How obsessive are you about housework?

newcook

luckily I live alone so its only me that makes a mess!!! I leave most of my housework until saturday morning (though last week I did it on the thursday evening!) and it takes a maximum of an hour to make everything sparkly!!

I do my washing up every other day (sometimes will leave 3 days if im busy!!) to save water and energy. I wipe up around me with some sort of bleach spray while im cooking which generally leads to me wiping down other stuff such as microwave (even if ive not used it) fridge door etc. and I have to tell myself to step away from the spraygun - I am one of these people who once they start, cant be stopped which is why I prefer to to a big blitz of a weekend!!!

flowerscotland

KatP wrote: »

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

I need one of those to keep at my parents for my tea :T:rotfl:

fayhare

I am very lazy regarding housework but my flat is fairly clean and tidy.

*I hoover once every couple of months...there is only me and I am out alot.
*Wash up every evening
*One load of washing a week
*Dust every few months...very undusty flat and I dont have alot of things.
*Change the bed once a month, but much more often if boyfriend spends alot of time here.
*Clean the bathroom as I go, so prob a few times a week.

jenhug

I'm obsessive about not cleaning! I hate it!

belfastgirl23

Ok how can you do a washing load and dry it in 2 mins? It would take me at least that long to load the machine and put the powder etc in never mind the time sorting it when it comes out, hanging it up etc.

I do do the kitchen surfaces at least once a day, often more, but the floors can go weeks or months without cleaning. Dishwasher so no washing dishes (about ten mins every other day to empty it).

Dust once a month or so. Bathrooms should be cleaned weekly but to be honest it's more like fortnightly unless someone is coming round

I do think you're very houseproud OP.

Katie-Kat-Kins

belfastgirl23 wrote: »

Ok how can you do a washing load and dry it in 2 mins? It would take me at least that long to load the machine and put the powder etc in never mind the time sorting it when it comes out, hanging it up etc.

I have two linen bins so the stuff gets sorted as I go, when the bin is three quarters full that is a full load so put it is washing basket carry downstairs shove in machine, shove washing powder tablet in drawer, hit on button. Less than two minutes, normally done last thing before bed while DH is brushing his teeth and I am waiting to get in the bathroom.

Next morning pull washing out of machine into washing basket, while waiting for kettle to boil for morning cuppa, carry upstairs, hang out on airers. Hanging it on the airers takes about five minutes and I often don't have room for all the pants and socks so they have to wait for some of the big things to dry and be taken off.

When dry take off into two big piles one for me one for DH, leave in respective "homes" until we either put them away or wear them again.

Ironing is done as and when required if you have crease issues, generally we don't iron much. If you hang things out to dry right only shirts and smart trousers need doing. :cool:

Crickey I'm feeling a bit domestic goddess like now!!! :rotfl:

Katie-Kat-Kins

flowerscotland wrote: »

I need one of those to keep at my parents for my tea :T:rotfl:

From Whittards I love it, use it all the time, and hide it before the MiL comes to visit!!! I'm sure she thinks I am some sort of slob...... But DH is really pretty housetrained, he lived alone for years, he doesn't need looking after.

KellyWelly

I honestly thought we were proper slobs, it looks like maybe I am the tidy freak my husband keeps telling me.

Every morning I get up and mop the kitchen and feed the dogs before I shower. I also wash any dishes that get used and left after I go to bed. I wipe down the kitchen cabinets with antibacterial spray and the plinths if they are grubby from the dogs. I also mop and clean the downstairs loo. I wipe the top of the kitchen bin quite often throughout the day with anti bac as it's a Brabantia touch and I don't like the germs getting on our hands. This all probably takes 30 mins to 1 hour depending on whether it's muddy from the dogs when it's raining etc.

I clean the cooker and the oven after every use unless it doesn't get messy. I clean the microwave every time I use it (not often). I clean the fridge once a week when I do the shopping and before I put the chilled stuff away.

After I shower I spray the bath and screen down and clean the toilet, I wipe the sink and tap and worktop, window sills. I rub the floor down with the dirty bath mat and pop that in the wash. Once a week I clean the mirror - the whole wall on one side of the room is mirrored so that's a big job to do quickly in the morning. I also properly clean the floor and the grout about once a week.

I generally put a load of washing on in the morning which I put to dry at lunchtime, or I will put a load on at night and put it out in the morning, if I have time. The dry stuff gets sorted by my husband and put into piles for all of us to put our own stuff away.

Then I go to work!

Later in the day I will mop the kitchen and lounge, hoover and sweep first. I clean the worktops and sink before I cook dinner. I've got a dishwasher to wash the dishes. The kids clear up after dinner.

I hoover the sofas and stairs/landing at least once a week, no more than twice as a rule - we don't wear shoes on the carpets and no pets allowed up there.

The kids bedrooms get tidied every evening and have a proper tidy and hoover/dust every weekend. They're supposed to do this themselves but they're only 5 and 7 so we usually help them.

I hose down and clean the patio and path outside every sunday when we put the bins out and disinfect it all with Jeyes Fluid. Sometimes if the dogs wee and poo on it and it's smelly I do that mid week as well.

The only things I don't do very often are clean windows (once a month downstairs, not very often upstairs, I need to get a window cleaner tbh). I also dust only once a week and usually get one of the kids to do that. I wipe down the walls if they are starting to look a bit grubby but otherwise I don't do them other than in the kitchen which wipe down every day when I do the cabinets (flamin' dogs).

I don't do the garden unless I get sick of looking at the mess and then I blitz and throw all the crap broken toys and rubbish the dogs and kids accumulate and harrass my husband to mow the lawn and my brother comes over and cuts the hedges.

The only room in the house that isn't as clean and tidy as I would like is our bedroom but it's the only room where I can let my husband dump all his junk and slob out a bit and then close the door to visitors, so it's a compromise.

I was not a clean and tidy child or teenager, in fact my room was disgusting and I would be ashamed now if I lived like it. I don't know when I started being so fussy tbh and I really didn't think I was until I read this thread. The funny thing is I flippin hate cleaning - it's a running joke with my friends and family, or I thought I did. Maybe they are teasing me for another reason?? But I feel really pleased when it's all done and I love the feeling of relaxing in a clean tidy room. I get anxious about disorder and mess. Maybe I am a tidy freak. You wouldn't accuse me of being house proud, though, it doesn't stay clean and tidy for long.

KellyWelly

Actually, to add to my mammoth post, I do realise when I got just a little bit obsessive about it all - when we bought our own house and started spending money on it - a new kitchen, new bathroom, new (nice) furniture when we'd always had hand-me-down before. I think once it started costing us money I placed more value on it!! How ungrateful was I?! Very.

ailuro2

I dust when we have people coming to stay.:o

Everything that needs cleaning gets done, the other stuff when it gets bad enough to bother me.:p

Life's too short to spend it cleaning.:beer: