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This is my comment to this post on cleanliness that was featured on parenthacks
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I hope this comment doesn't offend anyone:

As a full-time stay-at-home father, I focus my thoughts on priorities. What is important to my family? What should I be concerned with? For me, for our family, cleanliness just takes a back seat to other things. Like education, morality, and fun. My kids are happy, caring, and spectacular students (my 13 year-old just brought home a progress report where, out of the past 15 assignments, he scored 100% on every one). Keeping clean? Not so much for us. We're not horribly messy, and dishes don't stack up for more than a day. We don't have ants or roaches or silverfish. I do the laundry and make the kids take showers and wash their hands after the bathroom and before eating, but I just don't get crazy about it. I'm sure my kids will make their future romantic interests a little annoyed because their not primarily focused on cleanliness, but that will be the biggest complaint. And wouldn't you rather fall in love with someone who was smart and caring and funny and messy than someone who was neat as a pin and selfish?