Do you keep your house/flat clean and tidy all the time?

[Lartyconshayo]

the mrs and I have a tacit agreement to do a comprehensive clean once a week for the things like hoovering(stairs, hallways rooms), bathroom etc. Other jobs are more occasional - deep clean fridge, wash laminate floor in kitchen. Dishes and so on are done immediately so kitchen area is always clean but we cook a lot so need to be able to go at any time

 

[Deleted member 66701]

We have a cleaner that comes in twice a week who dusts, cleans bathrooms, kitchen (inc inside oven), mops hard floors, vacuums stairs.
Robot vacuum goes round once a day (one for upstairs, one for downstairs).
Dishwasher gets stacked before we go to bed (normally 2 or three days until it's full).
We have a window cleaner once a month.

 

[watercooledman]

Oh yes always try to keep spotless, although tidying up after the kids is a drag.

 

[potatolord]

My house is a tip, due to wife and children being untidy and not picking up their things. Shoes littering the house is a particular irritant- i used to have a "no outside shoes in the house" rule, which was ignored until it died of neglect.

I remember my a mate describing my flat as "spartan" when I was single, as I was very fussy about tidiness.

 

[visibleman]

bedding changed every 1-2 months.

 

[Junglist]

Has to be a typo surely. I feel bad if I haven't changed mine in 2 weeks. Usually do it every weekend.

 

[Lysander]

Has to be a typo surely. I feel bad if I haven't changed mine in 2 weeks. Usually do it every weekend.

When I lived on my own I changed my bedding about once a year.

 

[dlockers]

When I lived on my own I changed my bedding about once a year.

Dirt bag.

 

[Ayahuasca]

When I lived on my own I changed my bedding about once a year.

 

[visibleman]

When I lived on my own I changed my bedding about once a year.

Has to be a typo surely.

Let's hope although @Lysander has taken trophy now.

 

[Junglist]

You've got to be kidding me, surely.

Did you never have any friends around who would share that bed with you?

 

[doodah]

Once a year - nahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

My sweating demands once a week, two tops.

 

[Lysander]

Dirt bag.

Oh that's not the half of it. The biggest problem was the mould. The extractor fan from the shower was broken when I moved in, and I didn't actually know what it was for. As mad as it seems, I had no idea that the steam from the shower actually had to go somewhere, so I didn't leave the door open, neither did the steam have any other way to escape through the [broken] fan. After a few months this black mould started to develop in the bathroom and before long the spores got into the air. I had a coat hung on the back of the main door which got increasingly mouldy and had to be taken to a specialist for cleaning eventually. Soon enough, I would walk into the flat and choke every time I walked in because of the mould. It was at that point that I decided to clean it.

When I eventually left the flat I had got rid of most of the mould but I had also never cleaned the oven. It was a right-off and the agent charged me £400 for it which I just paid without complaint. I can also only remember hoovering once in the entire time I was there.

So maybe I'm not that clean after all.

You've got to be kidding me, surely.

Did you never have any friends around who would share that bed with you?

Once or twice. But at that point I was particularly bad [shy/nervous] about having anyone over. I just felt very uncomfortable about it in general. I had a girlfriend who lived down the road and I always went to her place.

 

[Junglist]

I'd feel quite uncomfortable about having anyone over if I only cleaned my sheets once a year as well

 

[HungryHippos]

I think I'm a bit better at keeping things tidy since I've been wfh for a while now, and I try and do odd bits of cleaning up as I go. I absolutely hate cleaning the bathrooms though and dusting, those are the two worst things.

Wiping the kitchen down, spot of hoovering, no problem

 

[the shadow]

Trip hazards here

 

[Daxion5]

Kind of in the middle - we've got a cleaner, so basically we tidy up for her each week. Means the base level of actually cleanliness of things like kitchens/bathrooms isn't bad, just might be some bits and pieces around. I am definitely messier than the other half - I leave cups everywhere and given half the chance I store my clothes on the bathroom floor for at least two days.

I'm in the "wash bedsheets once a month, when I remember" brigade - who has time to do every week!?!

 

[arknor]

Has to be a typo surely. I feel bad if I haven't changed mine in 2 weeks. Usually do it every weekend.

1-2 months ins like 4-5 weeks or so in reality.

you guys don't shower daily? how much are you sweating? I'm sleeping in a tshirt and underwear thats clean, how dirty are the sheets going to get.

 

[Junglist]

1-2 months ins like 4-5 weeks or so in reality.

you guys don't shower daily? how much are you sweating? I'm sleeping in a tshirt and underwear thats clean, how dirty are the sheets going to get.

I shower twice daily but I still feel the need to change our sheets at least fortnightly

 

[Lysander]

I shower twice daily

Overkill, once a week is fine.