How often do you clean?

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I do a full clean bathrooms and house every other day. I really struggle to leave it longer. I find it resets my brain. It’s not a deep clean. Just a whizz round with a duster and straightening up the house. How often do other people clean?

Is it a palace?

As little as possible really. Cleaner once a fortnight for 3 hours. Clean the kitchen worktops daily, sweep the floor every 2 or 3 days. Wipe the bathroom when I notice it needs it. Put more effort into cooking than cleaning, cook a lot, love food. Hate cleaning.

I try and keep the house fairly straight as I go along but most of the cleaning gets done on the weekend.

I do a different room or rooms every day of the week, so the whole house is thoroughly cleaned weekly. I obviously wipe the kitchen surfaces/hob after they’re used as well, but each room gets a proper clean once a week.

Cleaner comes 4 hours each week and we do a big scoop-everything-up-tidy-up the night before. Kitchen cleared and wiped daily and toilets cleaned mid-week. One of us might run around with the hoover if the dog has been to the beach.

I have a cleaner once a fortnight for a couple of hours - she makes sure the basics are done. I clean as required - so kitchen floor gets swept maybe twice a day, toilets twice a week, I rarely hoover upstairs myself (once a fortnight by the cleaner is enough).

The deep cleaning never really gets done tbh until im moving furniture for a different reason or something has been nagging at me for a year.

Being a single parent working full time with two primary-age children means lowering my standards was the only way to stay vaguely sane!

I have a cleaner. she mops / dusts / scrubs weekly.

We spray wipe over the kitchen and bathroom every day, shower squeegee every time they are used.

We deal with with mess on floors as it arises (muddy shoes / spilled food etc).

every night before we go to bed we plump and tidy lounge, fold throws, move glasses etc. and shut the door so it stays neat until the next time we use it.
beds are folded back / aired every day.
about once a month I go insane and bin / redistribute all the shit that accumulates on the kitchen table / hall stand / fruit bowl of doom.

washing goes away or into the ironing basket as it emerges. Ironing’s a Sunday morning job.

we lived in a shit tip full of kid crap and piles of scooters / toys for years. No more.

I should add mine isn’t the biggest house. I clean the bathroom and 2 toilets then dust the house in about 45 minutes. I do it whilst cooking tea and round other jobs. Like I said, I’m not saying it’s thorough. It’s a quick clean

It really does depend on who lives in your house and where you live. It is just me and my husband here but we look after grandchildren after school some days. If they have been round, then we generally need to run round with the hover afterwards and check on the bathrooms but otherwise just weekly except for the kitchen surfaces etc. Neither of us would leave a bathroom or toilet in a state. We don't have pets and I really do wonder if people realise the extra cleaning that pets bring. If you live near a main road your house will probably need cleaning more often.

I forgot that we both clean the bath shower after we have used it. Who wants to get into a dirty bath or shower?

Imagine a group of men engaging with this conversation. 🙄
Awful that in 2025 house cleaning has been fetishised to this extent.
The madness of IG videos taking cleaning to extremes- is this really how you want to spend your one and only life?
The martyrdom and competition with other women is just another tool for keeping women down, as if the worst thing in the world is having dusty skirting boards.

We do daily bits, hoovering downstairs and cleaning kitchen sides but the cleaner comes once a week and other than that we all just try and keep everything tidy.
i like a clean tidy house but I also like doing fun stuff so housework isn’t my priority and that’s fine by all of us!
It’s presentable when unexpected guests pop
round and clean and tidy. It’s not spotless, my skirting boards have dust and I’m sure there are things behind the backs of sofas. I don’t care, I can’t see there.

I work Monday to Friday and clean Saturday to Sunday which is depressing

We clean up mess as we go along so kitchen worktops get a quick wipedown evertime we make something and cooker/splashback/inside oven door etc when we've used them.

Annoyingly DH always leaves the blackpepper mill on the worktop which drives me mad, I must move it 50 times a day 😆.

DH hoovers the whole house twice a week, I will do an extra quick hoover during my WFH lunch if needed.

Bathroom, generally keep it clean as we go but it does get a proper deep clean once a week.

Laundry - DH does that, probably twice a week plus I'll maybe do an extra load occasionally at the weekend.

So don’t do it then! My house is a home, not a showhome. Life is for living, not spending hours cleaning. As long as we’re not living in filth I really couldn’t get worked up about how and when I change the beds or hoover. It is depressing that you’ve worked all week and cleaned all weekend. I’ve enjoyed seeing friends over the weekend and spending time with my DD. That’s far more important than dusting.

Vacuum and dust once a week. Clean bathroom once a week, although I do spot clean the bathroom as needed. Washing up and kitchen hob/surfaces cleaned daily. Kitchen floor swept/mopped daily.

i do something daily, i pace myself and do housework based on need and energy level.
when i'm really not feeling like doing much i will pop in a load of laundry (the machines do all the work).
i have two little remote vacuums which have been a game changer.
the two jobs i delay and hate most; cleaning the oven and cleaning the fridge.

Dishwasher on daily and wipe worktops.
Hoover morning room a few times a week because of dog hair.
Sweep kitchen floor a few times a week and wash it once.
Sweep and wash back kitchen/boot room once a week
Change one of the beds each week.
Do a load of washing/ drying most days.Rarely iron and have a bad habit of not putting clean washing away.
Clean bathroom/ downstairs loo once a week
Hoover hallway/stairs and bedrooms occasionally.
Ignore most other rooms until guests are due and then panic clean ( that will be soon as 15 for Christmas).
Very old house, full of the junk of generations with rooms I try to forget exist!

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This is me! But I do have phpt which causes chronic insomnia, chronic fatigue and chronic bone pain along with tachycardia as just a few of the symptoms. When I was married we did have a cleaner for a while and I did clean up before she came over😀.

No its not disgusting. There is more to life than cleaning. I don't know anyone with a full time job, children and a normal social life that cleans the way people on MN do. I mean what are people doing in their houses that requires this level of cleaning up?