Barbara Mertz Quotes

There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.

My house is very clean apart from a very small part of it that looks as if we've been burgled, which is my office.

I'm kind of domestic, untidily so.

I warn you, I'm a terrible housekeeper.

I hate mess. I have the worst OCD so I'm not a hoarder of clothes.

I could be a housewife... I guess I've vacuumed a couple of times.

I'm not a clean freak. My house is a mess.

I'm super organized, but a horrible house cleaner.

I do most of the cooking. I'm kind of domestic, untidily so.

I always clean before the cleaning lady comes. If not, when I come home, I can't find anything. Cleaning ladies are always hiding things you leave out.

I am not exactly Mrs. Good Housekeeping, although I love to cook, bake, even iron, but only because it's not mandatory.

I have a neat and tidy bed when I reach home but a cluttered one by the time I leave.

I hate a mess.

I don't like to see mess.

Don't get me wrong, I think it's important to keep things clean. It's just the neatness I struggle with.

I just cannot stand an unmade bed.

Clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.

My wife would probably say I'm the messiest person in the history of husbands.

Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see where the separation between the too comes in. At least if you must put books on one side and life on the other, each is a poor and bloodless thing; but my theory is that they mix indistinguishable.

Perfectionism means that you try not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.

My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.

Excuse the mess but we live here.

I really have to force myself to tidy up around the house.

I'm a little untidy, and my favorite color is gray, and I'm always scurrying around in a panic.

Men and women have different ideas of what constitutes tidiness. I tend to think it's about things being clean, but my mum and girlfriend are more about how things look.