Housework routine

Britneyspears

stiltwalker wrote: »

I'm assuming you don't have a small person shouting "potty mummy" or falling over and banging her head and crying, or wanting a drink or a biscuit etc, start at beginning and repeat, whilst you are trying to clean. I'm also pregnant with our second and find the exertion of cleaning for long periods very tiring.

It would be lovely to get all my cleaning over and done with in one go and the idea of a spotless house with no bricks to fall over is appealing however the hustle and bustle of family life kind of get in the way of this sort of perfection.

As well as the small person I do all our cooking from scratch, including making bread, yoghurt, baking and all the preserves an pickles we can eat or give away, I am very active in our local community arts group and I am also doing an OU degree so when the kids are older I can get a better job so wouldn't say I was all that lazy!

Having children has nothing to do with it. My mum had 9 of us and the house was always spotless she done all her cooking from scratch and worked.

squeakysue

Change your bedding?
Hoover your stairs?
Clean your windows?
Clean your skirting boards?
Clean under big appliances/furniture?
Clean your oven?

These are the big tasks that never seem to get done in my house, I try to do the beds every week but when my wash basket is overflowing I try to clear the backlog first so it is sometimes 2-3 weeks! I hate hoovering the stairs and cleaning the oven the most !

mummyroysof3

Change your bedding? every week, have 5 so set days for each
Hoover your stairs? once a week
Clean your windows? downstairs ones at least once a week, upstairs can be every few weeks
Clean your skirting boards? roughly every 2 weeks
Clean under big appliances/furniture?sofas evry few weeks, dont move the big stuff unless i have to
Clean your oven? i go through stages of cleaning it every few weeks...then sometimes it gets left for months

squeakysue

mummyroysof3 wrote: »

Change your bedding? every week, have 5 so set days for each
Hoover your stairs? once a week
Clean your windows? downstairs ones at least once a week, upstairs can be every few weeks
Clean your skirting boards? roughly every 2 weeks
Clean under big appliances/furniture?sofas evry few weeks, dont move the big stuff unless i have to
Clean your oven? i go through stages of cleaning it every few weeks...then sometimes it gets left for months

Oh you have put me to shame now :rotfl:Better get my act together then!
I do the beds on different days too otherwise it's too overwhelming!

Bitsy_Beans

squeakysue wrote: »

Change your bedding? Once a week
Hoover your stairs? Once a week sometimes two
Clean your windows? When I get the urge which isn't all that often
Clean your skirting boards? I try and do the main bits when I dust each week
Clean under big appliances/furniture? Move furniture once a week, big appliances not very often!
Clean your oven? Self cleaning (supposedly so I am lucky if I do it twice a year!)

These are the big tasks that never seem to get done in my house, I try to do the beds every week but when my wash basket is overflowing I try to clear the backlog first so it is sometimes 2-3 weeks! I hate hoovering the stairs and cleaning the oven the most !

I don't change all the beds on the same day otherwise the basket overflows. Kids get done on different day's to my bed. Do you do a load of laundry everyday? If not would you consider doing that so you don't build up a backlog?
Cleaning my skirting boards - all I do is wipe over the top with a damp cloth (which I am already using for dusting) so when you do it like that it takes extra seconds. Hidden skirting boards have a suck from the vaccuum less often.

I bought a squeegy from Lakeland which has dramatically cut down on the time it takes for me to clean my windows. Have you tried say aiming to clean one a week. when you break down the housework into more managable chunks it's less daunting and easier to tackle. I wouldn't have time to clean all my windows all in one go without forgoing other housework that day but if I do it bit by bit it only takes say an extra 10 mins to do one window, that is far more achievable than the job lot.

Bronnie

squeakysue wrote: »

Change your bedding?
Hoover your stairs?
Clean your windows?
Clean your skirting boards?
Clean under big appliances/furniture?
Clean your oven?

These are the big tasks that never seem to get done in my house, I try to do the beds every week but when my wash basket is overflowing I try to clear the backlog first so it is sometimes 2-3 weeks! I hate hoovering the stairs and cleaning the oven the most !

Apart from my bed, which is once a week, the rest I do when, to my eye, they look as though they need it. Which, to my eye, is not very often

Agree with Bitsy, I find windows are best done as part of whichever room is having a once-over, as opposed to one big job. My kitchen window seems to need the most frequent seeing-to!

ivylinn

Change your bedding?
Once a week.

Hoover your stairs?
Every day, I have dog's that drop hair.

Clean your windows?
once a month.

Clean your skirting boards?
twice a week.

Clean under big appliances/furniture?
at least every other day (because of the dog hair tumbleweeds)

Clean your oven?
When it looks like it needs cleaning.

beedeedee

Bedding - as and when it needs it. Weeks/months sometimes, or every day if someones been ill
Hoover stairs - no idea, but probably twice a year unless there's a reason.
Windows - rarely, perhaps twice in a year.
Clean skirting boards - when I notice a lot of dust or we're going to repaint, never before.
Under big appliances - twice a year unless I know something has been spilt.
Clean oven - again when it really needs it - perhaps four times a year.

Honestly there is far more to life than cleaning! We've been married 40 years and raised a happy, healthy family. Nobody has ever been ill through me not cleaning these things every day/week/month.

To me hygeine is far more important. Underwear is washed after each wear, baths and sinks are rinsed after each bath. The loo is always flushed and bleached or similar, overnight. Kitchen worktops are wiped after using and all dirty dishes and cutlery are placed immediately in the dishwasher.

People keep on coming to visit - my lack of housewifely skills have never put anyone off.....

Sublime_2

squeakysue wrote: »

Change your bedding?
Hoover your stairs?
Clean your windows?
Clean your skirting boards?
Clean under big appliances/furniture?
Clean your oven?

These are the big tasks that never seem to get done in my house, I try to do the beds every week but when my wash basket is overflowing I try to clear the backlog first so it is sometimes 2-3 weeks! I hate hoovering the stairs and cleaning the oven the most !

When it needs it to all of those. Before I had children I used to change my bed linen twice weekly, but its usually every week, although sometimes longer. I don't perspire much, so they keep very clean.

Vacuuming has to be done every 1 to 2 days. Everything else when it looks dirty.

rachbc

Bedding - in theory every week - though not always
Hoover stairs - weekly
Clean windows - pass
Clean skirting - erm...
clean under appliances - oops this is getting embassing now
clean your oven - I'll get me coat