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[Anonymous]

How often do you clean your house? This will be a confession no judgment zone

Floors:
Bathrooms:
Really scrub shower/tubs:
Change bed sheets:
Dust:
Inside of oven/microwave:
Windows:
Mirrors:
Stairways:
Empty out and scrub fridge:
Garage floors:
Baseboards:
Fans/blinds/light fixtures:

[Anonymous]

I am way too embarrassed to answer this. Sigh.

[Anonymous]

I have house cleaners and they dont do baseboards or windows

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How often do you clean your house? This will be a confession no judgment zone

Floors: several times a week, shedding dog.
Bathrooms: once a month, with spot-cleaning as needed in between.
Really scrub shower/tubs: once a quarter, husband does that.
Change bed sheets: once every two weeks (everyone showers before bed), unless I forget.
Dust: once a month.
Inside of oven/microwave: only when we spill.
Windows: never.
Mirrors: once a month.
Stairways: several times a week to once a month, again due to dog and which one he uses.
Empty out and scrub fridge: hardly ever, because husband packs it full which is a constant source of frustration!
Garage floors: never. Husband hoards in there.
Baseboards: once a quarter, plus walls that dog likes to brush against.
Fans/blinds/light fixtures: once a quarter, but I forget often.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How often do you clean your house? This will be a confession no judgment zone

I have a 6 yo, 2 yo, and a clingy 6 month old. I’m not great at cleaning and I know it.

Floors: I vacuum where my kids eat daily. The rest of the house…. Mmmm… when I can.
Bathrooms: I clean the toilet pretty often as my kids get poop and pee on it. The sink maybe every 2 weeks. The bathtub… well, it’s been a while and it’s overdue for a cleaning.
Really scrub shower/tubs: it’s been months honestly
Change bed sheets: Monthly or whenever one of my kids throws up on the sheets (which happens more frequently in the winter when they get more colds).
Dust: never really
Inside of oven/microwave: I’ve never cleaned an oven before, but am considering cleaning it one of these days. I just bought this one in May. I clean the microwave when it gets really dirty. If people would use the microwave cover, it wouldn’t be so gross.
Windows: I’ve never cleaned my windows.
Mirrors: I clean them whenever I clean the bathroom sink.
Stairways: my husband vaccums the stairs sometimes. I haven’t in a while.
Empty out and scrub fridge: I haven’t cleaned the fridge since I bought it in May. I try to clean spills as I see them.
Garage floors: n/a
Baseboards: maybe once a year or if it looks really dirty
Fans/blinds/light fixtures:I’ve never cleaned these things

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How often do you clean your house? This will be a confession no judgment zone

Floors: 2-3 times a day. Mop 2-3 times a week.
Bathrooms: weekly
Really scrub shower/tubs: weekly
Change bed sheets: weekly to biweekly.
Dust:as needed- but need to be better at making it weekly.
Inside of oven/microwave: as needed
Windows:as needed
Mirrors:weekly
Stairways: everyday- they are floors
Empty out and scrub fridge: as needed usually monthly or biweekly
Garage floors: never unless the air blower to get out the leaves “cleaning”
Baseboards: around once a quarter
Fans/blinds/light fixtures:

around once a quarter, but always before parties

[Anonymous]

I use fly lady as a guide.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How often do you clean your house? This will be a confession no judgment zone

Floors: vacuum carpeted and hardwood floors weekly, kitchen floor I vacuum 2x a week and mop as needed, bathroom floors mopped maybe 1x a month
Bathrooms: showers every other week, vanities 1x a week, toilets as needed
Really scrub shower/tubs: 2x a month
Change bed sheets: weekly
Dust: I *hate* dusting the most! As needed.
Inside of oven/microwave: weekly
Windows: hardly ever!
Mirrors: weekly
Stairways: vacuum the carpet weekly
Empty out and scrub fridge: maybe once every 3 months...but it needs it more often.
Garage floors: DH's problem
Baseboards: 2x a year maybe in high traffic areas.
Fans/blinds/light fixtures:

kitchen light fixture every other month, bedroom ceiling fans - when I can see the gunk!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How often do you clean your house? This will be a confession no judgment zone

Floors: sweep/vacuum and swiffer multiple times per week; mop every 1-2 weeks
Bathrooms: once a week
Really scrub shower/tubs: every two weeks
Change bed sheets: once a week
Dust: once a week
Inside of oven/microwave: microwave once a week, oven almost never
Windows: never
Mirrors: once a week
Stairways: in endless cycle with floors
Empty out and scrub fridge: once a month
Garage floors: a couple a times a year (garage is not connected to house)
Baseboards: once a week with dusting
Fans/blinds/light fixtures:

: we only have light fixtures from this list, and about twice a year I take the glass fixtures down and clean them

I pay my kids to clean, so it happens every weekend.

[Anonymous]

To be fair, I have started to get a house cleaner for random deep cleans (I will have had 2 this year), but I will still answer... 3 bed/2.5 bath house, 2 adults, no kids.

Floors: Vacuum once a week or two, mop maybe once a month or when dirty.
Bathrooms: DH cleans the toilets, I do the floor when I do the other floors. Idk with what frequency he does the toilets, but before people come over for sure lol
Really scrub shower/tubs: Like, never?
Change bed sheets: Whenever we remember... like once a month. This one is the one I want to change the most, and am actually planning to wash everything today lol.
Dust: Not very often... Like once every 6 mons or something.
Inside of oven/microwave: Oven, rare. Maybe once a year. Inside of microwave doesnt get too dirty, but I clean it about once a month. We dont use a microwave often and always use a little cover.
Windows: Once every few years
Mirrors: Hmm also not often.
Stairways: Nothing special about the stairway except its carpet, so it gets vacuumed with the rest of the floor.
Empty out and scrub fridge: I do a fridge clean out maybe once a month and do a little wipe out. Ive been here for 10 years and only ever "scrubbed" everything down once when the freezer went and we had to pull everything out anyways.
Garage floors: n/a
Baseboards: Basically never, but I did see a fun trick on how to do them easily with a rag and broom.
Fans/blinds/light fixtures: No fans, no blinds (curtains), and I can honestly say I dont know if I've ever "cleaned" the light fixtures, but have dusted them a few times.

I built new, and the house does not get as dusty as my older home. But I recognize I'm pretty slobby in most aspects LOL. One of the reasons I got a professional deep clean was to tackle some of these and try to develop some good habits. My mom was a borderline hoarder and was not clean or tidy, so I never learned some of these basic skills... My husband likes a clean house but his mom did 150% of everything, which I cannot do.

[Anonymous]

As needed! So bathrooms are pretty frequent (weekly) because they get gross, but a very thorough tub scrub is maybe 4-6 weeks. I sweep or vacuum somewhere almost every day, but mopping is, um, almost never? We change bed sheets every 1-2 weeks.

Everything else is when I look at it and say "eww" and then I do it. So, maybe once a year?!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How often do you clean your house? This will be a confession no judgment zone

Floors:
Bathrooms:
Really scrub shower/tubs:
Change bed sheets:
Dust:
Inside of oven/microwave:
Windows:
Mirrors:
Stairways:
Empty out and scrub fridge:
Garage floors:
Baseboards:
Fans/blinds/light fixtures:

I have cleaners and they do not change bedsheets, clean inside of oven, empty out and scrub fridge, sweep garage floor or dust fans

[Anonymous]

Floors: Once every two weeks I mop the kitchen floor and vacuum the carpets every week. Unfortunately we have hideous carpets over most of our home. I can't wait to tear them out and replace them with hardwood floors.
Bathrooms: Once a week
Really scrub shower/tubs: Like once a month. Not nearly as often as I should.
Change bed sheets: For me and DH, once every two weeks. For kids, every week.
Dust: LOL. Not often. When I notice things getting really dusty.
Inside of oven/microwave: Oven - never. I don't even know how to clean it. Microwave once every month.
Windows: I windex whenever I see smudges on them from the kids putting their faces up against the window.
Mirrors: Same as above
Stairways: (see floor cleaning schedule)
Empty out and scrub fridge: Once a year. Again, lol.
Garage floors: That's DH's job. Once a year?
Baseboards: Never. Probably need to get on that.
Fans/blinds/light fixtures: When they start looking really dusty - every few months

[Anonymous]

I love you OP -- I usually hate cleaning thread on this site because most posters are like "oh I never scrub my toilet" because their maid does it.

Anyway, this is for a 1200 sq ft row house with 2 adults, one elementary age child, and one cat:

Floors: Vacuumed twice weekly (more if it needs it), mopped weekly using Bona spray mop, deep cleaned like every other year. We are a no shoes household and cat is an indoor cat.
Bathrooms: Weekly, sometimes I do a quick midweek clean of the toilets as well.
Really scrub shower/tubs: Monthly
Change bed sheets: Weekly
Dust: Weekly
Inside of oven/microwave: Oven twice a year, microwave on an as-needed basis, probably once every couple weeks
Windows: Yearly, sometimes I get ambitious and do it twice a year but not often
Mirrors: Weekly
Stairways: Same as floors
Empty out and scrub fridge: Twice yearly
Garage floors: No garage
Baseboards: Monthly-ish. Really what happens is that I ignore them until we are hosting people, and then suddenly I'll realize the baseboards are dusty and I will incorporate them into my pre-hosting vacuum.
Fans/blinds/light fixtures: Ugh, I'm the worst at this. Light fixtures in the kitchen get cleaned every few months and I pay attention to how dirty they are. Ceiling fans in bedrooms I probably remember once every three months. But a lot of light fixtures in the house go years and then I'll think "Huh I wonder how bad it is" and friends, it's usually pretty bad. Oops.

[Anonymous]

Floors: Foot mop with towel 1-2x/week
Bathrooms: Just cleaned them (2x week)
Really scrub shower/tubs: I spray tub walls with bleach spray once a week, that keeps them pretty clean
Change bed sheets: once a week, or every other week
Dust: 2x/week
Inside of oven/microwave: oven after holidays when we cook big (win-sum), and microwave when something explodes like a burrito
Windows: we powerwash from the outside every season (we have our own powerwasher, very great investment). wipe down inside of individual windows as needed (we have pets, so)
Mirrors: as needed
Stairways: I vacuum stairs once a week and vacuum stairs every few weeks
Empty out and scrub fridge: 2 times a year full, otherwise just sections as needed (teen's drink leaked, let's do that small section all the way)
Garage floors: hah, no! sweep occasionally. I spend more time on floors in laundry room. Put big mat mat on floor so I can see all lint
Baseboards: as needed, I am wiping someone once a week, small sections
Fans/blinds/light fixtures: wipe fans as needed (I look up for dust, have point at which I wipe); light fixtures 1-2x/year; blinds...wood blinds are easy to wipe, the bendy metals ones? If the dust is that bad, we just buy new ones and replace. They get bent if you clean them.