How much clean do you do a day?

[QueeenBee]

I feel like I just clean and tidy all day but my house is never as clean as I would like!

Most days

Wash dishes 4/5 times a day (waiting on new dishwasher arriving next week)

Hoover living room, hallway and kitchen

Clean downstairs bathroom

Spot clean sofas as needed

General wipe around with zoflora

Wipe toddlers fingerprints off furnitur

Mop kitchen floor

clean the kitchen sides as needed

One load of laundry a day

My weekly jobs are

Change everyone's bedding

Wash all windows in house

Hoover bedrooms and wipe down with zoflora

Clean the bathrooms

Deep clean recycling bins

Do all the ironing

Clean the car.

I also try to organise and declutter every week if I have the energy and time.

I always feel like everything is all piling up and I never have the beautiful clean home like all those women on instagram. Is it just me or is everyone like this? Forgot to mention I have a 22 month old ds who doesn't go to nursery and a newborn.

Wash the windows and clean the car EVERY week? Madness.
I clean the inside of the windows annually with the odd finger mark removal with my sleeve.
My car, twice a year max.
Honestly, ease up.

Daily
Wipe down kitchen
Cook
Make lunches for the next day
Dishwashing
Load of laundry
Iron school uniforms

Weekly
Bathrooms

Other stuff is as and when. We hoover quite regularly but not every day, bedding probably should do more of. We have a clean and tidy house but it can be never ending so I don't stress too much.

Daily - as little as possible. Washing up. Might wipe the worktop if I've cooked. Try not to dirty stuff
The rest - when it needs doing. If it looks dirty/dusty. If I get a sudden urge to clean

Pretty much sums up my cleaning attitude. People comment the place looks nice/tidy and to do a proper clean takes me about 3hrs so it's not like I'm living in a hovel

I spend about 2 hours a day but I'm pretty slow and have 4 kids.

I wash, dry and put away daily. In total that could take a hour. Tidy and declutter. Dishwasher constantly on but I try to hand wash once a day and load or empty dishes once a day ( dhs and eldest job) bins as needed.

I never iron. I never dust. I try to follow team TOM as then every room gets a tidy in a month even if you miss a lot of days. Unless it has to be done ( clean clothes, clean plates) it's not guaranteed to happen. I'd rather declutter than polish in the time I have, take thing back to its home. I have washed my car less than ten times in the 9 years I have owned it. It looks great too!

I cook from scratch most days.
Load dishwasher through the day.
Wipe kitchen surfaces.
I pick a few jobs each day I think need doing bit different each day from list:
Fold laundry
Put in a load of washing/drying
Bleach Belfast sink. It's white so needs doing quite often.
Tidy away things like tomato sauce/put new toilet rolls in holder/ put out clean towels/wipe sticky marks away.

Weekly vacuum
Steam mop kitchen/hall/bathroom/dining room and sitting room floors.
Dusting

DH unloads dishwasher every day
Vacuums twice a week
Cleans bathroom in ensuite and family bathroom once a week
Puts on washing machine/drying
Changes bed sheet/duvet on our bed and DC bed once a week.
DH steam mops sometimes too especially if his dogs leave muddy paw prints.

He also baths dogs every 3 weeks.

How much cleaning? Hardly any.

Cook and clean the kitchen every day.
Laundry every few days, ironing at the weekend.
Bathrooms and vacuum every week.
Bedsheets every fortnight.

Other stuff as and when I notice it's looking really manky. This morning for example it was the top of the fridge after shifting stuff and seeing the dust 😆

We clean bathroom and do floors weekly, do dishes twice a day and washing every few days

Everything else when it gets done your list would drive me insane

Daily - twice a day hoovering downstairs
Load/unload dishwasher
Clean the sink
Cooking from scratch
Every 2 days is laundry
Spot Clean baby jam hands off the sofa

Weekly - change the bedding
Clean the bathrooms top to bottom
Dust and polish
Hoover the stairs and bedrooms

Monthly - car inside and out

4 times a year - windows

We have a clover lawn so only need to mow 3 or 4 times a year

The only one I do every day is clean the kitchen. Bathrooms and vacuuming are weekly. Fridge every couple weeks, a month if I can get away with it. Proper cleaning (taking everything off a shelf and wiping it down etc) only when expecting guests (and I don't mean my mates coming round for a drink). I never iron.
Some of your weekly things I've never done: deep clean recycling bins?
I guess this is why we had a cleaner when I was married with four kids in the house. Now I'm a widow with one left and don't really care enough.

You have two small kids on top of all that?

I have a toddler who snacks in the car every day in life, you can imagine the how that would build up, as for the windows we live with fields all around and for some reason the windows are always dusty.

He does help in evenings and weekends with washing up and tidying, he works 5am until 6-7pm.

Without meaning to be in any way unkind, sounds like a miserable, self-punishing existence, OP. Are you an anxious person in general? Because I can’t fathom it mattering an iota if the car windows were dusty, or thinking all the house windows needed a weekly clean (ours get done whenever the window cleaner comes), or deep-cleaning the recycling bins every seven days.

Whats really going on with you?

I just cannot rest if I have a job needing done, if I sit down with a cup of tea in the evening with dh after the kids go to bed all I can think about is how the cupboard under the sink needs a tidy, and feel so guilty I can't, I feel like the majority of my life is consumed by trying to keep things clean and tidy, I don't know how to live any other way. My parents were both very relaxed when it came to housework, my mother kept a clean tidy home but not excessively.

*can't relax

We don't clean as much as you, but we have two big fluffy dogs so maybe we should.

DH does dishes, countertops, etc. daily. He WFH and also complains he has to do it multiple times a day (but I feel it could wait until after dinner). He also does laundry because if I'm left to do it it doesn't get done.

I try to hoover daily to keep on top of the pet hair. If I miss a day it really builds up.

The rest are weekly tasks, if that. I clean my car like twice a year but I don't have a toddler.

We have a cleaner once a week who does 2.5 hours. We do very little outside that tbh. We have one teenager at home who makes no mess beyond his own room (which he tidies). We have a dishwasher, and we each do our own laundry. We have a bit of a tidy-up maybe twice a week. I change the beds once a fortnight.

But you’re inventing ‘jobs’. Those things simply don’t need doing. Most people would find parenting a toddler and a newborn more than enough work, yet you’re thinking up new jobs and self-sabotaging your own efforts to rest and have some kind of enjoyable balance. You sound as if you’d benefit from therapy — have you ever thought you might have OCD? Are you happy? Do you like your own life?

Op can you clean my home please? I would have to pay myself if I was doing all that cleaning.

I do the bare minimum but I'm depressed and have no motivation. My place generally always looks neat as I tidy after myself so not much to do.

😂

Daily: bleach clean the kitchen sink, empty bins, wipe down kitchen sides as required, put a wash on, sweep kitchen, put robo hoover round once or twice. Bleach the loo. Generally tidy up after DH and toddler as required.

Every other day or so I clean the bathroom, mop kitchen, clean down the hob, declutter more (!).

Sat mornings I strip the beds and wash the sheets, try and get our bedroom sorted.

Once a week roughly I iron stuff, wipe down sides, declutter.

You do a lot but I'm aware I'm a MN heathen for (a) using bleach (b) being so slovenly in my cleaning (c) not having a cleaner (d) only cleaning my hob every other day and (e) not ironing every single thing 😂

I have a big, deep, cleaning day once a week, that is generally 3 or 4 hours. On the remaining days I spend, generally, less than an hour tidying and doing household chores such as wiping worktops, vacuuming, dishes, washing etc... I don't count cooking in that time, but that will add up to another hour per a day.

I just read your list out to my husband who commented that a person who does all that surely has OCD. I work full time between two jobs (sometimes till 9pm) and my husband works full time. Additionally we have a son who dances 7 days a week most weeks but always 3-5 hours after school and Saturday and therefore time is limited.

I tidy as and when I can in the bit of time I have. In this time I would also try to do things like keep on top of the kitchen mess, hoovering any mess in lounge areas (we have indoor rabbits so it can be messy) and doing washing. There is no set rule to what I do but I try to keep on top of obvious untidiness and dirt but on most days I'm only there for a couple of hours max. I don't on a daily basis clean bathrooms, wipe down sides etc. The kitchen is the only area wiped regularly and the floors only hoovered because messy.

I don't work one day a week and on this day I clean properly, catch up on washing, change beds etc so at this point the house would look good (for 5 minutes!).

In short, the bare minimum is done on a daily basis and once a week (or sometimes once a fortnight) the house is cleaned properly. However, not deep cleaned. There is still dust under my bed, on light shades etc that I mean to sort out one day but haven't done for a while.

Well, none, because have a cleaner who comes twice a week. But why on earth are you cleaning the bathroom and hoovering every day??
You never need to clean an outside bin, FFS.
Car - far less often.
Windows - once or twice a year.
Pack in all this excessive cleaning, because your children will just remember you as being dull and the house as soulless. Do some fun things with them instead, or treat yourself to some alone time, if you can.

We are rural, are windows are always dusty-therefore no point in cleaning them. And DD snacks in the car, so what if there’s a bit of mess?

You really should get some help with this, it’s no way to live.

Almost none of what you are doing matters. Do something that does.