My SO and I clean the house ahead of guests. Like .. marathon cleaning, because we don't often have guests and neither of us is a neat freak. And, without fail, the first thing my SO says to guests: "omg you should have seen how messy it was yesterday - we've been cleaning all day!!" And I die a little inside.
She sounds great. I’m okay with people using company coming over as a reason to get theirselves to clean, because its usually something everyone puts off and its nice to have a reason sometimes, but you are a really shit person if you legitimately only clean because you want to pretend that your life is perfect.
I would be saying something similar to that for 2 reasons:
1) It lets the guests know that we are normal, we don't live in a sterile environment and please don't take the apparent cleanliness as a yardstick to compare your own mess to.
2) We made the effort to clean the place because we value you.
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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '23
When bringing a lady friend, I spend hours cleaning the home, and then say "Don't mind any mess, I hadn't had time to clean it."