• more about #cleaning
    EmpressZombie: Sigh, I`m ADHD and I can't pick up after myself. It drives me crazy, I hate the mess but I can't do it. I try to pick it up, and I get overwhelmed or ... more »
    marinav: My place is an utter mess, clothes, papers, old laptops, wires, jewelry, old magazines, books all living together in a harmonic happy clutter of lazyn... more »
    rednrowdy: ..a few generations ago, people would have been mortified to show anyone such a messy apartment; now, we're proud of it. This isn't, oh, my place is a... more »
    TildeMarks: I can't understand how people can live in clutter and mess. I cannot function and find my mental state in the same disarray that surrounds me in the... more »
    Scout: My ex-boyfriend used to live in an apartment much like many of these....I almost DIDN'T date him for fear that I'd stepped into the life of a crazy ma... more »
    Everything MidnightBikeRide does is a balloon.: One of my very best friends from high school had such a messy house that you were never allowed to go inside. When you were at her house (i.e. hangin... more »
    Aesop's Foibles. YES.: Hm...this little contest seems to echo the whole Overshare theme that's become so pervasive lately. Like it's acceptable to describe your own very per... more »
    Cafezinha: Thanks, Mamãe Zinha, for my pathological fear of having people over when my home is not at its "freshly done by Merry Maids" best. I was seriously c... more »
    SmillaSnow: I am a bit envious of messy people. There's a freedom in not worrying about how tidy your house is. I have this weird idea that my apartment's cleanli... more »
    hfree: Sadie, I "cured" my throwing clothes on the floor by putting a chair where my clothes pile used to be. Now when the chair gets full I know I need to ... more »
    HuckleberryFriend: I can relate to this- my mother was never the domestic type and she basically forbid us to touch entire sections of the house just so she wouldn't hav... more »
    nyc-caribbean-ragazza: Not sure why anyone would be proud to have a DIRTY home which is very different from a messy home. My parents (esp. my mom) were clean freaks and unf... more »
    Zombie Ms. Skittles: Oh Sadie, will you marry me? We can live in our own filth together -- someplace like Vermont or Iowa! A world where purses always have crumbs (where... more »
    KatyLou: My parents like to see themselves as artists and feel that, as such, they have no need to be clean. Growing up their house wasn't always filthy, but ... more »
    colormeroutine: I wonder if this is going to lead to any evictions.... more »
    Katxyz: These cross the line from "rebellious" to "potential mental illness" in my mind. Dead mice and blood? Those are things that even the most poverty st... more »
    andromache: clutter and messes make me very anxious. it's one of the things that makes me good at my job, because once I get there and see the state of mess, I i... more »
    Pocahaunted: Oh Lord, why didn't I know about this?! Is there still time to enter? I need to nominate my boyfriend's apartment, also in Brooklyn. It would win wi... more »
    Katxyz: "all of whom are incredibly proud of the dead mice, bloody pillows and stacks of filthy dishes in their pads." At least it's not stacks of filthy pad... more »
    shorty63136: Clothes and paper are one thing - I have clothes and papers/mail that get strewn about my apartment. But pizza boxes, excessive dirty dishes, a dead r... more »
  • #dirtyprettythings

    "No, I Have The Filthiest Apartment On Earth!"

    New York is all abuzz today: it seems the Apple has two finalists in the "World's Dirtiest Apartment" contest - all of whom are incredibly proud of the dead mice, bloody pillows and stacks of filthy dishes in their pads. More »