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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]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?[/quote] 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?[/quote] It isn't that you vacuum that is OCD. It is the time spent, the focus and the fact it takes away from time with the kids. Very few people vacuum under the sofas and under the rugs and do the thorough cleaning that you described EVERY DAY. And bedtime with preschoolers and elementary kids is important in our house. We have a routine and read with them and we both like to be involved in it. Obviously since a clean house is your biggest priority then I get why you rush the kids through bath and into bed so you can get back to cleaning but you might find if you gave up a little cleaning time that bedtime can be a bonding time. We have some great chats and enjoy reading with the kids. And I think your 15 minutes is a big backtrack now that you see all the posts saying you are OCD. One doesn't do a "massive vaccuum/clean of our main first floor rooms, pulls up the rugs and gets under the sofa, etc." in 15 minutes. Massive cleans take time. [/quote]
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