How often do you clean up?

[cloudydays7]

Hi all...I was just wondering how often do people clean the rooms in their house?

We've been in our new house just over a year now and I have been consistent every weekend I clean the kitchen, hallway, living room, stairs and landing, bedrooms and bathroom. My DP does help and he tends to hoover the stairs and tidy bedrooms.

We both work Mon - Fri and have now started to bicker on a weekend over doing the housework, he thinks I don't need to clean every weekend. The house is never messy as there is just the two of us (for now) and each day we use the kitchen I clean and wipe down the worktops. The living room is never messy and the bedrooms are never messy and I do sometimes think when I'm dusting I can't see any dust to wipe! The bathroom we also keep this clean as we go but on a weekend I do wipe everywhere down properly.

After our little bicker at the weekend I just started to wonder how often/when do people clean their house?

The organised mum
Method is what I follow so I clean 45 mins a day mon-fri. It's best thing I ever did!

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I do a bit everyday and then more at the weekends. No real routine just keep on top of it. Work full time and single parent so just do my own thing

Uhm... not much. I hoover the lounge once or twice a week between the cleaner, depending how foul it gets, and the stairs and upstairs hall once in between. That's all been made much easier by buying a new, less broken and much lighter vacuum cleaner.

About once a week I clean the kitchen worktop when I can't stand it anymore.

Downstairs everyday. Multiple times because... toddlers

Cleaner comes once a week and does full clean including changing beds, mopping, full hoover etc

A Eufy and the cleaner probably save our marriage!

Daily - vacuum downstairs, sweep hard floors, washing up, kitchen sides and tables.

Twice a week - spray around bath and sink, clean toilet and rinse the spray off. Means it never builds up so only takes 5-10 minutes. I also steam mop the hard floors twice a week too.

Weekly - wash towels and dog blankets. Strip beds and change bedding.

Laundry is done on an "as needed" basis. Normally every couple of days.

Everyday. I have a very lovely DS who is 16 months and his favourite thing to do is pull everything out and throw it everywhere.
I had a magnet in my room earlier. The letter shape ones from the fridge of his 🤷🏻‍♀️ 😂

I go through the whole house weekly. Change beds, vacuum, mop, dust, clean bathrooms etc. I also make sure every room is clean and tidy each day. I may whizz round with the vacuum during the week too but usually only downstairs.

I thought what I did was normal until
I discovered Mumsnet.

I wipe down all surfaces several times a day and dust everything daily. Tidy up constantly. Hoover a 5 bed house several times a day. Clean bathrooms every day. Beds changed twice weekly but pillows washed daily.

I have diagnosed OCD and simply cannot accept any dirt/mess or outstanding chores/tasks. It’s absolutely exhausting emotionally and physically and rules my day to day life but therapy didn’t work nor did medication. I feel sorry for my husband and 5 year old son 😪

I tend to do a 'full clean' fortnightly, but kitchen gets wiped down daily, bathroom toilet/sink very regularly with wipes etc. Eufy vac is on every few days in the lounge too.

I tend to do the general tidying, dusting, hoovering, DH is in charge of kitchen and bathroom deep cleans. Works for us, we both work 4 long days and I don't want to spend excessive time cleaning.

Kitchen thoroughly cleaned everyday
Dining room and hall vacuumed every day

Bathrooms thoroughly cleaned 1x week
Dusting throughout 1x week
All rooms vacuumed 3xweek

I clean every week but I wouldn't do things like dusting when there isn't any dust.

Kitchen daily, bathroom twice weekly but toilet nearly every day, dust and hoover weekly, bedding weekly.

Saturday used to be cleaning day but now I work shifts it just gets done whenever.

I wouldn't do spare rooms weekly or dust if no dust. That would be a fortnightly or monthly job.

Things like kitchens and bathrooms we do everyday. Dusting as and when it needs it. Hoovering most days.

I work shifts so it can be a whole 7 days before I crack on with a "deep clean". My daughter helps a little bit. I insist she clean her room weekly. (Teenager)

I have recently started FlyLady's system.

This week's zone was the kitchen. My kitchen is the cleanest it's been for a while and it was pretty painless!

FLYLady discourages you from cleaning at weekends as this is time to spend with loved ones or self-caring.

Try a cleaning system that skips weekends and have fun with your partner instead

We have a cleaner who comes weekly and does a general blitz. In between that we clean the kitchen every day, vacuum throughout a couple of times a week and I try and do a load of washing every day. Beds get changed every 1-2 weeks.

Do you remember when you was a little girl and you heard your Nan say a woman’s work is never done!! Well it’s true i can always find something that needs to be clean or washed!!