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

As little as possible. A general tidy and wiping as I go.

why clean where there is so much else you could be doing.. ... ... ...... ...

Honestly, let's see..

I'm single with a 2.5 year old DD. 4 days per week I'm up around 5.30, get myself and DD up and leave the house by 6.45am for nursery and work so no cleaning there, a coffee cup gets dirty but never cleaned.. return home around 6.30pm, eat something small (snack, nothing cooked), get DD to bed by 8pm, then do 2-3 hours more work and/or a workout, go to bed. No cleaning whatsoever, if any dishes get dirty they get left on the side til the non-work days and I don't care.

Other 3 days per week probably around 2 hours per day (so a total 6 hours per week) if you include all cooking, laundry, cleaning, gardening. Toys get put away as they're finished with, I don't count that as housework. I don't clean when DD is awake as prefer to spend time with her.

We live in a small 2-bed with an average size front and back garden.

Probably 1-3 hours a day and it's still a total shit pit. That is justdoing laundry , cleaning up from the meals consumed, tidying some toys, cleaning up after any painting, wiping up spills, putting some clothes away if i can sneak upstairs without being noticed, wiping over the bathroom during bathtime, making beds, picking up dirty washing from the floors etc. It's all in 5-10 min bursts with toddlers 'helping' so not really productive like 3 uninterrupted solid hours is.

I usually spend 3 hours every Saturday doing a proper clean when dh takes dc out.

Probably 1-2 hours a day but shared between me and DH and older DC.

If you mean just me then I whizz round in about 20 minutes in the morning: empty dishwasher, feed pets, put on a load of laundry, make beds, give bathroom a quick tidy and wipe/squirt loo and basin.

After work (full time): tidy DC incoming school stuff, do dishwasher twice more, feed and sort pets, tidy kitchen and wipe over surfaces, make sitting room comfy (tidy, fold throws, plump cushions). Hang out washing or put in dryer.

Bedtime: fold and put away laundry, sort clothes and school stuf for everyone for the next day.

Weekend: Hoover, change beds, mop, quick flick with a duster and quick scrub of bathroom.

My house is reasonably tidy and clean but not show home smart. I'm not embarrassed to have people around unexpectedly. (I used to be, I wasn't on top of things at all a few years ago, but now I feel I've learnt how to keep things reasonable on a daily basis).

I refuse to do more than one hour per day and I'm actually at home these days.

Who the hell can be arsed to hoover every day, we are all a long time dead. DS is a teen now and I still don't do that when he was crawling.

I went for a 3 mile walk, met a friend for coffee for 2 hours and did about 30 mins of housework. I am about to heat up leftover casserole for dinner and spent 3 hours on my Xbox gaming with mates.

Do people really not hoover daily?!? I thought pretty much everybody did (everybody else in my family hoover everyday and my one brother hoovers a minimum of twice a day). I feel less of a slob for my house only getting a full hoover once or twice a week now (physical problems make hoovering hard). I do touch up inbetween with a little cordless vacuum.

Re cleaning/housework probably an hour in a day. Plus cooking (which I'm slow at so another hour). It needs more (two young DC) but I find it all physically hard now. I want a cleaner.

Do people really not hoover daily?!?
No!
Not even my mother does it.

At best just use a broom for the worst bits.
It's also very wasteful energy wise.

A good clean once a week, a general tidy each evening, washing as needed, washing up as needed.

Probably averages to about ALAP an hourish a day

I don't have enough time to do as much as some people on here do!
My house also doesn't need that much maintenance. My home is clean and today pretty much most of the time. There are two adults and a teenager - we are all out of the house much of the day, from before 8am and no-one is usually home much before 5pm.

Hoovering - we have a robot one so do bedroom (top floor) and living room/study level (middle floor) once a week, and kitchen level ( ground floor) a couple of times a week. Takes a few seconds to press the button. I use the hand held to do the two flights of stairs once a week.
Mop - I steam clean the kitchen/hallway/utility level once a week. Takes about 15 minutes.
Kitchen gets a wipe down after use (normally by me as I'm cooking and then dh when he clears away and sorts dishwasher), and a bigger clean once a week - as done daily it doesn't take long. Same for the bathrooms really.
Glass/windows - was being lazy and not getting round to them. Got a new window vac the other day and did most of them last week. Will try to do as and when required a bit more. Need to get Dh to do outside.
Washing - about 4 loads a week, bedding every 2-3 weeks depending on if beds used, etc. Put on in a evening generally and placed on airer and/or tumble thereafter. DH does the ironing on a Sunday morning usually - takes him about an hour mainly due to his shirts and DD's uniform. He sorts them into the 3 piles for each of us and we put awayour own afterwards; similar with non-iron stuff too.
Tidying - try to keep on top of it as we go; helps that dd is pretty naturally tidy.
Dishwasher gets filled as required and goes on each morning as I leave for work. Emptied by dh in the evening.
Garden - nothing at moment as we have builders sorting it all out, out there. Will be very low maintenance after they finish with decking and fake grass, and only greenery type stuff in pots.
Food shop - I do it online either one evening, or using the phone app - ty to add to it as I realised what we need. Either me or dh puts it a way when it arrives.

Don't really count cooking - I cook most nights after work as I get in first. DH clears away, sorts most drinks, etc.

Thank you for your responses, seems a really mixed amount of time.. I wish I could get away with less cleaning but 2 small children all day create so much mess!

Who hovers every day? I Hoover maybe every 3 weeks. Just can't be arsed with it.

Every day I
Cook breakfast
Clear up, dishwasher on, make packed lunch for Ds
School runs
Put wash on
Quick tidy round, inc dc rooms
Do online shop x2 each week
Clean bathrooms x2 each week dishwasher every day
Wipe down table, cooker and work tops every day

Sweep kitchen and dining room when I notice they're messy

Tidy up when I get cross with the mess

Seems like a lot.

I do about an hour, and that includes cooking, dishes, sorting out the kitchen. DH does the same. During the week, we keep on top of the laundry, keep things vaguely orderly, do the loos and so on. We do a lot more on weekends. With both of us working f/t that works for us, and we still get to have a life.

Doesn't it all depend on house size, number of kids, how much your dh puts in? In big disorganised house living with a messy hoarder who took domestic refusal to new heights, I was doing at least 3 hours a day minimum just to keep it functional. Now, moved to small New build only me and the kids (5 and 1 yo) with no clutter, proper storage, with. A ruthless attitude to only having what we need - and I do about 45 mins a day which includes general tidy, 2 loads of washing, kitchen cleaned. I'm not counting cooking in either of my estimates though.

I work stupid hours so less than half an hours day and the bare minimum I can get away with at the weekend.

I hate cleaning. I have a full time job, a dog and two children - by Friday I'm ruined and the house is a tip.

During the week I do very little to be honest. Bare minimum sweeping, washing up as necessary... I keep up with the washing (but I splurged on a dri buddi so can do a couple of washes/dries in an evening if needed), wipe sides down as needed. I do most of my cleaning at the weekends. Early Saturday mornings and most of Sunday. Not very restful but I just can't get into it during the week.

CocktailQueen, I specifically pleaded that we have NO carpet in our new place just because I HATED hoovering! Much prefer sweeping. Carpets are my nemesis.

I agree with others- it's about lifestyle.

I was a SAHM for years and housework was never ending, having small kids and lots of projects/mud/painting/ food and drink spillages and general mess means a house gets much messier and dirtier than if parents work full time and kids are in nursery.

So I assume that those of you who work "stupid hours" also don't have the kids around either during that time to mess up the house.

My OH and kids are at school and work all day now, I am at home, but the house doesn't get nearly messy and dirty with everyone out all day. One hours housework is all I need to do.

Zero.

The cleaner comes on Wednesdays.

Obviously i do basic tasks like wipedown the kitchen surfaces after I've cooked, or rinse the showero It after I've shaved my legs - but no actual 'cleaning'.

Of you're including laundry probably 30 mins per week to hang out and put away.

So I assume that those of you who work "stupid hours" also don't have the kids around either during that time to mess up the house.

Exactly. An empty flat doesn't mess itself up!

Agree, the majority of the cleaning and tidying i do everyday is fire fighting the mess that the children create, and tidying from meal times. Apart from a bit of laundry that i usually do after they are in bed at 9pm.

If i worked i would imagine the cleaning/tidying on weekdays would reduce to about 30 mins of cleaning up after dinner and bunging a wash on and just the 3 hour clean on Saturdays.

About 2-3 hours now I've given up work.
Before that it was about 30 mins, dishes, wipe the benches and bleach down the loo before bed. Then everything would get a big clean on Saturday or Sunday, about 4 hours. We were never in the house so it never really got dirty or messy.
Now it's a sticky shit tip all day.

Work ft, have cleaners 3 hours per week, so house gets mopped and hoovered by them. Have a robot Hoover we send around in between times.

Too much washing, menopausal sweaty mare.

When lived on my own did about two hours a week.

We have 3 preschool kids (although the baby is only 2 months old so only really produces laundry!) I'm a SAHM and do around 90 mins a day in a few small bursts. We had a cleaner to do the bathrooms and the upstairs hoovering once a week but only had her temporarily when I first had DD3 - we found it a bit of a waste as it was grubby again by the end of the day!

It's not as simple as there being "better things to do"... I hate that "cleaning and dusting can wait til tomorrow" poem - yes, within reason, but some of the disingenuous "I'm too lazy, me" responses are more because a house which no one is in for 9 hours a day isn't going to get messy! We eat 3 meals a day at home and regularly have friends round and messy play etc. Of course I have to clean more often.

Do people really not hoover daily?!?

Good grief no!

I sweep the downstairs floors daily (hard floors throughout). Takes 10 minutes to sweep through.

Usually, once a week, I hoover the stairs and upstairs and mop the floors downstairs and the bathroom. It takes about half an hour.

At weekends we're all at home. I still don't spend 2-3 hours cleaning/ tidying.