Believe it or not, some people clean because they like things clean, not because they want to impress other people.  I am one of those people.  A dirty environment makes me miserable, regardless of whether anybody else ever sees it (and I have many multiple-month spans of a clean apartment seen by nobody else to prove it.)<p>&gt; Have you ever cleaned up because company was coming over?<p>Yes, but irrelevant.  Note that I don&#x27;t make an special effort, I just move my regular chores forward a bit so my place is seen at the peak of the cycle, rather than the trough.