hear you clean – that captures it well.
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I do a quick once-over every day; then clean thoroughly for visitors. It’s a good balance 🙂
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You are my kind of pal, Tilly! I so agree with you. What is more important? Blogging time, or keeping a spotless house? Well, some would say I had that attitude long before I started blogging, but now at least others know what I’m doing with my time! I love ordinary days! I’m grateful for each one! 🙂
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Me too 🙂
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Your two pictures made me think of the game in magazines that ask you to find all the different things from the pictures. Your house isn’t messy, it is lived in and enjoyed. I’m sure that your house would agree with me lol. I love the chair railing and the wall covering underneath it, I love stripes.
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We decorated it this way 11 years ago and we like it so much, all I’ve done is give the walls a fresh coat of paint.
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excellent taste.
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Hehe I love the photos! They’re very fit for this week’s photo challenge. What’s more of everyday life than the sofa and living room!
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Exactly!
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But I love running around the house cleaning it all up 5 minutes before I have friends over. Makes life that much more exciting now doesn’t it? Psst: I spy a Maltesers pack! 🙂
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You do!
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Quentin Crisp was a great advocate of not cleaning, he said that – after 4 years – the dust never really gets any worse. Eat Maltesers instead.
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I wouldn’t mind cleaning if it all stayed clean. Windows are the worst.
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If it’s any consolation I tell myself “A clean house is a sign of a wasted life.” 😀 Sharon
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That is a great consolation 🙂
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Yes, I noticed the Maltesers there on the side, and thought Tilly’s teasing us today… folk can hear me clean. I sing. I don’t sing very well, and people can REALLY hear that!
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😀
You are right; I was teasing. I placed them there on purpose 🙂
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Who was it said keep half a dozen Get Well cards sitting about and if callers arrive when the place is untidy, they will think it is because you are unwell! 😉
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I don’t know; but whoever it was is a genius!
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Is that a copy of the Sun I see there? Sinner!!! 🙂
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The Hub likes The Sun on Sunday for the sport…
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Typical! Blame it on a man! 😀
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Love this. Resembles my house 🙂
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Kindred spirits!
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Housework is the most stupid thing in the world – you wash a dish & then someone wants to use it & you have to clean it again! Same with carpet, cooking, laundry, etc. You have to keep doing the same things over & over. Such a waste of blogging time!
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my fridge magnet rules my life lol ‘dull women have immaculate houses’
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I like to think I’m not a dull woman 🙂
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Now YOU can have a Malteser 🙂
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I see the maltesers so it must be Tilly’s! Lovely shots. 🙂
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