What is your weekly housekeeping schedule?

[RockyFowlboa]

If you have one? I just quit the job I was working two days a week because I felt like I didn't have enough time to clean, get to the laundry, shop and cook for everyone, and maintain the yard, and also take care of myself. So I'm curious what other women are doing to get it all done. I think I need a better system.

Well, when I worked FT I would get up at 5:45 am, take the dog to the beach for a run, back by 6:45 , then spend the next hour doing whatever needed to be done in the house ( 3 bed semi, 2x teenagers at the time) .7:45 get ready for work & leave by 8-20.
DH left for work at 5am so was home by 2:30 at the latest, he would carry on whatever tasks needed finishing then walk the dog. Batch cooked every other Sunday.
DH and DC had to cook at least 1x per week.
DH took care of the garden.
Life admin split between me and DH.

We have 7 acres of land and the house is ~2500 sq feet. It's kind of out in the sticks, so to get to anywhere anymore, the drive is much longer. The location at which I was working was 40 minutes away without traffic. Factor in trying to get an uncooperative kid ready for pre school and bed, trying to squeeze in an hour, hour and a half for my work out, and getting dinner made and cleaned up after, that's two days of the week just... gone.

On M/W/F, I can get lots of things done, just not all of it. A lot of days we have errands to complete, appointments to attend, or shopping to do, which takes a lot of time outside of the house because again, I have to get the child ready and then drive for a hot minute. We practice our numbers, letters, and maths in the mornings. I also try to include DD when I do the housework, to keep her from being on screens all day and start to teach her how to do it, and that slows me down significantly... and it still feels like every time I turn around there's just things and dirt everywhere. Saturday and Sunday are mostly reserved for spending time as a family, and doing whatever DH ends up pulling us into doing. (gym, church, errands, activities for DD, what have you.)DH and DD also make an absurd amount of laundry with how often they change clothes.

I don't mean to make excuses though. I need to figure out how to do more and better.

7 acres of land… by that do you mean 7 acres of land that needs to be attended to or is a lot of it woodland? If you have that much land, you should have a gardener or yard hands to help you or it should be as low-key as possible like I said make a good portion of a woodland have a wildflower garden. Make it so that it needs to be minimally maintained.

Your DH needs to step up he needs to clean as he goes along too. He can’t just leave a mess for you. That’s not what his role is just because he works. So you need to make it clear to him that your job is not to be his maid you are partners so he needs to take it upon himself to try and clean as he goes do some jobs in the house. He doesn’t get to be a slob just because he brings him the money.

Your DD is young, so yes these times are hard but they will get easier as she gets older.

In saying all this, you really should be able to hold down a two day job, so your screen addiction is probably impacting your day more than you like to admit. And it’s great that you want to grow all your own food, but is it really sustainable? Doing these things is great but not the detriment of your own mental health because you can’t keep up with everything!? Something has got to give you just need to decide what that is @RockyFowlboa

Whenever I go upstairs I take something with me. Same when I come down. Clear up as I go. Cook every day from scratch. DH does dishwasher and laundry. We both vacuum each week. One does the bathrooms the other does the kitchen.

I spend a maximum of 2 hours a week on general cleaning, 5-6 hours on laundry probably on average, and up to 10 hours on cooking and keeping the kitchen clean. 19 hours a week! It's a lot! And this doesn't include gardening, obvs.

This is a foreign concept to me! Though I do know people who do a top to bottom clean every Saturday morning I'm far too lazy and just keep the kitchen tidy, bathroom about once a week and vacuum/dust when expecting company! Of course when kids were at home I did have to keep more on top of it (one kid has moved out the other at uni).
Why didn't you just hire a cleaner? Far cheaper than losing two days salary!

So do I.
I don't have to ask.

He has always done the floors throughout the house (mopping or hoovering them every day - it takes him 20 mins) and he empties the bins, does all the gardening, all the washing up, collects the shopping (as long as I order it) and we put it away together.

I do all the washing, the bathroom and make the bed daily and change it weekly. I dust and polish once a week.

He makes breakfast and I make dinner.

We've always shared the housework, and we shared the childcare when the children were little.

Agree with this. Most people have to manage this whilst maintaining a job.

Don’t really have one. Do things as they need doing.

And OP - when our children were young, we worked full time, so we paid a cleaner.

I don't understand the concept of you giving up work so that you can do your housework. Pay someone else to do it, and get your husband to pull his weight.
Surely he can do the "yard" (you mean garden, I think).

Don't have a schedule, work 9 day fortnight, one DC. DH who more than pulls his weight.

Dishwasher for daily dishes and anything that can't go in dishwasher gets washed up at end of the day by DH.

We have a robot vacuum upstairs and downstairs, which does its rounds at 9am every day. This makes a huge difference and I'd recommend it to anyone.

Downstairs floor gets mopped periodically, normally in the evening after DC in bed.

Bathrooms get cleaned while I'm in them, not all at once. I tend to do the sink while I'm brushing my teeth, the toilet after I've been for a wee in the day and the shower/bath in the evening before bed (not every day, just when it needs it).

DH does most of the laundry. He puts it on when he gets in from work and hangs it up before bed. Bedsheets go on a wash & dry cycle on weekend mornings.

It's not a spotless house but it's fine for us.

My DH and I both work full time and have two kids and 2 cats.

Our house always feels lived in but there is very little time/energy in the day!

I try to put a wash on most mornings and then pop in tumble dryer when home from work.

I hoover a couple of times a week

I cook DH washes and piura away every night.

We do a quick sweep of downstairs every evening and straighten upstairs a bit.

The weekends is when we really do the big things like cleaning the bathroom/kicthen

The food shop

The ironing

More hoovering etc.

It's exhausting but it's what we've got

Thank you; this helps a lot!

No horses. Just three dogs and a lot of fish. Going to get chickens in the spring (I'm so excited!). I wanted a goat for milk, too, but DH said no :(

unfortunately I can't get rid of my phone or computer because I need them, and while I could go without a TV, my family would be angry with me if I got rid of ours, to say the least.

I was going to ITAA meetings for a while, which helped. I should probably start that back up again. I also have settings on my phone, for which DH has the passcode, which prevent me from downloading the apps and accessing websites that keep me sucked in, which is helpful. It's just that every once in a while, I'll discover a new social media site (hello, Mumsnet) to get hooked on and the settings need adjusting, or not everything will be blocked on both my computer and phone... So I have relapses.

I also want him to spend time with his daughters, so there's that.

A lot of it is wild/woodland, but the amount of leaf fall on the lawn and food garden areas is immense, and there's a lot of trimming-back that needs to happen to keep it from becoming overgrown, and our long ass driveway need gravel spread on it/raked periodically because for whatever reason the neighbors we share it with don't want it paved... I want to be outside doing it myself, as I love it and I want to teach my DD. That's part of why I quit working. But maybe I do need hired help on occasion.

DH is definitely not a slob. He does help out when I'm like, impossibly far behind, and he enjoys cooking some nights. It's just that he leaves the house early to get in his exercise, works all day long, and doesn't get home until dinner or sometimes our DD bed time half the time. I want him to be able to spend time with her, and with his other daughters.

I was thinking that it will be a lot easier to manage once she's elementary school aged and in school 5 days a week, yeah. I am willing to admit that my screen time is a problem; I'm trying to fix it.

lol what’s a weekly housekeeping schedule

should be asking for help with your screen addiction

Have a look at the organised mum method. You can print it out if you want to avoid screens.
It has daily, weekly, monthly and yeay jobs to do.

I'm out of the house 50ish hours a with work/commute. Share custody of primary aged DD and have an older teen son here all the time. Hoover most days downstairs, far less often upstairs. Quick clean of toilet/sink most days.

Washing up every day. Four lots of washing a week and everything else at weekends. Also do half of school run/breakfast club/after school club pick ups. Socialise with friends also on my weekends off and try to go the gym sometimes. Also just started doing degree level qual at work which is a load of extra hassle/work.

I think what most people doing this sacrifice on is sleep, exercise, family time, and/or hobbies, though

60-90 mins a workday on exercise with a young child is very far from the norm for mums!

Just being at home all day generates more mess.

For mums who work out of home long hours the house stays clean as no one is there m-f 8-6.

What's with all this laundry.

One set of clothes a day max.

How often are you washing towels:/sheets etc?

DH having your phone codes is 🚩🚩

Other people not being home as much is a good point. That makes me feel a bit better.

DH will wear his gym clothes, then change into jeans + tee shirt, then later on put on more formal work clothes for meetings, and then pajamas if our DD refuses to sleep in her own bedroom. DD is mostly potty trained, but occasionally has accidents still. She also might have a bit of the 'tism, and any time her clothes get wet or slightly dirty, she wants to change them. Usually I don't need to wear anything other than one set of exercise clothes and one set of other clothes to change into (something comfy if I'm at home, or more formal if going to church/dinner.)... It's not ideal, but.

Towels get used probably way longer than they ought to be before getting sent to the laundry. We change sheets about 2x weekly because I have allergies to dust mites (the irony) and our dogs sleep in our bed.

I asked DH to set the code; it wasn't something he came up with. Otherwise there would be reason for concern.

Sorry OP, I think you're having us on. Excuse after excuse after excuse, the reasons becoming more and more bizarre.

Right, I should have known! Nobody ever has potty-training toddlers, neurodiverse children, allergies, or dogs! totally gave it away