How many hours a week do you clean?
 

So, we recently moved about 5 weeks ago. Since then I've been very focused on keeping a clean house. Before our place wasn't very clean, but in the past few months it would really bother me when it was dirty and/or cluttered. Since even when it was clean it was clutterred, I felt like I never got relief from it.

Now at our new place I am set on keeping it clean. I tend to spend between 30-60 minutes a day cleaning, and then1 or 2 times a week I'll do a "deep cleaning" that takes 2-4 hours. My husband says its OCD, especially because a dirty house makes me anxious. I'm trying to unscientifically determine if he's right or if he's just a slob :tongue2:

It's not ocd cos my mum cleans for 2 hours a day.

i voted less than an hour, because im a nursing student, and i have very little time, but before i started the course i would hoover and dust every day and wash the floors every other day, so cleaning for abt an hour and a half each day, but would constantly clear up and do my washing and ironing, loads of people are house proud, is not unusual, and i dont know what your partener is complaining about doesent he like it when you clen? - men!
anyways i gess cos its a new house your especally keen to keep it clean as people could pop in at any time and you want it to look good for them.

cleaning? i have never heard of this concept cos i am just too lazy i think sometimes i will clean once a week

^^ I'm the same. I only clean once the floor isnt visable in my bedroom.

I was very proud of myself the other day - I actually bleached my kitchen and emptied my fridge and freezer of stuff that was manky or I would never use/eat!

I vaccuum when I can be bothered, or when the blue rug in the lounge is grey with cat fur, I wash up when I've run out of cutlery, and use that time to just sort out the kitchen and put stuff away.
I do tend to clean the bathroom weekly, dump some harpic limescale down the loo etc.
But i think the cleanest things in my flat are the cat bowls coz they get washed twice a day, and the litter tray coz it gets emptied and bleached weekly.

But it doesn't take long, or I half do something and leave it!

I don't think you have OCD, if you did you'd be doing a spring clean every day! I used to work with someone who would go home at lunch time and hoover, then go home at the end of the day and hoover again. She was freaky! She would also clean her teeth about 4 times a day too!
Now that is OCD!

Lozx

as i understand ocd (i think i have a mild case of it, but i do not want to be diagnosed for personal reasons), obvisously you have to be obsessed about the action. that means that you can only think about it. and the compulsion part occurs when you feel pain at not doing the action. that is basically the definition i got out of psych class.

personally i am one of those that if i am going to do more that just a tidy up, then it is an all encompassing clean, but i can choose when i do these types of cleaning. basically i am just compulsive when i clean. "if something is worth doing, then it is worth doing right."

Uhh, clean?
What is this 'clean' thing?
Never heard of it.
=P

The kitchen and bathroom get cleaned once a week, sometimes more. I destroyed the vacuum cleaner a while ago and we can't afford a new one so no-one's hoovered for a couple of months now :ermm:

I despite the process of hoovering but like the results, it's therapeutic. I can't make it a every-other-day thing like my mum though, ugh. I like my kitchen to be reasonably clean but saying that under the microwave and down the sides of the cooker I can occasionally see odd green things scampering about. I have never cleaned an oven. And cleaning the toilet has to be the worst job in the world.

I don't understand the concept of ironing though.

I get 'iron', but what's all this about 'iron - ing'??
Ing means you have to do something with the iron, right? I do have something that is called an 'iron', a friend of mine bought me one, but it's still in it's box. I have used it as a door stop a couple of times, but have been assured that that's not what it's for.

She just laughs at me when I ask her what it is for then! Weird!

Lozx