How the hell do people clean bathroom only once a week?!

[Pinkbabe1]

I'm genuinely interested here because I've read many a MN thread of ways in which to save time at home and almost always, people say clean the bathroom once a week! Now, I clean my bathroom everyday and even doing that the amount of scum I clean away each day surely would be unhygienic after a whole week? It leaves me baffled, I'm genuinely interested to know if the people that clean once a week have really dirty bathrooms by the end of it?! To put into perspective I thoroughly wipe the sink, toilet and bath surround - spray the bath and tiles and wash off before bleaching the toilet and wiping the floor which takes all of 10 mins. How do people get away with it?!

Reading this reinforces my thinking that some people confuse using cleaning products with cleaning. Splashing bleach/cleaner around doesn't 'clean' things. It just takes the colour out of the dirt and makes things smell fresher. To properly clean you need water and friction/elbow grease. When you add a bit of cleaner to this you will get the best possible results.

I rinse the sink and shower every day and flush the loo after every use. That is enough to keep them normally clean, no scum or tide marks. Every week or so sink/shower/walls get properly cleaned with diluted flash and clean e cloths. The loo gets scrubbed every fortnight with Ajax and a scouring sponge. One sponge does all 4 loos and then gets chucked away. Everything is clean and fresh - no need for bleach or quick panic cleans when people come over.

Polly - okay I'll be more explicit - if I really felt that cleaning my bathroom daily was vital to my or my family's wellbeing then of course I could and would find time to do it but I seriously cannot see how it would enhance our lives in any way!

Some people just have different priorities to you. Get over it!

I was brought up to clean the bath after using it. In my family, my mum expected each of us to take Vim, as it was decades back, and clean the bath after we'd used it, so it was clean for the next person in the family to use it. Washing it once a week would have been unheard of if it was used daily by different people. How times change eh even though we have so many teccie gadgets to help us.

Dust is the worst thing in our bathroom. Everywhere, gets behind the toilet lid especially (why there??).

Am I the only one put off by how much bleach you're all dumping into the water / sewage system?

I've come to suspect most people don't actually mean bleach on MN, but toilet cleaner.

I use a non-bleach one (which is probably worse - who knows?), but then only when I actually need to scrub the toilet.

Not clearly over concerned by mess - it takes me TEN MINS. I play with my children lots Thankyou - yet again it takes TEN MINS! Pointless post as you didn't add anything other than some people live on dumps. Thanks for that - now back to the original question.... - callmecunt

Some people just have different priorities to you. Get over it!

You get over it too!

If you want to wash in days old scum that's your choice.

I have plenty of other things in my life but spending 4 minutes- maybe 2 if I timed it- is hardly a big deal. FFS.

What on earth are you doing in your bathroom that means you have to clean it so thoroughly every day?!

I have a (very) full time job, as does DH. We have a cleaner who comes twice a week. I have no idea if she cleans our bathrooms once or twice a week, but I know that they're always adequately clean.

Wow there is too much caring here. Unless I am coming to your house, rest assured I couldn't give a damn how often you scrub your bath out. Jeez.

I clean mine once a week. It's fine. Life is too short to spend more time than necessary cleaning!

Ten minutes, a day 60 hours a year. Ok, you have time.

I doubt you'll be featured on Channel 4 anytime soon for not cleaning a bathroom for 1 week. Chill a bit, you aren't going to come to any harm... is that what you need to hear?

I don't wash my towels often. I never have. The bacteria/mouldy you are claiming has never made me I'll yet.

Ok your obviously one of these people that think "good mums have piles of washing, dirty ovens and sticky floors" so we are never going to agree.

Every other week here. There isn't any scum, ever. And I go to the gym and allotment so I'm not that clean.

The shower is rinsed after every use and I slosh the sink around too. Rarely have baths so that doesn't get grubby. Lots of open windows and no shoes in the house. If a see a stray hair in the floor I pick it up and wipe off any of the dc's toothpaste splodges as I go.

you seem a bit obsessed with "scum". You can't be that filthy that you create so much of whatever that is every single day.
You need to chill. Sparkly taps don't make you a better person. MAybe get a hobby or something?

Hard water makes it worse. Assume your shower is over the bath? That shows first faster than a walk in shower...

I clean the sink and loo daily which takes minutes. We have a walk in shower so that doesn't attract dirt as much. I tend to 'properly' clean the bathrooms at the weekend but loos and sinks do seem to get mucky daily, so get cleaned daily.
Kitchen gets done daily too but always seems to unravel within an hour!
Bath towels - yes, they do need washing and so do sheets. Even if you shower before bed you still sweat into the sheets a surprising amount (your feet alone can lose a pint a day...)
Towels used for a few days then washed in hot, sheets changed weekly, or more if baby Ds vomits/pees/drools milk on them.

I don't think we are particularly clean - we have an almost toddler so it's kind of messy, but hygienic

Pictures taken right now of my bathroom that is due for it's weekly clean tomorrow.
Judge away!!

Hardly, I have an excellent cleaner and a very tidy home, but I'm not obsessed, I don't try and do her job.

If you'd like to insult me, you'll have to try a little harder

I don't understand the 'scum' unless you have very hard water and a very slow draining shower, bath and sink.

Hedda - it takes 10 mins!!! I do have hobbies and even if I didn't then not cleaning my bathroom for ten mins wouldn't make me take up another?!

I am just having a little 1950's style chuckle at 'one of those people'.

We don't use soap which I think helps. Only shower gel.

And I struck gold with my dc's toilet aiming abilities. DS never gets any pee anywhere but the bowl.

Lol well that says it all - you've got a cleaner! Not all of us have got that luxury darling so hop along and play with your children in the meantime us peasants shall clean our own for ten mins THEN play with our kids!

It's not how long it takes, its the fact that you are obsessing about how often other people clean their bathrooms and comparing yourself to them on the internet to make yourself seem superior. Thats the actual issue here.

If you think you need to spend 10 mins a day cleaning "scum" off your bathroom then fair play to yuo, knock yourself out. Why do you care if other people do or not?

Jolly good