How often do you...

[Velar Fricative]

Sept 3, 2015 13:01:19 GMT -5 @domerjen said:

Housework non-clicky poll.  Answer for how often it happens - I don't care if you or your SO do it, or if you hire it out.  I just want to know timing.

How often do you:
1) clean your toilets
2) clean your showers
3) sweep/vacuum
4) mop/wash floors

1. Biweekly
2. Biweekly
3. Weekly (or more often when necessary)
4. Monthly

[Deleted]

1) clean your toilets-biweekly (housekeeping)
2) clean your showers-biweekly (housekeeping)
3) sweep/vacuum- kitchen and high traffic areas-at least twice a week
4) mop/wash floors- kitchen-at least twice a week

[boiler717]

1, 2, and 4 - every other week (cleaning lady). Guest showers are rotated
3 - every other day at least

[dancingirl21]

1) clean your toilets - biweekly
2) clean your showers - biweekly
3) sweep/vacuum - sweep the kitchen/dining room a few times a week (hardwoods)
4) mop/wash floors - biweekly

[Deleted]

1. Every other week
2. Every other week
3. Daily on lower floor. Every other week upstairs
4. Every other week

I occasionally clean the shower between cleaning person visits that are every other week but that's rare. I just don't have time anymore. It takes all the time I have to do dishes, meal prep, laundry, and vacuuming downstairs.

[SJ]

Sept 3, 2015 13:01:19 GMT -5 @domerjen said:

How often do you:
1) clean your toilets: never. I'm assuming cleaning lady does it weekly
2) clean your showers: never. I'm assuming cleaning lady does it weekly
3) sweep/vacuum: I sweep the kitchen (mostly under high chair) when there are big and visible pieces of food. Otherwise, never.
4) mop/wash floors: never. I have no idea how often cleaning lady does this

[spk926]

How often do you:
1) clean your toilets On average twice a month
2) clean your showers I think once a week? DH does that and I think he does it every Saturday morning after his shower.
3) sweep/vacuum We have 3 pugs (2 are ours and 1 foster) so I do this about 3-4 times a week. Sometimes it's me actually doing it other times it's me just hitting the "GO" button on the Roomba
4) mop/wash floors 1-2 times a month but I spot clean if needed if something is spilled.

[cincodemayo]

I'm being brave here.

1) clean your toilets- biweekly
2) clean your showers - it's probably been about 6 weeks. I know.
3) sweep/vacuum- sweep-2x a week, vaccum - 1x/week
4) mop/wash floors- it's been awhile. :?

[rbp]

Our housekeeper does all of these things 2x/month. The only things I do are sweep/vacuum in between as needed. But really, I am a pretty messy person. 

[pinotgrig]

1 - Every 3-ish weeks
2 - lol
3 - every 1 to 1.5 weeks (roomba ftw!)
4 - every day / every other day (thanks to an incontinent dog)

[countthestars]

[rootbeerfloat]

Toilets weekly.
Showers weekly.
Sweep every day or every other day. Vacuum downstairs weekly, upstairs 2x/month.
Mop every 4-6 weeks, which is not frequent enough.

[anna7602]

Every other week for all, hired cleaning person. The only exception is selective sweeping. I will sweep the kitchen and under the dining room table myself most days, but I never, ever, ever vacuum. I'm not even sure I know how to empty my vacuum. We didn't own one before our current cleaning lady started with us two years ago. Prior to that, I just used a swiffer or a hand vac if something spilled (all hardwood floors). 

[Marmee]

As needed....aka its visibly grimy. Vacuum daily for sure...the others well depends.

[Deleted]

Sept 3, 2015 13:03:44 GMT -5 @simpledog said:

You don't want to know.

Yup.

[longtimenopost]

All of the above - every other week.

[ECB]

1) clean your toilets - EOW, cleaning lady
2) clean your showers - EOW, cleaning lady
3) sweep/vacuum - EOW, cleaning lady and as needed (which, with a young kid who can't seem to keep ALL his food on his plate, happens every other day sometimes!)
4) mop/wash floors - EOW, cleaning lady and as needed, but usually the cleaning lady

Otherwise known as "we're lazy".

[gerberdaisy]

The cleaning twins come monthly, so, monthly?

Sometimes I'll clean our master bath toilet if its gross and will sweep the kitchen as needed.

[niq]

1) clean your toilets every other week or so? Just whenever they start to look fug
2) clean your showers Yeah, we should do that.
3) sweep/vacuum we have Roombas on both floors. We vacuum the stairs about once a month.
4) mop/wash floors just before we have a party

[robyn]

I am dittoing @simpledog both on the you don't want to know, and on the damn I'd love to have a cleaning person. Until then (which will never happen), I do what I can. I try to hit the bathrooms each weekend, I use my dustbuster on the floors pretty much every night to get stray dog hair, food the kid dropped or threw, and random dust; and I can honestly say I've maybe twice in my life legit mopped an entire floor. Once was last fall when I spilled both a half gallon of milk and a Sonic slush in the kitchen at the same time.

[oswin]

1) clean your toilets - goal is every other week, in reality...sometimes a lot longer
2) clean your showers - goal is every month...
3) sweep/vacuum - the highest traffic areas get roomba-ed 1x/week, everything else as needed
4) mop/wash floors - the highest traffic areas get scooba-ed once every week or two

[hainesherway]

The only thing we really keep up on out of what you listed is vacuuming/sweeping, and that's because we have a dog that sheds like crazy.  The rest of the items...we just clean when people come over.  I want to blame it on the fact we have a 3 month old...but that's not a real excuse LOL

[jeaniebueller]

Sept 3, 2015 13:01:19 GMT -5 @domerjen said:

Housework non-clicky poll.  Answer for how often it happens - I don't care if you or your SO do it, or if you hire it out.  I just want to know timing.

How often do you:
1) clean your toilets
2) clean your showers
3) sweep/vacuum
4) mop/wash floors

1. Weekly

2. Weekly

3. A few times a week

4. Monthly?

[mandapanda18]

Sept 3, 2015 13:01:19 GMT -5 @domerjen said:

Housework non-clicky poll.  Answer for how often it happens - I don't care if you or your SO do it, or if you hire it out.  I just want to know timing.

How often do you:
1) clean your toilets - weekly
2) clean your showers - weekly
3) sweep/vacuum - daily (roomba)
4) mop/wash floors - as needed, at least bi-weekly, clean up spots/spills as needed (hard wood or tile throughout entire house).

[pooh8402]

1) clean your toilets--biweekly
2) clean your showers--biweekly
3) sweep/vacuum--daily, sometimes twice daily thanks to a golden retriever
4) mop/wash floors--biweekly

1, 2, and 4 are hired out. Left to my own devices, those would not be happening as frequently.

[turtlegirl]

1) clean your toilets - about every other week

2) clean your showers - every other week as well, I clean the whole bathroom at once

3) sweep/vacuum - we have a Neato, so I run that a cpuple times a week. Our house is mostly carpet.

4) mop/wash floors - Once a week or every other week. It's only the kitchen, bathrooms, laundry room, entryway. I wish I could get to it more.

[sjh722]

Sept 3, 2015 13:22:43 GMT -5 @mrswindycity said:

Seriously, I don't even know how to mop. Are you guys taking like buckets and an old school mop or what is happening here? (I'm serious, please explain.) My H got in a habit of doing this for a few weeks but that ended.

We just use a swiffer-like thing (dry one) on the hardwoods.

I bought an actual mop after about 8 years of marriage. We put in all new flooring when we moved in. The mop water was gross. So, I try to do it, uh, sometimes. My whole house is never all clean at once.

[aspentosh]

1) clean your toilets 3-4x a month
2) clean your showers 1-2x a month
3) sweep/vacuum 1-2x a week
4) mop/wash floors 1-2x a month

Disclaimer- I have dogs so floors need to be done regularly or you see dustballs everywhere. 

[rbp]

Sept 3, 2015 13:19:19 GMT -5 @choco said:

Sept 3, 2015 13:07:13 GMT -5 rbp said:

Our housekeeper does all of these things 2x/month. The only things I do are sweep/vacuum in between as needed. But really, I am a pretty messy person. 

Ditto! I end up sweeping as necessary, which is often with a 4yo dropping crumbs at every meal he eats at home.

Biscuit usually takes care of this for me. Except that I recently discovered that he has gained 3 lb since M started eating solids.  (wilted)

[Deleted]

These days, not very often to any of it.