We just clean when it needs it. It's just the two of us so it never gets very dirty since we pick up after ourselves. We both do it, along with a load or two of laundry per week.

When the kids were here Saturday was our day to all do our chores. It is nice having it all done at one time. With just two of us, and we are both at work all day I clean as I see need. My level of persnickety is not what it used to be either. Again with just two of us here...

I’m with bragu. I absolutely loath cleaning and live in an old house with multiple humps and bumps, nooks and crannies, ledges and mouldings. A day would not be enough to clean it top to bottom. Maybe three or four. I tend to do it if we’re expecting visitors and, even then, only the areas they’ll go into.

Years ago, somewhere I heard that for an average sized house thirty minutes of cleaning every day should be able to keep a clean house. Living in a larger house I probably should double that to an hour everyday. Doing some everyday keeps it from becoming a huge chore to do.

I clean a little bit each day. I can't imagine cleaning the entire house all in one day. I'd probably drop dead! Just dusting the stuff is a whole day project...HAHA!

I clean as it needs it. Since we downsized, I can do a decent "company's coming" clean in an hour.

I clean when it's needed. I don't do a "deep clean" every time. If it's dirty I wash it. I'm not a clean freak and my house is lived in so I don't clean constantly. Dishes are done after supper every day. I cook dinner, my husband loads and starts the dishwasher. Today I'll clean the bathroom and I may sweep and wipe the kitchen floor down but that'll be it for the day. I do my best housecleaning when I'm home alone but my husband can't work so he's here 24/7 and I don't get as much done now as I would like to.

My mother used to be a clean freak and did her house once a week, plus here and there during the week. Now she walks through the house and says, "hmmmmmm that's not much dust, it can wait another week" and she sits down. It's just her and dad and they really only use the kitchen and family room so deep cleaning the entire house every week is ridiculous. She's also 87 and dad is 89 and it's taken her this long to realize you don't have to have a spotless house, although her house still look spotless...

I don't have what it takes to spend my entire life cleaning. I make the rounds in the kitchen each morning and try to tidy up there. The robot vacuum sweeps. I collect clutter and try to manage it. I sporadically do mopping and other cleaning. I'll have days I devote to whatever project. My house is still filled with people and animals and I have hobbies and other work I do.

Cleaning=chores. I cleaned the kitchen when I cooked for instance. I cleaned the bedroom when I washed the sheets. Today I'm doing a load of clothing. Tomorrow I'll change the sheets on the bed & wash bath towels, kitchen towels & hand towels in ALL 6 bathrooms. Today I'll make a key lime cheesecake, but Monday I made 20 chimichangas, to last us ALL week for dinner. ♥ I mixed Miracle Grow a gallon at a time & watered Oriental lilies, roses & poppies yesterday, but Sunday I put down fertilizer on the wild grasses in front of our house. I picked up pine cones & raked pine needles in the area I fertilized. Weeded dandelions too!

A little each day is my MO.

Years ago Amy, when I was as young as you, I would do the entire house in a few hours. As years went by, I started dividing things up because it took me longer. Now though I do have a house cleaner. I have arthritis in my hands and it’s just painful to do the scrubbing.

I have always been tidy. I don’t like clutter. I’m not one to leave dishes in the sink to be washed later.

I don’t have a regular laundry day. Our clothing is placed in various laundry bags. So, it’s good to go when it’s looks like there’s enough for a load.

I clean as little as possible. It is just me living here but I am not good at putting things away so there is some clutter. Also I have back and knee pain and just do what I can on my "good" days.

Y'all got me cleaning: just finished my bathroom and half the kitchen. ;)

We have a cleaner now, although she comes only once every month and I still do some interim cleaning. I detest cleaning but I detest a dirty house even more so before we had a cleaner, I would go through and clean the whole house in one fell swoop. It always felt so good to look at a clean house!

I also clean as needed or as I go - making sure to do a thorough wipe down of the kitchen cabs weekly. I try to do one larger chore either inside or outside daily (which might include fixing or organizing something, not just routine cleaning).

Deep, detail cleaning (wash woodwork & blinds instead of just vacuuming, light fixtures, windows etc) I aim for spring and fall.

I clean a bit less than needed. On an as-it-becomes-overdue basis.

Life is short. If clean is important to you clean, if it isnt then dont. For myself I decided a long time ago that when I died I did not want "you could eat off her floor" on my tombstone. I went from neat freak to oh well it will do overnight.

When DH worked and all 4 kids had gotten on the bus for school I would race back into the house and clean. Then sit down and enjoy the next few hours of looking at a clean house!

Now a days when DH sees me cleaning he asks, “Who’s coming over!”

Less than in the past. I do everything including cleaning in 15 minute bursts, that is about how long I can stand without a walker before I need to rest. So a kitchen cleaning is usually 2 bursts, one for dishes and counter, one for the floor.

I learned it takes me a full day to clean the house to a decent, not great standard. I keep everything neat and tidy. I keep my bathroom clean and check on my children's in between cleaning. I prefer to lose one day a week to cleaning (thank goodness for podcasts), than always have some little thing hanging over my head. With four boys, laundry is a daily affair. Beds are changed twice per week. I am thrilled to have my house keepers back. Without them my refrigerator never gets scrubbed inside unless something spills, for example.

I just scrubbed my bathtub. I want it replaced in the next few years to a walk in shower. It's not fun to clean. I need to sweep and clean up a little today, since I have a plumber coming tomorrow to fix a leak outside and replace my faucets in both bathrooms. Been up for a couple hours and have been procrastinating since.

To answer your question, I don't pick a certain day to clean since my work schedule varies too much. My house is once again cluttered with my daughter's items she left behind. She needs to decide if she wants to keep them or not. I basically clean when I have time and energy to do it.

I need to clean up the gardens too and plant everything over the next two weeks. I go on vacation Sunday, but picked up an evening shift next week because they were down to 2 people that day. Other than that I'm hoping to get caught up with everything.

I clean a little bit every day so I don't have to dedicate an entire day to do it. Like when I'm finished in the bathroom in the morning, I wipe down everything, straighten up, clean the toilet, etc. That way it's always clean and I don't have to dedicate an entire day. I clean up as I use the kitchen, run the vacuum a few times a week, etc. If I only had a couple of days off work I can't imagine giving one of those days to cleaning. Ugh. No thanks. I'm retired now and used to be more anal about it when I was younger, but for me, spending an entire day vs. doing a little each day gives me the same results. I guess it's all in how one wants to spend their time.

I keep everything clutter free and of course cleaning kitchen after cooking a meal. I have Saturdays to myself so during the week, I add things to my list that I want to accomplish on Saturdays, bathrooms are done once a week but no particular day. We each do our own laundry on an as needed basis. no kids at home anymore

I do a little every day. I don't mind cleaning....as long as I don't have to do it. If I know company is coming or for some reason, I need to get it done, I hate doing it. Once I get started tho, I don't mind doing it. It is the getting started

I have this magnet on my refrigerator. I hate housework. Our house is too large for just the two of us. And we live with two large, active Australian Shepherds. It's a never-ending battle. We regularly clean the kitchen and bathrooms. We both do our own laundry. But our house only really sparkles when we know company is coming (and no one has visited in over a year).

I have no routine. But if I really want a good clean, I invite people over. Place gets pick up real quick like!!

Apparently my cleaning routine is to start one thing, remember I should do something else and go off and do that. I've cleaned up my bathroom somewhat, but really should clean the toilet, not that I think the plumber guy is going to inspect it but it does need to be cleaned but first had to make some soup, clean up dog droppings out back, then saw some weeds including a whole area of wintercreeper. I pulled some out but that will be an all year thing trying to get rid of it all, possibly years. So, then took the trash down to the road for pick up tomorrow. Got the weedeater out and weeded some in the side garden, taking a break now. But in between I have swept the house, cleaned the dog slobber/mud off the kitchen glass doors, picked up all my shoes that ended up under my desk and put them in the closet, put away the space heater for good (I hope), wiped down the table, counter, stove, oven hood and picked up some trash that had blown in my yard.

I'll finish weeding the side garden so they HVAC guy can get to both units. It's Spring maintenance time. After that I'm done for the day...oh, the toilet cleaning too.

I had a Wal-Mart order being delivered anytime now too because I forgot a few items and they didn't have my Stok earlier in the week.

I do have a housekeeper that comes every two weeks, but that wasn’t always the case. And of course they don’t do everything. we do our own laundry, windows, and I don’t think they do a thorough job on baseboards and a few other things, so now and then I tackle a whole-house baseboard cleaning or window washing. Between visits by the housekeeper, I touch up the bathroom, kitchen (pretty much every day), run the Dyson stick vac, and do whatever else needs to be done. We keep things pretty tidy and picked up so it’s not a big chore

Back when I did clean, I isually did the whole house at once. What I wish I had back then was the stick vacs and some of the other tools like microfiber cloths that seem to make quick cleaning so much easier.

So, after I swept and cleaned up the kitchen some, decided to put together a little "bistro" set I bought from Wayfair. It came a few days ago but was too heavy to bring in the house by myself. The package says to have 2 people carry the table top to avoid breakage. So, I waited for today when my exchange student could help me. What a mess! The seats and tabletop are super heavy ceramic mosaic, that they packed with styrofoam that was half ground up into little balls. It went everywhere. I have no idea how they managed to do that to the pieces of styrofoam but they did. So, while I broke down the box and other packing for the trash, Leo vacuumed it all up.

I clean the kitchen and bathrooms every day. I do two or three loads of laundry a week. Everything else just slides. I have way too much stuff, not clutter but collections which I wish I could sell. I hate to dust. The house would stay cleaner if I didn't have five pets roaming around.

Lily, if there is no market for your collections and you would prefer not having to deal with them, just give them to a thrift shop. Someone may enjoy them and you'll enjoy the freedom. I say this as someone whose very least housekeeping job is dusting ;-)

I use to clean the whole house once a week long time ago. Now it is when I can get to it or I can't let it go any more. Bathrooms may be one day and floors another, etc. Routine things are done every day, dishes, beds made, counters wiped etc. My house is cleaner in the winter than summer. The odds of staying home for a whole day are greater in the winter.

I was 18 when one of my houseguests told me that I was born in the wrong century and would have a made a superb chatelaine (mistress of a chateau not the ring of keys.)

I have a plan with 172 tasks that I maintain electronically. Some are done weekly, monthly, quarterly, seasonally, semiannually, annually, every 5 years, etc. Most are designated for a day and week(s) of the month so that no day or week is especially difficult. I do miss crossing tasks off a paper list, but by tracking when I did each task, I can determine if a different day works better or if a task needs to be done less or more often.

I'd rather plan than do the work, but cleaning very satisfying. Unlike the work in my career, the results are immediate. I worked hard for what I have, so the process of taking care of it is an opportunity to meditate and be grateful for my good fortune.

Spring is my house's most dirty. I focus all my energy on working outside. I love it. However, the rest of the year I clean 2 or 3 rooms at a time while listening to an audio book. But I got caught yesterday! I was out with a friend and got a dizzy spel l(inner ear stuff). She brought me home and insisted on seeing me to bed. Of course my bed wasn't made, 2 baskets of laundry to fold, dog had peed on pee pad, and dishes in sink. But I was too sick to be embarrassed. But my yard looked wonderful. My friend took a tour of my yard before she left. Now she knows why my house is a mess.!!

dog had peed on pee pad,

I count peeing ON the pee pad as a win. Hope you are recovering.