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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, you do not need to vacuum, mop, and wipe down your household surfaces on a daily basis.... Don’t know where people are coming up with this stuff. [/quote]

Different strokes... I have a 6 and a 3 year old. On the nights they "forget" to clean up their playroom(usualy every other day-sometimes they run out of time because of some unforeseen circumstances), it takes me at least 30 minutes to clean it up. 
I have to at least sweep under the counter and wipe the counter down after every meal. There is usually food all over the place. I vacuum the kitchen every night and vacuum the entire first level of the house every other night. I mob the entire house on the weekend but usuall have to mop the kitchen every third night(when I cook- I cook in bulk and heat up for a couple of days)

I have to wipe down faucet handles and bathroom sinks, toilet handles and seats almost every day. Otherwise we adults can't use them: there will be soap and other even less desired residue on them. soap,

the kids and I pick up the kids rooms every morning-make up their beds, pick up toys from the floor, sometimes sort art to keep and to throw away-they wake up around 7:00 am and play until about 7:45 while I get showered and dressed,

My husband usually does all the laundry on the weekend, folds and puts the kids clothes away. I put mine away and he puts his away. We can go for  weeks without doing laundry sometimes, and it is usually no big deal. Sometimes, if we have something going on, I do all the laundry.

Overall, it's not too bad if you do several little things every day.

I think the only thing that we could use help with would be scrubbing bathrooms. The bathrooms sometimes go without being scrubbed for a month and a half. They actually still look decent because I wipe down very often and "spot" scrub areas that look bad and the sinks  when I notice that they are getting brown.

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Agree... PP’s post sounds like it was written by someone with zero kids or much older kids. [/quote]

No actually - I have a 2-yr-old (girl) and 2 cats. I really don’t know what you guys are talking about. She eats all her meals at the table on a placemat, so there is not food everywhere to clean up. In the afternoon, she eats some fruit in her playroom - doesn’t leave a mess. She takes out one bin of toys at a time and puts it back bf getting another one. Sometimes there are some legos, books, etc on the floor after bedtime, but they take like 5 mins to put away. She is potty trained but I guess that’s not messy for us bc we still help her? She doesn’t make a mess all over the bathroom yet. I cook breakfast every morning and dinner 4 times a week. After cooking, I have to take like 5 mins to sweep up some crumbs and run a sponge over the counter, but I don’t really need to do that everyday - it’s not like it really looks that messy.[/quote]

Maybe you have furniture and counters that don’t show smudges and good? Not being snarky. My toddler uses a placemat and a bib sometimes and also has a snack somewhere other than the table. He is often at the counter “helping” me. I do find after every meal I have to wipe the his placemat, the dining table and sometimes the floor. My dining table and counters are black and show smudges and sticky finger marks. If you have a matte patterned counter or a rustic dining table, you may not have these issues.

And to some extent you seem like you are wiping and doing the little spot clean ups everyone is alluding to. I wipe down the counters frequently and vacuum the kitchen daily. It’s not like this takes an hour, like you said it’s 5 min here and there. [/quote]

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