To ask how many hours a day you do housework?

[Moomoomango]

Excuse the mundane -ness of this post. I grew up in a house where next to no cleaning got done.. That's all I know as normal. Now living in my own house with two children id love to know what is normal?

I do probably about 1-2 hours if you exclude cooking but include laundry, cleaning and tidying. Does that sound about right?

Thanks

I have an analschedule of jobs. I do 20 mins before work and 20 after. Plus a bit of loading the dishwasher, wiping surfaces as needs be.

That gets the house clean in 5 days and I have weekends off.

But we are out of the house from 730 until late most weeknights so it doesn't get too messy.

I'm 52 I've never done hours cleaning every day. Cleaner does once per week. Washing once per week x3 loads (just me) was 3 times a week when there were 4 of us. I tidy up after meals but don't count that as housework.

hours??? per day?? Are you on glue?

Hours? Right, this is why my house is a tip.

Less than an hour a day - life's too short,

I'd rather spend my time doing thing I enjoy doing.

2 hours per day ish. I'm happy with this. I like a tidy house, makes me smile!

DH and I do the whole house on a Sunday morning. Not much gets done other than that - just us and 2 cats so bar a bit of fluff we don't get very dirty

It's hard to quantify because it's usually in bits and bats but everyday I
-prepare breakfast, lunch and tea for the kids, plus evening meal for me and dp
-make beds and general tidy of bedrooms
-wipe around bathroom
-at least one load of washing and drying, often 2
-wash up 3 times
-hoover living room
-sweep kitchen 3 times
-endless amounts of general tidying

Then once a week the bathrooms, kitchen, bedrooms, playroom and living rooms get a decent clean. I also do a big cook once a week, mop three floors 3 times a week, iron for an hour or two a week, vac stairs once/twice a week, meal plan once a week......
I do loads of housework. It probably amounts to at least a couple of hours a day.

And it's always tidy...

does this include setting tables putting out meals and snacks tidying it away? if so i do housework pretty much all day except after lunch 1 hr free before kids get in, and usually 1 hour free after kids go school.

it seems like im forever dishing up food for ppl and tidying plates and cups and tables.

vacuuming upstairs only once a week, but the hall kitchen and small reception room everyday no way of avoiding it.

purple do ppl want big houses? For me its a need. i need 5 bedrooms for the amount of ppl i have and a kitchen big enough so everyone can eat in the kitchen and leave mess there.
i could do with a smaller modern build theres be less square footage for me to clean, so better for me as i do it all myself. But not found one, those 4 storey town houses are no use to us my father struggles with 1 flight of stairs forget 2 or 3 .

About 30 mins on weekdays but were out the house 8:30-6 then dinner and bed.
About 1-2 hours at the weekend plus about 2 again for ironing

Probably an hour maybe 90 minutes. That includes doing the dishes as well. Normal day to day stuff is dishes, load/empty washing machine,put laundry away, sweep kitchen floor and tidy ds's toys away at bedtime.
I try to tidy as I go and not leave stuff lying around.

Basic maintenance is 1-2 hours a day, but that is generally just washing up and sweeping, a load of laundry and possibly folding it if I'm feeling extra frisky. A deep clean takes a lot longer, but I've been home edding and my dc are tornadoes. When they are all back in school it will be much tidier around here.

About minus 3, if possible.

10 minutes
I work full time so before work the breakfast pots are washed and usually put away although not always, I do a quick hoover with my superlight cordless vacuum if its looking a bit grubby on the carpets and crumby on the kitchen floor. I may have done some washing last thing so I peg that out on a fine day and go to work. Once a week DH cleans the downstairs cloakroom when he gets in and I do the bathroom. On friday's after we get up I change the sheets before breakfast and bung a wash on, once home I cook and DH washes up or he cooks and washes up and on sunday's he does the ironing. before bed I open the curtains and plump up sofa cushions. probably once a week I do all this in one go and mop floors, clean cooker, wipe stuff down or do windows or other random jobs to keep things nice which takes me a couple of hours and on very rare occasions when stuff starts to bug me like cupboards and wardrobes getting a bit disorganised I might spend all day having a clearout and tidy.

I honestly can't quantity it because I just kind of keep on top of it as and when it needs doing on weekdays. Saturday morning I might spend an hour or so hoovering and cleaning the kitchen. Dh and I bung a load in the washing machine as and when and hang it out. Might have a blitz on the bathrooms once a month. We outsource the ironing. I'd say 2-3 hours max per week between us. We don't live in a particularly big house and it never feel dirty.

Only one child, but no more than 30 min on average a day.
But then I have a cleaner who also does 4 hours every other week.

Oh and I might give more time to it if we didn't both work full time, but even then I'd struggle to find 2 hours a day in it.

I don't get why a house would need cleaning for hours every day! Life is too short. On a daily basis I wash up and clean surfaces. Hoover twice a week (have a hairy cat and toddler!) and laundry a few times a week which is basically a ten minute job including hanging it up. Mop floors once a week. My house looks clean and tidy!
I just feel sad that so many women spend countless hours cleaning, but then if they enjoy it then that's good.

Hours? As in plural? Per DAY? Ha!

This.

I have no idea...I'd hazard a guess it works out at 2-3 hours a week not including laundry. One the rare occasion I've done a weekly blitz I usually stick a CD on and when it finishes, so do I so about an hour and a quarter.

My house just needs cleaning Bill, I have a toddler and a 9 month old who is now crawling so the floor needs hoovering everyday or else she picks crap up and eats it! Surely by the time you add up bed making, washing, cooking etc most households take at least an hour a day to run? I suppose mine is longer because my kids are little, no cleaner and I cook from scratch.

We're meant to do house work as well? . Ooh no, I don't think I've got time for that, what with work-work and having a life and everything.

NickyEds- ahh if you're adding cooking then yes it probably goes past the hour mark, but only just

SIrfredfredgeorge, it isn't anytHing to do with dust. It is spring time, so the dog is moulting great globs of hair everywhere, the kids are in and out of the garden, sand pit, water tray, grass and leaves.

Most of it is dog related though. Seriously you brush the dog, wash the dog, vacuum the house, then go out for a few hours, come back and the house needs vacuuming again. Leave it for more than a day and big hair balls accumulate in corners, ther are sandy footprints on the living room carpet, mudpieces and cut grass ends all over the dining room.

Trust me when I say it needs vacuuming every day.

This is a 'how long is a piece of string' question.
Watch OCD Cleaners for the 2 extremes and then there will be people who are everywhere in between.

There's no "normal"
There's no "about right"

Before MN, I'd never heard of anyone vacuuming every day, but there are quite a lot of odd people on here that do it.