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What is your cleaning routine?

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cherrybakewells3 · 02/08/2020 12:02

I'm sat procrastinating before I clean the windows, normally DP's job but he's busy doing some work in the garden. We are used to a lot smaller houses/flats so never took as long to clean but I find it takes up so much of my time here, 3 toilets and 3 bedrooms.

Through the week I wipe down bathrooms, dust kitchen worktops and hoover/mop a few times then on a Sunday I clean full kitchen, dust everywhere , clean mirrors, all surfaces, windowsills, fully clean all bathrooms and DP hoovers and mops everywhere. Every 2 weeks we cut the grass, clean windows inside and out (they seem to look dirty quickly) and change bedding. I like to try and keep on top of things so it doesn't get too bad and it's always pretty tidy (no children yet, but I'm sure that will change when we do) but I'm wondering what other people's routines are if you have one?

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cherrybakewells3 · 02/08/2020 12:03

I meant dust and clean kitchen worktops through the week, not actually dust them if that makes any difference.

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Pipandmum · 02/08/2020 12:16

I have a 3000sq ft detached Victorian house. For starters I have a cleaner who comes once a week and does stuff like deep cleaning the bathrooms and all the floors. I wish I could afford to have her twice a week as she's much more thorough than I am. I have a window cleaner every month for the outside and my son does all the insides a couple times a year.
For maintenance between cleaner I do the toilets, vacuum and obviously the kitchen gets the most use and therefore cleaning. I try and make sure dishwasher loaded and it's all tidy before I go to bed, which works unless my teenagers raid the kitchen at some point!
My kids change their own bedding and my son does his every week, my daughter and me every other or even longer. They also do their own rooms, my son very good at maintaining this but my daughter just does a blitz every once in a while. Laundry gets done as and when - certainly not every day.
We are not a tidy family and have too much stuff. Our problem is we don't put things away (stuff on bottom of stairs etc). And clean clothes seem to hang about for ages. So definitely a lived in house rather than a showroom! We are soon downsizing so are in the process of getting rid of half our possessions.

TheMumblesofMumbledom · 02/08/2020 12:23

We did have a weekly cleaner but with covid and both of us working full time, we're not comfortable with having another person inside our home.

Our house is also very lived in and a bit of a mess at the moment because we're not having visitors we've no urgency to tidy up.

We're trying to follow TOMM at the moment but failing.

Our internal windows might get cleaned twice a year maximum, window cleaner does outside.

Stairs are currently covered in stuff that everyone ignores when going up the stairs.

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