Cleaning Routine - not flylady

Nanamia

Oh my word I must be a slob!!!!!!

I'm following the flylady thread and loving it but have not been asked to wash walls or scrub the bath with a toothbrush (thankfully) Only been flying for 6 weeks, tomorrow starts week 7 and my house has been literally transformed. I've grown too with confidence and find that the organisation is contagious and you become automatically more organised generally. The motivation you get from the other flylady (fly people) keeps you going :-) especially when you read their posts and realise you are not the only one!

wouldbeqaulitymoneysaver

Lurkilicious here it's Confession Time pour Moi.

Bitsy_Beans

Ladies it's not a competition. No one is a slob if they don't clean as much as splishsplash. Don't forget SS uses her cleaning as a work out (aims to burn 500 per session) so a quick flick with the duster wouldn't achieve that.

Thanks for sharing your list SS, I might write myself a more detailed list with daily, weekly and monthly tasks might help me clean my windows more often ;)

LandyAndy

Our policy is to do nothing until we can't stand looking at it and then to do the minimum required to bring it above that, very low, threshold. Anything more is for people with too much time on their hands.

Piquant_2

anguk wrote: »

I've never washed a ceiling in my life. And walls just get wiped when there's fingermarks. Curtains get washed once or if they're lucky twice a year.

I've never washed my curtains nor washed a ceiling

I have a clean kitchen and bathroom most of the time, until the kids arrive that is!

LandyAndy

Piquant wrote: »

I've never washed my curtains nor washed a ceiling

I have a clean kitchen and bathroom most of the time, until the kids arrive that is!

Exactly.

Too many people do things in the entirely mistaken belief that doing something is the same as doing something worthwhile.

rachbc

maman wrote: »

What has occurred to me reading the thread is absolutely no one mentions help (oh except for some children sorting own room:)). I appreciate some of you may be alone and have to do it all but that can't be the case everywhere.

My DH does almost all our cleaning. I clean the bathroom after use as I like it to be as I would want to find it. I clean around the kitchen as I cook. I do laundry so changing towels, beds and soft furnishing is down to me but other than that it's not my problem.

If some of you are doing all the cleaning and I notice in some cases gardening, cooking, possibly shopping and even cleaning the car. What do your partners do with their time?

I specifcally say in my post we all muck in! Of the daily jobs Oh does the ktichen stuff, my son's jobs are to set and clear the dining table for every meal on top of keeping his room tidy and sorting his laundry (he's 13), dd feeds the cats and tidies away her toys (she's 5)

HariboJunkie

maman wrote: »

What has occurred to me reading the thread is absolutely no one mentions help (oh except for some children sorting own room:)). I appreciate some of you may be alone and have to do it all but that can't be the case everywhere.

My DH does almost all our cleaning. I clean the bathroom after use as I like it to be as I would want to find it. I clean around the kitchen as I cook. I do laundry so changing towels, beds and soft furnishing is down to me but other than that it's not my problem.

If some of you are doing all the cleaning and I notice in some cases gardening, cooking, possibly shopping and even cleaning the car. What do your partners do with their time?

My OH works 60 + hours a week.

Including my pt employment and 3 voluntary positions i work around 20 hours per week so I bear the brunt of the housework quite happily. OH is a demon DIYer though so his spare time isn't spent slobbing around.
The children do their own rooms, dishes and help sort laundry.
I have a pretty laid back routine but I do try to stick to it when possible.

Monday
Clean out fridge before shopping
Clean utility room
Hoover downstairs

Tuesday
Dust living room and dining room

Wednesday
Wash down hall stairs and landing woodwork (I have a dog who shakes herself everywhere so this is a grubby area)

Thursday
Dust our bedroom
Clean bathroom

Friday
Hoover throughout
Wash wooden floors upstairs

Saturday
Supervise children cleaning their rooms (No pocket money until they are done)
OH hoovers whole house.
Ironing

Daily tasks on top of the above are cleaning out fires, washing kitchen floor (damn pets!), making beds, one load of laundry, general swishing and swiping of bathroom and kitchen.

Fortnightly tasks, bedding changed (more often in the summer)

Monthly tasks, all windows, usually on a Monday as I have no other obligations. Pull out living room furniture and hoover dog hairs from underneath.:o

Like Bitsy says it's not a competition. The above only works for me because it fits in with other committments and keeps on top of most things. At the same time, if I miss any of it it's not the end of the world and I can always catch up.

mummyyummy_2

HariboJunkie wrote: »

My OH works 60 + hours a week.

Including my pt employment and 3 voluntary positions i work around 20 hours per week so I bear the brunt of the housework quite happily. OH is a demon DIYer though so his spare time isn't spent slobbing around.
The children do their own rooms, dishes and help sort laundry.
I have a pretty laid back routine but I do try to stick to it when possible.

Monday
Clean out fridge before shopping
Clean utility room
Hoover downstairs

Tuesday
Dust living room and dining room

Wednesday
Wash down hall stairs and landing woodwork (I have a dog who shakes herself everywhere so this is a grubby area)

Thursday
Dust our bedroom
Clean bathroom

Friday
Hoover throughout
Wash wooden floors upstairs

Saturday
Supervise children cleaning their rooms (No pocket money until they are done)
OH hoovers whole house.
Ironing

Daily tasks on top of the above are cleaning out fires, washing kitchen floor (damn pets!), making beds, one load of laundry, general swishing and swiping of bathroom and kitchen.

Fortnightly tasks, bedding changed (more often in the summer)

Monthly tasks, all windows, usually on a Monday as I have no other obligations. Pull out living room furniture and hoover dog hairs from underneath.:o

Like Bitsy says it's not a competition. The above only works for me because it fits in with other committments and keeps on top of most things. At the same time, if I miss any of it it's not the end of the world and I can always catch up.

I like your routine, thorough without being OTT :rotfl:

mummyyummy_2

Nanamia wrote: »

Oh my word I must be a slob!!!!!!

I'm following the flylady thread and loving it but have not been asked to wash walls or scrub the bath with a toothbrush (thankfully) Only been flying for 6 weeks, tomorrow starts week 7 and my house has been literally transformed. I've grown too with confidence and find that the organisation is contagious and you become automatically more organised generally. The motivation you get from the other flylady (fly people) keeps you going :-) especially when you read their posts and realise you are not the only one!

would you care to share a typical daily/weekly etc routine with me? thankyou :j