somewhere in between
My mom is the kind of “a clean house means love” person. Everyone else in the family? Chores are a necessary evil and we have a high tolerance for a bit of dust, crumbs, or clutter. Dog hair? Oh, yeah, someone should clean that up…at some point…tomorrow. We’re not DIRTY (no mold, rotting food, or nasty shower), just lazy.
As a working student, I’m not home a lot of hours in a day, but it adds up across the week. My mess is self contained to my room and I’ll realize my desk is covered in empty soda cana to the point of unusable, time to clean!
My beautiful yellow lab (white, really) used to shed so bad. To me, having that hair everywhere DID seem “dirty.” I was always battling it.
Two days after we had to put her down at age 13.5, DH came home to find me sweeping the floor, sobbing. He said, “You’re still crying?” I replied, “I feel like I’m erasing her.” I look at pet hair a little differently now.
That makes me so sad, Nrdsb4 
This thread makes me feel guilty. When I get home from this trip, I’m going to clean my house, and invite people over.
We don’t wear shoes in the house either, though I don’t get upset if a guest does it.
@Nrdsb4 - that was such a sweet (but heart wrenching) story about your lab. :’)
It reminded me a little of how much it used to drive me nuts the way my oldest used towels ONCE and then it was ‘dirty’.
Well, now that he has flown the nest I miss washing his towels.
Sigh.
@doschicos, that is one of my favorite things about the e/o week housecleaner. It takes me about an hour, sometimes two, the night before to declutter but its so worth it. Without her coming (and that will be soon lol) the clutter takes over and then cleaning is an all-day affair. By the time I get de-cluttered hours into it, I don’t want to clean.
Before I had a cleaning service, I did deep cleaning before company. Got to the point I didn’t want to invite people over lol, now I always have company the night of cleaning. People are getting used to hanging with us e/o Friday night. Not sure where we’ll go now 
When we moved out of our house on Monday - completely, everything removed from the house (finally), I was astounded at the amount of dust that was sitting underneath spots where there was furniture.
We have regular cleaning help and certain spots probably hadn’t been cleaned in years. That annoyed me a little bit.
H and I were thinking maybe we should pick one room every few months and remove all the furniture, thoroughly clean, and then put it all back.
I’m super allergic to dust so that might motivate me.
Part of being neat to me is having drawers (reasonably) organized. Not Mari Kondo level of perfection, but some structure / order to them.
@SouthFloridaMom9 - that’s why if I get new furniture I make sure it’s high enough to vacuum under, especially a bed frame.
@greenwitch - I think that’s what we’re going to do in our new house. We sold most of our furniture to go more minimalist (we had big heavy furniture).
I’m also looking for stuff that is easier to move.
I became allergic to furniture after Mr. and I had to move our entire house - just the two of us, no help. 
Our current house has minimalist, functional furniture only, no decorative pieces. Leather couches, because cats do not like to sit on them, so no constant battles with pet hair on sofas. Keeping a few cat cozies around eliminates a lot of cat hair on carpets, too.
@greenwitch, that’s what I’d like to do, too. Dh wants a house that can be hosed down, then dried with fans and a whole house dehumidifier. He also wants the George Jetson automated bed that slides him onto a conveyor belt into a car wash style shower. I’m afraid he’s in for a lifetime of disappointment.
Speaking of George Jetson - I always wanted a car that you could fold and unfold to go from a minivan to a little Spitfire. Where is that???
And talking about the Jetsons, my great aunt just died a few days ago. She was the voice of Judy Jetson, and even in her seventies, she sounded like a teenager. Too late for me to ask her about that car!
@busdriver11: I just read her obituary in the New York Times!
That’s coincidental, VeryHappy! She was such a positive, perky person. Her husband was a very interesting person, too. He was a playwright named Robert E Lee, and co-wrote Auntie Mame, and Inherit the Wind with his partner. I finally saw Inherit the Wind with my son (homework assignment), and really liked it. Now our Hollywood family is all gone.
@dstark thanks for starting this thread in the midst of all the sad topics. I’m organized and like to be neat but I can sleep soundly with a sink full of dishes. Because of my divorce and my move to another state I only have things that I want. Nothing too much extra. I am enjoying the simplicity. I will say that I hate, hate to clean. My gift to myself will always be a weekly housekeeper to do all the things I don’t want to.
@rom828, thanks. I had written a similar post to the first post in this thread in another thread, It was fallenchemists’ idea to start a different thread using the same theme as the post I wrote earlier. So @fallenchemist shares in the credit.
I am glad you like the thread. I like it too.
@busdriver11, cool stories about your relatives. I like Inherit the Wind and the Jetsons.
In my first post, I mentioned I had two cluttered desks and after reading what @Pizzagirl wrote in another thread, I decided to clean up one desk and see if my wife noticed. So, I cleaned up the desk and my wife didn’t say anything. So I brought up the fact I cleaned the desk to my wife.
My wife said she did notice, the desk looks great and she expected me to clean up the desk.
After that raving positive comment, I am being sarcastic, now I am not sure I am going to clean up the second desk or not.