You know you need to clean more often when...

Your children find you wiping off the cabinet and ask you what you are doing.

You?

When you burn extra calories on your way to the bathroom by hopping over stuff.

Something rolled under your bed and you're afraid to get it because you don't know what the hell lives/died under there.

You have to build a path from the door to the window.

The smell from the old food containers overpowers the dirty kitty litter box.

(swear this is not me.  I just thought it was funny)

you're sweeping (shoveling) the kitchen and your son comes in to ask who is coming over?

You call it dust.

I call it patina.

The smell from the fridge is making you faint but you can't get the door closed.

You have to get out the yard broom and snow shovel to clean the toys out of the living room. (Yes, I've done that!)

I open the fridge and the left overs walk to the garbage can by themselves

Original Post by crazydiamondchrysalis:

you're sweeping (shoveling) the kitchen and your son comes in to ask who is coming over?

I turn into such a screaming freak when we're having company, my family is too scared to speak so they help until they can make a break for it.  Good times.

when the patina is covered with fruit flies

When you finally find the floor in your daughter's room and the carpet is so bad you wished you hadn't.

You find yourself wondering how to communicate to the cats that you'd give them treats if only they'd use their tails to do the dusting...

When you finally pick up the laundry from the floor and in addition to holding the exact shape it was in on the floor, you find clothing you forgot you had underneath it.

I am so glad I had that week off.  I found so many clothes that I swear I've never seen before in my life.

The dog hair creates "tumbleweeds" that are easily comparable to those in the wild, wild west

You seriously considered abandoning ship and starting over in a new house.  But then you remember you already did that, and it didn't help.

You say, "wow, that homeless woman's shoping cart is very neatly orgnaized"

You can't remember which pile of laundry is the "clean" pile.

You can't remember if you have hard wood floors or carpet.

You start staying late at work, just so you don't have to go home.

Original Post by crazydiamondchrysalis:

you're sweeping (shoveling) the kitchen and your son comes in to ask who is coming over?

and you have to admit that it is grandma.

Original Post by igloogal:

I open the fridge and the left overs walk to the garbage can by themselves

but there is no room when they get there.

Original Post by susiecue:

You find yourself wondering how to communicate to the cats that you'd give them treats if only they'd use their tails to do the dusting...

and would just go tell them, but you can't find them among the heaps of dust.

Can you all tell I liked this thread a lot :)