How much time do you spend on cleaning and tidying your home?

[receptionmummy]

If you have a smallish home, and a smallish family? How much time do you / your DP spend collectively per week or per day on cleaning and tidying? (Not laundry - that’s separate)

I have young DC and I wfh. Partner works longer hours than me. I am finding the tidying (in order to clean) so tiresome and wonder if others have a better system.

I’m going to do a massive declutter and get everything straight to hopefully make it easier, and try to splash out on a cleaner sometimes, but it needs to be tidy for them to clean! WFH I notice the mess even more.

currently the table is covered with stuff, as is the sideboard, and the tops of things, and there are toys on the floor, plus bits on every surface. Bedroom looks like a bomb hit it. Bath full of toys.

nothing is relaxing to look at!

Bump

I find if you keep on top of it, it really doesn't take very long at all, so I try to be very strict about tidying up as I go. That means a quick 10 min tidy before cleaning should be enough and then dusting and hoovering whole house takes about 45 min. Cleaning the bathrooms and moping the floors another 45 min, provided they're done regularly (weekly) so nothings ever filthy.

I do laundry every other day. I hoover and dust the whole house at least twice a week, do a proper bathroom clean once a week. I also have morning and evening routines the morning is like making beds, putting washing away and squaring up the bathrooms, giving them a wipe down, the evening is cleaning the kitchen after dinner, sorting out washing, putting in on for the next morning, then I square up the living room before we go to bed. I'm probably spending about 1 - 2 hours a day. I will do a big clean of areas like the kitchen, bedroom every few weeks or so.

I feel like I do little and often but little and often adds up to quite a lot. I try to keep clutter down by not buying much and by trying to get rid of old stuff as new stuff comes in which can be tricky. I don't like to have a lot of clutter.

Family of 5 here (kids 10, 7 and 2 so full range of toys!), in a large 5 bedroom home. It's almost always tidy (to the point of immaculate!). Everything has a place and we literally tidy as we go. Our spare room is the dumping ground where things go to get sorted into vinted, charity bags etc, e.g. outgrown toys, clothes. So that door is always closed so I can't see it until ready to deal with it. I couldn't live in a mess. We have a cleaner for 4 hours a week, so I literally do no cleaning. Tidying/dishes probably 30mins a day.

I try to do a general quick clean of the kitchen after every meal. Dishes washed and put away, surfaces wiped, recycling taken out, highchair cleaned and ready to go for next meal, quick wipe down and hoover of the floor where baby has made a mess. I find this really helps in keeping things looking tidy. Sounds like a lot but it takes me 10 minutes.

When baby is in bed I will tidy the living room and hoover the whole of downstairs. Then I will go around and declutter everything from the day and put it back in it's rightful place. For example put shoes away in the downstairs cupboard, put sun cream, hats etc away so it's generally tidy.

Once a week I will do a bigger clean when I change bedding, hoover upstairs, clean bathrooms, deep clean kitchen and floors, but the key is to stay on top of it everyday. If I let it slip for even a day or two the house is a complete tip. Making time to keep on top of the house does wonders for my mental health, I can't stand clutter.

0hrs. We have a cleaner and a robo vacuum for any mid-week debris.

As little as possible, but no kids and no pets.
We never do "tidying", as we are both naturally tidy so always put things back in their proper place.
Minimal cleaning - a bit of dust never hurt anyone.

Just lower your standards a bit, OP, and everyone will be happier.

I tidy as I go, so, for example in the morning while I am making my coffee I empty the dishwasher. I clear into the dishwasher before bed and turn it on. I put the robot hoover on as I go out. I wipe down the table after dinner. I take things upstairs with me when I go, or downstairs, etc. I give the shower a clean when I'm in it, and clean the sink while I'm doing my teeth.

So it mainly stays ok like that. Then I'll spend an hour at the weekend doing bigger cleans like bleaching the bathroom, changing the beds, big hoovering.

For putting my clothes away, instead I collect clean laundry in huge teetering piles and then I shout at them. The shouting achieves nothing.

Not as much as a lot of people I would imagine but my standards are quite low. I hoover and do bathroom once a week. Keep kitchen reasonably clean. Washing out away. That’s about it.

The Organised Mum Method reckons 45 mins per weekday, which assumes that your house is already decluttered, and (if memory serves) didn’t include dishes. That’s 15 minutes daily, 30 mins mon- thu focusing on sets of rooms, and a 30 min deep clean on Fridays,

I never got through my daily stuff in 15 mins.

About an hour a day with a once a week deep clean. It’s always clean and tidy, I can’t relax unless it is.