How obsessive are you about housework?

debtfreein4years

i used to clean every day but then i got fed up of it. now i have a rota which takes half an hour a day apart from a thursday when its an hour

monday - clean kitchen i.e wipe down cupboards, clean fridge, dust whatever, bleach sink etc.

tuesday - living room. dust, tidy, empty bin

wednesday - hall. dust, hoover stairs, hoover and mop downstairs

thursday - bathroom gets a good clean and floor gets done. my bedroom gets dusted and tidied and the bed gets stripped and remade. all upstairs floors get done.

friday - general tidy.

first saturday of the month clean the inside windows. every 2nd sunday cut the grass.

daily i wash dishes, wipe kitchen sides, bleach toilet and just tidy up after myself.

as and when i put in washing, do the filing and shredding and then iron washing once it is dry.

when i lived at home i tidied up after myself but didnt help do the rest of the house apart from the washing so i went a bit ott when i got my first proper house by doing most of the above daily!

kpey

Catsan is the way forward as far as I am concerned! The small pack is £5 something in Tesco, but Asda do a big pack twice the size for £7 something according to my OH

flowerscotland

I'm not that obsessive about housework to be honest, my Mum is overly obsessed and always has her house spotless, well apart from when the girls and I are visiting :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

I come in from work and usually start tidying and mopping and cleaning anywhere that needs it. Make dinner and do washing inbetween, then get baths and have a little tidy up after dinner again. Other bigger tasks get planned and I arrange to do them one evening or a weekend day.

My mum always does her housework first before going anywhere or doing anything, I just close the door, houses will be here when we aren't :j

Katie-Kat-Kins

I have a mug that says "a well dusted home is the sign of a wasted life"

It is a moto I live by!!!!!

Seriously, I can't remember the last time i used a hoover, but it was probably because I spilt something or broke something....... I haven't dusted since I moved out three years ago, and I think last time i cleaned the bathroom was when we had the plumber in and it was full of brick dust.

Good job I have a houseproud husband to keep on top of things!

I do washing as and when the basket is full, wash up the dinner plates, wipe round the surfaces in the kitchen, cook, and do the shopping, other than that he does pretty much all of it.

To be honest I would do more if I lived alone, but I don't really have an eye for dirt so it would probably be fairly infrequent......

I wasn't too much of a slob at uni, but I did have a blazing row with my first year housemates about whether it was really necessary to hoover daily....... it was never resolved so we all found different houses for our second year!

Katie-Kat-Kins

How do you reckon parents attitudes shape their kids cleanliness habits???

My DH had a stay at home mum who kept the place spotless and never let the kids lift a finger, and he's the tidy one.

My mum worked part time and from when we were little expected us to tidy our own rooms (it really shocks me when teenagers have their rooms tidied for them, an intrusion of privacy by the parent and utter laziness by the teenager!)and make our own beds. When we were older we were expected to do certain jobs, especially during school holidays, normally one thing a day, clean the bathroom, hoover two rooms, iron five shirts whatever. Mum's never been what you would call house proud - not a slob though. I've grown up knowing how to do all the housework but not really having much desire to......

Of my peers the most obsessive cleaner (I can remember her cleaning the kitchen on a saturday morning while her parents had a lie in when she was 11) had parents who had a nice house but were quite slobby about cleaning and tidying. The most messy had a house proud do everything mum who never delegated housework even when ill (I was gobsmacked that she hoovered the stairs when she had a bad back because nobody else would do it properly - she had a 17 year old daughter, two teenage sons and a husband!). But in between are allsorts of combinations........

Interesting psychology.....

kpey

Mum hardly dusts and hoovers, I do so once a week without fail.

Mum = massive hoarder. I chuck things away as often as I can

Parents = non smokers. Mum gave up before we were born. Bro and I both smoke like chimneys....

Not to do with cleaning, but interesting I think!! :rolleyes:

OrangeProse

Wasn't it Quentin Crisp who said, "After four years the dirt doesn't get any worse."?

My attitude to housework depends entirely on how busy I am at work! If I work long hours it tends to get forgotten about. However if I can get home by 7pm in the evening it'll get done.

Monday is my housework day. It would appear to be a generational thing. My mum does her housework on a Monday too. As does my grandmother. As did her mother... and grandmother before her.

You can't fight genetics.

I also do a lighter 'tidy up and swipe round' on a Thursday or Friday morning before work.

I've also realised that I don't mind some housework tasks, yet I completely detest and resent others. I don't mind vacuuming but I HATE dusting. Even with microfibre cloths. I like cleaning the kitchen but I HATE doing the bathroom... particularly the shower cubicle. As I live in London our water is hard and we get horrid water marks all over the glass. The previous tenants never bothered to clean it properly so some of those marks are now etched in. :mad: indeed.

Although I have recently discovered that the liquid spray Soda Crystals solution is brilliant at getting most of the water marks off the glass.

Barcode

Now I feel a slob!

There are two people in this flat, and on average:

Hoover - once a week. Maybe because this is we have wooden floors, when I lived somewhere with a carpet it was more, and I hated it.

Dust - once a week.

Bathrooms - cleaned properly once a week. Wiped down in week if needed.

Kitchen - clean sink / surfaces every two-three days.

Washing - weekly.

I think of myself as a clean person, and suspect that if I had a family (god forbid), I'd have to clean more often. More major jobs like the oven / fridge can be done every month or so.

I have seen these people on 'Wife Swap' and the like that spend HOURS everyday cleaning, and typically, there is something psychologically amiss. It simply does not take that long unless you are weirdly obsessive.

OrangeProse

Barcode wrote: »

More major jobs like the oven / fridge can be done every month or so.

Oh, I'd forgotten about the oven. I'm like Carrie - I use mine for storage.

hayley11

I hate cleaning and also have a really bad back so can't do much but I do try to do some everyday, I like to keep the living room clean and tidy because that's where I spend most of my time.

I don't have a set routine but I do tend to spend some time tidying the living room in the morning, hoovering and polishing if it needs it. I do some washing, wash up, clean the units.

Hamster gets cleaned out once a week, bins get emptied when they are full. Mostly, I just do things if they look like they need doing.

OP - I don't think you're freaky or whatever term you used, I think that's quite a normal amount of cleaning really. Unless of course you have to do it in that order and for those times, otherwise you're whole world would end, that would be slightly OCD