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

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
 
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.
 
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.
 
arknor said:
bedding changed every 1-2 months.
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dLockers said:
:eek: Dirt bag.
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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.

Junglist said:
You've got to be kidding me, surely.

Did you never have any friends around who would share that bed with you?
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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.
 
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 :)
 
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!?!
 
Junglist said:
Has to be a typo surely. I feel bad if I haven't changed mine in 2 weeks. Usually do it every weekend.
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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.
 
arknor said:
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.
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I shower twice daily but I still feel the need to change our sheets at least fortnightly
 
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