Working parents, when to do house chores?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Get over your privacy issues and hire a cleaning person every 2 weeks. I never clean bathrooms, dust anything, or clean my oven, microwave etc.
I vacuum our main level every other day. I wipe down countertops in kitchen daily after meals and do laundry pretty lunch all the time. I’ll put a load in the washer before bed then when I get up I love to the dryer. Take out and put away after work.
My kid is 11 and puts her own laundry away and empties the dishwasher.
I don’t make any dinners that take more than 15 mins. Tonight we’re having cheese/spinach tortellini with broccoli in Alfredo sauce. Takes about 10 mins total.
Rotisserie chicken is your friend.

This is perfect.

DH and I WFH part of the week and most of this surface level cleaning / decluttering / putting stuff away is while we WFH and kids (both under 5) are out of the house.

Without our cleaning lady we would live in filth though. If I'm not working I want my time to be spent with my kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here is what I do:

Kitchen: clean up well every night (this is key)- older kids should be helping, mop on weekends (spot clean in between if needed). I clean out fridge the night before trash day. Heavy cleaning as needed- there isn’t much if you clean well every night and keep up on things.

Bathrooms: clean and mop every weekend, keep Clorox wipes and windex/paper towels under sink in each bathroom. Spot clean as necessary and as you see things - just takes a moment.

Laundry: sheets and towels on the weekend, clothing on weeknights. I need to do nearly a load per day but have 3 DC. Kids put away own laundry and strip sheets/remake their beds.

Vacuuming and dusting/wiping things down: every weekend. Adult vacuums, kids dust and wipe things down.

Bedrooms: kids clean their own on weekends

This is what I do too, it just naturally morped this way. I will never know if I'm doing too much, it's all I know.

[Anonymous]

4 people and only two loads of laundry per week…. Gross

[Anonymous]

Hire cleaners for a deep clean one time and then follow the schedules posted above. Your house will still get dirty/dusty and then you’ll have to hire cleaners for another deep cleaning.

[Anonymous]

OP, I stink at housework, but one thing I always did was laundry. I found it worked best if I did one load every day. That way I wasn't doing mounds and mounds of laundry on the weekends.

Also, try to have less to wash. Change from work clothes and school clothes when you come home and wear again a second day.

Mandatory daily housework - make sure kitchen sink is totally clean, all dishes from dishwasher or drainer are put away, and all laundry put away before bed.

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Anonymous wrote:Here is what I do:

Kitchen: clean up well every night (this is key)- older kids should be helping, mop on weekends (spot clean in between if needed). I clean out fridge the night before trash day. Heavy cleaning as needed- there isn’t much if you clean well every night and keep up on things.

Bathrooms: clean and mop every weekend, keep Clorox wipes and windex/paper towels under sink in each bathroom. Spot clean as necessary and as you see things - just takes a moment.

Laundry: sheets and towels on the weekend, clothing on weeknights. I need to do nearly a load per day but have 3 DC. Kids put away own laundry and strip sheets/remake their beds.

Vacuuming and dusting/wiping things down: every weekend. Adult vacuums, kids dust and wipe things down.

Bedrooms: kids clean their own on weekends

This is what I do too, it just naturally morped this way. I will never know if I'm doing too much, it's all I know.

Similar but I do sheets & upstairs bathrooms every other week. One weekend I’ll wash the kids sheets and bathroom and the next week I’ll do the master sheets and bathroom. This is plenty for us. Same with dusting - main floor one weekend, upstairs the next weekend. Most people who have cleaners have them come e/o week.