To ask how many hours you spend on house work each week?

[LightsPlease]

I watch obsessive compulsive cleaners on channel 4. They spend so much time cleanings and although I know its an illness it makes me feel a bit bad about my own cleaning for some reason (that I dont do it enough even though dont really have anything to compare to lol).

I spend about 12 hours give or take a week on cleaning and tidying. Is this alot or a little im not sure.

Also it said on the show that 1 in 4 people have fecal matter on their hands :( .

Its made me even more funny about touching things!

Hours?

About two hours a day in all I reckon?

It's hard to count hours it just seems like an ongoing process.

I'm probably more like one of the people on that programme though

An hour, maybe two. DH does the rest.

What counts as housework? Cooking? Shopping? Cleaning? Washing?

All the hours I'm awake and home!

Or it seems that way! Yet still the house seems like it's not clean enough/tidy enough.

Erm probably 10 mins a day tidying and wiping, I clean 5 rooms a week and they probably average 20mins each room so about 3 hours a week

I could do them faster, that is not a thorough clean.

I do not clean the playroom (dining room), the children's bedrooms or the bathroom

Wasnt counting in cooking or shopping!
Definitely agree that its an ongoing process.

I can Hoover, do the bathrooms and dust in 2-3 hours. How often I have time in another story.

An hour a day (spread out into little tasks). So about 7 hours-ish a week.

Rufustherednosedreindeer

What about washing dishes, laundry, sweeping floors, hoovering, cleaning bathroom, etc?

I'd say on average, between df and I...maybe 20 hours a week?

That would include everything though...including df doing DIY type bits, and any gardening/outdoor stuff too.

I'm off every Thursday and Friday so the majority of 'proper' cleaning gets done on those two days...probably 3 hours each of those days by me. That's when I actually clean, Hoover, mop through, give the bathroom a scrub, wash and change all the bedding, dust, do windows, sort any accumulated junk/paperwork since the last Friday and so on.
Df will spend maybe 2 hours on his day off cleaning/DIY.

On top of that df and I will spend maybe half an hour a day each pottering...laundry/dishwasher/quick sweep of floor and wipe of surfaces.

Then say 5 hours a week of 'one offs' - mowing the lawn, having a big sort out of kitchen cupboards/clothes/toys etc.

It's really manageable if you keep on top of it. I don't really feel I spend much time cleaning at all. I have learnt to be ruthless with junk though, I hate general clutter.

If we don't include cooking, packed lunches or shopping (I do all cooking, we shop together) then it probably doesn't even add up to an hour.

I load the dishwasher as I go and bung in or hang up the odd washing. Dh does the rest.

Yanbu to ask.

Looking at the state of my house...

Not enough.

None, I do cook but not always but I don't do anything else.

I don't add up the minutes but I'm cleaning up after the children all day until they go to sleep. Hoovering and dusting/cleaning is once a week in all the rooms except the main living room and kitchen, those are mopped/vaccumed everyday.

My house is still far from perfect. We have drawings on the walls thanks to my artistic () DS and toys that find their way into every nook and cranny and open space.

30 mins at night doing general tidying, about 2-3 hours at the weekend cleaning.

The ladies who do the housework are they house husband's or do they go to work as well?

DH and I both work. He does all the cooking ( dishes etc), and most of the cleaning. I run with the dog and do all the shopping. He is so much better at cleaning and is an amazing cook so it makes sense for us.

5 mins here and there several times a day tidying, doing dishwasher, laundry, etc.
Only do a proper clean (hoovering, dusting, clean hob etc) if someone is coming round! Other than that - hmm. Bathroom gets cleaned once a week. Kitchen surfaces get wiped nightly.
We do have visitors fairly often though so it's not as bad as it sounds!

Very very rarely (like less than once a year) do we do any kind of deep clean (in cupboards, behind beds etc).

LightsPlease - both dh and I work full time. We get equal sit down time.

WTF? DP works more than me AND does more housework than me. Why should a man only do housework if he is a "house husband"? You're both adults, take an equal share. (I probably do most of the cooking and shopping and childcare so it evens out).

One thing he has opened my eyes to is the fact that you shouldn't need to do hours a day. I suppose it depends on the size of your house mainly, though.

womble

Husband cleans the bathroom and downstairs loo, I included sweeping and hoovering, husband loads dishwasher. I didn't include laundry, so you could probably add another 10 minutes for every load so about another 70 mins

I didn't include cooking, not sure what else is considered housework

About half an hour a day of 'proper' cleaning - e.g. hoovering, cleaning bathroom etc, and about another hour or so on lots of constant little tasks (dishwasher, tidying, wiping surfaces, sweeping floors, washing loading/unloading).

On top of this is cooking, grocery shopping, household admin etc