Cheryl, who spends 15 hours a day cleaning.

Sofa_Sogood

divadee wrote:

I have always been like it apparantly even as a child. My mum said she got embarrased on many occasion when i had been at a friends house and i would clean and tidy there room for them!!! And i was about 9 at the time.


My mum was always clean and tidy so i get it from her. Also I am very paranoid that someone will come round my house and think 'errrrrr shes not that clean is she?' I would be so embarrased if someone thought that about me. I use a lot of smelly candles etc... so it always smells nice as well.

It just doesn't make sense to me divadee. Especially on here. Time's money, and you're spending far too much of your time cleaning. It can't possible be dirty. Go and put your feet up

Rave

I have OCD- I'm obsessive about germs, but not cleaning. In fact my wife and I are the polar opposite- our house is a tip, we hoover about once every two weeks, one white wash and one dark wash a week, washing up only every 2-3 days, dusting once in a blue moon. I'm not saying that everyone should be like us, but all this hoovering every day, only using towels twice etc. is a pretty drastic waste of electricity, water, detergents etc. A bit of dust isn't going to do you any harm.

Sofa_Sogood

divadee wrote:

aawww hun youve got me come and stay here for a week, and i will soon get you up to speed on cleaning!!! lol :rotfl:

I'm on light duties at the moment (health reasons) .... but I'd love to stay....

..... if only to find a speck of dust somewhere

Nile

Becles wrote:

I wonder if it's my ex-husbands mother? She must do that in a typical day!

She's the only person I have ever met who dusts her Christmas cards :eek:

............and is she called Hyacinth?:rotfl:

Nile

divadee wrote:

no i hoover skirting boards daily/every other day and wash them weekly.

I wash the kitchen and bathroom floor daily or at the least every other day (i have one of those vax hard floor washes which washes and drys it)

Polish daily.

2-3 loads of washing daily.

Hoover daily sometimes twice a day if someones coming round.

then every day i pick a couple of little spring cleaning jobs that need doing eg. kitchen cupboards or wardrobes need sorting etc....

Poor divadee.............you need a rest love. You've been overdoing it.:D

Sofa_Sogood

divadee wrote:

I hate doing the oven one of my worst jobs and the only one i leave to mr divadee. i cant stand it when he does the cleaning i have to do it again, he hoovers and then polishes how strange is that ? All the dust off things will just fall on the carpet but he still doesnt get it, and doesnt mind leaving it all to me!!

I think mr div's got it alright .... there's method in the madness there

nicki_2

OK...when it comes to CLEANING I spend about 2-3 hours a week cleaning rooms i.e. dusting, hoovering, bathroom. I spend about an hour a day MAXIMUM washing dishes and cleaning up in the kitchen. I tidy as needed, and iron when needed (usually about 2 hours), laundry takes car of its self once it's in the machine.

I've cut my housework to a minimum as I would rather spend my time decluttering (which I don't count as housework) or on the internet.

15 hours a day - not physically possible for me as there is never that much work to do

nabowla

Oh my goodness!!! I really do feel like a complete slacker. I haven't really got a housekeeping routine, it just gets done when I feel like it or when things get too bad. Towels get changed once a week, kitchen floor washed once a fortnight, skirting boards dusted when I remember. I think I'll just slope off and do a bit of dusting.........

Quackers

Jay-Jay wrote:

If any of you compulsive cleaners would like to come around to my house I have an oven that would keep you happy for a couple of hours

My hubby would LOVE LOVE LOVE for me to be more like you :rolleyes:

Ditto that Jay-Jay.

I haven't got time to do that much cleaning. I work full time and when I get home I've got to have a cup of tea, my daily fix on MSE, then I eat, then the soaps are on, and then I can always find something else towatch or a book to read or a nice soak in the bath or help the girls with their homework or go to bed to snooze I'm the kind of person that at 7.30 in the morning is boiling the kettle for a cuppa, buttering bread for sandwiches, has school jumpers drying in the tumble, is ironing a work shirt for myself (i'm wandering round in a bra :rotfl: ) and is trying to eat some breakfast all at the same time!

Housework - thats what I got meself a husband for:rotfl:

Quackers

nabowla wrote:

Oh my goodness!!! I really do feel like a complete slacker. I haven't really got a housekeeping routine, it just gets done when I feel like it or when things get too bad. Towels get changed once a week, kitchen floor washed once a fortnight, skirting boards dusted when I remember. I think I'll just slope off and do a bit of dusting.........

noooooo, dont you go sloping off to dust - corries on in a sec