What is your housekeeping routine?

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Come on..... love to read about peoples domestic habits.

What do you do to make sure how is tidy and clean throughout the week (or not as the case may be)

Ours were £8 an hour from a local agency (in the NW). Trouble was that 2 or 3 came round at once for 40 minutes and it was all a bit too quick! Have stopped them but what I really need is a 'woman who does' for couple of hours a week I think. I'm just a lazy cow really as can do it myself if I put my mind to it and DP is very good when we have a blitz time.
Walk away from the bleach ladies!!!

Feckinfulfordmoonfeind - free for coffee anytime (Yorkshire only - will travel further for lunch) but does coffee come with biscuit or duster? Could mutual cleaning coffee mornings be the way forward? I'll bring my Lakeland californian duster thingy if you provide digestives...(on secondthoughts - too many crumbs)

Cat64, you see, you do clean really!
I think people who say they don't must be lying, I am sure their houses are perfectly nice.
On the hoover front, I got in tonight in time to do swimming, got in from that 7pm, kids into jamas, story, off to bed, downstairs, DH watching football (digh) so I offer to go to Asda but first hoover three downstairs rooms and hall. Took 10 mins. I just couldn't stand to look at it otherwise, honestly.
Once went to a friend's house (and it was an NCT thing, so she knew we would be coming) and I honestly wouldn't have put a baby down on her living room floor. It was just covered in crud, crumbs, bits of thread, hairs, etc etc. Really not nice. So now I like to hoover.
A colleague of mine does it at 7.30am every day (slight ). But I like my nice evening with a clean carpet. Mind you she goes to be at 9pm so I guess that's not an issue for her lol.

I have been shamed into action by this thread.
Got up at 5.45am (we need blackout linings) cleaned toilet shower and bath, cleaned kitchen put on dishwasher (that DH was SUPPOSED to do last night) and washed 2 sets of bedding.

I am going for a lie down now as this activity has upset my system.

DS has ground too many baby bell cheeses into people's carpets for me to worry about what they looked like before we arrived

Can I rephrase that as "worry about whether they were dirty before we arrived" - wouldn't want people to think that I am blase about DS ruining new cream carpets.

hah! Gingerbear you know you love it.
Now go and do the ironing
Finished mine last night thank goodness

no need Mdme Clary - DH did the ironing on Monday night! (one of the few jobs he will do - so long as he can watch Sky Sports whilst doing so)

Am off to buy more storage boxes for DDs room its really getting me down

Keep meaning to get rid of some of her toys but cant bring myself to do it

Broke with my routine yesterday and did the ironing. Was feeling inspired after reading how everyone else keeps on top of theirs.

How do those who never iron manage? Our stuff really needs an iron. Couldn't wear that crinkled up, wrinkled stuff. I'm wondering if it's because I leave it piled up on the chair for so long that it looks so bad?

Did 3 hours of ironing yesterday but I didn't finish the pile.

See this is what I say sandy.
I think the "non-ironers" are lying.
Or else they say, peg it up really tight on the line, smooth and fold at once and put away - what a hassle, I'd rather iron tbh!
GB very impressive DH. I blame my monster pile on crap TV (all my fave shows have finished). Was reduced to watching ER for the 2nd time on Monday just to get some of it done...

definitely no ironing here. Dh's shirts get put on hangers in the airing cupboard straight from machine. T-shirts and trousers are hung over radiators. Everything else in tumble drier. We probably do look a bit creased but hey ho, life is short!!

Just like Compo, although DH does iron his shirts - luckily he doesn't have to wear one every day. They go in the wardrobe creasy and he irons one the night before he needs it. I don't mind going out looking a bit crumpled, and try to buy stuff that won't need ironing anyway - but then I don't think a cotton T-shirt or pair of jeans needs to be ironed - creases fall out on wearing, and if I were to iron them, they'd only get creases when I sat down or moved about. The one thing I always iron though is linen, hence not much of that in my wardrobe!!

Perhaps all my friends think I look a fright, but no-one's told me so ..... yet.

DH does own ironing and all cooking. I do pretty much everything else. Classic DH comment during How Clean is Your House a few years back, someone was being shown how to clean a toilet, DH turns to me and says 'do we do that??'. I reply, no dear, I do.
I NEVER iron, DD is living in baby gros at the moment but that could all change soon, damn. Have just invested in a battery mop thing, made my morning today, how quick was that??? Love it. Currently do about 1 wash a day, bathroom once a week, floors once a week, kitchen several times a day (DH is like a flippin' whirlwind of destruction just walking through that room!)living room most evenings after DD is asleep/before dinner, bedroom, almost never, I'm asleep in there, not looking at it!!!
Does anyone else do about several different 'chores' just walking in the front door before even taking off coat and shoes??
Blokes don't see mess, plain and simple, it IS genetic, I'm convinced.

was also thinking about school uniforms too earlier. How young is too young to do own ironing?!?!!!

Mclure, that’s it, men don’t see the mess.
I love DH dearly and he is fab with the kids (in fact he’s at home with them this week and doing loads of stuff) but yes, when I walk in the door I start picking up discarded schoolbags, pyjamas from that morning fgs, wiping up crumbs in the kitchen, walk through to the garden to get the wash in, “oh hello everyone”
Well I exaggerate but it does feel a bit like that.
lol at yr DH and the loo.

Lately, I avoid all resposibilities until I am expecting company and then I clean and tidy like a woman on fire.

In real life:

Daily: First thing: Unload dishwasher while the kettle boils. Thoughout the day: Two loads of laundry (folded by me; put away by the wearer in the evening) Breakfast, lunch and dinner dishes put in dishwasher after every meal. Kitchen floor and dining room floor swept and mopped every evening. Bathroom counters and loos wiped (with clorox wipes). Toys put away before bedtime.

Twice a week: (or more often if needed) Swiffer the entire flat.

Once a week (try for Friday but often on Saturday while DH has the kids): Proper cleaning of the bathrooms. Proper sorting of the desk and kids' toys.

Now that we don't have our own washing machine, the bedding is only done every other week but usually I prefer to do it weekly.

I am a recovering 'Neat Freak'. I still suffer from the 100% or NOTHING issue. Once there is something out of place I despair almost as much as if the place is a tip.

no routine have one very big cupboard though :)

I seldom iron either... We tumble dry most of our clothing and fold it straight away. DH irons his own shirt as part of his morning routine and sometimes I can sneak in a pair of my trousers that need doing as well...

I do 90% of the house-work but DH is much better at a quick tidy-up than I am. (Sometimes we don't find things for months but at least the flat looks tidy, right?!)

I care less and less about the state of our place and figure that it will look better once the children are a little bit older.

I do wish that I could hire a great cleaner but I think that I am just to picky.

Charliecat, you sound just like me. I hate that feeling when guests go. The 'find the bed' routine !!

Routine is not in my nature. I do like atidy house but never seem to have one. If I try to make everyone clear up after themselves I just end up sounding like a dragon.
My DH says I cannot have a 4th baby partly because I can't keep the house in order with 3. My reply 'well it can't get any worse !!!'

I guess I should be cleaning instead of MN'ing.