I vacuum the living room/dining room and kitchen at least once a day, sometimes twice. Between the cats tracking litter out of their boxes and the hair, it's absolutely necessary. But I also go a little nuts if I can't walk around in bare feet without stepping on litter. The 2nd floor (bedrooms and bathroom) only get vacuumed once a week since the cats are only up there at night.
Post by AlpineSlide on Nov 21, 2013 13:51:29 GMT -5
Lately, twice a week. Used to be once a week. I always do the whole house when I do it too, if I'm going to the effort then I'm going to do every room. We don't have any pets or kids (yet).
Our entire house is hard wood floors with area rugs in the dining room and living room. I vacuum those when I can see that they need it, maybe 1x week. I sweep the kitchen and the dining room every night when I clean up from dinner.
I don't even have that much to vacuum and could never do 4x a day. That's crazy!
Post by revolution on Nov 21, 2013 13:56:26 GMT -5
4 times a day is insane. I aim for once a week. And I have an 85 lb dog that sheds. Brush the dog and get it ferminated. We have a mobile groomer that comes to our house and I want to hug him every time he is done with my dog. I don't know what he does, but he is magical.
I would love to get him shaved, but I don't think his breed gets groomed like that. He's a lab/shepherd mix. If I didn't have an infant and other small kids the hair wouldn't bother me as much, but seeing it all over them makes me twitch!
have you ever brushed him? Or had him brushed out at the groomers
He gets brushed almost every day and can fill a target bag with the hair that is brushed off of him.
Post by game blouses on Nov 21, 2013 14:03:04 GMT -5
Once a week. DS is terrified of the vacuum and I don't feel like dealing with the "bacuum, bye bye! All done bacuum!" hysterics any more than I have to.
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I have never wanted a dog LESS in my life as I do now reading this. 1-4X a DAY? I do once a week and we have two cats. I do dust bust the tile in between sometimes.
A shepherd/lab mix would be a big shedder. 4x per day still sounds obsessive-compulsive to me.
It could be OCD if I was washing my hands over and over or turning the lights on and off all day. All that hair makes my house feel dirty and I don't like seeing dog hair on everything we own. It literally takes less than 10 minutes to vacuum the first floor of our house. It's not like I am going over it with a fine toothed comb. It's just a quick thing a few times a day to keep the hair from building up.