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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This topic comes up on DCUM periodically. I think some people clean way too much.

For a while we had a weekly housekeeper and it just felt silly. Why is she mopping a floor that isn’t even that dirty? Are sheets really that bad after my 7 year old sleeps on them for 7 nights? Why?

I also have followed the Clean Mama housekeeping method on Instagram and it similarly seems like overkill. Does my clean shower really get that dirty after $ days of me showering in it? How?

Kitchen counters, kitchen floor, etc. are obvious daily tasks. We have to vacuum and dust once a week due to pets. We don’t wear our shoes in the house. I don’t think we’re filthy but I also don’t understand the paranoia around some posters’ cleaning schedules. 
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I mean, it's your house so you should do what you want. But:

Floors get dirty because people walk on them (yes, even without shoes) and spill food on them, and then walk on them some more. Pets make everything dirty all the time. Your floor could be mopped daily and never really be clean. Having it mopped once a week will keep it from ever getting too gross. It's really not a ridiculous level of cleanliness.

Your shower gets dirty because you are dirty when you get in it, and the dirt winds up on the shower and builds up. Also, many people have hard water that leaves residue on their shower (we do, for instance) and each shower contributes to build up. And with hard water build up, the shower will get even dirtier because then the dirt from your body adheres to the hard water build up, and so on. Cleaning it once a week keeps it from getting really gross.

Your kid sweats and farts in his sleep. Each night. After a week of doing this, the sheets will smell a bit, have bacteria and microbes in them. You wash them to make them smell nice again, to get rid of that.

Washing the floors, the shower, and your sheets once a week isn't overkill, nor is it obsessive cleaning. I'm not saying I always do these things and never skip a week, but my house is cleaner and more pleasant when I do.[/quote]

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