Housework routine

adelight

Change your bedding? 2-3 weeks, sometimes change the sheet inbetween, just hate changing huge duvet covers!
Hoover your stairs? monthly?
Clean your windows? never.. they were new september. wipe condensation off single glazing and clean them to stop mould once a week
Clean your skirting boards? weekly in my room, monthly elsewhere, slight dust allergy and i hate the thought of my "space" not being clean enough for me to happily rub my face along the floor
Clean under big appliances/furniture? every other floor clean
Clean your oven? err

pigpen

Change your bedding? When I have time/energy/motivation/help.. but I aim for weekly!

Hoover your stairs? Never, that is what children were invented for.
Clean your windows? whenever the window cleaner gets his lazy
wrinkly butt to mine (it is my stepdad I can say that )

Clean your skirting boards? I have skirting boards?

Clean under big appliances/furniture? Appliances.. whever they are dragged out for repair.. sofas etc.. whenever I vac the rest of the room.. so not as often as it needs to be done!

Clean your oven? Never, it is vile... Man's work.. plus it is really low and kills me.. I am thinking of getting professionals in.. might have to clean it first though..

jinky67

pigpen wrote: »

Change your bedding? When I have time/energy/motivation/help.. but I aim for weekly!

Hoover your stairs? Never, that is what children were invented for.
Clean your windows? whenever the window cleaner gets his lazy
wrinkly butt to mine (it is my stepdad I can say that )

Clean your skirting boards? I have skirting boards?

Clean under big appliances/furniture? Appliances.. whever they are dragged out for repair.. sofas etc.. whenever I vac the rest of the room.. so not as often as it needs to be done!

Clean your oven? Never, it is vile... Man's work.. plus it is really low and kills me.. I am thinking of getting professionals in.. might have to clean it first though..

yet you make us lot do it, and throw mules at us if dont?:mad::eek::mad::eek::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Aarons_mummy

Change your bedding? once/twice a week in Winter, everyday or every other day in summer, I LOVE fresh bedding.
Hoover your stairs? Every day, hoover round the full house and then sweep the living room 2/3 times as well (toddler and food need I say more?)
Clean your windows? I wipe the living room one every day as LO gets his grubby finger prints all over it!
Clean your skirting boards? Every couple of days.
Clean under big appliances/furniture? I do under the beds every day when I hoover. Couch sits on the floor so once a week normally. Allappliances built in so no kitchen things to do, under living room table/TV unit gets done every day.
Clean your oven? I have a built in oven I never use so it's always clean. The Halogen oven gets cleaned after every use.

I'm not bothered by other peoples routines, this works for me this is how I like it, I hate when other people jump on you and start making assumptions that kids are sat in front of cbeebies etc all day so I can clean (people have said this to me!!!).

Penelope_Penguin

jinky67 wrote: »

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

You wash the windows every week :eek: You are now crowned Housework Goddess :A

jinky67 wrote: »

yet you make us lot do it, and throw mules at us if dont?:mad::eek::mad::eek::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

pigpen never says that she does all the lists her job is to motivate the rest of us

charlies-aunt

Change your bedding? When its dirty - sometimes every day but can be fortnightly, I do the top to toe thing to get an extra weeks wear out of sheets and quilt covers.

Hoover your stairs? When they look like they need it - have an old house with a boxed staircase so they tend to stay fairly clear

Clean your windows? When I can no longer see through them

Clean your skirting boards? Every few months on the visible bits -hidden bits get a once a year going over
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Clean under big appliances/furniture? When they are moved!

Clean your oven? Self cleaning

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Life is too short to get hung up on housework - children will remember being read to, going on picnics, baking cakes together - they won't remember their perfectly iron pj's or mummys spotless kitchen floor.
Clean enough to be healthy, dirty enough to be happy....
There'll be plently of time for polishing when I'm too old and kn@ckered to do owt else

squeakysue

Thanks for all the replies, I tend to clean when it's really needed rather than by a routine but am trying to establish a routine to make things easier.
To the person who asked if I do a wash load every day yes I do 2 sometimes 3 per day! And still get a backlog, there is only 4 of us but dp and kids do loads of sports/activities which create sooo much washing, including lots of muddy stuff that I won't put in with the regular washing!

Justamum

squeakysue wrote: »

Change your bedding? Weekly. First thing Monday morning I strip and change the beds - they are done before the children leave for school
Hoover your stairs? Once a week - twice if they are looking 'bitty'. They do need a shampoo though :cool:
Clean your windows? Er . . .
Clean your skirting boards? I've got one of those Pledge fluffy dusters and have a flick round everything a couple of times a week. I flick over the skirting boards (the visible bits anyway) then
Clean under big appliances/furniture? I move the sofa and armchair in the lounge once a week to vac, and also take all the cushions off once a week to vac. That's the only furniture I do move though
Clean your oven? I did it on Sunday, but it's not very often. Luckily as I only ever cook vegan food it never gets really dirty, so only really needs some soda crystals and a wipe over. I wish I could take the door off and clean between the glass though.

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 know what you mean about the wash basket. My house is like a launderette!

Justamum

charlies-aunt wrote: »

they won't remember their perfectly iron pj's or mummys spotless kitchen floor.

Ironing?! :eek:

As for the kitchen floor :o:o

mrsr

Change your bedding? Twice a week
Hoover your stairs? gets done when it looks like it needs it
Clean your windows?When they need doing
Clean your skirting boards?When i notice they need doing
Clean under big appliances/furniture? All my appliances are built in,in the kitchen, pull out settee about once a week when hoovering
Clean your oven? Use a halogen so clean that every time

I work nights so coming home and getting in nice clean sheets is a real treat.I hoover bedrooms once a week and downstairs twice.Put a wash on every other day.The ironing gets down as we need it,hate it:D.