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Non-clicky Poll - How Often do you...

Curious to see how often others do some of the household chores we all have to do.  How often do you...?

Change your bedroom sheets?

Dust? 

Wipe down kitchen counters (I'm not meaning the obvious messes, I mean the take everything off the counter and do a serious wipedown)?

Wash your bathroom towels?

Wash your windows?

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    Curious to see how often others do some of the household chores we all have to do.  How often do you...?

    Change your bedroom sheets? once a week

    Dust? probably around once every 2 weeks (I should do it once a week, but ehhh) lol

    Wipe down kitchen counters (I'm not meaning the obvious messes, I mean the take everything off the counter and do a serious wipedown)? once a week

    Wash your bathroom towels? whenever I have enough to do a full load in our laundry room towel bin

    Wash your windows? 2x per year (spring & fall)

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    Change your bedroom sheets?  Every 2 weeks

    Dust? Every week

    Wipe down kitchen counters (I'm not meaning the obvious messes, I mean the take everything off the counter and do a serious wipedown)? Every week

    Wash your bathroom towels? Usually once a month...it's just the 2 of us and I only wash towels together, so it takes us a while to get through enough to have a load to wash.  If we have guests over, then I usually do them after they've left.

    Wash your windows? Never!  Well, I usually find myself cleaning them in the Spring but that's usually it!

  • Change your bedroom sheets?  Every other week

    Dust? Once a month maybe?  DH does it in between sometimes

    Wipe down kitchen counters (I'm not meaning the obvious messes, I mean the take everything off the counter and do a serious wipedown)? Once a month I think.

    Wash your bathroom towels? I change them out every week and wash them when I do my normal laundry

    Wash your windows? I'm in the never category too I think.  Although I probably should do it once in a while.  Add it to the list.  :o)

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    Change your bedroom sheets? Every other week

    Dust? Once a week

    Wipe down kitchen counters (I'm not meaning the obvious messes, I mean the take everything off the counter and do a serious wipedown)? Eh, I have a small kitchen and there's nothing on my counters except a toaster... so they get wiped down anytime I use the counter.

    Wash your bathroom towels? Weekly

    Wash your windows? Inside... when they look dirty or when my cat smudges the glass with his nose. Outside... it's on the list to be done this summer (typically once yearly).

  • Change your bedroom sheets? Every week

    Dust? Once a week, maybe twice (light dusting)

    Wipe down kitchen counters (I'm not meaning the obvious messes, I mean the take everything off the counter and do a serious wipedown)? once every week or two (light wipe down on a daily basis). Although I do not have much to move on my countertops.

    Wash your bathroom towels? Once a week I do the towel loads for our bathrooma nd kids bathroom so we have fresh towels for every shower.

    Wash your windows? If it is obviously dirty then i will wipe them down, I usally have to do the front storm door alot with the kids, but tejh other windows are on a "as needed" basis.

  • I do a thorough cleaning about once a week, which is when I do all of these things except windows.

     I change out our towels every 2 days or so, but wash them with the rest of the laundry every Sunday.

    I spray down the inside of the windows probably every...2 months? Not very often. Only when I start seeing fingerprints on the glass.  I have never washed the outside of the windows (we rent, so that's the landlord's job).

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  • Change your bedroom sheets?  Once a week

    Dust?   One a week

    Wipe down kitchen counters (I'm not meaning the obvious messes, I mean the take everything off the counter and do a serious wipedown)?  Twice a week at least. 

    Wash your bathroom towels?  Once a week

    Wash your windows?   Probably only twice a year!  I hate doing windows.

  • Change your bedroom sheets? 1x per weekDust? 1 x per week (unless it's really bad)Wipe down kitchen counters (I'm not meaning the obvious messes, I mean the take everything off the counter and do a serious wipedown)? 1x per weekWash your bathroom towels? 1x per weekWash your windows? 2x per year
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  • Change your bedroom sheets? Once a Week

    Dust? During the Summer twice a week in the winter just once.

    Wipe down kitchen counters (I'm not meaning the obvious messes, I mean the take everything off the counter and do a serious wipedown)? Once a week, I really just don't like them not looking top notch hahaha

    Wash your bathroom towels? every two weeks, we have enough to go that long so that way i can have full loads.

    Wash your windows? right before winter and then right before summer.  It should be more often but in the summer it is just too darn hot to be ouside washing the windows and with monsoons it would all go to waste anyways. lol

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  • Change your bedroom sheets? Every 2 weeks

    Dust? Every week for some rooms, every 2 weeks for others

    Wipe down kitchen counters (I'm not meaning the obvious messes, I mean the take everything off the counter and do a serious wipedown)? Every week

    Wash your bathroom towels? Every week they get changed (have back ups, so it's not laundry every week)

    Wash your windows? Do what now?  :-)
  • Change your bedroom sheets? About once every 2 weeks.

    Dust? Pretty much never. Whilst spring cleaning.

    Wipe down kitchen counters? Once a week. The kitchen is the room in which I focus most of my cleaning energy. When the kitchen is clean, the entire apartment feels a million times cleaner based on that alone.

    Wash your bathroom towels? About once a week, or whenever an individual towel has been used 3-4 times.

    Wash your windows? Nearly never. Insides whilst spring cleaning, outsides never... we're on the 4th floor of an apartment building. Death = not fun.

  • Curious to see how often others do some of the household chores we all have to do.  How often do you...?

    Change your bedroom sheets?  About once a month

    Dust?  About every 2-3 weeks.  Or sooner if company is coming over or I notice the dust.

    Wipe down kitchen counters (I'm not meaning the obvious messes, I mean the take everything off the counter and do a serious wipedown)?  Every weekend.

    Wash your bathroom towels?  We use the same towel/washcloth all week and wash them every weekend

    Wash your windows?  hardly ever

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  • Curious to see how often others do some of the household chores we all have to do.  How often do you...?

    Change your bedroom sheets? every week

    Dust? every week. sometimes more.

    Wipe down kitchen counters (I'm not meaning the obvious messes, I mean the take everything off the counter and do a serious wipedown)? every evening.  I don't have much on my counters, and I cook often, so they are always getting wiped down.

    Wash your bathroom towels? weekly? but they are swapped out every other day or so...sometimes daily.  DH is weird about towels.

    Wash your windows? insides whenever neccesary.. our HOW does the outsides 4x a year.

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  • Curious to see how often others do some of the household chores we all have to do.  How often do you...?

    Change your bedroom sheets? Once a week

    Dust? Once a week

    Wipe down kitchen counters (I'm not meaning the obvious messes, I mean the take everything off the counter and do a serious wipedown)? Everyday

    Wash your bathroom towels? Every other day

    Wash your windows? 2 or 3 times a year

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    Curious to see how often others do some of the household chores we all have to do.  How often do you...?

    Change your bedroom sheets? once a week

    Dust? once a weel

    Wipe down kitchen counters (I'm not meaning the obvious messes, I mean the take everything off the counter and do a serious wipedown)? once a week

    Wash your bathroom towels? once a week

    Wash your windows? twice a year - spring and fall cleaning, but wipe down the sills about once a week since they get very dusty

  • Curious to see how often others do some of the household chores we all have to do.  How often do you...?

    Change your bedroom sheets? weekly

    Dust? biweekly

    Wipe down kitchen counters (I'm not meaning the obvious messes, I mean the take everything off the counter and do a serious wipe down)? uhhh, never really.  I move things around and wipe behind them.  But I never totally remove everything from my counter tops.

    Wash your bathroom towels? weekly

    Wash your windows?  Very rarely I wipe them if I see anything gross.  Other than that, I don't do windows. 


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  • imageLauraBeth1401:

    Curious to see how often others do some of the household chores we all have to do.  How often do you...?

    Change your bedroom sheets? Once a week in the summer.  More like every other in the colder months

    Dust? I dust something everyday I swear. It's a do it as I see it hing for me.

    Wipe down kitchen counters (I'm not meaning the obvious messes, I mean the take everything off the counter and do a serious wipedown)? Once a week maybe more? There's not much on my counters, so I can hit it all pretty easily every day.

    Wash your bathroom towels? 1x per week.

    Wash your windows? Once a season. It used to be twice but now I let the rain get it. I live on a back gravel road. They're dirty 10 minutes after I wash them. Huge waste of time around here.

  • Change your bedroom sheets? Weekly

    Dust? Weekly

    Wipe down kitchen counters (I'm not meaning the obvious messes, I mean the take everything off the counter and do a serious wipedown)?  Monthly, but they all get wiped down as part of nightly kitchen clean up, and the areas with canisters and appliances don't get too dirty

    Wash your bathroom towels? Weekly

    Wash your windows?  Maybe once or twice a year, though the ones that DD can reach are wiped down about once a month

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    Curious to see how often others do some of the household chores we all have to do.  How often do you...?

    Change your bedroom sheets? About every 2 weeks.

    Dust? Once a week.

    Wipe down kitchen counters (I'm not meaning the obvious messes, I mean the take everything off the counter and do a serious wipe down)? Once a week.

    Wash your bathroom towels? We change them out ever week and I wash them when I do my laundry.

    Wash your windows? Inside: I wipe them down every few months with the exception of my front picture window which I cleaned at least once a week. Outside: We haven't done it this year since we just moved in but I imagine at least once a year we will wash them.

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  • Change your bedroom sheets? Once a week

    Dust? When I see it, lol. Every time I vacuum, I dust first. ( once a week?)

    Wipe down kitchen counters (I'm not meaning the obvious messes, I mean the take everything off the counter and do a serious wipedown)? Serious wipedown, maybe twice a week.

    Wash your bathroom towels? We use our towels for two days at a time then wash.

    Wash your windows? Ummm....maybe once a year?

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    Curious to see how often others do some of the household chores we all have to do.  How often do you...?

    Change your bedroom sheets?  once every week

    Dust? one every 2 weeks or so

    Wipe down kitchen counters (I'm not meaning the obvious messes, I mean the take everything off the counter and do a serious wipedown)?  probably gross but it depends on what I make during the week.  If we don't do a lot in the kitchen - summers we grill out a lot - I don't worry about it so much.  Maybe every 2-3 weeks.  We have a pretty small kitchen in our apt.

    Wash your bathroom towels?  once a week at least.  I'll do the towels on a short load probably 2x a week.

    Wash your windows? The complex will powerwash in the spring which is nice.  I definitley do them 1-2 in the summer - especially the patio window/door.

  • Change your bedroom sheets?  once a week usually.Dust? as needed/Wipe down kitchen counters (I'm not meaning the obvious messes, I mean the take everything off the counter and do a serious wipedown)?  once every two weeks... or as needed.Wash your bathroom towels?  once a week, sometimes twice a week but I can't stand to reuse them, I have to have fresh clean towel after every shower.Wash your windows? never lol. if they get smudged or really dirty but not a full cleaning.
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    Curious to see how often others do some of the household chores we all have to do.  How often do you...?

    Change your bedroom sheets? once a week

    Dust? once a week

    Wipe down kitchen counters (I'm not meaning the obvious messes, I mean the take everything off the counter and do a serious wipedown)? once a week

    Wash your bathroom towels? I change them twice a week, then I wash them once a week.

    Wash your windows? eh...I try to wipe the inside every month or so (heavy on the "or so"), but they get an honest to goodness cleaning 3 times a year, spring, summer, fall.

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  • Change your bedroom sheets? Twice a month

    Dust? ummm once every two months maybe

    Wipe down kitchen counters (I'm not meaning the obvious messes, I mean the take everything off the counter and do a serious wipedown)?- 4-5 times a week depending on how often we use the kitchen

    Wash your bathroom towels?once a week

    Wash your windows? twice a year

  • Change sheets once a week.

    Dust about twice a week.

    Wipe kitchen counters every day

    Wash towels once a week.

    Never wash windowns, we rent and I don't feel we should do that.

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    Change your bedroom sheets? Once a week

    Dust? Once a week, preferably twice. (We have 3 cats.)

    Wipe down kitchen counters (I'm not meaning the obvious messes, I mean the take everything off the counter and do a serious wipedown)? Once a week moving countertop appliances. Thorough wipe before preparing meals (did I mention the 3 cats?) and quick swipe after meals.

    Wash your bathroom towels? Each towel gets 2-3 uses. I'm wiping my clean exfoliated body with a clean towel, right? lol

    Wash your windows? Inside and outside about 4 times a year. Certain window interiors every couple of weeks. (Cats leave nose and paw prints on large LR window.)

  • Change your bedroom sheets? Every 3-4 weeks.  DH and I both shower before bed, plus he's not home 3 nights per week.  I do wash the pillow cases once or twice a week.

    Dust? Also about every 3-4 wks.

    Wipe down kitchen counters (I'm not meaning the obvious messes, I mean the take everything off the counter and do a serious wipedown)?  3-4 wks (I'm seeing a pattern here)

    Wash your bathroom towels?  Twice a week.  Hand towels daily or every other day.

    Wash your windows? Once a year.
  • Change your bedroom sheets?  Every 2 weeks

    Dust? Every week

    Wipe down kitchen counters (I'm not meaning the obvious messes, I mean the take everything off the counter and do a serious wipedown)? Every week, sometimes 2x a week

    Wash your bathroom towels? The ones we use--once a week.  We could probably go a month if we'd wait until we had a full load of just towels

    Wash your windows? Once a year, but my DH sprays them from the outside regularliy

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  • imageLauraBeth1401:

    Curious to see how often others do some of the household chores we all have to do.  How often do you...?

    Change your bedroom sheets? Every two weeks

    Dust? Every two weeks

    Wipe down kitchen counters (I'm not meaning the obvious messes, I mean the take everything off the counter and do a serious wipedown)? at least every two weeks

    Wash your bathroom towels? We use towels twice before changing them out and then I usually do one load of towels a week.

    Wash your windows? every 2-3 months inside and outside. We have the windows that can be cleaned from the inside so both sides get cleaned every time.

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