How often do you clean your home?

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I must have this wrong. All I do is clean?! I have two young children so maybe that is just why. But then I suppose the question really is.. how do you keep a house tidy with children around without cleaning everything 24/7 or is that just not possible?

How long do you spend cleaning your bathroom / toilet ?

And how ON EARTH do you keep on top of the dishes……….

As little as possible
But then i have quite low standards especially by mumsnet standards

Depends partly what 'cleaning' means to you. I've just dusted, whizzed the hoover round up and downstairs, wiped the sides in the kitchen and cleaned the bathroom, am about to mop the kitchen floor. Whole lot will have taken an hour. Not saying it would pass a white glove test but clean enough for me to feel a) like I'm not a total slattern and b) not embarrassed if someone popped round. I wash up after each meal, I don't have a dishwasher.

I do the dishes after meals. Hoovering living room once per day.
deep clean bathroom and kitchen once per week , dust and hoovering every room and living room once per week at weekends.
Tidy up at night before going to bed, children tidy up their rooms and whatever they left in the living room. I do the rest.

Quick tidy daily (sometimes miss a day) for just putting things back where they should be, hoovering etc.
Big clean every few weeks.
Honestly it seems the house is never tidy, no matter how much I tidy, so now I have to tell myself that "fine is good enough" as it'll never be perfect.

I have a cleaner in fortnightly for the deeper cleaning- windows, blinds, tops of skirting boards, dusting

Daily I clean bathrooms, kitchen (multiple times, it feels) and main family room. Hoover after breakfast all of the downstairs.

There's 5 of us and 2 dogs. It will never be show home clean and tidy but this keeps things ticking over.

Daily jobs - vacuum, clean kitchen, wash up after every meal. Clean the bathroom every other day. Dust and mop once a week. Two kids, no pets! I work PT so I appreciate I have the time to do this. I also have a slight issue with dirt, not OCD levels but I can’t sit still if it needs doing…

As little as possible

My husband does a deep clean once a week and I just keep on top of it throughout the week. Low standard here though.

I clean all the time too but I have three dogs and children and grandchildren coming and going all the time. There really should be a revolving front door

So an ideal week looks like;

Hoover the whole house twice a week
Wash floors once a week
Daily sweep high traffic areas and clean any spillages on floors
Clean kitchen sides daily
Three loads of clothes washing/one load of bedding and towels weekly
General tidy away of things daily
Clean toilets twice a week
Clean rest of the bathrooms once a week
Dishes daily- half loaded in the dishwasher, rest done by hand.

Cleaner comes in once a fortnight for dusting, wiping down shelves/bookcases etc..

But in practice it's far more varied than this, some weeks much less, if life gets in the way, other weeks more with random extra jobs- washing the bin, declutting the toys, cleaning behind the radiators, deep clean the washing machine etc....

I never feel I'm quite on top of things, but it's normally good enough that I could get it up to visitor standard with an hours notice I reckon.

Too bloody much. In fact my house IBVVVU unreasonable demanding I clean it for at least an hour a day.

Cutting into valuable “me time”

Washing up, wiping kitchen surfaces, cleaning loo a bit if needed, rinsing bath clean: all as and when clearly needed for hygiene. Hoovering and bedclothes changing maybe once a fortnight.

My ex absolutely loves cleaning, though, so about once a month he comes over to drop off DC and does a few hours' deep clean when I'm out.

As pp said what does clean mean to you?

Someone on here the other day said she spends hours doing it every weekend!

Every day, but I don't work so I've got time to do it. As soon as the kids are home from school it's a tip again.

We just keep on top of it and housework doesn't feature as an issue in our lives. Proper deep clean of toilets and bathrooms once every couple weeks, proper mop of all hard floor once a month or so. Polishing about the same. Toilets a couple times a week or before guests come. Bedding once a week to ten days. But day to day things get wiped, rinsed, hoovered and there's not really anything ever out of place, toys aside. Our house is always clean and tidy.

When we had a cleaner she cleaned our 3 bed 1 bathroom house in 3 hours. We never do that much now we don't have her any more. I'd say 2 hours a week. That's on hoovering, mopping, dusting and bathroom cleaning.

This is aside from dishes and laundry. We do have a dishwasher but I reckon dh, ds and I between us spend an hour a day just on loading/unloading dishwasher and washing up the pots, pans, oven trays, wine glasses, special knives and various other things that don't go in the dishwasher and cleaning the worktops.

Laundry probably also adds up to another hour per day.

We have an oven cleaner once a year and window cleaner twice a year.

I'm quite happy being imperfect in the housewife world.

I often find that the suggested similar threads bear no relation to the current thread but the onea below are so the same that this must be a popular concern 😁

Lots of information there to help you OP

This once a week plus a quick clean of the bathrooms. Takes about an hour a week. If we spot something that's particularly dirty one of us will give it a scrub. House is fairly tidy. We both work full time so keeping a spotless house isn't a priority.

Bathroom daily,as soon as I get out the shower,takes a couple of minutes. Weekly,gloves on descale toilet,clean skirting boards, window sill, radiator.When cooking baking tidy as I go, stuff in dishwasher. Vacuum, dust,few times a week,long haired dogs. Beds changed every weekend. I had 4 DKs, always worked FT. I never let stuff mount up. I don't go out or to bed without everywhere being tidy. It takes about 20 minutes a day
I have a large garden,by today's standards, probably 50 house plants that need feeding/watering especially in the summer months.

When I can be bothered, dishes get done everyday.

Never. I have very low standards
and an amazing cleaner who comes weekly.

What I do do:
shove a bit of bleach down the bog
dishwasher
laundry
make beds and change bedding
clear kitchen surfaces
hoover if the mud and grass cuttings get too much

We do some Mon-Fri. With two young kids and pets it needs it. We follow TOMM mostly, with some tweaks for our lifestyle, so focus on a different room from Monday to Friday and also do some of the same stuff every day (set off the robot hoover, load and unload dishwasher, do some laundry). I go for good enough! Our house is generally in good enough condition for random visitors and to relax in the evening once kids are in bed.

Things got a lot better when we left the binge cleaning behind: no more doing barely anything during the week and then spending three hours at the weekend catching up only for house to be a bomb site again by Tuesday.

I don't. I have a lovely cleaner. I tidy & wipe after cooking, but that's about it.

I have a cleaner who comes every two weeks to do the hoovering, mopping, cleaning of bathrooms, windows, etc.
I tidy things daily, and wash up as soon as Im done with cooking (dishes go in the dishwasher). I clean the kitchen counters more regularly, as there might be spillages.

As for laundry, it is sporadic. some weeks 1 load, some 2, some none. Dishwasher is run once a week, give or take.

Exactly this. I do 20 minute "whip round" tidy morning and night, and then do a proper clean every weekend