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[AJuff]

Just wanted to know if anyone has a set way of cleaning their house. Room by room, one room a day, bathrooms on a Sunday etc etc.

 

I just can't seem to keep mine clean and tidy at all and I'm off for six weeks!!!

[Space Chick]

I endeavour to follow FlyLadys rules:

 

http://www.flylady.net

[Plum]

That's a horror story, she says do your laundry every day May read on and get a few tips though.

 

I'm not a good person to reply to you AJuff. I clean when it's bad enough to see the difference, then tend to start on the worse room but lose interest after an hour or two.

 

And usually blitz the house after I have had visitors because that is when I notice how bad it is. Amazing how you can kid yourself it was that tidy and clean before!

[Egluntyne]

Do you put on lace up shoes every morning Debs?

[Space Chick]

I put on shoes and I do keep my sinks shiny

 

[Griffin]

Do the housework or sit in the garden with the chickens? No contest! My house is a mess

[Chickvic]

I'm like Plum - panic when someone is coming round

[Valkyrie]

What's house cleaning - apart from that frenzied hoovering and dusting and shoving things into cupboards when you know someone is coming to visit!

[Scramble]

I'm like Plum - panic when someone is coming round

My mum too

She's been known to clean toilets in her dressing gown 15 minutes before guests arrive

 

mind you...she'd kill me if I told you that...

you didn't hear anything....

[Happy chickens!]

If it's not broken don't fix it!! I have noticed that no one else living in the house can see the chaos but me so once a week we have a good clean up, the boys have to clean their own rooms and I might run the vac round again later in the week if expecting guests.

 

I do the washing on regular days to keep on top of it, but the good thing about dusting and vacuuming is it takes the same time whether you did it yesterday (so why are you doing it again!!) or last week, or last month!!

 

I would def give it a clean before you go - don't like coming back to grime myself - are you going anywhere exciting?

[Snowy]

I'm afraid I'm another who only cleans when I'm having guests or when I can no longer see the floor

[Lesley]

I've had to change since moving to the farm - I'm hyperventilating here, just thinking about it.....

 

I have learned to live with a certain level of grime, mud and straw/hay on the floors and dust and spiders elsewhere. I keep the bathrooms and kitchen clean. I did strip the bed yesterday - I can't remember doing them last weekend and I thought I ought to do it before the sheets crawled off the bed in disgust

 

I satisfy my OCD traits by keeping things straight - as in straight lines, things not moved by more than 1cm - and I tidy up cards in card shops and all the leaflets in the Post Office

 

I can now say "It's clean enough" - and if others don't like it then they needn't visit again

[Ain't Nobody Here]

Living with 3 boys who don't notice dirt or clutter, I'm totally chilled out about cleaning now. I too clean like crazy if someone's coming round but otherwise do it when I happen to notice it's getting a bit too grotty.

[Seagazer]

I'm more or less the same as everyone else. I do like it tidy (comes from having ultra clean nut freak parents ) but because "Ooops, word censored!"ody else is bothered in the house I'm fighting a losing battle and just do it as and when especially whilst they're all home at the moment.

 

When they're back at school, uni, work etc then I clean on a monday and friday but not mega clean up.

 

We did YS's bedroom on Saturday as we've bought him a desk in readiness for all the homework he'll be getting. He decided to ditch virtually all of his toys . I was so about the amount of dust everywhere, Kim & Aggie would have had a field day. His bedroom is lovely now though although I don't expect it will stay that way.

[Chickendoodle]

You are going to hate me

 

My husband took early retirement (I still work) so he does all of the housework, including the ironing.

 

Sorted

[Yorkshire Pudding]

I don't hate you but I am !

 

 

My OH is a saint really, he cooks (brilliantly) and cleans, and will iron if he needs to. When the boys were born he was brilliant, the place was spotless while he was on paternity leave!

 

However he doesn't notice the amount of clutter he leaves around, but he does somehow notice everyone else's. He reaches a 'point of no return', gets all agitated and goes into 'got cross about the mess and I'm going to sort it out now' mode.

 

For the first ten years I took this as criticism of my lack of housekeeping skills - I can stand the mess happily as long as it isn't unhygienic - but now I have learned to just let him get on with it. I don't get upset and the mess gets tidied... result!

 

He really goes into overdrive when his mum visits though.....

[Lydia]

As an asthmatic I discovered some years ago that when I don't hoover and literally leave the dust to settle then I'm actually better than when I try and tackle it on a regular basis.

 

Well that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it!

 

Seriously, the kitchen is kept clean and reasonably tidy. As it's the biggest room in the house, it counts as 'downstairs housework' Other than that the washing gets done regularly but not necessarily put away, the loos get cleaned regularly and the bed gets changed weekly.

 

The bathrooms are a nightmare because they're so old and they don't look any better after you've cleaned them.

 

I too have an OH that irons. But 99% of it is his ironing so that's fair.

[AJuff]

Well it seems I'm not alone! Housework is essential but I feel I need a routine really just to keep on top of it.

 

Today we are all having a desk day! It's raining so a perfect opportunity to clear desks in preparation for homework in September. I've already spent three hours on mine and I can finally see the wood. I found an orchid in the corner so i've given it a water (purified) will it ever flower again?

 

Sundays have always been changing the bedding as it's the only day in the week we have the time. Perhaps i should write up a timetable?

[Valkyrie]

You are going to hate me

 

My husband took early retirement (I still work) so he does all of the housework, including the ironing.

 

Sorted

 

Oh bother - too far away to lend him out to the rest of us then!

Well when he gets under your feet too much, you know what you can do with him - and earn some extra pennies for the retirement fund!

[bronze]

I don't hate you but I am !

 

 

 

However he doesn't notice the amount of clutter he leaves around, but he does somehow notice everyone else's. He reaches a 'point of no return', gets all agitated and goes into 'got cross about the mess and I'm going to sort it out now' mode.

 

For the first ten years I took this as criticism of my lack of housekeeping skills - I can stand the mess happily as long as it isn't unhygienic - but now I have learned to just let him get on with it. I don't get upset and the mess gets tidied... result!

 

He really goes into overdrive when his mum visits though.....

 

 

My goodness are you me? I still get upset though as hes pretty lazy so I get wound up.

 

Suden overdrive with his mum visiting is the worst as I'm usually exhausted. I had to do a massive tidy up while in labour with my second as the mil was coming over to look after the kids. The annoying thing is she'll always find something to do (which is fab) but I would prefer it to be loading the dishwasher than ironing my smalls so best to leave her a job or two.

 

 

 

I find that other people are like those who turn up to an exam say ' oh I havent done any revision' then go on to get top grades as they have really when you haven't at all.

My house is horrible. I get embarrassed to have people over. I pretend my house at its best is at its worst when we have visitors as thats the levels of mess. Its getting better though. I am getting ruthless and I have boxes and bags of stuff in the attic that I gave up trying to tidy and just bunged up there. I'm hoping if after a while the stuffs not missed I ca just chuck it, checking for important things first.

[chickencam]

I clean when it needs it which is usually on a Friday and a Monday, when the children are at school. At the moment it needs cleaning all the time and I know if it gets cleaned then within an hour it will look like it hasn'e been done so i take a more relaxed view in the holidays.

 

I do washing most days except weekends because I have so much, but try not to wash on rainy days in the summer because I prefer to dry things outdoors.

 

I also try to do a months worth of cleaning in a couple of hours if people are coming to visit, especially when BIL and SIL come because they live in a total mess and for some reason I need to show them that we are really tidy clean and organised, even though we are not most of the time.

[Yorkshire Pudding]

My goodness are you me? I still get upset though as hes pretty lazy so I get wound up.

 

Suden overdrive with his mum visiting is the worst as I'm usually exhausted. I had to do a massive tidy up while in labour with my second as the mil was coming over to look after the kids. The annoying thing is she'll always find something to do (which is fab) but I would prefer it to be loading the dishwasher than ironing my smalls so best to leave her a job or two.

 

 

 

I find that other people are like those who turn up to an exam say ' oh I havent done any revision' then go on to get top grades as they have really when you haven't at all.

My house is horrible. I get embarrassed to have people over. I pretend my house at its best is at its worst when we have visitors as thats the levels of mess. Its getting better though. I am getting ruthless and I have boxes and bags of stuff in the attic that I gave up trying to tidy and just bunged up there. I'm hoping if after a while the stuffs not missed I ca just chuck it, checking for important things first.

 

 

I think you are me!

 

I did a massive tidy up in labour too, although it was very slow labour and I hadn't actually cottoned on that it was, if you see what I mean... luckily mil wasn't on the horizon at that point though, probably just 'nesting'.

 

As for the clutter, don't you have four kids? - they generate clutter and are time-hoovers too, so you have four very good reasons not to have time to tidy up.

 

Being ruthless works for me to some extent but I never get around to chucking it. I am also married to a squirrel so the amount of 'useful stuff' is reaching epic proportions. We got rid of loads before we moved 2 years ago, but it's back and I don't plan to move again for 20 years, so I've got no choice but to actually get rid of it!

[bronze]

I do at least two loads of washing a day. Any less and I get overrun

 

I need to get into flylady but couldn't cope with the chaos the first few days seemed to entail

[Yorkshire Pudding]

I tend to do some kind of wash every day, but drying it, ironing it and putting it away are more difficult to manage.

 

I had a look at flylady... it comes from the right place, but seeing as a shiny sink will never, ever make me , I think I'm a lost cause.

 

Chocolate now, that makes me . Perhaps the first ' baby step ' should be 'eat a bar of chocolate' instead of 'shine your sink'... just think how that would improve their sign-up rates .

[bronze]

shall we start our own support each other cleaning thread

 

 

maybe list everything we plan to do that day, including things like feeding chickens, as you are more motivated the more things you see done and then cross them off as we do them