To only do a big house clean up once a week?

[MooMooFarm]

I mentioned to some mums at school that one day a week when I have the house to myself, I do a 'blitz'of the whole house, ie cleaning the bathroom & shower room, cleaning the kitchen properly, including mopping the floor, changing bedcovers, hoovering the whole house and roughly dusting where I have to. Other days I clean up after then children when it's needed and obviously do the day to day stuff like washing up, but that's it.

They were a bit shocked, ie 'you only do it once a week!!!'. Am I a lazy cow - or (sorry) I mean AIBU? Or are they all Stepford Wives? Surely life's too short??? Please agree with me!

Stangirl - I don't want to gang up but am at your sheets!

Serious question - don't they get a bit stinky? We shower every day like most people but everybody sweats a bit in bed, and after a week I definitely feel like the sheets 'need' to be changed! If I'm feeling really lazy and leave it a fortnight, they can be a bit grim by then. Don't want to push the point here but can't help it, so sorry if TMI.... but even if you don't leave a huge wet patch after some jiggyness, surely some droplets will have ..... dropped?

I will shut up now .

Jajas - the bathroom and kitchen are cleaned every week by my lovely cleaner. In fact the kitchen is tidied and tops wiped down after every meal by me or my fella. I even wash the sponges and dusters every week.

MD - thanks for the support but I'm not taking any of it to heart.

MMF - I don't think they smell - I would change them if I did.

I hope I haven't given any of you nightmares.

No! Mine happen about 4 times per year at the minute {grin]

I have to say in my defence that I work full time and spend the rest of my spare time studying for my masters However, I probably will do it more often once I finish.
I do have a nanny at the moment who helps alot as well.

thecaptaincrofamily....why change when you finish your masters(your sheets).
Can't you DH do it,your sheets,that is.

Jajas - when my cleaner started she asked whether changing the sheets should be part of her duties. I said "no". This was because I knew it was something I didn't do much myself and figured why should i expect her to do it when i didn't ever do it myself. Doesn't make a huge amount of sense....

I told my DP last night about this thread and how shocked you were about my sheets. He said "Well they must all be mucky madams who don't shower or bathe. Just no need to change sheets very often if you wash yourself very regularly." We are a match made in heaven.

Does anyone here NOT have a cleaner?

My last two cleaners were such total nightmares that I got rid. She was from Romania and spoke good English but spent her whole time condescending to me about everything, it was awful, so patronising. She wanted me to get her to do my hair and cut the family's hair and had no sense of boundaries, I loved it when she stopped coming.

Longstocking, I am never at home when the cleaner comes. Actually I personally have never met her, nor the previous one. DH was there the first time she was over to show how everything works, but that's it and I have no idea about what she thinks about me or my family or our hair.

and to answer the OP - cleaner does the blitzing once a week and that is generally sufficient. We of course keep the kithcen tidy in the meantime. Also, as we have 4 pets, there was hair everywhere, but now we have a Pet Roomba, which is absolutely brilliant.

a pet roomba sounds swinging!!

I wish I'd never seen that strumpet.

Longstocking, I do not have a cleaner - should I be embarrassed? We could afford one, but I would rather not have one.

I don't particularly enjoy cleaning, but I am happy to do it myself, ITMS? I also don't like the idea of somebody else I don't know very well poking around my house, and have heard some horror stories about cleaners from friends who have them.

In short I don't hate it enough to give my money to someone else to do it - would rather spend it on alcohol and chocolate

Oh how I loved having a cleaner! My exP was a bit richer than the current one ( and so was I then) so we used to have a cleaner once a week as we were both very bust full-timers - it was great! Obviously I still did all the washing, dishes and actual tidying - but they just blitzed the big cleaning like floors/bathroom. And yes I did TIDY before they came, much to my exP's amusement, but how can they actually clean properly if there's junk lying around? And yes I was always out when they came - the guilt of sitting there on the sofa watching TV while they cleaned would have been too much to bear!

Life's way too short to spend it cleaning espec if you're really busy with other things most of the time...

Fuck me. You do more than I do, OP. I wonder what the Stepford cunts would think about me.

Cupcakes I'm very jealous of you as I'm at work right now... Please humour me and tell me who Jezza's shouting at right now? And does it involve a DNA test?

I'm not really watching Jezzer

If it helps, I watched some of it yesterday on ITV2 and he was berating a very simple bloke for being unable to keep up with his planned access visits to two kids he doubts are his.

Pure schadenfreude.

YANBU I only do it once a week too and sometimes if I'm busy once every 2 weeks

Oh my edna, I am shocked to my very core!

LOL I have DH doing the sheets weekly - I do like a clean bed, cope ok with an unclean kitchen floor but surfaces have to be spotless and woe betide the bloody cat if I see him up on them!