How obsessive are you about housework?

KellyWelly

I don't clean to fill my days! Ha ha! I clean and tidy as much as I do to maintain an acceptable level of dirt and untidiness. I work 30 hours a week and I do 16 hours a week at college as well. I also have 2 kids who are in school and I don't have any childcare outside of school hours. My husband works 50+ hours a week (some at home) so I don't get much help from him really with house work. tbh I think if I didn't have my dogs and if my husband and kids were just a bit more considerate I wouldn't have to do quite so many hours.

My friend bought me a little hanging plaque for my kitchen that says "Housework won't kill you, but why take a chance?"

galvanizersbaby

KellyWelly wrote: »

I don't clean to fill my days! Ha ha! I clean and tidy as much as I do to maintain an acceptable level of dirt and untidiness. I work 30 hours a week and I do 16 hours a week at college as well. I also have 2 kids who are in school and I don't have any childcare outside of school hours. My husband works 50+ hours a week (some at home) so I don't get much help from him really with house work. tbh I think if I didn't have my dogs and if my husband and kids were just a bit more considerate I wouldn't have to do quite so many hours.

My friend bought me a little hanging plaque for my kitchen that says "Housework won't kill you, but why take a chance?"

:eek: KellyWelly - do you get much time to do anything else other than work/work at college or housework?

yummymummy1987_2

2 bed flat, 2 kids 2 adults
Every day i polish living room and computer desk, window ledges (we have quite big ones)

Wipe down sofas

wash up about 4 times a day!!! my kids are always eating and i cant stand it piling up on the side!!

Wash kitchen and cupboard doors etc

Mop all floors, bleach bathroom

Hoover whole flat
1x load of washing and iron dp uniform

Because i do it everyday i find its much quicker and easier than say on a monday when we have spent the whole wkend out doing things.

I dont iron mine and the kids things as i hang them on a airer, only iron dp uniform and he irons his jumpers etc on his days off.

I hate a dirty house!!!!! esp bathrooms

Could be a genetic thing as my mum always keeps things immaculate and always used to say that people would ask how she kept such a clean house with kids and her reply was "children are never a excuse for a dirty house"
I do it when baby is sleeping and my older child very much likes quiet time to do things like lego etc.

myothercarisaferrari

Idiofreak, I hoover every day as we have dogs and their hairs' trigger my OH's allergies:o

I love my house and having it clean it a bonus. I would hate for anyone to 'pop' round and it be dirty, smelling of dog! x

Wench

I hoover maybe twice a day, more if needed, it still looks just as bad after I've hoovered

Wash up once a evening, ( this is DD's chore )

Washing machine goes on maybe once or twice a day, dependant on how much there is to do.

Dusting.. ummm... I dont think I've ever done that, ooh I did get a sock on a stick a few months ago and got the cobwebs off the ceiling :rotfl:

Bleach the surfaces / kitchen floor as when needed.

Toilets get done once a week.

If I'm having a cleaning moment I'll even sweep the stairs, but this doesnt happen often.

With 3 kids ( 2 of em under 5 ) its a never ending cycle of cleaning!

Jomo

spinningsheep wrote: »

Think im going to try catsan, I buy wilkinsons, co op or aldi "felius" as its cheap and I tend to get through loads as I too hate the smell, so I spend at least £5 a week on it, never occoured to me that cat litters performed better than others, off to sainsburys in a bit to do shopping so will get some!

I have been using Catsan for years now and everytime I go back to any other 'cheap' brand I have had to throw it away. Catsan is definately the best on the market from what I have seen, if anyone knows any different and can offer a better, cheaper alternative, your input is welcome!

looktothefuture

spinningsheep wrote: »

Think im going to try catsan, I buy wilkinsons, co op or aldi "felius" as its cheap and I tend to get through loads as I too hate the smell, so I spend at least £5 a week on it, never occoured to me that cat litters performed better than others, off to sainsburys in a bit to do shopping so will get some!

What.. you didn't KNOW... :rolleyes: :eek:

I scoured the earth looking for a nice economical cat litter that ACTUALLY worked... landed up with WORLDS BEST and it honestly is the worlds best! I've got two kitties and I get a 20L bag which lasts around 20 days! It's a clumping natural litter made from maize and it does the job brilliantly!

KellyWelly

galvanizersbaby wrote: »

:eek: KellyWelly - do you get much time to do anything else other than work/work at college or housework?

I do sit on my fat bum on the internet for far too long every day tbh and I do watch telly sometimes, maybe a couple of hours a week, but more often than not I am busy with something or another. I spend all my free time with the kids doing things with them, so from when I take them home from school/work (I work in the school they attend) until they go to bed I spend that time cooking their tea and doing things with them, homework or playing or chatting or going to clubs or lessons etc. Once they're in bed I study or whatever, generally don't get much sleep at all, maybe five hours a night. I am studying for a languages degree with the OU so I do tutorials on Tuesdays and every other Saturday and self help groups once or twice a week for a few hours, plus I read my course books in bed or study on the sofa when they're asleep. I get burnt out and have to catch up with resting every couple of weeks. Since I wrote all that down the other day about how much I do every day I've decided I need to slow the heck down and chillax a bit, I just don't know how to sit about doing nothing, really. I have a pattern of realising I am doing too much, giving something up, and then picking up something new. I've always done voluntary work and that's usually what I give up and then pick up again when I get bored.

I do have a friend who is far more hyper than me though, she works nights in Tesco and days as a cleaner, she sleeps between 12pm and 3pm and during her 'lunch hour' at Tesco although I know she regularly goes for a couple of days without sleep sometimes. She doesn't have any childcare outside of school hours, looks after her 80 year old mum and her 6 year old nephew and she is on the PTA at school and runs around like a blue @rsed fly, as we call ourselves.

buxtonrabbitgreen

I have what I consider a good clean up once a fortnight on my weekend off. that starts tomorrow worse luck. My ds noticed last time I had the weekend off, scrubbing the bath and said it is not much of a fun way to spend my time off. Well no one else would do it if I didn't.
Kids are responsible for their own rooms. One is disgusting one is tidy.

jimmyay

i think my partner may be a bit ocd but then the place does look very clean and that is nice. but its when i'm told that i can't sit in the house in clothes i have sat on the bus/ public transport / restaurants in because they are dirty places that i start to wonder.

our place is utterly spotless. but sometimes i feel i cant even leave a mug down for 5 minutes without it being tidied away, or being told i've made a mess when one spot of water falls from my bike onto the wooden floors, which then have to be mopped.