How clean is your house?

Paulaviki

I hate it when my house is untidy or dirty. That said I'm a once a week kind of person. I have a blitz every Saturday morning, and fortunately as I only have a small house I can do it all in about 2 hours. It tends to stay relatively tidy all week as we are both out at work.

My mum always kept our family home like a show home so I think that's why I get a bit twitchy if the house is messy.

Ilona

Clean enough for me to live in.
Ilona

ciderwithrosie_2

Tend to do the bigger tasks at weekends as I work long hours during the week. I like to keep on top of the washing, washing up, putting things away every day otherwise it's just more to do at weekends.

Now there's only 3 of us most of the time, the workload has decreased somewhat for which I'm grateful. I'm also a big fan of doing tasks in the ad breaks - dusting the bookshelves, putting on a load of washing, putting the bins out etc. - amazing what you can get done in short bursts.

Homeownertobe

I don't understand people who don't keep a clean home. Mine must always be spotless for when guests arrive.

Timpu

Clean without being utterly perfect.

I don't mind messy but I do mind dirty. That means keeping the laundry basket empty, not letting the washing up build, wiping the down the kitchen every night and weekly cleans, especially the bathrooms. The loo gets cleaned more regularly.

One tip I read off here that really works for me is to do things as you go and not to walk upstairs/downstairs without something in your hand that needs putting away. We do a fortnightly tidy and quarterly filing to help.

1trainer1

Clean every other day, do the dishes every day, try to put washing machine on every other day.

Deep clean once every fortnight I.e steam clean kitchen and bathroom

Hoover probably once a week

JP08

When I lived solo the house used to get dusted (once round with the fluffy thing on a stick) and hoovered on the rare occasions that I had a visitor pending.

If you rinse plates and pans off and stack them neatly, washing up only needs doing once a week.

In the 20 years I was there I changed the windows one more time than I cleaned them.

Quentin Crisp was right : "There was no need to do any housework at all. After four years the dirt doesn’t get any worse."

I'd add another quote from QC as it seems appropriate here "Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level."

givememoney

Either me or DH wipe round shower and clean the bath (combined) and basin and toilet each day. As the water is dried off the tiles never need cleaning as such.


Kitchen wiped round each evening after meal.


As regards dusting don't necessarily do that for a couple of weeks as it doesn't need it, however, I do vacuum twice a week and believe that keeps the dust down.


Keep the place tidy and it looks clean.

supersaverkerry

Thank you for everyones input and sorry for the delay in replying - had some internet problems!

It is nice to know that everyone is so different and that whilst some of you have waaaaay cleaner and tidier house than me, others seem about the same. I certainly do not have a house like those photos and can't believe someone would try and sell their home with pictures like that either haha!

I think for me it is a mixture of being very tired from working a lot of hours and having a family to look after and also a little bit of can't be bothered.

I don't think my home is a health risk, I think partly a lot of my friends and family have these pristine places and I find myself comparing myself to them and then feeling like I am not good enough x

Primrose

Not very clean! . But keeping it TIDY seems to make it feel more acceptable. If as much stuff as possible is always regularly packed away in cupboards or drawers surfaces are kept clearer and it's much easier then to have a quick sweep around with a damp duster. I never dust with a completely dry duster and that just seems to move dust to somewhere else. Something slightly damp will collect it up and get rid it which seems to be the whole point of the exercise.