Features of filthy rooms that would make you run a mile

By Ken Y-N ( April 23, 2012 at 01:23) ? Filed under Polls, Rankings

goo Ranking asked their panel what features of the home of someone who cannot tidy up would make them run a mile if they saw it. That?s a bit of a long-winded title, so I was very tempted to go for the much simpler ?Tidying FAIL? as a headline!

Demographics

Over the 29th of February and the 1st of March 2012 1,175 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 61.4% of the sample were female, 10.0% in their teens, 16.5% in their twenties, 29.3% in their thirties, 24.1% in their forties, 10.6% in their fifties, and 9.5% aged sixty or older. Note that the score in the results refers to the relative number of votes for each option, not a percentage of the total sample.

About number 20, my wife told me that if you have to get goods repaired, you must have the original box. That sounds like an old wives? tale, but at least our old cardboard boxes can be hidden away in our trunk room.

Ranking results

Q: What features of the home of someone who cannot tidy up would make you run a mile if you saw it? (Sample size=1,175)

Rank	?	Score
1	Clothes left lying around as if they?ve just been taken off	100
2	Leaving the futon bedding set out permanently	92.6
3=	Half-drunk cups of coffee, etc left lying around	92.3
3=	Frozen foods, canned goods over one year past their sell-by date	92.3
5	Not doing the washing up until the items are needed for the next meal	90.0
6	Clothes, books, etc scattered all over the floor	83.5
7	Vegetables rotting in a corner of the fridge	83.3
8	Washed clothes left hanging up, not bothering to fold them away	70.5
9	Freezer cabinet almost completely iced up	64.7
10	A number of rusty umbrella skeletons around the front door	58.9
11	Still-filled removals boxes lying around	57.1
12	No rubbish bins	54.7
13	No fixed place to put things when they are finished with	50.6
14	Collections left scattered about the place	48.3
15	Stacks of magazines	40.6
16=	Empty sweet packets filled with other rubbish	40.5
16=	Almost no items for smart tidying	40.5
18	Tangles of unidentifiable cables	40.2
19	Out of season shoes left at the entrance	35.0
20	Empty electrical goods, etc, boxes wastefully saved up	33.8

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