Would you please vote in my very first poll???

[southerngirlwriter]

Poll question: Would you please vote in my very first poll???

I got my star today! Yay! I am so cool!

OK...I have a theory about conservatives vs. liberals in the area of cleanliness. I am speaking about your home/living space. I will explain my theory after enough people have voted. My vote is choice 1, by the way.

How clean is your home, generally speaking?

[Kamika]

1. 30mins

I dont think theres a big difference

[terrya]

2. I'm a complete slob. Almost Oscar Madison like.

I have that "lived in" look, I suppose.

[the_boxer_]

12. Ditto and it suits me just fine...

Edit: I guess that's why I don't have a girlfriend.

[ronzo]

3. Nice Star!

We can make the house presentable in about thirty minutes, I suppose.

:)

[LynneSin]

4. I use to need a day warning, but I think I could be ready in 30 minutes

but for close friends - maybe I can cut that down to 10 minutes - but don't look in the closets or bedroom

[Kenneth ken]

5. your theory

is gonna crash and burn. Cleanliness isn't a conservative v liberal thing as much as it is a male v female thing :D

NO ONE shows up at my house without at least a day's warning.

[ikojo]

20. OH I disagree Kennethken...

I am female and live in a small efficiency apartment. I am also a packrat. I have MANY books, CDs and DVDs. Not to mention I am a gadgetholdic.

I live a cluttered existence. Could be ADD, I don't know but when I need to find something I can pretty much find it in due time.

[tnlefty]

6. It's better than it used to be when my kids were younger. Not pristine

but if folks want it to look like something in a magazine all of the time then they'd better enter with their blinders on!

Congrats on your star and your first poll.

[arcane1]

7. while I prefer the standard 2-week notice...

I can creatively throw things around in 30 or less :evilgrin:

[ZenLefty]

8. ZenLeftyGirl spots dirt molecules at 60 paces.

And she reduces them to subatomic particles before she sends them to the trash.

[5X]

9. need new category

headline from local paper, Tulsa World

Saddam's living conditions appalling
ADWAR, Iraq (AP) -- The yard was a mess, the laundry wasn't done, the pantry was bare and the only art on the wall was a poster of Noah's Ark.

[patdem]

10. Used to be #1....that was then this is now

I remember reaching behind the toilet to make sure the handle on the turn off valve shined and thought how people would just love how clean my bathroom was...only problem was I spent so much time cleaning my house I never MET anyone to appreciate how clean my house WAS???? Insanity for sure!!! Hands and knees only for cleaning floors...no mops for me. Surely you cannot get a floor clean by standing up???

Now...if you do not give me at least 30 mins the dust may cause sinus problems. Or a day if you plan to EAT at my house!!!...I got real. To spend all your time off just cleaning for no purpose other to have a 'clean' house? Dirt is cleaner than most chemicals we use to 'clean' our houses???

[tom_paine]

11. 30 min. cleanup required...

[southerngirlwriter]

13. a kick for my starrified self. :-)

eom

[proud patriot]

14. 30 minutes

however most people have grown accustomed to the clean
laundry pile ..

[WWW]

15. My house would be immaculate

if I was the only one living here....alas, that is not the case. We are still in construction mode, (our house burned down five years ago and we had to rebuild) The household includes me, my husband, two teenagers, (one a boy, and a football player, nuf said), one ailing, elderly grandma, one ailing, elderly 100 lb. dog, five cats(all in various degrees of illness because of age) and a hamster. Also we burn with wood and have a dirt driveway and no real flooring. And we run our business out of the house. Which means business take priority over housework and we never leave the house. Sometimes I wish I could have a Better Homes and Gardens' Home, but that would mean that the people and things I love would have moved on and I certainly wouldn't want that! As an aside, I would have guessed that liberals would have a messier house than conservatives.

[kimchi]

16. I think I have a similar theory about lawns.

My family takes walks around the hood and tries to tell how people vote based on how immaculate the yard is. If we disagree; we can then look at bumper stickers.

Normally the very tidy and boring lawns belong to Republicans; the more audacious landscaping and/or less than perfect lawns are Dems. I got the idea based on my own, very dishevelled, but creative lawn vs. my neighbor's plain grass.

There are three parts to my theory: 1) diversity of thought related to diversity of plants, 2) a progressive's propensity to allow nature to do it's thing; and 3)the affluent can afford a landscaping service.

Of course, there are exceptions to every rule.

[WWW]

17. I personnaly think conservatives are more concerned about appearances /nt

[MaineDem]

18. I live with CHAOS

Can't Have Anyone Over Syndrome

But I'm getting better. It's just never been a priority.

[Padraig18]

19. Two-minute warning.

We're not obsessively neat, but 2 minutes will make the place presentable. :)

[southerngirlwriter]

21. Kick -- just need 13 more votes

At 100 votes, I'll discuss my theory. :-)

[Djinn]

22. 30 minutes to vaguely presentable

but the house itself (rented) is crap and nothing short of Napalm will improve!

[southerngirlwriter]

23. OK...here's my theory.

I grew up in a fundie church, went to a fundie private school, and was not really exposed to anyone outside of that bubble until I was about 15 and got a job at Kroger's.

I babysat for at least 50 different fundie families while growing up. These are people who really believed that Bill Clinton was the incarnation of the devil. In 1992, I was 14. When he was elected the first time, many of them cried adn were depressed for days. That was in my prime babysitting years, and so I developed a strong association with uber-conservative fundies and a certain type of house.

ALL of them were total slobs. I would be shocked at how dirty their houses were, and then their kids would say something like, "Mom cleaned all day because you were coming over." They were serious. The places were FILTHY. Some of them were poor, some were top 1%, most were middle-middle class or upper-middle class.

So, the theory I developed is that the harder someone tries to impress people -- the more they care what other people think, the more concerned they are with making sure that everyone thinks they're highly moral (i.e. appalled that a womanizer got elected President), the more likely they are to live in filth and squalor.

My theory was that liberals are much less likely to give a damn what anyone else thinks. I further hypothesized that their homes would be more likely to be very clean-to-moderately-clean, as opposed to filthy.

OK. You think I'm nuts. That's okay.

My theory is reasonably validated. Most people in this poll were in the middle, i.e., they'd want 30 minutes to clean up if a visitor was coming, or on the clean side. A much smaller were on the sides that I associated with fundies/conservatives.

I apologize for wasting everyone's time, LOL, and thank you for voting in my very first poll. It was fun and worth the price of the star. :-)

[Blade]

24. The second to the last choice...

I still have dishes in my sink from Thanksgiving. It's true!

[kanrok]

25. That's possibly the best star I've ever encountered

n/t