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Old 10-25-2013, 10:37 AM   #1
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Do you have a specific day that you clean your house? Or do you clean it whenever you feel you can't stand it anymore? Or do you clean it a little bit each day?
What is your cleaning routine?
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Old 10-25-2013, 12:34 PM   #2
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We usually clean on Saturday mornings. Dusting, vacuuming, mopping the floors, cleaning the bathrooms and once a month the windows. The kitchen usually gets cleaned up every night.
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Old 10-25-2013, 12:42 PM   #3
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I "try" to do my cleaning on Saturdays, but sometimes it spills over to Sunday.
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I clean when I can't stand it anymore...
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I don't have a specific day. I vacuum when I start noticing the dog hair (which is often since we have 4 dogs...). I do the bathrooms when it starts to bother me (usually due to MY hair being everywhere) and I wipe down the kitchen pretty much every day.
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No real set schedule since I'm home now. Kitchen and bathroom seems to be every other day, vacuuming once a week and dusting too. Laundry seems to be never ending and a daily occurrence, lol
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All day Saturday -- laundry, cleaning, etc. Typically takes all day, especially if we have yard work to do (which is 8 months of the year )
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I clean a LITTLE each day. Suffering with hyperthyroidism and anemia, I am exhausted all the time. I just do a little bit each day (and I'm still always behind).
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It depends on what the chore is, but I am usually cleaning something everyday.
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I clean when I cant stand it anymore which ranges from every day sweeping (3 dogs) and kitchen wipe downs to every week or so baths.
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I try to at least keep our house "picked up" at all times cause I can't stand clutter, but as far as actual cleaning, I do it when I can't stand it anymore and when I have the ambition to do it.
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We usually clean on Saturday mornings. Dusting, vacuuming, mopping the floors, cleaning the bathrooms and once a month the windows. The kitchen usually gets cleaned up every night.
Well, first I want to say that I am impressed that you do windows once a month. Now, I clean mostly on Saturdays, but I try to keep the dishes loaded in the dishwasher as the week goes on.
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I also agree that I am impressed with someone cleaning windows once a month. I may clean mine once a year if that.

I vacuum about every other day because we have a dog that sheds and in the living room I have a very big dark Red area rug that shows white dog hair like crazy. So I so that pretty regularly.

I try to walk through and do a quick dusting about once a week.

Laundry I do as needed, usually on Sunday evenings or Wednesday afternoons.

The bathrooms only get cleaned every two weeks. I clean as needed in the bathrooms but I go in and clean on purpose every 2 weeks.

I load the dishwasher and unload the dishwasher every day and wipe down the kitchen. That takes about 90 seconds.

I go through and clean the whole house the day before my husband gets back in town from work. He is gone for 28 days.

My house is never littered or cluttered. We don't have a bunch of knick knacks and my kids don't have toys laying around. They are teens.
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Dusting, mopping, vacuum, scrub bathrooms, clean bedrooms, strip beds, clean kitchen every Saturday sometimes some on Sunday mornings. laundry everyday! Spring cleaning walls and windows (try for once a year)
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