To have not known that people wipe down their walls?

[Furiousaboutinstarubbish]

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

Holy shit. Where do people find the time for this stuff?

I never did until DCs came along - then had sticky toddler finger marks all up the staircase walls and other places. Unfortunately we don't have wipeable paint so it's hard to clean - I did actually have to repaint the stairwell not long ago! (When they were 9 ). But agree with a PP - bathrooms do seem to get dusty. We have (washable) wallpaper there so maybe that's worse, but several times I've noticed an actual film of dust on the paper and have rushed off to get the feather duster! That's only over the space of 20 years though . Generally - wall wiping is something I do when I realise I need to, not a regular part of my cleaning.

I wipe down the walls when they need it and the kitchen gets repainted every now and then because there is only so much wiping you can do before you have to just paint over the weird stains that won't come out. I have 2 small DC and a dog and a messy DH.

Ugh just read some condescending comments up thread about teaching children to sit still while eating and wash their hands afterwards. Have a gold star.

It's not actually food that's in my hallway/playroom/stairwell, children get grubby hands because they touch so much stuff wherever they are and they get grubby hands. My children aren't particularly dirty either, they wash their hands before and after meals, most times when they re enter the house, they get bathed every night. But they are small children, they get grubby and use their hands to steady themselves on the walls.

Only if there's marks. I did repaint the hallway as it was bugging me and have done it in a wipeable grey paint! I don't have dogs or DC so that's the first time it needed painting and it was 10 years

Do any of you that wipe down walls have a day job?

I threw a teabag in the bin and it hit the wall so I had to baby wipe the stain. Does that count

Two jobs, one full and one part time. Hence why I only do it when there is visible marks

I HATE housework, but I wipe down walls. For all of the smuggly people who blame my poorly trained dc, pets, and dh, I just wiped my bedroom walls down bc they were dusty. I have overhead vents that spew dust.
Also cobwebs?

When I choose paint, I choose "wipeable" paint for my walls. There is a problem with washing walls bc at some point, you need to stop without obvious wash marks.
If something is dirty, clean it, if it is not, ignore it?

I hate to stereotype but do men have this obsession with cleaning? Does anyone know a man who cleans for an hour a day, wipes down toilet walls, changes bedding every couple of days or has the washing machine constantly on? And if so, do they do it without being prompted? I.e. they want to do this because they feel it needs doing.

When there’s a mark of course more in kitchen and hallway

My painter said something about people in the old days washing down walls 🤣

I've recently been helping the best friend a girl could have to clear/clean her relatives home ready for sale after relly had sadly passed away. property had lain empty for several months and was quite mucky. This is seriously making me think I need to clean my skirting boards and doors (skirting hasn't been done in at least a few years - my special needs son is 7yo...)
Doors I do clean the dust off of the flat panelly bits every so often, promise!!

Is life not too short to add extra shitty housework to?

My children wash their hands before and after each meal so they don’t have sticky hands that often.
We do have scrubable paint in most rooms they play in and in the hall, so I suppose I should give it a wash.

One room down! No finger marks but lots of coloured marks from toys removed!
Can’t say I massively notice the difference.

I do, and I'm not adverse to covering up marks with a bit of paint either. We keep a tin of every paint we use for that reason.

I wouldn't have bothered but DH has OCD and wipes down everything

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Only very rarely, but then again I'm a slut.

Goodness, I didn't know this was a thing.

I'm retired and still don't have the time or inclination to wipe down walls and given that I'm getting older, I don't have enough years left to live that I want to waste them wiping walls.

Only time I wipe a wall is when the dog comes in from the garden and splashes mud up the wall by the door.

Having said that I don't live with children and grandchildren don't seem to stick their hands on the walls when they're here.

I've written the word wall far too many times.