Cleaning the house
 

Just out of curiousity, how often do you clean the house?
By cleaning the house, I mean vacuum the rooms, change the bedsheets etc.

As for me, I do it every week (friday or saturday).
I like my house clean and like to sleep on a clean bed.

One more thing:
In today's modern world, is it considered as gay if a guy likes to clean the house? Or do girls find it attractive?

I tend to clean house (and by house i mean dorm room) about every week. I wash my sheets every other week, i tidy up my shelves and desk once a week and i vacuum once every two weeks, or as needed. I do laundry once a week, but sometimes i'm too busy on weekends to get it done, so it waits a while extra.

We have chore day on Saturday where we get laundry and all that shit done. I get down on my hands and knees to scrub floors and bathrooms maybe once a month because I'm lazy like that.

Our vacuum shit the bed so no vacuuming until we get a new one. ;_;

Sheets get washed once every month or so. I have no idea if that's normal or whatever.

As far as floor to ceiling scrub downs, maybe twice a year.

Sweep every weekend. Mop the floor, dust the house and scrub sinks/shower every other.

Bedsheets changed whenever I feel like it, so lets say every three weeks?

I pay someone 85 dollars to clean the apartment once a month. She scrubs everything, vacuums, all that good stuff. Apartment smells so nice when she's done. I can't stand the shit to do it personally. Don't you have things that are more fun to do on your time off than clean?

I would guess that they do have better things to do, but also have $85 in their wallets.

See, I have $85 in my wallet easily available to clean my place if I'd like to do it but... it's like changing the oil and doing regular tune-ups on my car; why pay for someone to do it when you can do it yourself?

Having said that, I clean once a week and wash my sheets every 2 weeks. Laundry gets done as I start needing new clothes to wear but I'd say my washing machine is working every 4 days or so to keep my clothes clean as much as possible.

My dad hired a housekeeper after my mom passed away. It seemed extravagant at the time, but really it worked out for the best. He had enough to do with his job, and keeping up with us kids, and truthfully, we wouldn't have kept it spotless without a lot of nagging.

Me, I'm torn. If I had the money, I might consider hiring a housekeeper, but at the same time, I don't like the idea of a stranger going through my house. I tend to clean things when they start to look dirty to me. Vacuum and clean the bathroom every 2-3 weeks (not usually the same weekend), laundry every Sunday, and I change the bed whenever the cat hair starts to make me sneeze (2-3 weeks). I've never seen the point of dusting, but I live alone so no one else is around to complain about the dust bunnies.

I am the first disgusting nerd here, it seems...or the others just refuse to post.

Sheets monthly-ish, bathroom every other month, sweep/vaccuum when my feet are too gross just from walking from my desk to the fridge. Dishes weekly.

And Skills wonders why I don't post pictures of my house.

How you have a girlfriend is actually beyond me.

Oh I never said that I did...but my boss will do the dishes when she's over for movies.

Huh. I could've sworn you said you had a girlfriend before in chat. Oh well. NO WONDER YOU'RE SINGLE.

What now?

Hmm. Bedsheets every 2-3 weeks. Dusting, bathroom/kitchen (ie mopping + sinks) once a week. And hoover about every 3 days now we have a dog leaving clumps of hair all over the place.

I let my room gradually turn into squalor over the better part of a week, and then blitz it and put everything into some kind of order when it gets out of control (i.e.: I chuck all my shit under the bed/into the cupboards). Sheets usually get shifted on Sunday evenings.

For the rest of the flat, we have a pair of ladies come round once fortnightly to keep everything fresh. And it is good.

My room gets gradually worse and worse and worse over the period of a couple months, until I decide that I'm finally not willing to live in this much of a shithole and clean it up.

And then it gets worse again. I can clean pretty damn well, I just never maintain. :(

How strange.

I never knew anyone besides the uppity, white-collared, cookie-cutter Home Depot home owners who have rooms in their houses which they never use to hire a maid.

I relish in cleaning my own home. It makes it more... homey. And you can always take the opportunity to re-organize or something. Though my home is not something you'd want to put in a magazine, I like the clutter and all the yarn everywhere.

My home is always a cluttered, discubobluated, CLEAN haven. My desk and workspace at the office is organized in an OCD manner, which I don't understand. ONE THING out of place there drives me completely bonkers.

I live in a fairly constant state of disorder, though occasionally I'll get sick enough of it that I'll try to clean everything so there's not piles of papers and shit everywhere.

Sheets are usually changed shortly after I wind up sleeping in my bed without showering, since the sheets always feel really scuzzy afterwards.

Vacuuming isn't that often since I take my shoes off at the door and don't eat in my room, so there's not a whole lot of mess that's made. I still do it now and then since somehow dirt manages to still accumulate.

Girlfriend tends to get grossed out by the tub/sink much quicker than I do, so she'll generally just take forever brushing her teeth one night and it turns out she was actually cleaning it.

I'm the kind of person that doesn't mind being messy, but it has to be a clean messy.

havnt changed my sheets in like 3 months lol

I change my sheets and do my laundry every week. I have chronic eczema so I need to, otherwise I more than likely wouldn't bother. Vacuuming gets done whenever mom does it, usually every week since we've got dogs. I'm the only person who ever scrubs the tub, I do it once a month. We try to keep it clean but our house is still just a cluttered mess. Might have something to do with having 6 dogs and 2 lazy people who make enough of a mess to cover the whole family.

I clean every day I have off, telling myself I have to do one thing at the least. Last day off was laundry, tomorrow is probably tackling the computer room. If you just do a little at a time, it really does show.

As for sheets, I wash them at least once a month, probably twice.

I usually buy at least 3 pair of sheets so I'd rotate them when one is due for laundry. IMHO its best because I like going into clean sheets right after taking a shower or something. Something like double clean or something.

Laundry day is every Tuesday. I'm always off on that day and its the best day (early hours to 5 pm) to do it before anyone else in the complex goes down there and uses them. I live in a 12 room by 3 floors apt building. Laundry room only has two washers/dryers. They eat up 1.50 per load. And that's just for one machine.

Only SD cares much about mopping the kitchen/bathroom (pretty small rooms). Ditto for vacuuming. I care about the dust on the screens as well as on the consoles. The times in doing these pretty much varies to when I have time.

I'd go nuts seeing dust bunnies here and there. But the bedroom area is always a disaster. I still have too many unneeded junk that I need to box up and store away somewhere.

I'm just glad that neither of us are lazy at leaving things behind like some couples I knew (leaving wet towels on the floor in the bathroom, leaving the trash untended), we always made sure that the apt is guest friendly (regardless of the bedroom area of course). We'd usually have company over every now and then (a weekend or two).

I clean all the time, but get little done in one cleaning session. For instance, I'll start the dishes, get the dishwasher half loaded, and then remember I have to clean the bathroom. I go clean the toilet and sink, but not the tub, and then go dust bookshelves. I'll sort laundry, and only do one of the loads, and am lucky if I remember to get the wet clothes into the dryer. I can spend an hour just cleaning the entertainment area that houses our tv, game consoles, etc., while the rest of the room looks like a hurricane blew through.

Overall the house is fine, I just struggle with keeping my attention on one thing at a time.

I clean the house once a week. If you put it off much longer, the mess just builds up. The less you clean, the harder and grosser it is once you finally do.

I maintain the house/dorm/apartment by cleaning a little everyday and if things get carried away due to homework/school, etc then I do a big clean every weekend.

Not recently. My home has nothing to do with how I maintain myself outside of it, nor does it effect its practical uses like having a girl over.

I need to do laundry SO bad right now, but I was out all night and didn't get the chance. The dryer "shit the bed" so we thought. My husband's grandma called the dyer guy and he came out an told us that it's not the dryer, it's the outlet. It's only getting 11 volts when it should be getting 120 V or something like that. His grandma is such a cheap ass that she doesn't bother calling an electrician and she wants to wait until her daughters husband comes down from Idaho to fix it(he's a trucker).

I usually do laundry every 5 days or so. A little on this day, and then a little more on the next day.The sheets, every month or so. Oh, and his grandma's vacuum just broke too. There is dog hair flying about our carpeted room. The rest of the house is fake tile, so that gets swept and mopped every 3 weeks or so. If we don't do it, it doesn't get done...the only thing this old lady does is the dishes when it's her turn, cooks chicken for her dog that refuses to eat anything else, and her laundry.

My wife & I are actually neat freaks. We're always cleaning the house every day. We usually tidy the house once a day, and we end up thoroughly cleaning the house once a week.

We end dividing the chores so that each of us has our equal share.

Me: Folding Clothes, Dishes, Swiffer Floors, Vacuum Basement Carpet, Snow Shovelling, Yard Work, Garbage, and Kitty Litter.

Her: Dusting the entire house, Scrubbing & Mopping the entire house, Bathrooms, Cleaning up after all the rodents, pet maintenance, Cooking, Laundry, Changing Sheets, and Making the bed.

Since I've had to move away to Alberta she takes on all the chores by herself, it just goes to show how hard working she is, but I'm happy I'll be home for what it looks like two months because of the price of oil, so I'll be able to give her a helping hand.

In regards to your second question gaming. I actually enjoy doing chores. I find especially if I have nothing to do that day it helps pass time. Besides my wife is always appreciative when I volunteer to do housework.

Women use to tell me that they like when a guy volunteers to do housework instead of being voluntold. Besides I have no problems giving my wife a helping hand because its my house too and I like having a clean house just as much as she does.

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I'm a laid back person by nature (Some might say Lazy, but I can get up and active if the situation demands), so usually once a month I'll seriously pick up around the house and get things looking nice and tidy-ish. Laundry is about once a week, but due to the constant cycle of clean / dirty clothes it always seems like I'm missing some outfits or T-Shirts that aren't carbon copies of each other (By which I mean like every character ever who goes the entire story wearing the same outfit but then reveals they have 10 outfits that exactly alike, only just T-Shirts in my case)

I DO want get more frequent in the weekly/monthly routine, but I habitually always put off my bedroom for last. Tis just the way I am. I can muster up the energy to get chores and stuff done, but not like every day *Shrug*

(Sorry to be posting in an old thread, but I was cleaning earlier this morning and thought it relevant to post, so I searched rather than starting a new one).

My personal space tends to get a little messy (cluttered around with text books and notebooks around, shoes out of their designated boxes and cubbies, that sort of thing) when I'm busy. Over the summer when I was only working part time I generally did laundry and cleaning once a week.

The bathroom is cleaned on a weekly basis no matter what. I share it with 3 other guys, so I made it VERY clear to them that I'm a scary witch of a woman when I have to clean up after someone else's body fluids. Especially those that don't pertain to females; that crusty shit is NOT a pleasure to scrape off.

My roommates whom I share the bathroom with are all nice, laid back dudes so they're rather good about keeping the rotation going. Everyone cleans at least once a month and it rotates from week to week who's in charge. I mandate that everybody does the following when it's their turn: wiping the mirrors, dusting and cleaning the counter/toilet seat surfaces, and taking out the trash. Once every couple of months I'll get down on my knees and elbows to get rid of mildew and grime in the shower stalls.

I clean my house 3-4 times a year, only when it's a major holiday. But the PC, the bed and my clothes on a weekly basis. I'm a pig.

I live with 3 very messy people and the house is a mess most of the time despite my best efforts the contrary. After a bunch of drama where people's feelings were hurt after telling them to clean up their dishes, I've decided to leave it alone and accept the mess :(

I'm living alone now so I guess I can update this. Since the flat's pretty small it's no trouble to clean it once a week. Dusting, hoovering, scrubbing the kitchen/bathroom floors, cleaning sinks/shower/loo, getting rid of all the shit that accumulates on my table over the course of the week. Has to be pristine; I'm very particular about the cleanliness of the place I live, which is why even though I appreciate it when people offer to do the dishes for me, I refuse. Dishwashing happens every day after my evening meal because I only have two saucepans and I tend to use them every day. I try and stretch out my laundry day to fortnightly (wear anything that's not grubby twice and bought a shitton more underwear) because we get free washer/dryer tokens every two weeks. My bedcovers get changed every time I do the laundry.

My boyfriend is so messy though; his best mate finds it hilarious that we're polar opposites in terms of cleanliness. I don't find it that amusing. He tries his best to be tidy when he's here, bless him, but it's almost as if he's fighting his very nature to do it, and I usually clean the day he leaves.

I live rent-free on the condition I keep the flat from looking like arse. Both my brother and I value clutter, so the place is never tidy by design, but I am particular about cleanliness. The place gets a once-over every morning—vacuuming, washing up, wiping down the kitchen and bathroom—but I spend around one hour-long session a week blaring obnoxious metal and scrubbing the kitchen until it fucking shines.

My own room is pretty chaotic in spite of my fussiness about the rest of the flat.

My apartment is military clean.

You can imagine what that means.

I imagine it is uncomfortable to hang out at your apartment.

I think hanging out in a meticulously clean apartment is better than hanging out in someone's filth. I don't keep plastic on my cooches or anything, but I like to do some heavy cleaning at least twice a week, depending on the occasion.

If I have out-of-town guests, I'll generally refrain from any heavy cleaning for the duration of their stay, but as soon as they leave, you bet your ass I'm going to break out the bleach.

One of my buddies is the polar opposite. He never cleans his house. It's so bad that it's to the point where you have to wear shoes inside the house. He doesn't have carpet floors and the granite is caked in dirt. I don't think he's mopped the floor since he inherited the house about 6 years ago. Hell, I would be surprised if he swept the floor more than once a month. He's got a pet racoon and three dogs and they've pretty much got the run of the house, along side the piles of trash you'll find hanging out in his living room. It smells awful in his house. I avoid going over there as much as I can.

The funny thing about his house is that he doesn't allow smoking inside... even though he's completely missing the door that leads from the living room to the patio.

I myself am not one for excessive cleaning, but my girlfriend is what some may call a clean freak, so I do clean a lot more than I would if I were to live alone. She can barely go a day without vacuuming and tidying everything up.

When living alone, I had developed means of doing everything in a way that least disturbs the things in the apartment so as to not have to spend my days cleaning(i.e. using a single frying pan/pot, fork and plate to cook and eat pretty much anything), so I guess it balances out.

Even though she usually starts cleaning most things before I even realize or consider that they need to be done, I still help her out a lot with the cleaning, and there are certain things that I have been made responsible of by the single fact that she doesn't like to do these things, mainly taking out the trash and washing the toilet bowl, inside and out.