Lets be honest: how often do you vacuum your house? for those who do not have maids

[Anonymous]

21:46 here, I have all hardwood floors and some area rugs. If I had carpets, I would definitely be vacuuming more. Carpets get so disgusting so quickly. Also, we are a shoe free household.

[Anonymous]

5th time this year.
But I'm a single mom.
Sadly, I love vacuuming and have a roomba

[Anonymous]

Every other day. I have teenagers so I delegate.

[Anonymous]

I have very few carpets so I don't get out the vaccuum all that often to do a full job. I do a lot of spot touch ups with the hand vac most days, and there's one rug in the basement that I do with the old vacuum cleaner that lives down there every three days or so.

[Anonymous]

Before the cleaner, maybe 3-4 x per year. We're mostly hardwood, so the cat litter is swept up 2x/ week and the dining room is swept pretty often, about every other day.

We are out of the house 11 hours a day. Have a toddler, and now a every-other-week cleaning service. We could not keep up with the mopping and certainly the vacuuming once the kid was mobile.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow. This is interesting. We vacuum every day, at least once without fail. Using a Dyson stick to make it easy. It's my husband's thing - while I bathe the kids and get them ready for bed, he does a massive vaccuum/clean of our main first floor rooms, pulls up the rugs and gets under the sofa, etc. We have a small house and while I might not be so intense about it myself, I really appreciate it and now do it myself when he's on the road. We all have our things - I hate coming downstairs in the AM to dirty dishes - but clean floors just feel more hygenic and livable. Bathrooms are spot cleaned as needed (they each have Ergorapido stick vacs and cleaning supplies so I can clean up a bit while kids are in the tub). House cleaners come every two weeks, wish it could be more often! Wow, this seems OCD in comparison to some of the PPs but it sure doesn't look or feel like that.

Yes. It does seem OCD.

[Anonymous]

I vacuum maybe once a month. We have mostly hardwood floors. Use a swifter about every one and a half to two weeks. If guests are coming we clean thoroughly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow. This is interesting. We vacuum every day, at least once without fail. Using a Dyson stick to make it easy. It's my husband's thing - while I bathe the kids and get them ready for bed, he does a massive vaccuum/clean of our main first floor rooms, pulls up the rugs and gets under the sofa, etc. We have a small house and while I might not be so intense about it myself, I really appreciate it and now do it myself when he's on the road. We all have our things - I hate coming downstairs in the AM to dirty dishes - but clean floors just feel more hygenic and livable. Bathrooms are spot cleaned as needed (they each have Ergorapido stick vacs and cleaning supplies so I can clean up a bit while kids are in the tub). House cleaners come every two weeks, wish it could be more often! Wow, this seems OCD in comparison to some of the PPs but it sure doesn't look or feel like that.

Yes. It does seem OCD.

Unless DH is a SAHD, this is sad to me. Rather than being involved with his kids and part of the bath and bed routine he is pulling up rugs and vacuuming under sofas on a daily basis. How does he feel about having to appease your OCD by giving up time with the kids?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How many of you have jobs? Because I vacuum, say, once a month. I swiffer a little more than that, especially when I see dust or something else on the ground, but yeah, I do not have time to vacuum 2x a week!!

+1. I am the the PP who asked when this vacuuming gets done.

[Anonymous]

once a week, sometimes twice if I have time and notice it needs it. I have a cat and a couple of birds FWIW. I do the kitchen once a week or as needed, bathroom once a month.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How many of you have jobs? Because I vacuum, say, once a month. I swiffer a little more than that, especially when I see dust or something else on the ground, but yeah, I do not have time to vacuum 2x a week!!

+1. I am the the PP who asked when this vacuuming gets done.

Another +1. Perhaps THIS IS their jobs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm here to make my fellow lazies feel better.

We have 1 dog who sheds a lot, no kids, 1600-sq-ft house.

Hardwood and area rugs in main living space: Only gets vacuumed when guests are coming over, probably once every 4-6 weeks.

Carpeting in bedrooms and office, which no one sees: Vacuumed once or twice a year.

We've resisted getting a house cleaner because the mess just doesn't bother us. But we finally broke down and hired one (just last week!) so that we don't have to live in fear of people dropping by.

I could have written this post. Before we had DC, both DH and I worked long hours at the office and we treated our house like a hotel...but without the maid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Wow. This is interesting. We vacuum every day, at least once without fail. Using a Dyson stick to make it easy. It's my husband's thing - while I bathe the kids and get them ready for bed, he does a massive vaccuum/clean of our main first floor rooms, pulls up the rugs and gets under the sofa, etc. We have a small house and while I might not be so intense about it myself, I really appreciate it and now do it myself when he's on the road. We all have our things - I hate coming downstairs in the AM to dirty dishes - but clean floors just feel more hygenic and livable. Bathrooms are spot cleaned as needed (they each have Ergorapido stick vacs and cleaning supplies so I can clean up a bit while kids are in the tub). House cleaners come every two weeks, wish it could be more often! Wow, this seems OCD in comparison to some of the PPs but it sure doesn't look or feel like that.

Yes. It does seem OCD.

Unless DH is a SAHD, this is sad to me. Rather than being involved with his kids and part of the bath and bed routine he is pulling up rugs and vacuuming under sofas on a daily basis. How does he feel about having to appease your OCD by giving up time with the kids?

For real? Only on DCUM would vacuuming be used as evidence of bad parenting! Fwiw, if there's OCD in this situation, it's my husband's - he is the one who insists on vacuuming every night. I've considered getting him a roomba for his birthday! And maybe you are still in the infant stage, but once your children are older there really isn't any "bathtime bonding" that's really viable or necessary. I have two boys, a preschooler and a young elementary kid, and shepherding them in/out of the shower or tub and dressed for bed is hand-to-hand combat. My husband's cleanup rituals downstairs probably take 15 minutes most nights; by the time I wrap up the bathing madness, he is usually watching the news hour. Then we both read with the kids, although less so with the older one who reads solo now. Where is the negligence here? And honestly are there really this many people who consider it excessive to spend 15 mins cleaning up their houses each night? And our house is hardly spotless, not by a long shot, so I really can't imagine what it's like to vacuum once a week or less. Maybe you have incredibly neat families?

[Anonymous]

How big do you think our houses are that we can't carve out 20 minutes 2x a week to vacuum? I mean Jesus, this is hardly proof of a person with nothing to do with their time. I'm not scrapbooking all my shopping receipts for the year or bleaching everyone's shoelaces. It's vacuuming. It's not THAT time consuming.

[Anonymous]

Once a week. We have hardwood floors with just a few area rugs. But we also have a dog. I'm impressed that others are vacuuming multiple times a week. I guess we could do 2 x a week but more than that would be overkill IMO. We also steamclean our floors once a week after vacuuming.