Honestly how often do you clean...

[Blueberry]

What I want to know is when do you find TIME to clean? I get home from work, cook dinner, help kids with homework, walk the dog, put kids to bed, clean up from dinner, pack lunches, declutter the main living area, check and send email and by then it's 11:00 and I'm done. I save actual housework for weekends but only manage to do it on weekends when we don't have other things planned. I'm looking at the next couple of months and I've got whole day things planned every Saturday between now and the week before Thanksgiving. Sundays aren't much better, but I do at least have two of them free in the next two months. So those are the days that the house will get cleaned. I don't think my schedule is particularly unusual--most people I know have the same work/family/activities balance. I hate how filthy my house gets between cleanings but have learned to live with it and I just tell myself that like most things, this is a temporary situation.

Sarah

I think having school aged kids is a huge difference. We don't have kids - and I think that's why we have so much extra time. We also tend to have weekends free (I expect that at least some of the weekend time is kid stuff). I *really* admire those of you who can keep up that kind of schedule. I don't think I could...

[shootingstar]

I think I'll start calling you "Silver" and him "Mr. Silver" The ongoing joke in our marriage is that I like things "clean and tidy". Silver doesn't care about "untidy" as long as the untidiness is on top of something "clean".

His tidy habits probably stems from long string of childhood sicknesses which included tuberculosis, ringworm, etc. of which the latter he nearly died from. This was just after WWII, when Germany was trying to rebuild itself and its infrastructure (sewage, water) was still not in good shpae.

He was a boy that did not enjoy playing in the mud.

[firenze11]

I'm still in school, grad school now (finally! I'm almost done!), and am living in an apartment with two other girls. We have a schedule for cleaning and garbage and everything gets cleaned weekly. I also change my sheets weekly. I can't imagine it any other way.

At my old school I lived in a house with four other people. One year we had two of my guy friends living with us. And get this. . .they cleaned their bathroom once. The whole year. (thankfully the 3 girls had a nice clean one upstairs) And only because we begged, pleaded, then threatened them. And then, out of spite, they cleaned it using our dish rag, then put the dish rag back on the sink. I'm so thankful I was there to witness it and then throw the towel away. Ah, I still love them though.

When they moved at the end of the year, the three girls went down to clean the bathroom for the two girls moving in. We had to wear bags on our feet, gloves on our hands (should have worn masks, too). Everything we cleaned came up nearly black. It was incredible. And disgusting.

[shootingstar]

This forum is totally different from another forum...for exclusively women but non-cycling. Many of these other women (not all) see housecleaning as a form of therapy..

It will suffice to say that my partner is way neater and cleaner around the home than I. He will voluntarily clean certain areas. Part of it is just his nature but also he is suspectible to allergies if a place is too mouldy or dusty.

We have no pets.

I was raised in a home with 5 other siblings. We had 1 bathroom. So you can imagine...with 5 girls who each had shoulder length hair or abit longer, how much the bathroom needed ...uh..cleaning. My mother tried her best and had to assign specific tasks to us ...on-the-fly. Hence, left the requested child no choice, especially if we were playing or watching TV. There was no household schedule...she knew we would resent that even more.

But I was also raised in a home, where we NEVER wore our outdoor shoes inside the house. It amazes me how some homeowners allow that now for guests... We ask our guests to take off their outdoor shoes.

My counter-remark for living in a crowded place for 2 people that's little over 750 sq. ft...is there is just less rms., space to clean..not that it solves alot of problems.

And I leave my hair short...but I still shed more hair than him who's gettin' bald. I guess that's the good thing about a balcony when weather is nice, ..brushing hair outdoors after a shower...

[crazycanuck]

I often laugh as i think our doggie is our mop. I swear she licks the floor clean!..

About cleaning. I don't do bathrooms, Ian does. I'll do anything but bathrooms