Aibu to ask how clean is your house?

[Itisafact]

Not a thread about a thread but inspired by another thread...how often do you clean, is your house showhome style, or organically dirty .

Just being nosy really and wondering where I am on the clean house scale.

Oh, OP. That's too much I think :)

2x dishes breakfast and main meal fine
Kitchen worktops throughout the day fine
Hob, fronts of cupboards once a day hob, if it's dirty. Cupboard fronts weekly
Damp dusting all furniture downstairs daily weekly, if that
Hoover and mop downstairs usually twice a day sometimes can get away with once twice?? You say you don't have DC?
Bathroom every day I understand people do bathrooms more than I would but a swish every day is OK, 'proper' clean weekly?
Deep clean of a different room most days e.g skirting boards, banisters, pipes etc in bathroom or moving furniture out. I used to work in a hotel and we did a deep clean monthly
Plus laundry. fine

That's my input ^ fwiw :)

Did you have a real problem before? Perhaps you've swung too far the other way :) Maybe a list/rota to follow instead of whirling around doing EVERYTHING might be helpful?

Ours is currently a shit tip. Cleaner had gone AWOL and the monsters are running circles around me.

The middle one washed her hair with her dinner earlier so I left her father to deal with the 'incident' and have not been downstairs since.

I'm hopeless at housework unless I've a decent starting base. I don't do details is what I mean, ie I'm utterly OCD an can't cope with things out of place so if they are I can't even begin to deal with them.

Not as clean as i would like it.

You cant really walk aorund with nothing on feet else you get bits stuck to your feet.I sweep and mop every day and hoover the stairs landing and 1 bedroom every day too,but there are 7 of us,2 cats,and kids that play outside all day,and im not strict about shoes so it doesnt take long before its dirty again.

There is always clean washing waiting to be put away.Always loads of washing to be done.

One day there will be no children here,no piles of colouring books,bits of playmobil,barbie shoes,sticky fingers on windows etc etc,and i will be sad!SO i try not to care too much.

Thanks kali the floors get mucky because I have 2 dogs who are rather hairy and muddy. It's like fighting a losing battle because as soon as I've cleaned them there are paw prints on them again.

I had a bout of depression a few years ago and really struggled to keep up with the housework and things were pretty messy dishes piled up for 2 days at a time etc but not overly bad. Thinking about it it's probably linked to that, I feel anxious if there's any mess.

Thank God for the posts like Greenstones.. !
I try but have definitely let standards slip. Been much happier for accepting the mess, and trying to keep the place really clean would be pointless - I'd literally be following 20mo DS round all day with a cloth!!
It's not my idea of fun and it's certainly not his. It can stay like this for a few years.

Get one of those spray mops. The ones that dispense cleaning product. Limit yourself to only once a day. I have two dogs, one which loves to lay in the flower bed, rain, hail or shine. I'd drive myself mad if I mopped properly after every time he's been outside. Squirt and swish. Squirt and swish.

I went a bit OTT when I first moved here and had a list a bit like yours, but soon settled down and honestly my house looks no worse for my newly found squirt and swish skills.

Itsafact, do you go out to work? You seem to do an awful lot of unnecessary cleaning. I dare you to go out tomorrow and leave it. Seriously, you don't need to do what you do every day!!

To answer your question - my house is a shit tip at the moment and its really getting on my nerves. My excuse is I am working 5 days a week at the minute instead of my usual 3. That has had a huge impact on the state of my house. I've been doing 5 days since Dec and really want to get back to my 3. That is my excuse and I'm sticking to it!

Life is too short to worry about a mucky floor (my mother would be having a meltdown hearing this), or as a dear friend says too short to get the bus!

As long as the babies/children are happy and healthy an your grinds still love coming around for dinner parties, then you're doing just fine. I grew up in a home without a speck of dust however the children's part of it could have been an entirely different property and that is not for lack of parental admonishment at the mess, it's just children not particularly worrying what the guests think!

Grinds? Dear god, friends!!

Am I the only one who does no cleaning each day?
Obviously washing up gets done, and the kitchen worktops get a wipe down after dinner, but other than that we have the cleaner that comes every other week and that's it.
I only trouble the vacuum cleaner if something needs cleaning IYKWIM.
Stuff gets put away and the house is tidy, just not clean.
If a friend turned up unannounced I wouldn't be worried.

DH and I both work full time and we have no DC.

Hovel

Pink, yes I go to work 2 days a week and work from home 2 days.

Ok I think I need to relax a little and break away from the routine, I'm just so used to it now.

Thanks Learner, I have new policy of being honest about how crap I/we are on Good Housekeeping threads in the hope that there are others out there who will feel less alone :)

I marvel at my friend's gleaming home but I know for a fact she doesn't sit down all day. I would find it so so hard to keep that up but it's a way of life for her.

We're all different!

Pretty spotless although I don't work so have plenty of time. I spend a few hours every day. The four older children have chores every day and DH does about 30mins to an hour a day.

There are currently 5 people in our house. Next week there will be 9 until the middle of august. I could have a showhome if i didn't go to work. Sadly we all have to do that so we have to put up with a dirtier environment.

I'm happier since i decided to spend my limited free time doing things i like rather than cleaning and none of us have died. People spend far too much time cleaning imho and too little enjoying their lives.

I am awake for about 17 hours a day. Even with a few hours spent cleaving I have over 12 hours a day to do as I wish.

I have a cleaner 10 hours a week and I also do extra cleaning but only when I want too. There are three of us in the house and no pets so it's sparkly clean, super organised and quite tidy. I love it being clean and tidy'ish. It makes me feel really happy and relaxed. My garden is immaculate too.

For some strange reason the inside of my car is a right state. I file old parking receipts, food wrappers and drink containers on the floor. My handbags are not great either.

Greenstone, we used to be just 3 in a titchy house and I cleaned all the time. The house looked immaculate but i was really unhappy

Then we moved into a house 4 times bigger, i took on more hours at work, BIL and SIL moved in and they are both messy. Something had to give and one day I was cleaning the skirting while everyone else was doing stuff they wanted to do and I thought "fuck this, who am I doing this for ?"

We have a reasonable level of cleanliness, it's certainly no hovel but it doesn't look like a 5* hotel any more which was the look i went for in our old house, obsessively polishing the taps. But I spend my time doing stuff I enjoy; tonight I would historically have spent the evening cleaning. Instead I gave the bathroom a cursory clean after I showered, made a cake for a colleague's leaving do tomorrow, spent some time in the garden, did some coursework and watched an interesting documentary on birth in the medieval period.

OP, try to think of time spent cleaning as time you will never get back often doing something completely unnecessarily. Seriously, nobody needs to vacuum twice every day unless you have a pack of Afghan hounds and a cream carpet. Think of all the things you would like to achieve in life - and instead of cleaning the sink do those instead.

SET YOURSELF FREE !!!

Mine's a complete shit pit. Even worse than normal lately as DH has been working mad hours and DD has had a bug so I've been spending my time with her hoping to help her aim the next vomit wave into a bucket tenderly mopping her fevered brow. But it's normally pretty scruffy. Right now, everything needs some attention and some things need a lot of attention - I am usually reasonably on top of the bathroom at least, but even that's gone to pot.

How do you spend a few hours a day cleaning? I'd run out of things to clean after a day of doing that.

I sometimes run out of things to clean the way I do it now, I find myself bored and wandering aimlessly around the house with a bottle of spray cleaner and a cloth I realise it's time to sit down for a bit after that.

If you mop your floor once a week what if it gets dirty again in between?

Unless you're running a restaurant ask yourself does it really matter if the floor is a bit grubby

9 times out of ten the answer is no it does not, go and do something more interesting instead

I find it fascinating that, despite all these labour saving devices that were supposed to make time for us, women still chain themselves to the sink by insisting on fantastical levels of surgical cleanliness - you may as well be back in 1910 poking your boiling washing with a dolly.

This morning it was clean and tidy. This afternoon the toddler got hold of some glitter. This evening every single bloody room in the house is sparkly, alas not in a good way.

Wow OP that's a lot of cleaning. I don't think I've damp dusted anything so far this year, other than DD2's bedroom (she's allergic to dust).

We hoover downstairs probably every two days, upstairs every two weeks. Clean the kitchen/dining room floors once a week. Wipe kitchen surfaces a few times a day. Clean the hob two or three times a week. Run the oven self-cleaning cycle every couple of months. Clean bathrooms about once a week but give things an occasional wipe more often if they look dirty.

Tidy up properly once a week but pick a few things up each day.

I have three kids and two cats...

How do you spend a few hours a day cleaning? I'd run out of things to clean after a day of doing that.

We have six bedrooms in constant use, each with its own bathroom. DSS is no longer at home much but his room needs a Hoover and dust once a week. We then have a guest room with its bathroom that needs a Hoover and dust once a week. We then have kitchen, dining room, study and office, living room and a snug/ games room.

We have cats, dogs, chickens, cows, goats, pigs and sheep as well as gardens to look after.

Dust?

Is dusting that thing where you point the hoover at flat surfaces?