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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I do not know what people are talking about? If I have a clean house to begin with.  Then it is easily 2 hours to JUST MAINTAIN everyday - daily laundry, daily light cleaning of bathrooms, daily making beds and quick vacuum of bedrooms, daily collecting of coffee mugs and such things from each rooms, daily recycling of mail and newspaper, cans, cups, dusting, straightening the living areas, daily watering of indoor and outdoors plants.  The cooking, dish washing, cleaning kitchen - another hour

On the weekends - washing the floors, more detailed vacuum. dusting picture frames etc, cleaning cobwebs, cleaning appliances, wiping down cabinets, laundering bedsheets, towels.  Cleaning showers, tubs etc.  Sorting put pantry, cleaning refrigerators. I am not counting grocery shopping etc - which also takes time.

Those who clean once a week, I want to ask - are you pretty much ignoring everyday messes and living with it?   Maybe your laundry piles up? Or your bathroom floors and toilets are a little unclean?  I cannot imagine the house being clean for more than 1 day if you have kids. You have to do some cleaning.  ANd if you are showering and using the bathrooms, there is no way that it does not require at least a quick wipe down with clorax wipes everyday.  So if you are not cleaning everyday you are actually letting your house grow dirtier everyday, until you get down to cleaning it on the weekends. 
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If you're for real, I think you have ridiculous standards that no one in the entire world appreciates except you. I mean it with kindness...if you did 50% less of this, no one would notice, so I have to conclude you're doing it for your own satisfaction, which is fine, but it doesn't make it necessary.

Why do you need to wash two sets of clothes per person? Does anyone in your house ever wear a T-shirt two days in a row? How about a pair of pants? There is zero need to wash two sets of clothes day if you're past 2 years of age.

What's wrong with throwing a comforter over a bed? Who will come to your house and fine you if your bed isn't made up with sharp corners army-style?

Yes, my laundry piles up. I throw our dirty clothes into the washing machine, when the lid no longer closes, it's time to run it. We have lots of clothes so we don't care.

Daily watering of indoor and outdoor plants will kill them.  Plants don't require more than weekly watering. Outdoor plants should not need water except in the heat of summer or right after transplant.

Bathrooms don't NEED a daily chlorox wipedown.  You WANT to wipe them down. That's different from need. The only thing I do daily in my bathroom is flush.

Of course the house grows dirtier every day. I have no expectations of sterility of my house.  My cleaners come twice a week and do their thing. Between their visits I cook and clean the kitchen after cooking. The dishwasher does the dishes. I mop the floor or vacuum in between their visits only if the dirt is visible (cooking spills or someone tracked dirt from the outside).   We are fine.

I have no problem with your incessant cleaning. But you're making it sound like it's a necessity. And it just isn't. [/quote]

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