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Can we do a cleaning poll?

I need to know how gross I am based on RE standards. How often do you -

Mop your kitchen:

Vaccuum carpets:

Scrub showers/baths:

Clean your fridge:

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Re: Can we do a cleaning poll?

  • I do the first three weekly, but we sweep every other day or so because of the dog hair and baby mess.

    The fridge gets cleaned when I notice it's messy. 

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  • Mop your kitchen: 1x week

    Vaccuum carpets: 2-3x week (have 3 pets)

    Scrub showers/baths: 1x week

    Clean your fridge: every other week or 1x month

  • My cleaning lady does it every other week
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  • I need to know how gross I am based on RE standards. How often do you -

    Mop your kitchen:  On Fridays, I take a wet rag and wipe down the main traffic areas.  I full-on mop the tile areas of the house once a month.

    Vaccuum carpets:  Weekly, sometimes more.

    Scrub showers/baths:  Weekly.  I'd probably let it go longer, but DD has bath crayons and we need a new slate pretty regularly.

    Clean your fridge:  Once a month - right before I do the big grocery trip.

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  • I do most of this on the same interval: just before company. 
  • mop - once a week

    vacuum - twice a week

    scrub shower - once a week

    I refuse to answer the last question.  lets say not as often as I should.  unless you just mean throw away old leftovers, expired yogurt and such, that I do weekly before putting new grocerys away.

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  • imageWendyToo:
    I do most of this on the same interval: just before company. 

    I think we're on the same page, you and I.

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  • this does bring up another hoarding topic though.  I used to have an issue throwing food away.  If there were leftovers I'd save them even if I knew nobody was going to eat them and then end up throwing them away a week later.  Now I try not to save anything that won't get used but it's not always easy.
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  • Vaccum 3 times a week.

     Frig when it needs it 

    The rest the cleaning people do every other week 

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  • Bathroom every week

    sweep floors every week

    Cleaning lady mops and vaccuums every other week.

  • imageWendyToo:
    I do most of this on the same interval: just before company. 

    You stole my answer.  This is why I'm hiring a maid.

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  • That makes me anxious
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  • imageCaliopeSpidrman:

    imageWendyToo:
    I do most of this on the same interval: just before company. 

    You stole my answer.  This is why I'm hiring a maid.

    That is one of the reasons we hired a cleaning lady, because we would argue too much as we tried to clean before company.

  • imagebuddhagouda:
    That makes me anxious

    To be fair, we have company pretty often. 

  • Mop your kitchen/Vaccuum carpets/Scrub showers/baths: once a week, more if needed (no pets or kids yet)

    Clean your fridge: every few months maybe

  • I clean my house once a year because I read on a website that it makes your house last longer.
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  • imageCaliopeSpidrman:
    I clean my house once a year because I read on a website that it makes your house last longer.

    Don't blame me when your house crumbles around you. I hear that's what happens to things that only get washed once a year. 

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  • Put me on team Wendy, Cali and Badger.

    The only chore that gets done religiously is laundry. Everything else is when I notice it's dirty/feel like it. I do clean obsessively when we have company, which is fairly often--probably at least once every 3 weeks.

  • I bet cali's house smells like old vag.

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  • Having that much company makes me anxious too. I'm an introverted homebody.
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  • imageTheDuckis:

    Put me on team Wendy, Cali and Badger.

    The only chore that gets done religiously is laundry. Everything else is when I notice it's dirty/feel like it. I do clean obsessively when we have company, which is fairly often--probably at least once every 3 weeks.

    Exactly, except add that dishes get done pretty regularly as well. I hope they're being done right now, because the sink was definitely full last time I saw it!  

  • imageCaliopeSpidrman:
    I clean my house once a year because I read on a website that it makes your house last longer.

     Lol 

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  • I miss my cleaning lady.  I think my OCD cleaning is coming back (it had eased up a bit after being pregnant).  Now I get twitchy when I see a few crumbs on the floor.

    I feel that I am the opposite regarding company though.  I hate doing a big clean on the house right before because it just gets messy again.  I just do a quick clean (so, two hours instead of six) and then a big clean after they leave.

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  • imagelindsayll:
    My cleaning lady does it every other week
    this. I will sweep the high traffic areas and vacuum the carpets on the off week but nothing else.
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  • imageCaliopeSpidrman:
    I clean my house once a year because I read on a website that it makes your house last longer.

    So, if you cleaned every other year would it last twice as long?

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  • imageCaliopeSpidrman:
    I clean my house once a year because I read on a website that it makes your house last longer.

    It took me a second, but LIZZING, 

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  • imageWendyToo:
    imageTheDuckis:

    Put me on team Wendy, Cali and Badger.

    The only chore that gets done religiously is laundry. Everything else is when I notice it's dirty/feel like it. I do clean obsessively when we have company, which is fairly often--probably at least once every 3 weeks.

    Exactly, except add that dishes get done pretty regularly as well. I hope they're being done right now, because the sink was definitely full last time I saw it!  

    This just in: my dishes are now clean. I'm sure you were worried. I hear I al

    Coming home to fresh baked cookies AND a clean house. Who needs a maid? 

  • imageBadgerengr:

    Cleaning people do all the below once a week except the fridge. I do that when B freaks out that it's gross. I do not think about things like that, not like he does anyway.

    Mop your kitchen:

    Vaccuum carpets:

    Scrub showers/baths:

    Clean your fridge:

  • I'd like to mention that I have two roommates and of them has not washed her sheets since JUNE. Disgusting.
  • Floors: sweep every other day in the main traffic areas (kitchen, mainly) mop weekly

    Fridge: when it needs it...monthly?

    bathrooms...tubs get wiped out with lysol wipes roughly 2 x/week.   full cleaning every other week.

    I didn't end up getting my cleaning lady back. She's on sick leave and her replacement is way more expensive.   until i go back to work I'm stuck with me.

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