Survey says...(updated)
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raganiWell, I only got a couple of people responding to the lj version of my survey, so I decided to poll a bunch of other friends. Here are the results (I think I have them all now):
1 = neat freak (Martha Steward)..........10 = total slob
They rated me (averaged for calculating)/selves
How long they have known me
Gender/age range
Have ever lived with me
Comments
2.5 2 or 3/I would guess 7 to 9
12+ years, off and on
Male/early 20s
Has lived with me many years ago with several others.
Well, I gotta say, your house has always been freakishly neat in comparison to mine... But that doesn't say much. Uhm... I'd put you at a 2 or 3... You're like the new age Martha Stewart? *grins* I mean that as a compliment. You're not nearly as creepy as she is.
I dunno... You like clean environs without liking cleaning too much, I guess.
2.5/7-8
5+ years
Female/late 20s
Has lived with me with several others briefly.
Paraphrasing You want to keep your home at a 2 or 3, even if you don't always get to. I have never been very neat, but having kids makes it much more difficult to maintain.
3/I would guess 5 to 6
6+ years, off and on
Female/early 30s
No, but dated a roommate of mine a while ago.
Your stuff matches freakily well.
3/7 to 10
Almost 3 years
Male/30
No, but hung around a lot when both out of work a couple of years ago.
You're neat, but you're not obsessed to an unhealthy degree.
3.75/4 (but feels others he knows might rate him a 2)
Over 14 years
Male/late 30s
No, but has helped me move several times.
You like to have things picked up, and your bathroom has been clean every time I've been over (Kudos!), BUT (!!!) you will have stuff pilled in (Neat) stacks around the house, and you will let dusting and vacuuming go for a little while.
I like stuff picked up and put away, no dishes in the sink and the like, but I can let the scrubbing and vacuuming go for a month. This is the standard mode, BUT every now and again when under stress I "Twitch" and have to clean up the house as a productive form of procrastination about projects I don't want to do.
Side Note:
[Your partner] is a Slob. Rates about a 7+. [My partner] falls into the same category and it is one of only a couple of "conflicts" in our relationship. As a suggestion I offer you our compromise: The communal areas are almost always picked up and [she] cleans up her own mess most of the time. Any time I clean up her stuff I just put it on her side of the bed. [Her] personal spaces can be as messy as she wants (provided I can't smell them). This means that her side of the bedroom (in particular the floor off her side of the bed) is a complete mess, as are her desk and side of the study, and I NEVER say anything about her needing to clean them up. This allows me to have a picked up house, and [allows her] to have the mess space she needs, and that I'm not "Harping" on her all the time to clean up her stuff.
4/8
8+ years
Female/early 30s
Has spent a lot of time together, but never lived together.
Paraphrasing You keep your home cleaner than I keep mine, but are not uptight about it.
4/2
2+ years
Female/mid 30s
Has visited during parties and after a move.
I consider you to be a bit like [my partner]. You're neat, but you don't mind clutter (as much as me ;), just dirt. You've also got an admiration and aspiration towards organization and having everything just so (which I respect). Basically a place for everything, but with a large amount of stuff that ends up being a lot of places to organize or in some cases shoehorn the stuff into, limiting the overall achievable level of
organization.
4.25/5-7
3 years
Female/mid 20s
Has helped me move (pack & unpack).
Well... I think my range is rather larger than average...
Where 10 is my Mom's house currently or worse, and 1 is Martha Stewart, I'd put your current place (last I saw it) somewhere in the 4-5ish range, and your preference somewhere more like 3.
My place currently is in the 4ish range, I think, and we usually keep it at maybe a 5, except the bedroom, which is somewhat worse.
I grew up in something like 6-7.
I, myself, default to a 7 bedroom but like the rest of the house more at 5 or better.
4.5/5 or 6
Over 3 years
Male/late 20s
Roommate recently.
4.5 4 or 5/5 or 6
Over 3 years
Female/late 30s
No, but dated a roommate of mine.
I've never seen food left out in your kitchen or dirty dishes or laundry on display, but (like me) you have a lot of stuff and it's damn near impossible to keep it all organized all the time.
4.75/5 closer to neat nick then slob
20 years
Female/early 30s
Lived with her & her mother, many years ago for a summer.
I would say from experience that although sometimes cluttered you are a relatively normal person when it comes to cleaning.
For me I would place my self about the same. I, when left to my own devices (like when I am not living with someone) tend to be neater then when I am with someone else as I cannot control them which makes me moderately insane. I tend to spaz out on someone if the situation gets too messy.
5/6 to 8+
Over 3 years
Male/late 30s
No.
Ok. There's clutter and there's dirty.
I'm pretty high on the clutter scale - 8+
Clean? Well I try. Probably 6
You:
clutter 6
Neat 4
Pretty normal.
5/2.3
Almost 20 years
Male/mid 30s
That's hard to say. In high school, you lived with your mother and brother, so it really isn't an accurate reflection.
Now, you live with [a partner and roommate], and were moving last time I saw your place.
So again, it's really hard to be accurate.
Me: I'm bad, but I could be worse.
5/5
6 years
Female/late 30s
Works with me, has helped me move at least twice.
I think you are very clean which is important to me (you don't leave dirty dishes in the sink and you vacuum and clean regularly). But you don't seem to mind clutter (which I can't handle myself). However, I am not particularly high on the neat nick side because I don't even notice dust. So I think you and I are about the same. Frankly being neat is not that important to me.
5/5
2 years
Female/late 30s
Works with me, has helped me move recently.
I have clutter in certain areas (and lots in my workshop space right now since I haven't set about organizing it yet) but I'm really good about neatening up quickly and I am very thorough when I clean. But I wait to see that things are dirty before I start cleaning....
6/5 to 3
2 years
Female/early 30s
Has helped me unpack.
Since I have only seen you living with [your partner], I think my answer is skewed. I don't know how I could rate you. Generally speaking I think you have way too much stuff (and thus have been very proud of you that you have been getting rid of stuff:)). I think your organization skills could be put to better use, but that might just be [living with your partner]. All I can really say is that I haven't seen your house with everything in it's place, so that makes me put you towards the messy side of the scale.
I tend to be someone who oscillates between totally obsessed with everything in my space having a home, and it all being where it goes (crazy clean), and not having enough time or energy to care whether it is clean at all. Somehow I think this makes me balanced;) My preference is for everything to be totally and amazingly clean, organized and uncluttered in my space (all the time), but in all actuality it usually ends up looking like [your partner's] workspace for near to 50% of the time. *sigh* So, who am I to judge?
So the updated average for me is: 3.9
More comments welcome. I have updated the post with the latest input from those who I polled by email.
1 = neat freak (Martha Steward)..........10 = total slob
They rated me (averaged for calculating)/selves
How long they have known me
Gender/age range
Have ever lived with me
Comments
2.5 2 or 3/I would guess 7 to 9
12+ years, off and on
Male/early 20s
Has lived with me many years ago with several others.
Well, I gotta say, your house has always been freakishly neat in comparison to mine... But that doesn't say much. Uhm... I'd put you at a 2 or 3... You're like the new age Martha Stewart? *grins* I mean that as a compliment. You're not nearly as creepy as she is.
I dunno... You like clean environs without liking cleaning too much, I guess.
2.5/7-8
5+ years
Female/late 20s
Has lived with me with several others briefly.
Paraphrasing You want to keep your home at a 2 or 3, even if you don't always get to. I have never been very neat, but having kids makes it much more difficult to maintain.
3/I would guess 5 to 6
6+ years, off and on
Female/early 30s
No, but dated a roommate of mine a while ago.
Your stuff matches freakily well.
3/7 to 10
Almost 3 years
Male/30
No, but hung around a lot when both out of work a couple of years ago.
You're neat, but you're not obsessed to an unhealthy degree.
3.75/4 (but feels others he knows might rate him a 2)
Over 14 years
Male/late 30s
No, but has helped me move several times.
You like to have things picked up, and your bathroom has been clean every time I've been over (Kudos!), BUT (!!!) you will have stuff pilled in (Neat) stacks around the house, and you will let dusting and vacuuming go for a little while.
I like stuff picked up and put away, no dishes in the sink and the like, but I can let the scrubbing and vacuuming go for a month. This is the standard mode, BUT every now and again when under stress I "Twitch" and have to clean up the house as a productive form of procrastination about projects I don't want to do.
Side Note:
[Your partner] is a Slob. Rates about a 7+. [My partner] falls into the same category and it is one of only a couple of "conflicts" in our relationship. As a suggestion I offer you our compromise: The communal areas are almost always picked up and [she] cleans up her own mess most of the time. Any time I clean up her stuff I just put it on her side of the bed. [Her] personal spaces can be as messy as she wants (provided I can't smell them). This means that her side of the bedroom (in particular the floor off her side of the bed) is a complete mess, as are her desk and side of the study, and I NEVER say anything about her needing to clean them up. This allows me to have a picked up house, and [allows her] to have the mess space she needs, and that I'm not "Harping" on her all the time to clean up her stuff.
4/8
8+ years
Female/early 30s
Has spent a lot of time together, but never lived together.
Paraphrasing You keep your home cleaner than I keep mine, but are not uptight about it.
4/2
2+ years
Female/mid 30s
Has visited during parties and after a move.
I consider you to be a bit like [my partner]. You're neat, but you don't mind clutter (as much as me ;), just dirt. You've also got an admiration and aspiration towards organization and having everything just so (which I respect). Basically a place for everything, but with a large amount of stuff that ends up being a lot of places to organize or in some cases shoehorn the stuff into, limiting the overall achievable level of
organization.
4.25/5-7
3 years
Female/mid 20s
Has helped me move (pack & unpack).
Well... I think my range is rather larger than average...
Where 10 is my Mom's house currently or worse, and 1 is Martha Stewart, I'd put your current place (last I saw it) somewhere in the 4-5ish range, and your preference somewhere more like 3.
My place currently is in the 4ish range, I think, and we usually keep it at maybe a 5, except the bedroom, which is somewhat worse.
I grew up in something like 6-7.
I, myself, default to a 7 bedroom but like the rest of the house more at 5 or better.
4.5/5 or 6
Over 3 years
Male/late 20s
Roommate recently.
4.5 4 or 5/5 or 6
Over 3 years
Female/late 30s
No, but dated a roommate of mine.
I've never seen food left out in your kitchen or dirty dishes or laundry on display, but (like me) you have a lot of stuff and it's damn near impossible to keep it all organized all the time.
4.75/5 closer to neat nick then slob
20 years
Female/early 30s
Lived with her & her mother, many years ago for a summer.
I would say from experience that although sometimes cluttered you are a relatively normal person when it comes to cleaning.
For me I would place my self about the same. I, when left to my own devices (like when I am not living with someone) tend to be neater then when I am with someone else as I cannot control them which makes me moderately insane. I tend to spaz out on someone if the situation gets too messy.
5/6 to 8+
Over 3 years
Male/late 30s
No.
Ok. There's clutter and there's dirty.
I'm pretty high on the clutter scale - 8+
Clean? Well I try. Probably 6
You:
clutter 6
Neat 4
Pretty normal.
5/2.3
Almost 20 years
Male/mid 30s
That's hard to say. In high school, you lived with your mother and brother, so it really isn't an accurate reflection.
Now, you live with [a partner and roommate], and were moving last time I saw your place.
So again, it's really hard to be accurate.
Me: I'm bad, but I could be worse.
5/5
6 years
Female/late 30s
Works with me, has helped me move at least twice.
I think you are very clean which is important to me (you don't leave dirty dishes in the sink and you vacuum and clean regularly). But you don't seem to mind clutter (which I can't handle myself). However, I am not particularly high on the neat nick side because I don't even notice dust. So I think you and I are about the same. Frankly being neat is not that important to me.
5/5
2 years
Female/late 30s
Works with me, has helped me move recently.
I have clutter in certain areas (and lots in my workshop space right now since I haven't set about organizing it yet) but I'm really good about neatening up quickly and I am very thorough when I clean. But I wait to see that things are dirty before I start cleaning....
6/5 to 3
2 years
Female/early 30s
Has helped me unpack.
Since I have only seen you living with [your partner], I think my answer is skewed. I don't know how I could rate you. Generally speaking I think you have way too much stuff (and thus have been very proud of you that you have been getting rid of stuff:)). I think your organization skills could be put to better use, but that might just be [living with your partner]. All I can really say is that I haven't seen your house with everything in it's place, so that makes me put you towards the messy side of the scale.
I tend to be someone who oscillates between totally obsessed with everything in my space having a home, and it all being where it goes (crazy clean), and not having enough time or energy to care whether it is clean at all. Somehow I think this makes me balanced;) My preference is for everything to be totally and amazingly clean, organized and uncluttered in my space (all the time), but in all actuality it usually ends up looking like [your partner's] workspace for near to 50% of the time. *sigh* So, who am I to judge?
So the updated average for me is: 3.9
More comments welcome. I have updated the post with the latest input from those who I polled by email.
