Cleaning....no seriously!

[sunnyside]

How much cleaning do you really do?

I wouldn't say I was bonkers about cleaning but I do hoover at least every other day and I do washing, ironing and all other household stuff on regular basis but I don't put housework at the top of my priorities list. HOWEVER... my MIL and SIL spend all their time cleaning and both their houses look like show homes. They make me feel like my house is filthy!

So how much do you do? and what do we think is reasonable?

See, I'd rather play with DS then clear up at tea time. If someone turns up unexpectedly then they have to take us as they find us. MIL and SIL make comments to suggest I've been idling.

The absolute and utter bare min. Got caught out this afty tho. DH's boss gave him a lift home to get stuff for an emergency flight to london. The house was a crap hole . Luckily I'd just baked a loaf of soda bread and made a chicken casserole though so it smelled heavenly. Much more important IMO .

For those of you who have outdoor washing lines, Lakeland makes a gizmo so you can hang your washing out on hangers and they won't slide, although my gran used to hang stuff on hangers and then put a clothes peg on either side of the hook to keep it from sliding.

Works a treat, I'm telling ya!

Besides, you can't MN and iron

LOL expatinscotland, true you can't MN and iron!

Mmmm Hoover and mop once a week. Dust once a week only in lounge. Dining room only if people coming for dinner.

Bedrooms hoover about once a fortnight. Wash sheets when they look like they need it maybe once a week/10 days ish.

Washing only on bright and blowy days then I do about 4 loads that day and hang it all out.

Ironing, only if DH away for evening, I stick a film on.

Kitchen - proper cleam about once a month.

Bathroom - sink and loo every week, shower and bath about once a fortnight.

DH has never: hoovered, ironed, dusted, cleaned bathroom or mopped a floor. He has taken rubbish out once. However he does most of cooking, which bores me silly so thats ok.

Looking forward to the day we can afford my DREAM.

A live in housekeeper. Who preps breakfast, does a bit of cleaning and ironing and who makes us an evening meal. Bliss, bliss.

I would love to be like you sunnyside - i.e. relaxed about it all, but sadly I am an anally retentive obsessive cleaner and we all suffer for it.

....and I don't feel like I have any choice but to be like that. A mess or untidy area eats away at my tenuous grip on sanity threatening to catapult me into an abyss of madness unless I clean it up instantly

Flum, you've summed it up nicely, I reckon you may be me .

I try to keep on top on things but then other things get more priority like work ,kids ,animals)visitors .You could spend your whole life cleaning but if your house is not a health hazard get on with life and having visitors round who want to see u not your house.I can get my mad moments cleaning every thing in sight but its a blitz and then i feel better.Luckily this happens now and again even though i do every day chores etc.BORING cleaning all the time.BE HAPPY.

Honestly?
Ok ... I hoover every nine or ten days. I sweep the kitchen floor at least once a day. I never iron. I very rarely dust. I clean the lavatories about twice a week but it would be once a fortnight if it weren't for the boys.

I have to do loads of laundry and loads of cooking and clearing up every day, so there's not much time (nor inclination) for anything else.

Handlemecarefully - I like the idea that I'm all relaxed about it but it fear the truth is that I'm obsessed with other people being obssessed with it! It just makes me feel like a slovenly old boot!

Mind you I do feel better seeing that my way is kinda middle of the road based on these postings. I honestly don't know when the mad cleaners have time to do it!

Malory you sound like the balance is right! How d ya do it?

oops not that much!

work full time(excuses excuses), but have a cleaner who comes once a week to do a couple of hours, sweeping the floors, cleaning the bathrooms, loo, cleaning the kitchen, dusting etc.
although with 2 young kids this isn't enough so often give the bathroom a quick wash round to clean the bath (horrible blue suite that can't afford to replace at the moment) round the loo floor (2 boys with a bad aim!)
try to remember to change the bedding once a week and to iron once a week as well.

don't hoover at the moment as hoover broke and haven't got round to getting to the shop to replace it!