how often do you clean?

[hatter]

the house, that is....Really sad q but I would be interested. 10 years ago I lived in a student house that probably got cleaned at most once a month. Now I have a cleaner who does a rather cursory flick with a duster and runs the hoover round once a week. Just recently I've noticed myself noticing (iyswim) the muck and dust more. Half of me hates myself for caring. Half of me wonders if I'm a slob and if everyone else out there dusts every day. I know the answer is that there is no answer but I'm just interested in what other people do

I try to keep the bathroom, and kitchen hygenically clean. Clutter, mess and dust I don't like but don't have time to deal with on a a daily or even weekly basis. I do my best though but laundry takes up so much time ( for 7 of us). As long as everyone is fed, healthy and in clean clothes I'm happy. Although I would LOVE to have a tidy, clutter free, immaculate house.

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not as often as I should - must do better. Now with my new found addiction to mumsnet will probably get worse!

kitchen everyday sometime twoto three times a day
living room vacum every day the rest of it oce a week
the rest of the flat when i have the time energy and inclination

Have to say I don't comsider dust to be dirty, which lets me out a lot. Like zaphod laundry is my biggest chore (6 of us including 2 muddy boys and an occasionally muddy DH). Actual proper cleaning tends to happen when visitors loom. Couldn't give you specifics of eg hoovering and mopping (but have bought some of those wet floor wipes for emergencies!)

My mum used to have an immaculate house and still went mad cleaning if someone was coming. Never understood that!

I hate dusting with the passion most people feel about ironing. I was much better when we lived in a smaller house, now there's more room for the mess to spread and I seem to have lost control a bit. I used to do it all myself when we lived in the UK, now we have a cleaner once a fornight and I'm SO lazy - she comes on a tuesday and by about friday evening I'm thinking "won't bother cleaning that - she's coming in a few days". But she is marvellous, not the duster flicking of the english variety - full on furniture moving and dusting between slats on blinds.
I do try and keep things ticking over in between times though - for me it's not the dirt its the mess: endless bits of paper and toys, toys, toys.
There's a classic thread about cleaning bedclothes, towels, underwear etc - for the first time I discovered I'm round about normal, not the filthy slut I always believed!

General tidying every day. Dusting - erm, once a week. Vacuuming - every couple of days. Kitchen floor (mopping) - not often enough.

Occasionally the mood takes me and I will blitz the whole house top to bottom...wish mood would take me more frequently....

Worst job? Ironing. HATE ironing.

Loo everyday, sink every other day. Kitchen worktops daily, hoover every other day. Dust??? I do a bit, usually the telly as it show so easily. Washing is never ending and there's only 4 of us. I'd say our bedroom is the messiest room which doesn't inspire romance I must do something about it though

Where is classic thread on cleaning? I also want to feel better about my sluttish ways.

I don't do much ironing marthamoo. I hang stuff over the bath on one of those triangle things and they dry fairly crease free.

jan my nan was like your mum and still now i never understood where she got the time because she had five kids always having visitors but her house was spotless and dont mean nowadays kind of spotless i mean floors were deck scrubbed so was the step everywhere was dusted not a thing out of place i think what the weiredest part was though even though she was very house pround when us grandkids came to visit she used to let us run riots out the back and trampleing the mud through the house and all she would say was kids will be kids god if i had her house i would have been scared to move in it but she seemed to enjoy having things to clean and when asked why is she still doing it all no the kids have moved out she would say well it has to be done
oh and she never owned a vacum cleaner or a automatic washing machine it was broom and twin tub

I'd hate to have one of those houses that are always sparkly. I don't know how they do it but I never feel comfy in them either. I suppose if they're happy then that's ok

Never dust , never iron. Kitchen as much as poss, bathroom and loo as much as poss, bedroom when push comes to shove (literaly, pushing things off the bed to get into it and shoving them on to the floor), kids room get them to do it with the threat of no bed time story if they don't. front room when expecting more than one mummy guest or the health visitor
House in a mess does get me down though, and I must confess to having thrown away vital stuff in my haste to rectify the awfulness of it all.
I hate all those bits of stuff in cereal packets and kinder eggs.
J x

Zaphod - I can't do links but it's this:

Mumsnet Discussions: Other subjects: Am I Dirty? (0 messages)
from december. It was one of the the first threads I read when I discovered mumsnet and I was hooked.

I am a domestic slut as much as I can be.

im forever cleaning...every day, all day it seems and it never looks any cleaner! i DONT iron though!!

Yes, that am i dirty thread is fab...why are the intricacies of how often others change the towels so interesting? Agree with Zaphod re food and clean clothes being only really vital things. Of course I am obsessed with the ironing but that's not cleaning. The mess is what gets me down (not enough to do anything about it...DH says I am intent on keeping every piece of paper our children have touched!). I had a cleaning routine of weekly thorough cleans of downstairs, upstairs, bathroom when I was on mat leave but now I'm back at work it's all gone to pot (sigh). Still at least this week I cleaned the house for a party we ended up having in the church hall (it rained) so I'm up a bit there!

I have a fridge magnet

"You can notice the dust but please don't write in it"

That answer your question?!!!

every day

I do the kitchen sides and floor daily, and dishes. Dp clears the floor of toys nightly. Hoover living areas once a day. Dust every 6 months if the shelves are lucky. Clean the loo as needed. Bath cleaned properly once a fortnight, rinsed before each bath. Clothes put away when the pile gets to my head height and kids room once a fortnight. My house is a Sh*t hole most days. I do try though. I am messy as are the kids. Cant DO tidy.

I do try and keep the place tidy by doing stuff daily. I recently bought a plaque that says:-
"Cleaning the house while the kids are still growing is like shovelling snow when it's still snowing"
That's exactly how I feel, I can spend a whole day at home cleaning the house until it is show house material and within 5 minutes of them returning from school it resembles a bomb gone off.

I don't much like cleaning but I like tidiness, IYKWIM. I make sure the place is tidy at bedtime each day. Dusting and upstairs vacuuming is reserved for special occasions, such as visitors. Vacuuming downstairs happens about once a week, bathroom gets cleaned when I think about it (often while dd's are in the bath and so then the bath gets missed) kitchen gets cleaned most days... I am a candidate for that How clean is your house show!!! My gran was one of those shiny house people and my mum always kept our house clean too, so I guess I'm a failure... oh well it doesn't really matter... nothing wrong with a bit of good clean dirt!

My friend brought me a fridge magnet which says

"tidying up whilst the children are growing, is like shovelling snow when it's still snowing"

Doh, must remember to read whole thread before posting.
Sorry Blossomhill