Unlikely to have cleaner for some time. How often do you...

[Juliet2014]

Vacuum throughout
Deep Clean bathrooms
Changing bedding
Deep Clean hard floors
other odds and ends

Used to having a cleaner for 4 hours a week. She’d deep clean bathrooms, polish hard floors and vacuum throughout. Occasionally clean windows when needed And complete oven clean maybe 2x a year?
She was a whizz. She’s never have to tidy so focus was entirely cleaning.

In addition to what cleaner did, I would clean kitchen thoroughly every day including external cupboard doors etc , vacuum dining area daily. Clean kitchen floors maybe 3x a week on top of cleaner deep clean and change bed weekly (occasionally children’s fortnightly. I change my pillow case 2x a week).

Been furloughed and unlikely to have cleaner for at least short term. So increasing cleaning.
Interested in frequency of the above if anyone cares to share please?!

And I'm still waiting to hear why you think teenaged girls using the toilet is "blerch" (or whatever weird word you used)

Good grief. You're 'still waiting'?

Good grief. You're 'still waiting'?

I must admit I was a tad surprised. . .

I am always staggered by how much cleaning most people do on here and all the 'deep' cleaning that goes on. I am clearly a minger. As I also cant find a mop which doesnt like the kitchen floor sopping wet( and have nowhere to store one), I scrub the kitchen floor scullery maid style probably every couple of weeks. No dogs, no small children and no shoes in the house so it doesnt get very dirty. Sweep it several times a day though.
Where do you all find the time?

Where do you all find the time?

Well, at the moment I'm not working - and have no small children to look after, so I have plenty of free time. Also with no children, I can clean it once and it generally stays that way

But even when I'm out at work all day I don't find it particularly time-consuming. Probably because I do it daily so it never builds up into a massive task - it just takes five minutes after my shower spray and rinse around, for example. It's just part of my routine so I don't really notice it anymore.

"I think some people feel that cleaning is degrading, menial work, therefore, to be the one doing it, is to degrade oneself. I don't see it like that."

I don't think many people think that cleaning up after themselves or their family degrades them. Some people have that attitude to the job, or they might think that other people look down on cleaners, rather than the job itself being degrading.

I don't think cleaning is degrading at all, but I do think that over-cleaning is a waste of time that could be spend on more interesting things.

I used to think that the difference between how often I clean and how often MNers clean was just that I live alone, but I'm seeing now that people on here dust much more often as well. A family doesn't have more dust than a single person so it's a question of standards.

But then again 'over-cleaning' is so subjective, isn't it? If I spend more time cleaning than I want to, then that is a waste of my time, if it is preventing me doing other things that I'd like to do.

But if I'm not, and if it isn't, then it's not! (And I'm not and it isn't). . .

I've not picked that up from anyone on this thread - some people are expressing surprise that others spend so much time deep cleaning

But why is it surprising that different people have different standards? Some people - shock - actually enjoy cleaning and get satisfaction from it. Some people don't.

I like having a clean and tidy home and therefore cleaning is enjoyable to me because it allows me enjoy my surroundings. I wouldn't enjoy living in a mess. But my interpretation of "mess" is going to be different to other people's too.

But there is definitely an underlying tone on threads like this from people who don't like cleaning - that they must lead more interesting lives because they don't want to spend some of their free time cleaning.

Oh, to add on to that, I'm sure my daughters, along with most, if not all teenagers, think that cleaning is a waste of their time.

I don't think it is, because everyone should know how to keep their surroundings clean, and the skills aren't rocket science, but it's easiest to learn them if you're taught them, and to get into the habit of them.

And if it's a reasonable use of my time, or their Dad's time, then it's a reasonable use of their time too. There are no magic cleaning fairies. (If I had sons my attitudes and requirements would be the same).

In answer to the OP...

Vacuum throughout - Saturday morning
Deep Clean bathrooms - Saturday morning
Changing bedding - Saturday morning
Deep Clean hard floors - Saturday morning
Other odds and ends - throughout the week.

Kitchen gets a thorough clean weekly, the sink and sides get wiped every time they're used.
Skirtings and ceilings get hoovered for dust/webs weekly.

Life's too short to be cleaning all the time, hence us tag teaming and blitzing the house together every Saturday morning. That being said, we've all been at home for 11 or 12 weeks now, so I'd rather sit in relative cleanliness than not.

I don't think cleaning is degrading at all, but I do think that over-cleaning is a waste of time that could be spend on more interesting things.

Some people like cleaning though @Gwenhwyfar, so 'overcleaning' is subjective isn't it. I clean up because I don't want to live in a dirty environment so if something is dirty I'll clean it and the rest of us are the same. DD can need prompting but she's early teens so I don't expect her to get the steam cleaner out but I do expect her to keep her room to a reasonable standard.

I like walking, so I spend a lot of time around and about the village we live in trying out new routes with the dog. My friend loves cleaning and would much rather be doing that than coming out on a walk with me and that's fine. She's horrified that we do our bedding every week - she does hers every two days. I don't care as long as she doesn't ask me to do it for her. I don't think either of those things is a waste of time.
Different strokes and all that.

@WhitbyGoth

Wow do none of your husbands clean?

Mine doesn't but he works damn hard all day and I like to have a clean home for us all to relax in (especially my husband!) at the end of the day 🤷. I feel very lucky he works so hard for us all its the least I can do awaits flaming 😂.

@Megatron

And I'm still waiting to hear why you think teenaged girls using the toilet is "blerch" (or whatever weird word you used)

Good grief. You're 'still waiting'?

I thought she sounded a tad unhinged about cleaning and hygiene ... and she's confirmed it with subsequent posts.

Wow do none of your husbands clean?

He's not here 4-5 days a week to do any cleaning. He does bits and bobs when he's here, but I prefer to get things most things done during the week so we can both focus on other more exciting stuff at the weekends.

I thought she sounded a tad unhinged about cleaning and hygiene ... and she's confirmed it with subsequent posts.

You're coming across a tad peculiar yourself.

I think perhaps we can agree on one thing - we're really not quite each other's cup of tea.

I’m not sure you can deep clean a hard floor; surely it’s just cleaning!

We clean the bathrooms daily but not a ‘deep clean’ whatever that is.
The kitchen seems to be on a permanent loop of being cleaned and messed up again. Oven is cleaned as it’s used.
I dust on Mondays and Fridays.
DH hoovers after I’ve dusted.
I mop the kitchen, hall and bathrooms after DH has hoovered.
DS (10) is in charge of cleaning his own bedroom, bathroom and playroom.
Bedding is changed on Tuesdays.
Skirting boards and window frames etc probably should be cleaned more than they are!

A family doesn't have more dust than a single person so it's a question of standards.

I think a family would definitely make more dust as most dust is made up of human skin, hair, clothe particles etc. So more people would produce more of this. Also dust depends on your house. Big old houses make loads more dust.

Oh and pets, pets produce loads of dust.

Hoover throughout - once a week, unless neither of us can be bothered, then it'd skip a week.
Dusting - once a week but daily for my desk cause I can't stand dust in my work zone
Deep clean bathroom - once a month
Regular clean bathroom - as and when it looks like it needs it
Change bedding - once a week in summer, one a fortnight in winter
Hard floors hoovered along with carpets - only have hard wood in hall.
Other odds and ends as they look like they need doing/it starts bothering me.

I don't mind the cleaning as such, it's the effing tidying after two under 4s, especially with everyone at home all the time. If everything was tidy I could clean easily and quickly. And laundry. I can't put it away quick enough. Drives me mad

Vacuum throughout - I do my cleaning on a room by room basis but every room tends to get done once a week, living room is more like every two days cos I have a toddler who drops crumbs everywhere
Deep Clean bathrooms - not sure of the difference between deep cleaning and just cleaning, but I clean the bathrooms once a week.
Changing bedding - when it needs it, I hate hate hate changing the bedding. It is dp's job but he needs prompting.
Deep Clean hard floors - mop once a week
other odds and ends - seemingly endless tidying, kitchen every day after dinner, a load of washing once every two days. DP and I take turns to do the ironing pile but we both hate it so often the pile grows massive. We used to have a cleaner up until we moved last September and haven't hired a new one.