Is your house ever totally clean from top to bottom?

[LoveMyGirls]

If so how often and what motivates you to do it?

yes on Mondays and Thursdays
My cleaner does it and I guess it is money that motivates her (and love of course )

Hahahaha. No.

(will read thread now)

You're all just a bunch of clerty middens (as my mother would say)

My house was clean from top to bottom yesterday - dh had been away for a week and I just felt motivated to get it sorted. BUT that lasted about half a day. ds2 has a habit of turning a room upside down in the blink of an eye

One room a day.

Today was kitchen - it was cleaned top to bottom, drawers emptied of crap etc, everything moved and sides washed down, windows cleaned inside etc.

Tomorrow will be living room.

Monday will be upstairs.

Doesnt take too long when you get in a routine, but I would never say the whole house is clean at any one time.

We are also decorating at the moment so trying to keep the place tidy around that too.

Also pregnant (37+3) so nesting is a lot of the issue too!

Yup - but only since I became a SAHM and GS started full time school.

I've done it a few times just before we go on holiday. Doubt it'll happen ever again now I've got ds

But then again - I am anally retentive and have waited approx 26 years to get back into my obsessive cleaning mode

It's fairly good once a week, after I have done my weekly clean (until dh or ds come in, then it's immediately messy again).

It's really clean once a year, after I have done my spring cleaning (includes taking everything out of cupboards and drawers, moving out and cleaning behind all furniture etc.

But the exception to all this is dh's study, which is in a permanent mess. I do sometimes clean patches of carpet (if I can find any) and occasionally clean the windows etc, but it's generally in such a mess, if I moved everything I could never put it all back in the same places, and he would complain....

Joash re:

"Yup - but only since I became a SAHM and GS started full time school. "

I have a very real fear that this could happen to me from Sept 2008 when my youngest goes to school. Rather than improving my mind / having a bit of fun now and then etc I could be obsessively buffing the skirting boards. Housework could take all day if you let it couldn't it?

Have you found this at all?

Yes - when my utterly fabulous cleaner has been

Yes, generally my house is clean and tidy throughout. Almost always if I know someone is calling in. Tuesday to Thursday are my work days so it gets a bit bitty and a bit in need of a vacuum then, ut will be sorted out on a friday.

yes i have to be organised otherwise i go a bit mad.

I wish I had an utterly fabulous cleaner - I have a cleaner but utterly fabulous she is not. She pushes mop around in desultory fashion. I often mop kitchen floor a second time after she has left!

Yes, once a year, when my cleaner comes in during our 2 week holiday. It positively gleams, you can see every surface. Then we come home and crap it out again.

sack her hmc

get a ruby from butterflies

ummm southeast - I could but cleaners are hard to come by. Better a sub optimal one than none at all. Plus she looks after the children for me sometimes if I need to pop out, and she is good at putting together flat packed furniture(!)...so...it's not a simple choice

can you get another one? (to complement the one you have)

Handlemecarefully - oh yes and the realy sad thin is that I look at the house once its done and actually feel some sense of pide - SOMEONE HELP ME NOW PLEASE!!!!!!!!

Yes, very regularly.

I do it because I hate living in mess and dirt, I can't relax and I'd be MORTIFIED if anyone came over and the house was minging

Nope. Housework is a waste of time because you've only got to do it all over again. I clean up a bit when either my parents or the landlord are going to visit but otherwise, apart from washing dishes and clothes when we need them, I really can't be arsed with it.

Mine is! But that's only because we're having a party tonight! There's nothing like the prospect of people looking at your dust hang off the ceiling to spur you on!

fi my downstairs is tidy then it means upstairs is a mess and vice versa!!! I only give upstairs a good clean once a month! (im a slob!) downstairs gets done every other day! have just finished complete overhall of downstairs so am loving that space and keeping it tidy and clean! Im sure when i get upstairs done it will also be kept up to standard!!! (((((OK WHO AM I KIDDING!!!!))))