only dull women have immaculate houses
something my Mum and I are in complete agreement on 
Me three!
Some people have houses so clean you take off your shoes to protect their carpets. In some people's houses, you keep on your shoes to protect your socks. My house is of the latter type.
I try to vacuum the main routes once a week - they look much the same as they did before vaccing within 48 hours at best.
I do muck out the kitchen when time and energy permit, but that's not every day (by a long shot) and I am more likely to wash something up because I want to use it than because it's just been used.
I have recently managed to clear out "the front room" and do now mostly manage to keep it fairly clean and ready for use by visitors. Most of them, however, still walk through into the main living room and have to be chased out into the front room
The bay window overlooks one of the prettiest views in Cumbria and I've set up my spinning wheel in the bay there, so I can spin when visitors come while they drink their teas and catch up on farm news. Only about 1/3 of the room is so far filled with fibre, fleeces (I guess these make the room smell of sheep; I can't tell any more
), bobbins, drying skeins, etc...
Most people come to see us and the farm, not the inside of the house; they have a cuppa and a biscuit and then we're off to see the latest calves, puppies, find eggs, scramble round in the haystacks, etc. They can visit any number of clean houses; there aren't so many places they can feed bananas to pigs
Sadly I know there are one or two relatives we'd see more of if they weren't so worried about their children picking up some germs...
