When to clean what??

Heth_2

I don't clean half as much as most of the people on this thread. We do laundry when we have a full load (and bed linen every couple of weeks), and I never clean on weekdays apart from washing up and the kitchen worktop. Probably vacuum every couple of weeks, and maybe dust every week, or every fortnight.
We both work full time, no kids, and I commute for 2 1/2 hours each day. By the time I'm home and we have had dinner (always home cooked anyway) I'd rather relax than clean.

bulchy

catkins wrote:

I used to do far more housework before I discovered this site!!! Now I seem to spend most of the day on here even though every morning I vow I won't!

Basically as long as my kitchen and bathroom are clean I don't worry too much about the rest. I used to dust and hoover every day but my house gets so dusty I feel I am fighting a losing battle. I spend some of Mondays ironing and changing the bed but other than that have no real routine.

I'm exactly the same Catkins, I spend so much time on this site, then start to feel guilty cos I havent done anything.
Taplady, you sound so organised, I have 2 dogs and 2 cats and know how you feel about the dog/cat hair and the mud, I think I should be emptying my Henry straight onto the garden, theres so much mud goes into it. I think I'll try getting up earlier than the kids during the school holidays, see if I can get into a better routine.
Sue

squiggles

Now ive decluttered my housework is a doddle.

bedding = weekly
bathroom = daily
dusting upstairs and hoover = every other day
dusting downstairs and hoover = daily (burgandy carpet)
hoover behind sofas and down cushions monthly.
windows cleaned erm never between october and april as have severe condensation problems
sons room,ashamed to say it but is cleaned rarely by me (hes 13 so should do it himself)

every may and october i go right through the house taking down curtains,nets,lampshades,ornaments,you name it,it gets washed/cleaned.All furniture and white goods is pulled out to hoover or wash.

ellas9602

Budget wrote:

My God, I started to read this thread and became totally depressed at you superwomen who hoover and dust and polish every hour on the hour. I clean my house once a year if I'm lucky and the first job is usually to remove the cobwebs and hoover the crumbs until I can see the carpet. Reading your posts was resulting in my feeling vast amounts of guilt! AND THEN.....

I clicked on the https://www.flylady.com link and read the Home Page and I got really interested. So I've signed up to become a Member and hope to get started by very small steps. Thankyou SOOO much for your post, Jellycat, I think I've started to crack it AT LAST!!!

MUST dash, I'm off to polish my sink (Baby Step No. 1)

Budget

I started flylady too this week. I didn't join though as reading through other fly lady threads on here put me off. Apparently you get bombarded with emails. I just look at it each day and do the missions, I already have the am and pm routines in place too and do 2x 15 min decluttering a day. My house really feels much better and organised in this small space of time and I'm loving it.

I didn't really stick with the babysteps just went straight on with the routines. It really is helping.

I love the sayings too..

I can now be heard telling myself "thats stinkin thinkin!"....it makes me laugh so much.... :rotfl: :rotfl:

this weeks zone as been the kitchen and its gleaming!

justin138

Ours: him at work, me disabled at home, 19 cats

Me:
Wake up to breakfast in bed )
Spend all day knitting/making things waiting for him to arrive home, eat, fuss kitties, go to bed when I feel like it.
Him:
Spends an hour sorting little things out in the mornings, makes me brekkie. Goes to work (full time), comes home, cook dinner, then housework, then DIY, then helping me make things and fussing kitties - drops into bed exhausted. Oh, and lunchtime or after work, does the shopping.

I swear I'm going to clone him, and make my fortune selling the clones!

Jo

black-saturn

Well perhaps I'm dirty but I give the whole house a good old clean and dust every friday morning. I vacuum twice a week or if it needs doing in the meantime and then I steam clean the carpets and sofa once a week (little puppy :rolleyes: ). I give the loo a squeeze of bleach and a wipe round once a day.

I do the laundry whenever the washing basket is full. I dont iron :eek:

I wash the sheets on the beds in a rota about every 2 - 3 weeks.

I seem to be permanently tidying up but I think it's because my house is so small. Theres 3 of us and all our belongings living in a house really only big enough for 1.

ellas9602

black-saturn wrote:

Well perhaps I'm dirty but I give the whole house a good old clean and dust every friday morning. I vacuum twice a week or if it needs doing in the meantime and then I steam clean the carpets and sofa once a week (little puppy :rolleyes: ). I give the loo a squeeze of bleach and a wipe round once a day.

I do the laundry whenever the washing basket is full. I dont iron :eek:

I wash the sheets on the beds in a rota about every 2 - 3 weeks.

I seem to be permanently tidying up but I think it's because my house is so small. Theres 3 of us and all our belongings living in a house really only big enough for 1.

Must say my routine is very similar BS. I have a little puppy too and I did hire a steam cleaner last week but of course this week carpets are back in the same state :eek: Did you buy a staem cleaner? Are they expensive?

ps...I dont iron either... :eek:

BlondeHeadOn

I feel very guilty admitting this on a money saving site, but actually .... I pay for a cleaner every week to do 3 hours.

I absolutely hate cleaning!

Does this mean I should de-register from this website????

:rolleyes:

DopeyDora_2

Just me & my OH in our place, no little ones or pets.

We both work full time, so house doesn't get that cluttered/dirty in the week as we're hardly there. Out at 8, not back til after 7 most nights, and often out in evenings at gym, college etc.

Daily, I like to make sure that the bed is made in the morning, the bathroom & en-suite are given a wipe/loo cleaned & that there aren't any piles of "stuff" on coffee table/kitchen side. Then in the evening I make sure that the kitchen is tidy & the washing up is done & put away. Everything else can wait until the weekend.

Weekends are for dusting, vacuuming, washing, ironing, decent clean of bathroom/shower/loos, proper kitchen clean including floor etc. We're both happy doing the cooking, cleaning & ironing (have to fight to do it sometimes!).

Dora x

Dora_the_Explorer_5

I'm not letting you lot in on my squalid housekeeping routine :eek:
But happy to share an OS tip :j

In the day's before duvets we could do top to bottom with the sheets every week so each week the bed was half changed, which was almost as good as a complete change. When we switched to duvets I started changing the duvet cover one week and the bottom sheet the next week and pillowcases every week - feels almost like a complete change of bedding every week. The bonus is that one sheet and a couple of pillowcases seems much easier to wash than a complete bedset, so not sluttish feelings and moneysaving as well.
Apparently Jackie Kennedy had a kip every afternoon and demanded clean sheets twice a day :rotfl: