Housework routine

MessyTessie

Change your bedding? - Every two weeks, we do all three beds together and alternate which quilt covers we change, kids or ours, we use a top sheet so I don't think it needs doing each tie
, kidsHoover your stairs? - One a week
Clean your windows? - when they look like the need it or once a month depending how the flylady thing is going
Clean your skirting boards? see windows
Clean under big appliances/furniture? furniture is once a month, big appliances - mmmmm we won't go there lol
Clean your oven? - When I gt the urge

I find it easier to do all the bedding at one go and get the family involved, we store the laundry in the garage where the WM is so I don't worry about it backing up.

Bitsy_Beans

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

I'm much too ashamed to give truthful answers for fear of being banned from the forum. Let's just say that whenever any of these jobs are done they are all invariably well-overdue. I can't even pretend that I'm too busy to do them either.

Yours etcetera,

BitterAndSlatternlyTwisted

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

If it's good enough for you so be it! Life is not a competition despite how much we try to make it one

hellomoto

Change your bedding? when it starts walking towards the machine by itself :eek:
Hoover your stairs? no stairs
Clean your windows? its been about 5 years so far......
Clean your skirting boards? skirting boards need cleaned?!
Clean under big appliances/furniture? weeklyish
Clean your oven? its been about 5 years so far.....

Kitchenbunny

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 !

We change the bedding every week
Luckily, we live in a bungalow
I clean my windows about twice a year - once in spring, once in autumn.
Skirting boards get vacced when I do the hoovering, and cleaned when they really look like they need it.
I clean under big appliances, or the bed and sofa whenever I can get help to do so. (in other words, rarely)
I clean the oven whenever it needs it.

HTH
KB xx

angeltreats

Change your bedding? Weekly. Sometimes fortnightly if we've spent a few nights away (and therefore haven't slept in our bed every night) or if I'm just too busy.

Hoover your stairs? Once a week, unless they really need it. We have wooden flooring downstairs and I brush every day , hoover once a week and try to mop once a week.

Clean your windows? Hahaha. Do people really do that?

Clean your skirting boards? When I hoover, so once a week.

Clean under big appliances/furniture? I pull out the sofa once a week. Under the bed... almost never. I'm frightened of what I might find under there.

Clean your oven? When it needs it - given the amount I bake, this is quite often though. I line the floor of the oven with foil or a silicone liner so the bit that mostly needs cleaned is the inside of the door, and that's an easy job.

lostinrates

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 !

OK, first thing to say is that sometimes I can't vacuum. If I can'tmy husband, who is only here at weekends, whizzes through the house for me at the weekend...its fantastic...but...he doesn't really move the furniture. But it does get done weekly...the stairs might go a fortnight occasionally.

Secondly, I am at home all day....so I have more time than someone with a full time job and commute.

windows....inside I do when I clean a room, or sometimes if on a roll, I do all the ones on that floor of the house. I do them with news paper and venigar, it doesn't take too long. I'm not horrendously thorough. Outsides, most have only been done once this year because I though fly lady meant utsie, but they meant inside . I do the glazed back door weekly because otherwise it has dog prints on it and is depressing

skirtings...where they are not behind furniture weekly, when I do that room. Mainly because it makes the room smell nicer and I like ''damp cloth cleaning''more than I like tidying.

Under big furniture, when I can. Depends on what the furniture is...sofas...not less often than monthly (and sometimes weekly if I'm upto it...as a friend and I do yoga in my sitting room;) undr the cooker..not since it arrived in autumn....and I have no plans to.

Oven...its new and therefore still easy...a wipe out weekly or so.

Bedding...since joining mse have dropped down from twice weekly to weekly or sometimeslonger. I love fresh sheets but admit, this has reduced washing fuss a lot!

p-pincher

Change your bedding?Once a week,on a wednesday
Hoover your stairs?Oh does this once every couple of weeks, gets done when it looks like it needs it
Clean your windows?When they need doing, which seems to be more in the summer, no more than once a month
Clean your skirting boards?When i notice there dusty, so probably once in a blue moon
Clean under big appliances/furniture?Ive got a freestanding cooker so when i sweep the kitchen floor which needs doing every day with my kids i give it a quick sweep at the same time
Clean your oven?Once a year at Christmas

jcr16

squeakysue wrote: »

Change your bedding? Every week, sometimes a couple of times a week. i have 4 beds to do , i do them all on once day , wash and dry, iron and put away. if i don't do it on the same day i'll never do it as i hate ironing bedding.
Hoover your stairs? Daily
Clean your windows? Every couple of week to monthly
Clean your skirting boards? Once a month i wash them, but as i hoover i always hoover along the top
Clean under big appliances/furniture? Monthly, but sometimes i will do it more often
Clean your oven? i give oven a good clean once a month, but after every use i wipe down the hob top, and i put the grill tray and oven shelfs in dishwasher , every couple of weeks and i keep foil on the bottom of oven and prob change weekly, all depends if it needs it. then monthly i give a good scrub, doing it this way means it never takes mroe than about 10 mins.

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've added my answers in red.

Penelope_Penguin

squeakysue wrote: »

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

Bedding and stairs - weekly
Windows and oven - monthly
Skirting and underneath - weekly or fortnightly, depending on how life is going

As has been mentioned, this isn;t a competition, so do what suits you and your family :j

I'll add thsi to Housework Routines later, to give you more ideas.

jinky67

I do mine whenever the Flylady lists say to :rotfl: