to ask you how much cleaning you do...

[NicoleLorenzo]

Very open question...

How much cleaning do you do?

If you have a partner, how much do they do?

Do you share equally or does one do more than the other?

I would say I do 95%, DP does the other 5%. Bit fed up and wondering if anyone else has a cleaning averse partner.

I do 95% of the cleaning, he pays for the cleaner once a week but I do most of the rest of the housework and all washing.

He does cook most nights but I do get annoyed at seemingly being the only one who can see mess!

I feel your pain!

I do 98% I'm a SAHM.
He loads the dishwasher if he's here and takes the bins if I ask.
I do a full clean on a Friday that takes me 4 hours.
I do about 1 hour a day of tidying up meal mess, loading dishwasher, beds, sweeping floors etc..
I also do between 6 and 8 loads of washing plus about 3 hours of ironing.
All the cooking and shopping.
All the school admin and usually send him a list of dates for his diary.
We have 4 youngish dc, a dog and a cat.

I do it all in the hours he is working (8-6) so our evenings are free to have some down time, see friends or go out together.
Weekends are for having fun with the kids and taxi-Ing them to various hobbies/social events.

When I grow up I'm getting a cleaner. I love a clean house but loathe the day to day drudgery too. I won't let DP move in because I just know I will end up cleaning up after him (he makes a bit of effort as a visitor). If I was loaded I would have an actual housekeeper who did the household admin too. One can dream!

Cleaning. I do none at all. I do sort out some laundry and the house is tidy enough. Our cleaners come in once a fortnight to clean. DH does the washing up. I do t do anything else.

Keyboardkate. I'm like you, lazy, and I love the way you don't care!

Trouble is there's only me and ds and I'm not working at the moment so it's down to me. Not looking good because I'm a lazy cow ................

Whoever's off does the cleaning. DH works shifts and I work part time term time. We muck in together if we're both off. It's pretty much 50/50.

We both work full time but have 4DC and both really like a very clean tidy home so both seem to be constantly cleaning from the moment we get in until bed. We both ‘blitz’ at weekends for a few hours, music on, do bathroom, kitchen very thoroughly etc and ‘clean as we go’ constantly the rest of the time. Staying very clean, tidy and organised all the time and sharing things equally helps us manage too many kids and stops either us feeling resentful that one of us isn’t doing our bit.

@mydogmymate

Ha ha, I really don't, but the house is clean purely because whenever I get a fit of energy and try to do it, I stop halfway and give up, too much lol! Then you know who finishes it off. Happy Days.

To be fair, I cook all evening meals. We don't eat breakfast apart from a cup of coffee and lunch is taken elsewhere. So I do my bit don't I??

(no kids left here now, so it's a bit easier than people with younger families, accepted!)

The nicer the weather the less I do. In UK I take every chance to enjoy nice days and not spend too much time cleaning. There's just the two of us so it's never that bad.
We always do the housework together, pretty much 50/50.

About an hour a day on cleaning, then cooking and laundry on top, we both work full time. I do more cleaning but only as I get home earlier so use that time. I can't relax if it's not clean and tidy so prefer to just get it done and then DH will wash up etc.

We have a cleaner who comes once a week and does the crucial areas - bathroom, toilets, kitchen, floors.
Other than that I do almost all of the light cleaning / tidying (+ laundry) but DH works lot longer hours so I guess it's kind of fair. Still pisses me off sometimes though.

As little as possible.

Teenage DCs do about 5- 20%, depending on exams and homework.

DP does about 1%, but he does do a few things I never do, so it is bad but not as bad as it sounds.

1 load of washing a day
About an hour a day doing basics like wiping kitchen, washing up pots, sweep hard floors, vaccum stairs & livingroom & dust.
About 15 minutes sorting clothes, putting away, iron as required (mainly just work shirts) every day
5 minutes in bathroom (toilet, clean & rinse bath, wipe sink)

Then every 3 days or so I do an extra hour-ish doing things like hoovering under sofa cushions, window sills, mop hard floors & bathroom, vaccum bedrooms, cupboards.

Every other week clean mirrors, windows & glass in the doors, clean the oven, wipe washing machine draw and seals that sort of thing.

DP does his fair share, he’ll wash the pots in the morning while I’m at work, he sweeps the deckings and mows the lawn

I work 4 days and DH works 5 days, our salaries are even when you add the CB and tax free childcare allowance on to mine and on my day off I take DD out somewhere so we usually both clean at the same time. Usually I’ll tell him what to clean and he’ll do it, so I’ll do the bathroom and he’ll do the kitchen, he does all the laundry, empties the bins and loads the dishwasher and I do 95% of the cooking and fold the laundry and put it away. I also organise the online shop and take care of all the admin. We both feel like we have an even split, DH has always been very keen on splitting everything 50/50

Too much. Work f/t dh works p/t we have one school aged dc. Have a cleaner in once a week for an hour. I still do the lions share. It's caused a lot of issues.

I do it all.

From making the bed to the laundry, the dishes, the bathrooms etc. My husband doesn't do any cleaning at all.

However he works full time and I am a carer so am around more

I’m a SAHM, normally I do all of the cleaning and half of the cooking, but at the moment we have a newborn so my husband is currently doing at least 80% of the cleaning whilst he’s on paternity leave. He tries really hard but it’s rarely cleaned to the standard I like the house to be cleaned to, so occasionally I do lose it and tell him that “I can’t live in this shit hole any longer”. Yes, I am an ungrateful cow at times

As little as possible.

Oh sorry - didn't realize it was a DP thread - but if there was anyone else around to do anything I'd still do as little cleaning/housework/etc as possible. Might explain why I've been single most of my life?

1980s convo with an ex-fiancee:

Him: Laundry is woman's work
Me: I don't do it with my tits
Him: I'll take it for a service wash
Me: Go right ahead.

Not much, I'll occasionally clean the bathroom and I've just bought a rubber broom which I love (sad) somill do the rug in the front room. DP does the washing up and cleans the kitchen. The rest is done by cleaners. We both work full time and I refuse to spend our time together cleaning the house.

I do a little bit but DH does the majority of the cleaning, around 20 mins a day. House is pretty reasonable.

Cleaners twice a week do hoovering/mopping/polishing type things.
I empty dishwasher and cook supper. He clears.
We both swop personal laundry around daily.
I strip Beds for laundry. We both make beds.
He does pest control, logs, pool maintenance and bins.
I do daily lavatory clean between cleaners. I do flowers (although he buys them). I do fridges, he does oven.

Pretty even distribution of household chores.

In terms of actual cleaning, I do it all. Every last bit. I work 20hours a week, DH works full time. I also do all the cooking, ironing and paperwork. In one sense I am my own worst enemy because I am fussy and I just get on with it because I know he won’t even notice something needs doing. On the other hand it drives me mad because he doesn’t seem to have any idea how much I do. We had a massive row about this a few months ago as he hadn’t done a thing on a day when I was working and he was off. Then he made a big song and dance of spending hours cleaning the bathroom to prove a point. First and last time I’ve ever seen him clean a toilet. He does sometimes put a load of laundry on and load the dishwasher but that’s about it. Can you tell this is a bit of an issue between us?

Deep clean either every saturday/Sunday. Both me and my partner, gets done a lot quicker that way. I do a bit every day though so we stay on top off it now. Used to leave everything but the kitchen and just found it took longer to do. Much easier when everything is relatively clean anyways.

I do 30%, DH does 50%, cleaner does the rest. DH and I both work 4 days a week, have 2 kids, one of them bf. So we've kind of fallen into a pattern of him cleaning (and cooking) while I do the kids, most of the time. He has higher standards than me, too.