Honestly how often do you clean...

[alpinerabbit]

Bathroom gets done once a week. I've outsourced cleaning my place.
She's not very thorough on the calcium deposits though. My own concoction of dishwashing liquid, vinegar cleaner and elbow grease was better. But as long as I don't have to do it - 's ok.

Bedclothes go every 2 months. Or less. Should they go more often? I feel we shower often enough.

[Kimmyt]

Not often enough! The Master bath is the one that gets used most, and it is a bear to clean. It has a gigantic tub you have to crawl in to scrub, and a shower stall with glass surrounding that is horrible with soap scum. The entire bathroom is tile, except for some portions of the wall and the countertop, so I always put it off. I really get down and clean it every couple months, though more frequently we'll wipe up counters, etc. It's bad, but no one sees my bathroom but me. Once I get pi$$ed off at the dirtiness of it, it'll get cleaned, but otherwise I don't even think about it until it's gone too far!!

I do my sheets on the bed every few weeks, depending on temps and how long it takes them to get that smell.

I am not the neatest person in the world, but for the most part my house is totally and utterly presentable if guests drop in at any point (as long as I keep my master bath and bed door closed!!!!)

K.

[redrhodie]

I do a little maintenance wipe down of sink and toilet every couple of days, so it never gets that bad. I was also in the habit of scrubbing the tub a little every time I showered so the soap scum never built up, but in this new place it's harder because of the shower's placement. Now I don't clean the tub nearly enough. Like, once a month I'll really go at it. I like Mr Clean Magic Eraser for the tub.

I change my sheets every couple of weeks. I don't know why I don't do it more. It's not hard or anything. I'm just lazy, I guess.

[Brandi]

Never. But the maid cleans once a week.

LUCKY!!!!!!

[Brandi]

You know with blanket's I am just not sure. i used to wash them once a week. But Now water costs so much I try to do them once a month. I am like some of you with my bathroom. I wipe it down every few days. Mainly cause of the paw prints on the sink. The cats love to play in the sink and we have white counter tops in the the bath.

[short cut sally]

I grew up in a household where mom always wanted it spotless. She started working when I started school. We all had chores to do when we got home. As I got older and being the youngest and only child at home, I got to do all the work. Punishment if there was a dust bunny was washing all the walls and curtains in that said room. Is my house spotless today because of all that cleaning. ABSOLUTELY...not! Its clean to a point. I've seen messier and cleaner houses than mine.
I scrub the bathroom every other week (or whenever a funky smell develops-whichever comes first). I try once a week but it just never makes it. My cat's litter box is cleaner than the bathroom.
I vacuum the bedspread to help save on washing. Bedspread gets washed when the cats been in the grease in the shop and there is lots of prints on the bed, or you can tell where the cats been sleeping d/t the greasy residue spot. In the summer, sheets get changed once a week, if I make a valid effort. Winter time, I will have to do research on that one, winters a few months off.

[Irulan]

I did the flylady thing to develop some better housework habits. A little regular maintenance does a lot to eliminate tons of deep cleaning.

[LBTC]

Boy, do I ever miss having a cleaning lady. If DH gets a raise....maybe???

I was also youngest girl in a picky-mom's house. All the cleaning every Saturday. I never liked weekends!!

Our house is usually not terrible, but it's not great. Bathroom once a week, when we're not too busy, but sometimes it gets a quick cleaning because someone is coming over.

Sheets are usually once a week, sometimes longer if our weekends are too busy. The duvet cover not very often since the pets are no longer allowed on the bed. (I LOVE our new bedroom, but the dogs and cat would not agree)

Worst thing in our house is the light coloured carpet and the 2 border collies. It only takes a few days for the carpet to look like it needs to be combed!

Was at someone's house not long ago and the boyfriend made a comment about how he'd spent the day cleaning. I used the washroom and was nearly afraid to touch anything it was so dirty. Our bathroom has rarely, maybe never, reached that stage of dirtiness. Maybe if we were both sick for a week and it had already gone too long or something.....

I'm so relieved to know that those picture perfect houses are not the way everyone lives!! Yay!

Hugs and butterflies,
~T~

[Irulan]

I may hate vacuuming worse than I hate doing the bathrooms!! We ripped up bout 1600 ft sq of wall to wall and put in hardwood in the last few years. I actually LIKE doing my floors now!!! If you have carpet, I don't care how often you vacuum or shampoo, it's really really gross. You have no idea how much crap gets ground in until you've got hardwood and can SEE the dirt/dust/doghair/crumbs every day!!!!

Another thing that affects attitude: new/old. We redid the oldest most hard used bathroom and it's so nice an shiny, it's nice to keep it that way. Our master is up next, and it was needing a redo when we bought the house. We have a huge calcium problem here, and lets just say it's not inspiring to clean an old funky bathroom where it doesn't make any difference.

Every thing we put in we try to do for "easy to clean" as one of the requirements.

[Tuckervill]

I never clean the bathroom. Hubby does it.

I do plenty of other cleaning, though. I always mop the kitchen and I always scrub the kitchen like there's no tomorrow. He doesn't even KNOW how often I clean the kitchen.

My house is a dust magnet, though. Something wrong with my furnace, I think. The one room where the return air vent is is always always thick with dust and grit. If I could just get off my duff and dust more often, I'd be happier.

Sheets and blankets, about once a month or when I know I've gotten in them without showering. I forget to do DS's bed and he never considers it too dirty (unless the dog throws up or something), so about every 3 months for him.

Karen
Karen

[bambu101]

Once a week for the bathroom, changing the sheets, vacuuming, and laundry.

Not to be rude, but I cannot imagine sleeping on the same sheets for a "few weeks". Sounds nasty to me, but to each her own!

[Brandi]

I change my sheets once a week. But not the blankets. To much grit and stuff get's on the sheets from having hardwood floors.

[spokewench]

I clean the sheets one, twice or three times a week and the blankets (I don't use a comforter right now) cause I have a 23 year old cat who leaks small drops of urine - yes, it's kind of gross, but I can't put the cat down for a little leakiness; so lots of washing. I also have blankets on all the couches, chairs, etc. that have to be washed a couple of times a week. I am known as might washing machine woman! I should have a cape, but then I would have to wash that too!

I clean the bathrooms every week to week and a half. The kitchen really well once a week; and I vaccuum twice a week and mop once or twice a week, because the cat also drags lots of the pine shaving cat litter around the house all the time. Ah the joys of owning a geriatric kitty!

[Flur]

I wash our sheets every 2 weeks like clockwork. I wash the comforter cover about every 2 months in the summer (when we usually just toss it off the end of the bed to sleep) but more often in the winter.

I wash our bath towels every 2 weeks with the sheets, but I usually change them out once a week. I used to not change them out, but DH will wipe his hands on them when he's got extra shaving cream or hair gel rather than washing his hands so I swap them out more often.

I used to clean the bathroom every two weeks, but after about 3 years with DH NEVER cleaning it and me hating to do it, one day I got fed up and just stopped cleaning it. It got really gross and DH started cleaning it and now he does it about once a month, although I'll jump in and clean it when company is coming over. Out shower is a nightmare which is why we both hate to do it - it's stained from when our landlord had a non-professional come in and re-grout it and you could scrub for days and it wouldn't look clean, and we have these really ugly doors on it that we both hate. I'm thinking that auto-shower cleaner is in order...

I clean the kitchen once a week. This is the one cleaning task I really like to do. I used to like to vacuum, but that's the one cleaning task DH really likes to do, so I let him handle that.

[Grog]

My husband cleans a bit of the bathroom now and then, and I usually brush everything pretty thoroughly about once a month.

My parents were there for a week, the four of us shared a bathroom. 7am on the 3rd morning, sure enough my mom was on her knees cleaning the bath.

*sigh*