How often do you really clean your house?

bstngrl578 · May 2009

Lately I have been so bad about *really* cleaning my house. I do a lot of quick pick ups...but as far as a deep cleaning I am not good about that. I plan to do one this weekend - dusting, scrubbing floors, cleaning window sills, baseboards, chairs rails, vacuuming stairs...I mean everything.

I am contemplating hiring a maid to come in once a month to do a deep cleaning and then I will do all the inbetween stuff - but I don't know if that is just ridiculous of me!!!

What about you?!

rylen11 · May 2009

cleaning lady -- twice a month -- otherwise it'd never get done.

DiAnne82 · May 2009

I'm terrible . . . I don't even know the last time I did a deep cleaning. I've been debating getting someone to come in and do a deep cleaning .. . .

brookieandphil · May 2009

Ditto to what you said. I am picking up but doing a really bad job about cleaning. As soon as DH finds another job we are so getting a maid!

jess1984 · May 2009

Once a week I try to clean the bathroom and vacuum... once a month I do a deeper clean. But I'm by myself with C 3 out of 4 weeks, so it's hard to get it done. I usually don't care as long as his room and the living room is clean, but we're trying to sell the house right now and it's being a PITA to keep it spotless... we try to spend the least amount of time possible home.

janinekrause · May 2009

cleaning lady twice a month. i do very little other than laundry and organizing unless we are having company in between.

madhatter2003 · May 2009

when we have company comign to stay....so I really clean about every 2 months. Seriously...in between it's just spot cleaning.

KathrynMD · May 2009

ehhh - months! I really, really need to hire a cleaning lady.

Roosky · May 2009

once a month...our house always looks clean but hardly ever is. We pick up and rarely get to the scrubbing part.

freeburger16 · May 2009

Not enough - never have time anymore. I tend to get what I can done on the weekends, but when DH is home in the evenings I like to spend time with he and DS.

I figure Ben isnt going to be little for long, I can live with a dirty house!

ncbelle · May 2009

I suck at cleaning - well I'm good at cleaning but suck at getting it done. We did a pretty good job yesterday since my inlaws are coming this weekend. Otherwise, once a month maybe?? Some stuff I do once a week (dusting, floors, bathrooms).

littleittybitty · May 2009

I try to do it once a week - H helps me with this too. but we are moving into a new, larger house in a month and h wants to hire a cleaning lady to come twice a month. Not because he thinks I am not doing a good job but that he doesnt want me to clean all of the time.

yo.mama · May 2009

Ha, I asked DH if we could get a housekeeper every other week for deep cleaning, and he said no because he didn't think we could manage to keep the house picked up enough for the person to do their job.

We get everything squared away and cleaned like once a month.

JARbaby · May 2009

I do one room per day including wiping sills and baseboards. Takes 20m, DH vacs once a week. So every 9 days.

jessi_08 · May 2009

I try to *really* clean my house about once a week. Usually I clean it on Sunday when H is home to help with the kids ...and then it's destroyed again by Tuesday....

Cassandra1028 · May 2009

I do it in stages, as I go. We have a dog and cat and I'm super picky about any of this hair getting on DS, so I vacuum the area rugs about every other day and dry mop the wood floors the same.

I clean the bathroom as I go....so about once a week. I will literally clean the tub/tiles in the shower before I wash up about once a week. It's been about a month since I've done a deep clean though (scrub floors/wipe down walls/etc).

We are currently ripping up our kitchen floor (wood floors underneath..yay!!!) so thank God I don't have to wash the linoleum anymore!

Dusting is another story....I do it when I notice it. So about once a month will I dust.

I can't remember the last time I washed windows. Whoops!

mrskadams · May 2009

Wow, baseboards and chair rails? Months and months. I'm bad.

Cassandra1028 · May 2009

mrskadams:
Wow, baseboards and chair rails? Months and months. I'm bad.

Since we moved in 3 years ago. Now I feel like a slob!

I like the one room a day thing. Doesn't seem so daunting then! I might try it!

Better1/2 · May 2009

Hiring a housecleaner was THE best thing I've ever done. Every other week and I just make sure things are picked up off the floors and counters. It's reduced my stress level big time.

nancz75 · May 2009

Never which is why I have a cleaning lady every other week...she is a godsend!

britti<3 · May 2009

I'm obsessed with my house being clean and organized. It's the ocd in me.

I'm one of thsoe people who puts everything away right when I'm done, vaccumms daily, mops every couple days but i swiffer daily. I'm always dusting, alphabatizing, color coding everything lol.

JessiRaye · May 2009

I vacuum and dust every other day. My H has terrible allergies and we have a cat so I try to help keep the cat hair up. (LOVE my Dyson!)

We keep the kitchen clean daily. I try to clean the bathrooms twice a week.

I mop the kitchen and bathroom floors once every month. (YIKES~They need it much more frequently than that.)

Baseboards and chair rails not frequently enough...And I was noticing yesterday that the door moldings are nasty so I wiped that down.

I windex the windows pretty often and our storm door in the front because little hand prints are always all over them.

The clutter is overtaking us though...I need to focus on that! And THANK GOD my H cleans too.

sarahns80 · May 2009

littleittybitty:
I try to do it once a week - H helps me with this too. but we are moving into a new, larger house in a month and h wants to hire a cleaning lady to come twice a month. Not because he thinks I am not doing a good job but that he doesnt want me to clean all of the time.

Wow your H rocks! I wish my H didnt want me cleaning all the time. Although he does help sometimes. We clean (vacuum, bathrooms, etc) about once every 2 weeks but it has been harder with DD and have gone a little longer lately.

AnimalHouse · May 2009

I vacuum downstairs at least twice a week and upstairs I try to do once a week but usually it's every other week. We have 2 dogs and 2 cats so I try to keep the hair in check in the family room and kitchen. I clean the bathrooms every other week but haven't mopped the floors in ages! As soon as I go back to work in July I'm getting a cleaning lady back in here twice a month. I cut it out while I've been on maternity leave and I can't wait to have her back!

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