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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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 Clorox 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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Bwahahah. Who's got that kind of time? Our house really doesn't get that dirty in between the weekly housekeeper. We do laundry 2x/week at most, sometimes just once depending on what sports season it is. I clean the kitchen after we eat - it takes a few minutes. No one is allowed to leave coffee mugs or food around the house so no collecting required.[/quote]

It  takes at least 2-hour worth of work from me everyday to make it ship-shape.

As for clothes, I wash at least two sets of clothes per person, each day. I have found that doing laundry is not a pain, but folding and putting them in dressers is a pain. And if I do not do laundry everyday, then it is unmanageable.

I cook a lot (at least an hour a day) - because my family is finicky about food.  So, cleaning kitchen is a lot more involved than wiping down counters. I have to make sure that the floors are mopped everyday and every few weeks I need to clean the burner and the burner pans with oven cleaner.

I have tried to have my family make beds everyday before they step out of the house - but they do such a poor job (basically, they pull the comforter over the entire bed...ugh!) - that I have to redo it.

I have actually switched to white towels and white bedsheets to make weekly washing easier.

I don't think it is too much work - but cleaning a house (mine is 3500 sq ft minus basement) for me  is a couple of hours worth of work - every single day.

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I said 6 man hours and I was talking about a deep cleaning. [b] My kids clean up every night before they get dessert: their toys, wipe kitchen table/sweep kitchen floor, put away laundry, etc., so I wasn't counting those.[/b]  Those I think of as "chores" vs. what my housekeeper does every other week.  [/quote]

So, pretty much same as my house, except I am also doing light cleaning of bathrooms, vacuum of bedrooms and making beds.  My 2 man-hours makes sense.   You can call it chores,  kid's job, whatever - but to have a clean house - either you light clean everyday - or you learn to live with some mess and do a deep down cleaning every weekend.  No getting away from it!  Even if you clean as you go, you will cumulatively spend that much time.[/quote]

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