To have not known that people wipe down their walls?

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Does everyone do this as part of general cleaning? I had no idea and have been bellowing at kids for sticky fingers for months!!

The dog comes in and shakes himself (all over the utility room wall!). Baby wipes are great, especially Johnson's. Don't scrub too hard.

Now summer is coming there will be less mess but his hair is another issue...... Have to vacuum every day

We rent and maybe they use cheap paint or something but when I did wipe I took some off (any suggestions of what I did wrong very much welcome!)

I'm sure you're right, there is an explanation -or more likely many explanations.

So dust mite. The reality is that our modern homes are much more dusty than those of our ancestors - or at least the type of dust has changed. We have far more soft furnishings now, far more clothing, far more carpeting. Our homes are warmer and better insulated. Far better breeding grounds for dust mites than the peasant hovels of yore, however dirty they were. So you could equally hypothesise that the rise in dust mite allergy is linked to the rise in dust mite in our environment, rather than our lack of exposure to it.

C'mon really??? No I never really do.Life is way too short. If there is a mark left by the kids then yes. Otherwise I paint every couple of years.

I washed my kitchen walls as they were dusty and grimey and all the paint came off that'll teach me!

Private tennant and it seems a rushed paint job was done. Looks a bloody mess now.

I do it if I see a mark on the wall or on the wall on our landing I have to do it often because it gets mould. But I dont do all the walls in the house as a regular thing, no.

Only wipe the walls if you can reach the ceiling. I find it hilarious when people wipe only as far as they can reach so there's a "tide mark" about a foot or two from the ceiling! (NB so called "professional" school and office cleaners are notorious for this!).

Fuck that shit!

Wiping down walls, Christ some people have too much time on their hands.....

I’ve never ever cleaned my skirting boards. I honestly don’t know where people find hours in the day for this. Unless you literally have zero time for yourself and are happy with that...

I spring clean the house every year, no real reason, I just feel like a good clean when the weather gets nice.
Either I take a day off, or I take 1 hour per day over 2 weeks and that's more than enough. My house is really not that big, I don't need more than 1 hour to do the entire living room - which must be the biggest room in the house - , skirting boards included. I don't enjoy the actual cleaning, but I love the feel of a fresh room, curtains freshly washed and so on.

I don't really understand what's so weird about that, it's not like I would go for my morning jog 5 mornings a week.

I don't in my living room because I hate the paint so the more dirty it gets the more likely DP is going to come home with a new colour (won this game in 3 rooms already) I wipe down the other rooms as I have a DS and a dog but not often, probably once a month - different rooms at different times not the whole lot in one go - and even then its not a top to bottom clean just where its needed.

Barbarian I don't think the theory applies to dust mite allergies specifically, more that the dust motes give the immune system something to tackle. Otherwise they get bored - like soldiers in peacetime - and go crazy the minute anything 'strange' enters the body. (Hmm, you can tell I'm an ex arts student right and not a scientist!)
However 'peasant hovel of yore' has definitely given me some new interiors aims. (ROFLing at the idea of modern homes being warmer... not mine, my DH is a fan of 'Siberian winter' setting on the thermostat!)

my kitchen and bathroom are both fully tiled so the walls in these get washed down once a week, the rest of the house is wallpaper so no i only wash marks that show like hand level dado rail and handrail up the stairs and light switches/ plug sockets

I only wipe down a wall if there's a need. I'm more likely to dust a wall or run the hoover over it.

Slattern here. I can't believe people do this on a weekly basis.

Once in a while I have to wipe off muddy marks if the dogs have brushed against them too much or shaken themselves, but that's it.

As for bleaching skirting boards!!!!! Errrrrm, WHAT????!!!! . I've never bleached a skirting board in my life and don't intend to start now.

I mop mine because of dogs and kids.

WhenI moved into my house I didn't have a washing machine fitted so went to the launderette, I realised I was going to let the neighbourhood down badly with my slutty ways when I heard one woman say to the other " i' m all behind this week, it's already Wednesday and I haven't washed my paintwork down ." I realised that I count my not washing paintwork intervals in years not weeks. Oops.

I have just realised where my not cleaning paintwork gene comes from. Years ago, when I was about six we had a free sample of flash posted through the letterbox. being that sort of a child I took it upon myself to pouts it into a bucket of water and try it out on a patch of the kitchen paintwork. My mother was not amused.

There are people who change their sheets once a MONTH?! And I thought I was a slattern. - I have 3 kids, so 4 beds, and 3 of those are doubles. I change one a week (sometimes a bit more) so all get changed once a month.

I don't have a tumbledrier and have no intention of getting one, and no space anyway, so it means wet sheets/duvet covers hanging around for days on end in winter. Hence not doing it more than necessary. No-one has died yet.

We use silk paint which wipes down lovely with Zoflora diluted

wiping walls. I have heard tell of this. I wipe off finger prints etc but it's not part of my cleaning routine (such as it is). Neither is cleaning the woodwork. Blimey. Why. Would. You. Do. This.

Oh by the way meant to add my wiping the walls coincides with a child drawing on it;)

If you have children of sticky years you either wipe walls (boring) make your children walk upstairs with their hands clasped (dangerous and possibly cruel) redecorate annually (expensive) or live with a delicate pattern of sticky handprints throughout.
Magic eraser sponge thingy is great, btw