How tidy do you get your house every day?

[mumtoallbhoys]

I wouldn't naturally be the most tidy person and my husband is probably tidier than average.

Tell me honestly what your standards are? I have 2 kids, 3 and 5. I take contracts, this year through choice I was off for 12 weeks over summer.

I make sure that I do all the cooking (lunch, snacks, dinner but he makes porridge in the morning) and 100% of the laundry. I make sure that the dishwasher is loaded sides wiped down. I wouldn't always sweep the floor or mop more than twice a week. We do have a cleaner who does a weekly deep clean weekly.

There would be a lot of toys everywhere downstairs but I have often run out of steam before I tidy them...

@mumtoallbhoys
I even go out and hoover the back garden 😂😂😂😂😂 oh and your not allowed to lean on the cushions either lol

I'm not tidy by nature but I hate clutter so maybe one day in five the place is a pigsty but I always tidy up before I have any visitors come round except yesterday when I got held up and had a visitor in when the place was as bad as it ever get oh god I'm dying of shame

Everything put back in its place and hoover and mopped. Cleaner comes once a week for big clean.

My daily tasks are:

• a surface clean of the kitchen - tidy and clean sides, clean sink, washing up, loading/unloading dishwasher.
• clean the loo and give the basin a wipe round.
• make sure the coffee table isn't covered in crap and yesterday's mugs aren't left lying around.
• pick up any clothes from the floor, put washing on/hang it out/fold it.

We have a cleaner once a week who does a proper clean of the kitchen and bathroom, hoovers and mops the floors, etc so it's just a case of keeping on top of the tidiness really.

I really really struggle with housework and the energy it requires. I have 3 boys, dogs and cats.
Right now, it's spotless as I've just had a hand getting rid of shit that accumulates. I still had stuff here from when the youngest was 5. He is now 11.

Before that it was quite messy. I can keep on top of the downstairs area, but it takes it out of me and so upstairs ends up neglected quite often. I try and keep on top of it when I do have the energy, but sometimes it's just not enough.

Hopefully now that all the old junk has gone, I will be able to manage it better.
I am a lone parent, with health issues that zaps energy. I wish I could have a cleaner, but social anxiety is a bitch.

I wish to be a naturally 'neat freakier' person, but I'm just not! It's particularly bad at the minute, I have a whirlwind almost 2 year old and I'm 13 weeks pregnant so my energy levels have been a flat zero for the past few weeks!

Yesterday I actually felt pretty good and I deep cleaned the kitchen and hallway, but generally I try and just keep on top of things that would be unclean rather than untidy if that makes sense?

Folding the washing is the bane of my life and we just won't talk about that one 😂

Partner will do his part, but he works odd shifts and long hours so it's not always consistent.

I'm about the same as you op.

Kitchen sides clean and pots washed and away. I maybe hoover (small handheld thing) if the floor gets really bad but also have a cleaner once a week.

When they kids were little and awake their toys would be out, but I had a toy bin they all got chucked in at the end of each day when they went to bed

Grew up in a clean freak house and now sort of rebel against it in my nature - 3 kids under 9 so I can get them to help me.with basics, husband often away, I'm a chronically bad sleeper and often am just too tired to do any sort of major cleaning every day, so if I have the energy the kitchen will be cleaned with last thing at night or first thing in the morning, will pick up where I can but in general it's just not a priority to make everything spotless.

Daily:
Load of laundry washed, dried, put away (I hang rather than tumble so for much of the year it’s the previous day’s load being folded and put away)
Dishwasher emptied and refilled
Dishes done
Kitchen sides and table wiped
Kitchen floor swept after dinner
Downstairs hoovered
Loos wiped
Sinks wiped
Beds made
Any spillages etc cleared up
Toys tidied before bed

Every room gets cleaned once a week (dusted, hoovered, mirrors cleaned etc). Floors mopped properly once a week and dirty bits done with spray mop in between.

My house is still a mess most of the time 😞

I mostly just tidy for visitors.

I’m really struggling with it all at the moment. Working part time, looking after a lively toddler and pets, keeping the house tidy and garden presentable and cooking every day is proving pretty much impossible!

I clean the whole house everyday. Everywhere is hoovered and mopped. No dirty dishes, laundry washed folded and put away. I keep on top of it so really only takes 30 minutes in the morning before school run. Some cleaning up after we have dinner. I do a deep clean on a Thursday, change beds, clean fridge and kitchen presses, wash all skirting boards and doors, bleach the bathroom tiles, clean windows inside and out. I love my home and I'm happy when it's clean and tidy.

There's only me to consider but I have other things to do which are much more interesting than housework - knitting, sewing, reading, etc.

I'm fairly on top of it but I'll never be a minimalist - as long as the place is reasonably clean and tidy I don't mind a bit of clutter.

Toys we were ok with tidying away at the end of the day but we struggle more with other general clutter. We are rarely visitor-ready.

I used to say we did 90% but never really pushed ourselves to do the last 10%. Now since lockdown it's 70/30 at best

I used to keep it very tidy, but since moving to a house that needs renovating, I'm embarrassed by how bad it is.
Every day the dishwasher is on once or twice, usually I have at least one load of washing to do a day too. I hoover the main rooms every couple of days.
We have a lot of rooms so it's not practical to dust and hoover through them all each week. Ive been pretty much leaving the unused bedrooms as they're full of crap from when we moved in.

I try to keep on top of tidying toys away but am giving up more and more often as my 18mth old just drags them all back out when she notices things are gone. We also have a long haired cat to clean up after so there's fluff balls everywhere.

Ive noticed just how untidy my DP is since we've moved. Seems he was only doing what was necessary when he was living in my house. Now we own together he seems to have become less tidy in general and doesn't properly clean the floors after our toddler has thrown food everywhere. He's just gone off to the tip having not being able to find a single thing to take - i did a two minute walk around the house and found him an entire car load!! It's as if he's blind to it.

I guess my excuse is that I work full time very long days, so does my DP plus he has a second job and we do full time childcare without help. I'm pregnant at the moment so I'm hoping for some time during my maternity leave to blitz some of the rooms. I'm extremely embarrassed when we have visitors.

I struggle with the toys to be honest. Especially now the oldest guy has smaller things like Lego that the small one throws around. I find it an epic chore to get the 3 year old to tidy. I figure when he is a little older I will be more persistent/ have more energy. 12 weeks of them 24/7 has left me frazzled. I feel like I micromanage every element of their life I should at least let them play with their toys and make a mess. DH is much more disciplined he makes them tidy one thing away before they get another thing . To me I need the headspace more than the tidiness, does that make sense?

DH likes to have everything off the kitchen counter and cleaned underneath every day. He wants to sweep the whole house through... sometimes they are trashing somewhere else like the paperwork in his office while he achieves this standard.

Maybe I am just jealous because I can't maintain the house in a visitor ready state continuously

Few toys here and there I don’t mind. But I hate dishes in the sink, crumbs on the table and counter and bits on the floor (bits on the floor is my real peeve) so end up lightly going over kitchen twice a day. Brush and mop daily. Hoover if I spot grub.

I’m awful with putting laundry away that’s where I fall down. It sits on the tall boy in our bedroom or on the bed in the spare room 😂

I get most of my house work done every day, try to do a deep clean like walls and skirting once a week but I have to keep it regimental, if I slack off, it messes up my routine and I'll be cleaning and tidying till bed time. But I'm one of those who cannot live in an untidy or unclean house

We don't really worry about it. Obviously we put things away, and clean, but our house is rarely ever 'done'.

I'm not really interested in a tidy house, and there is always something better to do.

I try and 'reset' my house every night. I don't worry too much during the day if I don't get anything done but I aim for toys away (the kids do this ages 3, 5 and 9) before bath time. While they pick up the toys I clean the kitchen then I hoover and mop when they are in bed. Everywhere gets a thorough clean once a week. Its not perfect but its ok, I'm a lone parent and work full time so I think I manage ok.

Our house is never perfectly clean and tidy. I just can't be arsed with it all. It is clean enough and tidy enough for my standards (most rooms at least, we've got 2 rooms of shame). I feel sad that so many people rate housework as something to be proud of and rate so highly. They will say they are happy doing it and of course I accept that and believe them - but still I find it sad.

Maybe I am just jealous because I can't maintain the house in a visitor ready state continuously

But the point is to live in your home, to have fun in it, not keep it prepped for visitors?

This is surely a modern thing, that is why one room was kept nice and everything else went to shit was more lived in.

I make sure the house is spotless, everywhere hoovered, toys picked up, kitchen and bathroom wiped down etc every night before bed. I have to be really really shattered to leave any mess. Honestly I wish I could chill out but I just can't go to bed knowing the house is messy.

I have a 13 y/o and 9 y/o and am married. The house is relatively tidy (but open the cupboards with caution as stuff may fall out - particularly in the kid's bedrooms). Toilets are generally pretty clean, we clean the bathroom and downstairs loo once a week perhaps, I mop when I remember, the robot vacuum makes sure the kitchen floor isn't crunchy. Laundry bin emptied most days (but putting away seems to linger in the lounge where I fold it) and dusting is something that we do in that frantic 10 minutes of cleaning before we have visitors.