How obsessive are you about housework?

belfastgirl23

Mutter wrote: »

Hoover lounge, hall and kitchen. 5 mins. How come? 5 mins for three rooms?

Also rinse toilets and sinks. What does rinsing entail? Flushing or what? A quick brush round?

When I had a hoover used to take me 5 mins just to get the b****y thing out of the cupboard

red_devil

I keep up to date with the housework etc and its clean. I am not obsessive though!

I keep on top of the washing too I dont like it to pile up too much. The work never ends. There is the garden too and the car to wash.

Thats one nice thing about being away or going out for the day you dont do any work!

*Louise*

I WISH I only had 40 minutes of cleaning every day!!!! Mine is probably only a couple of hours, but spread through the day, stopping to look after/play with kids, make meals, etc drags it all out and makes it seem longer.

I have 3 children and feel as though as soon as I tidy somewhere, they either eat or play and the place is a mess again.:rolleyes:

I clean down the kitchen every morning - empty the dishwasher form the night before, clean all the counters and the cooker hob. Floor is swept every day, mopped twice a week

The living room is the bane of my life - I only have one toy box in there, but it seems to explode a few times a day and leave mess everywhere. I don;t mind them playing - but do they really ned every toy out at once??

The living room gets swept 2-3 times a day - it's bad for showing up crumbs, and I hate walking over them :rolleyes:

I do a load of washing every day, and limit ironing to once a week (2 hour stint while watching Corrie etc lol) Insides of windows are cleaned once a week, as well as all the mirrors

Halls/stairs are cleaned and hoovered twice a week. Extra going over if I expect visitors lol. Bedrooms are once a fortnight because I just don't have the energy.


Hubby cleans the bathroom - man and boy wee aint my responsibility!!:p

xx_Jo_xx

If you only clean for 40 mins every day, when do you do your windows, woodwork, turn and hoover mattresses, clean soft furnishings and curtains etc. Do you do all your ironing etc in this time too?

Forty minutes is fine for a surface tidy, but what about deep cleaning? xx

Krystaltips

I've hoovered 3 times since the baby was born...

I've stopped caring...

Most days...

myothercarisaferrari

I polish and hoover the living room and dining room every day.

Washing gets done every day

Dishes get cleaned, dried and put away straight after tea

The kitchen is cleaned every day

Bedrooms done once a week

Bathroom done every day

Garden gets poop scooped and washed with animal-safe disinfectant every day

Idiophreak

myothercarisaferrari wrote: »

I polish and hoover the living room and dining room every day.

I'm genuinely interested - do you actually get much stuff coming up in the hoover each day?

As I said before, I'll hoover the flat once every couple of weeks - kitchen, diner, lounge, hallway, 2 bedrooms - I'll get maybe 1/2 an inch or an inch max of stuff up into the cylinder (and we've got a pretty decent hoover) - I think most of that's fluff from the carpet, too, as it's relatively new.

Barcode

sassygirl wrote: »

Everyday i hoover up to 4 times a day

Did you really mean to type the number '4' ?

minerva_windsong

At university (me and three others):
- Made bed every day
- Wiped kitchen surfaces down after cooking
- Washing every week (usually went in with housemates depending how much I needed doing)
- Tidied bedroom at least once a week (hoover floor, change bed sheets, empty bin etc)
- Bedroom cleaned thoroughly once a month (got rid of general 'useful' junk, dusted bookcase and windowsill, hoovered under bed etc)
- Bathroom cleaned once a week (mainly involved a lot of disinfectant wipes, sweeping the floor and washing the bath mat) and thoroughly cleaned once a month (killing mould, washing the floor etc)

My other housemates were responsible for the kitchen, lounge and hallways as we'd all agreed.

At home (me, parents, sister and brother-in-law):
- Bed made once a day
- Bedroom tidied once a week (hoovering, changing bed sheets, emptying bin etc)
- Washing done once a week
- Any other jobs my mum asks me to do

ScarletBea

I'm speechless by the amount of cleaning some people do... is it just because you don't have a job outside the house? So you clean to fill up your days? Aren't there better things to do?

On one end of the scale there's slobbiness, on another there's obsession: the virtue is in the middle