How Often Do You REALLY Clean?

[LoisEinhorn]

I'm talking tops of cupboards, door frames, skirting boards etc. Me - never

[lostinindia]

Clean doors as I pass by. Sometimes this is a few times a week, sometimes once a fortnight depends on how often I'm in the house to do it. Skirting boards are cleaned with a wet wipe on a weekly basis somewhere in the house but not all skirting boards at the same time. Tops of cupboards are usually about every 3 to 6 months.

[GenericDietCola]

Nope, don't understand.

[Rummikub]

I did go through a phase of wiping a skirting board as I passed if I had finished with a wipe. But it soon passed like all phases. I can't reach the top of door frames, too short.

[Shinyshoes1]

Never

[fanoftheinvisibleman]

Those kind of jobs when I can actually see they are desperate ....I am very short

[SharpLily]

About once a week usually, but since I got pregnant housework has gone out of the window and dust bunnies are taking over. Skirting boards have been done once in the last two months, and that only because Mother in Law came to stay.

[TawdryTatou]

Erm, autumn, when the bastarding low sun shows the world what a slattern I am.

[elQuintoConyo]

Tops of cupboards? Kitchen cupboards? Never.
Skirting boards get a swipe with the brush and mop when I go round the house (tiled floors throughout, grrr), doors get a wetwipe if/when I see DC gunk.
I've lived in my home a year and haven't dusted, doesn't seem to get dusty like the old one.

I'll do a deep clean at the end of this month/beginning of December before Christmas, but not the tops of cupboards, life's too bloody short.

[FoxyHarlow123]

Never.

[LoisEinhorn]

I feel better

[Mattissy]

Doors, with a wet wipe when I really can't avoid it anymore. Skirting boards, the same but no dirty fingers so even less. Tops of cupboards, I'm not tall enough to see, in my mind they're already very clean and dust free so no need to check!

[OneMoreThenNoMore]

We live in an old house so it gets dusty quickly. General dusting gets done weekly-ish. Things like skirting boards get done as I notice them or when we've got guests coming, so every month or two. Kitchen cupboard fronts, same- they are white so splashes etc are very visible. My next kitchen will definitely not have white cupboard fronts!

[Ecuador]

Old houses are a nightmare to keep clean I have decided .

I will do a really good clean this week as we've had two weeks of half term and not a lot done in the housework dept.

Agree that the low winter sun is a killer for making you look like you sit around watching day-time telly all the time rather than doing anything useful!

[LoisEinhorn]

Haha! Mine are buttermilk so I feel your pain.
There are 3 adults in my house, why is it only me that sees the smudgy fingerprints and splashes

[Viviennemary]

I clean things like doors and skirting boards about once every couple of years. . Sometimes I wipe a mark on a door if I see it. Tops of cupboards about once in 15 years.

[VeryStressedMum]

I have cleaned doors, but only because they were really dirty not because it's part of my usual routine. Same with skirting boards, I have done it but not often and not for a while now.
Tops of cupboards..never. I've got enough to clean without cleaning things I can't see.

[VeryStressedMum]

And totally agree about the sun, everything looks so bloody dirty I have to go out and come back home when it's dark.

[LightasaBreeze]

About once a year or so I have a good do with cupboard tops etc. Those sort of jobs are quite good to give to teenagers to earn pocket money. When DS was at secondary school the whole house got done more often as he did it. Life's to short for me to spend time wiping skirting boards weekly and dusting.
We have a 1930's house.

[GemmaTeller]

Once a month I get my 'doing' head on and in the words of my mother 'bottom the house'.

All woodwork, windows, light fittings etc. We have two dogs and I would be mortified if someone said my house smelt of dogs.

I do tops of kitchen cupboards as we are in quite an old house and have no extractor fan in the kitchen and the tops of the cupboards get sticky.

[MummyBeerest]

Ummm. ..when I notice it. I'm not what you'd call detail-oriented.

[mousmous]

when the dc start writing in the dust.
well then I give them a couple of wipes and let them get on with it.

[4yoniD]

Couple times a year, but I'm sure I should do it at least once a month :(

[GemmaTeller]

What also spurred me on was going to my brothers house once and the skirting boards were thick with grime on the top bit - what the hells that all about?

[Mrspebble]

I wash the skirtings when I deep clean the floors every week or two. Tops of cupboards .. Cannot reach.. Tops of doors ..never.

Wipe lights witches etc weekly.

[InsultingBadger]

Skirting boards I do, tips of cupboards were too dirty when I moved in to tackle now.. Getting a new kitchen soon so am going to start a fresh then. Must hide the cupboards from the neighbours when they are chucked or I will be outed for the slattern I truly am!