What is your household cleaning schedule like?

[punkin]

I think that is your problem. Your question wasn't simple. If you would have simply posted "I'm living in a 5 person, 1 bathroom household right now and it seems like we are having a problem keeping things clean. Does anybody have any tips for a good schedule?"

That would have been simple.

Instead you through in a whole bunch of crap about how they all don't clean correctly and stuff like this



As I said, how these people spend their days is none of your business. They are the ones giving you a helping hand, not the other way around.

When somebody is doing you a huge favor by giving you low cost housing so you can save money, it really isn't all that nice to hop onto a message board and slam them.

OMG! It's the internet and she is upset at living with a bunch of pigs. She vents. Who cares? She doesn't tell them they're pigs...no...she cleans and keeps quiet (as she should because the are doing her a favor) but coming here and venting is exactly the right move. It hurts no one and makes her feel better.

I have no problem with the way OP's post was written...and it was simple. People read into things way too much around here.

 

[AngieMouse86]

I think that is your problem. Your question wasn't simple. If you would have simply posted "I'm living in a 5 person, 1 bathroom household right now and it seems like we are having a problem keeping things clean. Does anybody have any tips for a good schedule?"

That would have been simple.

Instead you through in a whole bunch of crap about how they all don't clean correctly and stuff like this



As I said, how these people spend their days is none of your business. They are the ones giving you a helping hand, not the other way around.

When somebody is doing you a huge favor by giving you low cost housing so you can save money, it really isn't all that nice to hop onto a message board and slam them.

Well I guess I felt like it needed backstory because 'we' don't need tips for a good schedule. This isn't something I'm going to talk over with them. I wanted some insight as to what other people do. Like I said, my own family does things differently than they do, thus being curious as to what other families do.

OMG! It's the internet and she is upset at living with a bunch of pigs. She vents. Who cares? She doesn't tell them they're pigs...no...she cleans and keeps quiet (as she should because the are doing her a favor) but coming here and venting is exactly the right move. It hurts no one and makes her feel better.

I have no problem with the way OP's post was written...and it was simple. People read into things way too much around here.

Thank you so much for understanding! It was just venting, needed to get it off my chest somehow. Again, thank you, it really does make me feel better to hear you understood.

 

[Jedana]

I think I like this schedule the best:

Monday: vacuum, mop kitchen/hall

Tuesday: bathrooms (DS does most of his own), launder bedding

Wednesday: vacuum, windows/doors/lightswitches as needed, recycling goes out in the morning for afternoon pickup; trash goes out at night for early morning pickup

Thursday: mop kitchen/hall, dust

Friday: vacuum, mop kitchen if not done Thurs.

Sat/Sun: only if needed--vacuum/mop

Everyday: Dishes/counters/sweep kitchen; yardwork (weeds/mowing); laundry as needed; pick up as needed.

DS does most of his own bathroom, his bedroom and tv room and puts up his clean clothes. he also picks up the dog doodoo every week. daily he puts away all the silverware/cooking utensils.

Our bedroom stays fairly clean (a bit cluttered, but we have medical supplies in there, as well as in the spare bedroom and the garage). If I could get DH to put things up when he is done with them, my actual housework time would be less than 2 hours a day! (it takes an hour a day in the yard for me to just keep up with it)

 

[Bungle]

I don't know how smoothly this would run in a house that size with that many people but this is how ours generally goes:
Daily: Dishes, vacuuming, tables and counter tops cleaned, beds made, pick up whatever you brought out.
Twice a week: Bathroom scrub down, laundry and putting clothes away, dusting
Once a week: Mopping (unless its needed more), garbage and recycling sorting, cooking and preparing food for the week before and usually I focus in on any spot that may had gotten messy on the weekend.

This is what works for us. Good luck, that would be a frustrating situation.

ETA I didn't add in yard work because that is more of a hobby than a chore for me.

 

[Hrhpd]

Or, how do you regularly clean your house? Are certain rooms on certain days or is there a designated day for attacking everything?

Just curious because my living situation changed somewhat recently and I still can't believe the lack of cleaning that goes on here!

Backstory: I moved in with my DBF and his family a few months ago (motives were partly financial; his house is minutes from my job and it allows us both to save a lot so that we can get started on our own down the road). In the house are me, DBF, his brother, his GF, their DS(6) and their mom. 3 bedrooms but only 1 bath, but I figured I've grown up with siblings, that's no big deal, I can make it work.

Thus far, I have. Sharing the bathroom has been fine but what hasn't is how little these people clean! Dishes pile up in the kitchen sink until they look like they're trying to escape out the window above the sink. The bathroom tile is touched once in a blue moon, and not skillfully either, just given the once over with inferior products. The tub and ledge are almost never cleaned. Vacuuming the living room is a weekly occurrence and the coffee tables are wiped down on the same schedule, but anything *on* the table gets wiped around.

This is completely different than the way I was raised. The kitchen was done daily... counter tops, dishes, stove top, etc, mopped every 1-2 days. Bathrooms are done about every other day, shower/tub cleaned from top to bottom weekly. Carpeted areas are vacuumed every other day. End tables & coffee tables were given a full cleaning every week, more as necessary for the coffee table (rings from glasses). As you might guess, I now find myself doing a lot of cleaning, which I don't mind in theory, except these folks really have no appreciation for true cleanliness, so it goes rather unnoticed.

ETA: The GF only works very part-time and DBFs mom doesn't work at all anymore. She's not very old or infirm, either, so it's not like light dusting would be tasking for her. And I can't say either of them use their time at home for anything productive, like preparing dinner or some such. Nope. It's tv and talking on the phone for the both of them.

/tangent

So DISers, what is your cleaning routine like?

I definitely thought the household was in a rut when I first started to visit, last year. Then as time wore on I realized that is just how things are here. My DBFs mom owns the house.


As I still feel 'new' in the house a little, I don't have a set in stone routine for the common areas. Our room is kept in order every day. 1 day vaccuming, the next cleaning the end table and dusting. Another day for the windows, etc.

As for the common areas, I've stuck to doing the bathroom once a week, usually Sat or Sun. Not sure where you think I'm not willing to do anything as I said in my OP that I find myself cleaning a lot now. I do dishes before I'm going to cook and after. Some days I'm not going to eat at all home and I won't do ones I see in the morning because, frankly, other people live here too, so I shouldn't carry the burden completely. I clean the stovetop and countertops around every other day, as well.

Also, when someone else does clean something clearly in need, say the dirty stove or the kitchen sink, it's only HALF done. Like, it will get wiped down but there will still be visible gunk or food! Half-butt job, that's what gets me. But that passes for actual cleaning.

Just want to reiterate, I'm not looking down on anyone for not scrubbing their house down every day or anything!

I know I grew up with a rigorous cleaning routine at home and not everyone does. Was just looking for some confirmation that other households, all across the country and globe, do in fact, clean on some kind of regular basis.

Wow, who knew such a simple question would get so misconstrued!

Too many posts to quote but I'll just say..

-I do pay a nominal rent, as does the other GF.
-I never intended to assess other peoples cleaning styles to then ENFORCE something similar here.
-Once again, I do clean here! I'm just not cleaning the whole household all the time.
-For the people who thinks schedules are out of date, I didn't mean like you have a hard-set calendar of which day to darn your husband's socks. Again, was just curious what other folks do.

The cleaning isn't something I've talked about with them, and frankly, I won't. This is the internet and a community where I've enjoyed spending time, so I thought I'd poll people here about what they do. Never knew it was create such a fuss.

Flylady says that you should never go to bed unless you shine your kitchen sink. Sounds good enough for me.

I think you have the appreciation thing backwards. You are paying a nominal rent, allowing you to move out on your own. I think you should be appreciating the situation you are in, allowing you to save so much.

And for somebody who doesn't intend to assess other's cleaning styles, you sure did a ton of assessment of your BF's family's cleaning style. You complain about how much they do and then complain that when they clean, they only do half a job according to your standards. Then you ask for other's schedules to compare how poor the cleaning schedule of the people allowing you to live with them for a nominal rent.

I agree with the others that if you are not paying market value in monetary rent, you should be contributing more in the household.