Honestly how often do you clean...

[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*

[vinbek]

My mom worked when I was a kid and made us clean the house weekly. If not done to her expectations, we had to do it again. I hated it. Couldn't wait to be old enough to get out on my own. Full circle now - I clean weekly and do it myself. I use the disenfectant wipes for spot cleaning and X-14 for the real cleaning. This stuff is STRONG. We have 4 bathrooms, but it still doesn't take me much time. I would gladly clean your bathroom if you would vacuum my house. I HATE to vacuum!!!

[carpaltunnel]

I HATE to vacuum!!!

With good reason!

I was a study participant at the local medical school a few years ago. The study was started by cardiologists (who apparently all have cleaning ladies and don't vacuum themselves) who kept hearing from their patients that they got really tired when they vacuumed. We strapped on this mask thing with a backpack that recorded how much oxygen we consumed when vacuuming using a variety of different vacuum cleaners. They recorded our heart rates, blood pressure before and after, etc.

The study results found that vacuuming was hard work. Suprise!

When I look at people doing tai chai (sp) it looks like the same kind of effort and physical control as vacuuming.

[Dogmama]

When I look at people doing tai chai (sp) it looks like the same kind of effort and physical control as vacuuming.

I always knew Tai Chi sucked.

<sorry - couldn't resist!>

[evangundy]

My mom always said, we lived in a house that was clean enough to be healthy and dirty enough to be comfortable. The house was never all clean at once, it was clean room by room. And usually got the deepest cleaning just before company arrived. My house is pretty much the same. No set schedule for cleaning, it just gets done when we have time, and it looks like it needs it. Usually a little here, a little there.

Works for us :-)
Edna

[vinbek]

Edna, I like your Mom!