When do you do it?

yummymummy1987_2

I do mine as soon as i wake or the bulk of it. I wake up at 6.30 when dp is leaving for work. I sort the airers out that have dried over night then wake the children. Dress/feed them then they get to play
Then i clean sofas,polish tv,wash up,clean kitchen sides,tidy bedrooms,sort bins to take down ,have shower,clean bathroom, put load of washing on then shower,dress and head out the door for 8.10

Then when i get in from school run i hoover,wash floors, hang washing whilst ds watches 1 episode of hi 5 then pretty much the whole day is play time with him. I do sit down for 1 hr whilst he naps and thats "my" time where i do the budget, check here and emails/facebook etc etc

come tea time its cook/wash up/clean sides/hoover/bath/bed for boys at 6.30
1 more load of washing/hang on airer

then i chill with dp.

sundays i clean all the skirting boards/iron

my ds cleans his room including polishing and skirting boards but he does get paid he is 6 and a AMAZING cleaner!!!

Routine works really well in our house, my mum kept a very clean house but she was a quick worker and so i have learnt lots of tips from her. She also used to spend lots of time playing with us.

PerfectPeaches

My daughter is just over 3 months and I tend to get all my cleaning done first thing in the morning when she is blissfully happy in her swinging chair. I always wash up, clean the surfaces, sterilise bottles and sort out the washing first thing. Then I hoover, sweep the tiled floors in the afternoon during her nap (she is a deep sleeper!).

I can't stand having mess around me and I am very unhappy in an untidy/ unclean house. I manage to do everything quickly but I dont sacrifice time with my daughter I just use certain times of the day. But this may of course change as she gets older but I'd rather get up an hour early to clean and tidy my house than not have it in a certain way!

Peaches

Mely

yummymummy1987 wrote: »

I do mine as soon as i wake or the bulk of it. I wake up at 6.30 when dp is leaving for work. I sort the airers out that have dried over night then wake the children. Dress/feed them then they get to play
Then i clean sofas,polish tv,wash up,clean kitchen sides,tidy bedrooms,sort bins to take down ,have shower,clean bathroom, put load of washing on then shower,dress and head out the door for 8.10

Then when i get in from school run i hoover,wash floors, hang washing whilst ds watches 1 episode of hi 5 then pretty much the whole day is play time with him. I do sit down for 1 hr whilst he naps and thats "my" time where i do the budget, check here and emails/facebook etc etc

come tea time its cook/wash up/clean sides/hoover/bath/bed for boys at 6.30
1 more load of washing/hang on airer

then i chill with dp.

sundays i clean all the skirting boards/iron

my ds cleans his room including polishing and skirting boards but he does get paid he is 6 and a AMAZING cleaner!!!

Routine works really well in our house, my mum kept a very clean house but she was a quick worker and so i have learnt lots of tips from her. She also used to spend lots of time playing with us.

Aww your ds is such a good boy doing that, not many do,especially at that age!
Care to share any tips with us? I would like to get things done quicker and be more organised.

PaulJM

I find this as difficult as the OP.
Me and the missus both work full time, she does a part time maths degree, and I help out with local stuff.
We get in a trap where in the week we can just about wipe down the kitchen and sort out any nasties either a child or cat has caused, and maybe wipe the bathrooms down - but not often. Might even get a load of washing on and dried.

Eveything gets done at weekend - it takes us 3 hours between us to get the house sorted and clean on a Sunday!

Saturdays are all taking the kids to swimming and footie.
Then you want to get a run round the park with the kids...

Sometimes if there's time I'll pick an area like taking the TV apart and moving it out to clean behind, same with the sofas( I don't take them apart, the cat does that).
But hardly ever do we do stuff like that.
I think the person above, who says that when you're old you will sit there in an amazingly clean house, hoping someone will visit, tells all about our stupid lifestyles

ETanny

I do my cleaning 1st thing in the morning! Although because DD goes to school on a Mon and Tue and Wed morning (I am at WW then though!) I do gut the house top to bottom on Mon and Tue so the rest of the week I can blitz through it really fast.

cte1111

yummymummy1987 wrote: »

I do mine as soon as i wake or the bulk of it. I wake up at 6.30 when dp is leaving for work. I sort the airers out that have dried over night then wake the children. Dress/feed them then they get to play
Then i clean sofas,polish tv,wash up,clean kitchen sides,tidy bedrooms,sort bins to take down ,have shower,clean bathroom, put load of washing on then shower,dress and head out the door for 8.10

Then when i get in from school run i hoover,wash floors, hang washing whilst ds watches 1 episode of hi 5 then pretty much the whole day is play time with him. I do sit down for 1 hr whilst he naps and thats "my" time where i do the budget, check here and emails/facebook etc etc

come tea time its cook/wash up/clean sides/hoover/bath/bed for boys at 6.30
1 more load of washing/hang on airer

then i chill with dp.

sundays i clean all the skirting boards/iron

my ds cleans his room including polishing and skirting boards but he does get paid he is 6 and a AMAZING cleaner!!!

Routine works really well in our house, my mum kept a very clean house but she was a quick worker and so i have learnt lots of tips from her. She also used to spend lots of time playing with us.

surely you don't do all this every day? I was scrolling to the end for the bit where you said, it was a little joke!

Fair play if that's how you enjoy spending your time, but I really don't think that floors and bathrooms need cleaning daily. What happens if you miss a day?

I can see that washing is a dailyish task but for the rest, once a week is pretty sufficient when you've got your hands full with kids and work. I'm not saying this to have a go, but to try and protect the rest of us for feeling failures when we have more realistic cleaning routines.

SailorSam

My Mum was so fussy, the house was perfect and we were terrified to touch anything,
as soon as we came in we had to kick our shoes off, then upstairs to get changed. We couldn't sit on the furniture with dirty clothes on. Even something as simple as putting the milk in the fridge , god help us if we put it away with the handle facing the wrong way. The cooker would be split down into parts even when we'd only had salad ........... she use to say we'd had a boiled egg, so the cooker had been used. But ....
When my two little nieces came, they were about 2 and 4. The house was a tip, when the floor in one room was full of toys they'd move to another, pens; paper; dolls you couldn't move.
My Mum just smiled and said oh well i'll clean when they go home.
My Mum died 3yrs ago now but i've still got drawing the girls did pinned on the fridge.

PaulJM

cte1111 wrote: »

surely you don't do all this every day? I was scrolling to the end for the bit where you said, it was a little joke!

Fair play if that's how you enjoy spending your time, but I really don't think that floors and bathrooms need cleaning daily. What happens if you miss a day?

I can see that washing is a dailyish task but for the rest, once a week is pretty sufficient when you've got your hands full with kids and work. I'm not saying this to have a go, but to try and protect the rest of us for feeling failures when we have more realistic cleaning routines.

Yep. I thought that and didn't want to seem like I was picking.
She's entitled to do what she can, but that would be impossible for us.
I know my wife would feel guilty if she read that.

fishingcinema

cavework wrote: »

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

Absolutly love this post as soon as i read it i had a grin across my face.
I could spend literaly all day cleaning and she could still come in and find something wrong or out of place :0)

There are 51 weeks between my 2 and when they were smaller i used to have boxfulls of toys in the front room i used to let them play all day with them and pack them away once they were in bed because anyone will know as soon as you pack them away little ones decide they want to play with them again, i never forgett her tactful way of saying you really should pack there toys away when she said to me.... if you pop them all away it gives them something to do by taking them all out again.

beckseven

I struggled to get my housework done so now instead of one big clean a week which i used to dread I do a room a day. That way each room gets a good clean and nothing is ever too bogging!