When do you do it?

strawberrypud

Your house cleaning that is!

I cannot do anything after 7pm once the kids are in bed because I am just too shattered from running around after them for the last 12 hours! So, I try to fit it in during the day but had a ridiculous situation today... the youngest was napping and the older one was out so i wanted to hoover and clean the bathroom but did neither job for fear of waking the baby! So nothing got done!

Apricot

As soon as I get in from work on weekdays - If I sit down for five minutes then nothing gets done so as soon as im in my coat comes off and I get on with it!

On weekends it's just as and when I can be bothered and only what absolutely needs doing...

pupsicola

Read this beautifull poem, may make you feel a bit better;

Come in, but dont expect to find
All dishes done, all floors ashine.
Observe the crumbs and toys galore.
The smudgy prints upon the door.
The little ones we shelter here
Dont thrive on a spotless atmosphere.
They're more inclined to disarray
And carefree even messy play.
Their needs are great, their patience small
All day I'm at their beck and call
Its Mummy come!, Mummy see!
Wiggly worms and red scraped knee
Painted pictures, blocks piled high.
My floors unshined, the days go by.
Some future day they'll fly this nest,
And I at last will have a rest!
Now you tell me what matters more
A happy child or a polished floor?

sparrer

strawberrypud wrote: »

Your house cleaning that is!

I cannot do anything after 7pm once the kids are in bed because I am just too shattered from running around after them for the last 12 hours! So, I try to fit it in during the day but had a ridiculous situation today... the youngest was napping and the older one was out so i wanted to hoover and clean the bathroom but did neither job for fear of waking the baby! So nothing got done!

That's so sad. The house isn't going to fall down if you don't vacuum the carpet or have time to wipe the bathroom basin, but when you're older and sit there on your own in a perfectly clean house waiting for the family to visit and mess it up a bit you'll wonder why you stressed so much. Believe me, any parent or grandparent will agree with me.

cavework

Oh love .. do a 'mother in law is popping in clean'
everything visible gets a quick wipe or dust .. vacume downstairs and spray a bit of furniture polish round the front door
Forget upstairs until it is dire :rotfl:
A home is to be lived in not polished!
xx

onlyroz

Rarely. I tend to wipe down the kitchen surfaces each day, and do my best to keep on top of the washing up, but I hardly ever do a proper clean. Hoovering happens maybe once a fortnight. I tend to clean the bathroom at the weekend, once in a blue moon, while I've got the kids playing in the bath.

Quenastoise

What's cleaning ?:rotfl:

I come in the house, tidy after the 3 males in the house (including the cat !), grab some dinner on the go, clean the table, do the dishes, do the laundry, pick up the crumbs of the carpet, prepare the food for the next day, empty the bins, clean and tidy the kitchen and that's it.

The rest gets done over the weekend, by which point I finally feel the urge to do something about the house

Red_Cat

Try to do it straight after brekkie on Saturday morning, so the rest of the weekend is then free. Normally done by 11am.

Spendless

I did mine during the day or at weekends. How old is the baby? Both mine had daytime sleeps that were light (curtains not drawn) downstairs and noisy - eg tv was on and I could hoover (possibly not in the room they were in, but in others) so they learned the difference between a daytime nap and night time sleeping which was in their cot upstairs, dark and quiet. Why did you think the baby would wake if you cleaned the bathroom?

ajaney

As long as your kitchen tops & bathroom surfaces are wiped down with bleach or a disinfectant, the rest can wait! I have a 7 month old baby so I know what you mean about trying to fit it in. He tends to be more able to amuse himself in the morning so if I get the urge to hoover or do some cleaning, I try & do it then but I certainly don't stress about it - lifes too short.

Sublime_2

Its difficult, as I've only got one of them this weekend I've been able to crack on. DS has managed to spill two different cartons of juice on my new beige carpet today, bless him. One orange, the other a bugundy sort of colour. :D

Just grateful to have that time!