cleanliness

Becles

vroombroom wrote: »

it certainly doesnt take over my life either, there is no shame in being houseproud x (although as someone said, I'm sure this will change when the baby gets older!)

It will.

You get moments like I did on Saturday when I'd picked up some of my daughters toys off the sitting room floor and left them on the stairs with the intention of taking them up to her bedroom when I'd finished hoovering the floor.

Then when I finished hoovering, I found the toys scattered all over the hall floor, and she was upstairs getting more stuff out in her bedroom.

I've got to admit I was wondering why on earth I bother :rotfl:

meer53

Why would you wash curtains every other week ? Mine have never been washed and they've been up at least 2 years ! I run the dyson over them occasionally though. My last pair were up even longer ! I can't wash mine anyway and there's no way i'd pay for them dry cleaning every other week ! They don't need it do they ? Or am i strange ?

pigpen

my curtains were washed once in 6 years so far.

vroombroom

heretolearn wrote: »

I think what matters is how do YOU feel about what you do. You certainly do more than most people and some things, like disinfecting outside daily, are quite odd unless you have a lot of dogs pooing on your concrete perhaps and a baby crawling around out there as well.

Do you think that anything less than you do results in a 'mucky' house from your last comment?
Not by any non-OCD definition of 'mucky'.

If you just love housework and you can cope with this and aren't driving your family potty with it, then do what makes you feel happy.

But ...if you find it takes so much time that you don't get enough time to play with your baby, relax, chill with OH, read a book, whatever else you have to do, or if you are at it at 6am or 10pm at night, it's having a negative effect on your quality of life and the quality of life of your family. In that case, you have a problem and should do something about it.

I just like a clean house - as I mentioned later on, I do it before OH and baby generally get up. I'm not that obsessed I'd miss time playing with the baby:D

the garden is done every day as its a smallish contrete yard and the animals are in and out and I worry about the smell (my neighbours have a dog that practically lives outside - you can smell their yard, its disgusting)

mucky houses to me are the ones you see on How Clean is your House?:eek::eek: I'm talking like rats on the cooker and cats in the fridge, things living in the toilets etc x

PS if anyone wants to hire me, my hour rate is a brew and a custard cream

heretolearn_2

People wash curtains?

Apricot

pigpen wrote: »

My goodness life is way too short.

Things I don't do.. dusting.. !!!!!!?! That is just a stupid idea.. quick vacuum every few months keeps on top of that.. def. better than flicking it all in the air to be inhaled and resettle! I occasionally wipe over flat surfaces.. when I have nothing better to do like watch paint dry.

I have 6 cats, 2 house rabbits and 3 stinky fish..

The kitchen is functionally clean... my mug doesn't stick to the worktop! The loos are cleaned... in case I need to be sick... even though I haven't been sick for 2 years lol.

Mess isn't dirt...I have lots of mess.. toys, clothes, shoes, bags, papers, just clutter.. that is more important to be shifting.

IF you are happy.. keep on mopping.. if it is taking over your life.... you need to deal with it!.. Or come do mine

:eek::eek: I thought you were queen of the flyladies? One of those superhuman cleaning machines?:p

OP - I love a clean house but I just have no motivation to actually do anything. Please teach me!

vroombroom

Apricot wrote: »

:eek::eek: I thought you were queen of the flyladies? One of those superhuman cleaning machines?:p

OP - I love a clean house but I just have no motivation to actually do anything. Please teach me!

Apricot, you are pregnant, you're allowed to have no motivation! x:D

balletshoes

I'm on the slovenly side of housework, in that I would much rather be out doing stuff in the garden (or anywhere else really) than doing housework. I do the dishes/wipe over kitchen worktops every day, hoover, dust, clean the bathroom twice a week, we wear clothes for 2 days if they are not dirty.

I tidy away when I can be bothered (so maybe once or twice a week), and look after the animals every day. My inside windows get cleaned when I notice they need cleaning (I hate cleaning windows). Ironing gets done in no more than one-hour at a time stints, and sometimes not every week (only me, OH and DD here).

No, theres nothing wrong in being houseproud - at all. But I also don't think theres anything wrong with a bit of an untidy home, personally.

balletshoes

vroombroom wrote: »

PS if anyone wants to hire me, my hour rate is a brew and a custard cream

you're hired - I'll even home-bake the custard creams!!!

lostinrates

vroombroom wrote: »

PS if anyone wants to hire me, my hour rate is a brew and a custard cream

done!

I used to wash curtains as they were changed..siummer to winter. I don't have enough to go round now!

I do a ''deep'' bathroom and kitchen clean each week and a ''gloss'' daily and then a room a day (roughly, sometimes its upstairs then downstairs). I don't mop floors when I don't need to...haven't this week, but in winter its every time the dogs go in and out. I try not to hoover and get dh to do it at the weekend.

I never disinfect the back garden.:eek: However, when I've got time I will throw the floor water from mopping out and give it a bit of a scrub with the outside broom. Done that once this year only.

Still, I don't get anything like as much done as you in a day and often feel drowing in it these days

I used to change bedding twice a week, have now dropped to once and its fine. And cheaper, and easier.