to ask you all how often you clean?

[B4Beatrice]

I mean really clean. Not just tidy and wipe up. I have a cleaner once a week. She basically hoovers and mops downstairs (lounge, kitchen,toilet, hallway). Hoovers stairs and cleans upstairs bathroom as well as moping upstairs landing/hallway.

About once a month I give ours and DDs bedroom a really good clean. Chairs, washing baskets, toy boxs out. Sweep mop floor, behind drawers etc, clean windows and window sills etc etc. I change bedsheets once a week.

To be honest I just can't be arsed to do any more after all the washing, cooking, dishwasher loading, mumsneting, picking up of toys, mumsneting, ironing (occasional).

Me and DD go out for lunch or to the park or for a walk everyday. And I work some weekends in a job I adore and I also cook from scratch.

MIL makes a point of saying I don't do enough, the other day me a SIL were saying how we had been to the same park everyday for a week, and MIL said that it is easy for B4beatrice to go out as she doesn't like housework.

Am I really that gross? Does my house need that cleaner woman off the TV??

Oh yeah, I probably clean under my living room furniture every few months. But inside the cupboards...................ummmm, pass!

tidying and wiping isn't cleaning?

um, that'll be never then, if they don't count

twice a week but just once if the house is not bad anyway. i never thought id say this but i even have set day for it! dd goes to nursery on wed/fri so always on wed i do work stuff am, then clean, then go to the gym. occasionally it spills over into friday but not usually. dd is 18 months and i know i am lucky i have 2 childcare days but its so much easier to do it all in one go when she's not here. also the house is much cleaner and tidier generally because i'm not trying to fit it in around other stuff :)

meant to write - i vaccum everywhere, dust, tidy, clean bathrooms and sometimes mop all the floors (no carpets anyway). natually this all goes to hell when dh is at home!

Cleaner twice a week. She mops the floors, hoovers, does the bathrooms, dusts etc. We must do bits inbetween but not a great deal.

Start of every school holiday so about every six weeks I do a deep clean. Clean out cupboards, clean carpets with bissell contraption, clean blinds, skirting boards etc.

Clean?

Disclaimer: dh didn't like it when I arranged for a cleaner to come in regularly, so I now leave it to him! I do change the bedlinen and do the clothes washing and ironing though.

I do clean inside some cupboards occasionally - there's one in the kitchen where I keep the bottle of frying oil, and jars of various things, and they seem to end up sticky on the bottom even though I'm sure I don't leave them mucky when I put them away...... So that one gets emptied and wiped every 6 months or so.

And I do the cutlery drawers about as often, as I seem to get a lot of crumbs in them, so I lob all the cutlery into the machine and clean the plastic thingy and wipe out the crumbs.

But those are just because those particular things get visibly mucky, not just "for fun"

we have a cleaner every week for 4 hours (£36)- she mops floors, vacuums, cleans kitchen properly, does bathrooms (we have a few so that takes a while), dusts, does mirrors and inside of windows.

I clean kitchen every day (wiping worktops, washing up, unloading and loading diswasher). I put roomba on in two rooms each day. I tidy as an when I get the chance.

My house is still a permanent mess.

I actually do like cleaning out my kitchen cupboards, often listen to lots of missed radio programmes on i player as I work away.

Proper real cleaning I do once I cannot ignore it anymore but I am a slattern of sorts.

DH hoovers under the furniture as he kicks all the crap under there when he thinks I am not looking.

Between DH and I, we empty/fill dishwasher a couple of times a day, kitchen sides get wiped, washing gets done. Hoover the floors daily but more so because the DD's are messy and the dogs shed hair something chronic. I will mop floors twice a week and the bathroom and upstairs toilet (our bathroom is downstairs) get a wipe round daily and a scrub once a week.

The house never feels properly clean and tidy all of the time.

I think from your list you do loads and if I were you take no notice of your MIL, no one likes cleaning, and spending time with your DC is worth more to them than a showcase of a house.

Cleaner does 2 hours, once a week. She told me she was £8 per hour but I give her £20. That way she always does any thing extra. She has a pick up if I have left in a rush or she will do a towel/cloth wash etc.
I can't believe you lot are saying I do loads! I basically do the bedrooms once a month, and then just the everyday, keeping on top of things. I wish MIL was a MNer!

That sounds like plenty. Is your MIL maybe making a dig about you having a cleaner rather than saying your house isn't clean? ie. Of course B4Beatrice can go to the park every day when she has a cleaner so doesn't have to do it herself. (Some people are bitchy about people having cleaners.)

It's possible Mango. Especially as I don't really work alot.
But to be honest, for 20 quid, I'd rather just save that money elsewhere.
Also, I would never be able to do what the cleaner does in two hours, DD is only 20 months old so it would take me ages!

Er, you do LOADS more than me. If I'm brutally honest, the kitchen and bathroom are the only rooms that get regularly 'cleaned'. I hoover when it needs it (every 2-3 days) - OK, when it gets so bad I can't bear it any more or I have people coming round. Upstairs gets sorely neglected, but as we only go up there to sleep, it doesn't get particularly 'dirty', just a bit dusty IMO.

You certainly do enough, and tell other people to stick it if they think otherwise!

Surface clean once a week (usually just before PIL arrive) hoover, mop and dust but not move furniture.
Kitchen surfaces and hob cleaned daily, toilet cleaned every couple of days.
Once a month have a proper clean and move furniture to hoover properly and clean inside of windows.
Clean insides of cupboards about once a year! Change bed sheets every week.

I always think I don't do enough, but I think most people see dirt in their own houses where other people probably wouldn't notice.

PIL house is spotless 24/7. I wish I could keep on top of it more, but my Mum's mantra is "it's a boring woman who keeps a clean house" so I think her attitude rubbed off on me, there's so many better things to do with my time.

A lot less than you!

Your MIL sounds really rude.

Mine makes pointed remarks but any time she "helps" she does annoying things, like not washing jars to go into the recycling and putting things that won't break down into my composter.

I do the bathrooms fairly often, but the rest of the house gets done only when I know someone is coming to visit.

I'm with you diabolo

I try to keep clutter to a minimum and have regular throwing stuff out sessions, at least three times a week. I think that's the most effective housework you can do. The less stuff lying around the quicker it is to clean. And when it's fairly tidy it looks cleaner.
I had a cleaner for 2 hours a week when I was in a leg plaster, and now I pretend to be her for 2 hours. It's amazing how much you can get done if you treat it like a job. The dcs tidy up the floors on the day the 'cleaner' comes so it's really easy.

Bathrooms I do a liitle and often when I'm in there. Kitchen the same, clean as I go along. We all clean up after meals and sweep the dining room.

I always listen to podcasts whilst cleaning.

Eep, you and your cleaner do a lot more cleaning than I do! Your MIL is being VERY RUDE. What a cheek!! Some things in life are more important than cleaning ;)

Asinine- 3 times a week?! You must have no stuff left?