How long do you spend cleaning per day? per week? especially anyone with kids under 5

halia

I guess what this thread proves that in order to have a spotless house you need to not have any other job. (keeping house is a job!)
There's no way I could spend any more time on housework than I do at the moment;
We did a pie chart of the hours in a week and this was mine;
168
7 hrs sleep a night (no I can't cut this down I really need 8 but can get by on 6 a night plus a lie in once a week) =49
childcare - time when our DS (2yrs old with special needs) requires supervision but not active involvement =20
Childcare - time when DS needs active involvment =30
Work (inc lunchbreak which I cut down to 30 minutes and commute) = 17hrs
Study = 20 hrs
Hygeine stuff - ie eating my meals, getting a shower, getting dressed = 10hrs
Housework inc bills, shopping etc = 14
that leaves 8 hours for chatting to my partner, unwinding, doing bigger DIY/house jobs etc etc.

lil_me

Yikes £7.50 to clean outside windows, I pay £3!

My Daily List (done every day)

1. Vacuum 3 times through downstairs front hall, sitting room, kitchen and rear hall, usually just after 9am, 2.30pm and again after the boys go to bed. Dogs mean lots of hair and the vacuuming saves brushing their clothes off all the time which would take longer
2. Mop floors - once in summer usually, more often in winter
3. Clear and wipe bathroom and kitchen - wiping over the benches and making sure all is clean, clean loo, bath and sink. Also quick dust of living room.
4. At least one load of laundry washed, dried and put away
5. All meals, inc pack ups first thing for DS, breakfasts, lunches, evening meals all made by me. Also bread making etc daily.
6. Washing up - after every meal/baking, no dishwasher just me
7. Dogs out - few times in garden (also have to clear messes up) then 3 good walks aswell
8. Making beds done on morning
9. Clean one window and sill
10. Toys/kids stuff tidied away when they go to bed, sometimes they help sometimes they don't
11. Clean dining table done after I clear away dinner things
12. Feed animals, dogs, lizard and fish (will be turtles from next week too)
13. Getting boys ready for school, dressing they need help with aswell, sorting bags etc then taking them there and bringing them home, will be different slightly in September when the oldest starts SEN school as he'll be collected and dropped off
14. Deal with things like rubbish, bins, wash the bins out daily aswell usually
15. Bathing the boys and putting them to bed
16. Sorting out the next days clothes etc before bed to make things easier (didn't last night and regretted the mad dash this morning!

I think that is all, haven't got my daily list hand but I don't think I have missed anything off. Then there is the flylady list which is the detailed cleaning for each room one day a week, shopping & meal planning, baking tends to be done on a weekend, Mam stuff like supervising homework/listening to reading/playing with the boys, gardening and other detailed jobs not included on flylady thread.

Combine with that studying for a degree, personal stuff like showering etc, usually at least 3 appointments between me and the boys a week, and I wonder why I never have any time, the joys of being a SAHM. My boys are 6 and 8 but both having some 'extra' needs means they usually need help with meal times, dressing and personal care.

Mics_chick

lil_me wrote: »

Yikes £7.50 to clean outside windows, I pay £3!

My Daily List (done every day)

1. Vacuum 3 times through downstairs front hall, sitting room, kitchen and rear hall, usually just after 9am, 2.30pm and again after the boys go to bed. Dogs mean lots of hair and the vacuuming saves brushing their clothes off all the time which would take longer
2. Mop floors - once in summer usually, more often in winter
3. Clear and wipe bathroom and kitchen - wiping over the benches and making sure all is clean, clean loo, bath and sink. Also quick dust of living room.
4. At least one load of laundry washed, dried and put away
5. All meals, inc pack ups first thing for DS, breakfasts, lunches, evening meals all made by me. Also bread making etc daily.
6. Washing up - after every meal/baking, no dishwasher just me
7. Dogs out - few times in garden (also have to clear messes up) then 3 good walks aswell
8. Making beds done on morning
9. Clean one window and sill
10. Toys/kids stuff tidied away when they go to bed, sometimes they help sometimes they don't
11. Clean dining table done after I clear away dinner things
12. Feed animals, dogs, lizard and fish (will be turtles from next week too)
13. Getting boys ready for school, dressing they need help with aswell, sorting bags etc then taking them there and bringing them home, will be different slightly in September when the oldest starts SEN school as he'll be collected and dropped off
14. Deal with things like rubbish, bins, wash the bins out daily aswell usually
15. Bathing the boys and putting them to bed
16. Sorting out the next days clothes etc before bed to make things easier (didn't last night and regretted the mad dash this morning!

I think that is all, haven't got my daily list hand but I don't think I have missed anything off. Then there is the flylady list which is the detailed cleaning for each room one day a week, shopping & meal planning, baking tends to be done on a weekend, Mam stuff like supervising homework/listening to reading/playing with the boys, gardening and other detailed jobs not included on flylady thread.

Combine with that studying for a degree, personal stuff like showering etc, usually at least 3 appointments between me and the boys a week, and I wonder why I never have any time, the joys of being a SAHM. My boys are 6 and 8 but both having some 'extra' needs means they usually need help with meal times, dressing and personal care.

Wow! I think you need a medal lil_me I'm exhausted just reading your list

kazmeister

Mics_chick wrote: »

Wow! I think you need a medal lil_me I'm exhausted just reading your list

Thats what I was thinking. Between you lil_me and pigpen who do as muc as the rest of us put together.

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to both of you and anyone else who copes with that much to do, and to any bloke who thinks stay at mums do nothing just try that list for a day

Sue20bracknell

gosh! reading all this has really worn me out - think i need to go put my feet up and have a coffee lmao
perhaps if i didnt spend so much time on here i might actually get more housework done??
I am of the thought that until the rugrats leave home the house will never be straight. I have to move out of our home which we have lived in for the last 19 years in the near future (divorce) am absolutely dreading opening cupboards that dare not be opened and ohhhhhhhhhh the loft ........ thank god for freecycle, and maybe in my current financial dire straights i should consider a car boot? yer ok, when it stops raining.........and when I have finished reading all the threads on here........another coffee? yes as u have noticed - any excuse!!! lol lol lol
keep smiling everyone
sue x

liney

I'm a slothern compared to some of you, but my husband thinks im a neat freak.

I mop/hoover once a week. Give the bathroom and kitchen a good scrub once a week, then wipe over daily. Polish once a week including light switches and fiddly stuff, then dust every other day or so. Tidy daily and remove clutter. Washing is done daily, and hung to dry. Meals are cooked from scratch each night. I work 22.5 hours a week, and study for about 10 plus with OU. I have a son who is 3.

Big jobs get done (like windows and cleaning oven) get done when i can get Dh to take Ds out for the morning, so about once a month. It would be nice to live in a spotless house, but until Ds is at school i cant see it being close.

lil_me

My partner who works 3 nights a week and helps with none of it usually, although he strimmed the lawn for the first time in ages yesterday, thinks I do nothing. My response - I WISH!!

*LJ*

I have a 10 month old and 2 year old and do about 2 hours a day I reckon. Just enough to keep it so it's pretty safe and hygenic for the 10 month old.

House proud I am not!

Mics_chick

lil_me wrote: »

My partner who works 3 nights a week and helps with none of it usually, although he strimmed the lawn for the first time in ages yesterday, thinks I do nothing. My response - I WISH!!

Show him this thread then lil_me especially the replies to what YOU do :T and what other posters DON'T do in comparison - me for starters coz I started this thread in the first place to try and inspire me to do SOME cleaning :eek: :rotfl:

ampersand

Hapless wrote: »

I have come to the conclusion that the house will be tidy the day the last one leaves home.

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Oh dear, there's only me.