Cleaning/chore frequency?

I am the only person who does those things or would ever even think about those things. It gets done when it gets done. I don't vacuum often enough when I am working (14.5 hr days including commute and I'm just too tired). It probably gets done only once a week but ideally should be every other day with all these animals. I sweep near the catboxes every day but don't sweep the entire kitchen daily like I should.

Wiping down cabinets, fridge, things like that probably every few weeks unless really needed.

The bathrooms, once a week.

I hate the fact that I can't live without animals in my house because they cause so much mess, but I love them so much! I've tried being petless and it's wonderful for keeping your house clean, but so sad without the little bastards.

I’m right here with you .  It’s just me and I’m oulling 12 hour work days. It gets done when I have the energy or it becomes an emergency. 

Cleaning the bathrooms (either in full or touch ups, specify) - I wipe the sinks and sweep daily; I clean weekly except the showers/tubs tend to be more everyother week (I have to delegate those)

Vacuuming rooms with carpet I aim for daily, probably manage 5/7 days

Sweeping/mopping hardwood/tile etc floors? bathrooms and utility room (the 3 places we have litterboxes) are swept daily, kitchen is probably every other day. Mopping I aim for weekly and sometimes succeed - the utility room gets mopped twice a week though (due to cats)

Wiping down the outside of kitchen appliances (stove, dishwasher, refrigerator etc) - maybe monthly-ish

Cleaning the inside of microwave, refrigerator, oven - refrigerator is casually wiped down weekly and a decent clean monthly-ish, microwave is every other week-ish, oven is currently out of order but probably twice a year, I would run the cleaning cycle and I'll wipe it down in between if I notice a spill.

Cleaning the kitchen sink after washing dishes so a couple of times/day

Wiping down the baseboards I don't have baseboards

Washing the windows inside? probably monthly, outside? once in a blue moon, probably less

Cleaning/polishing the kitchen cabinets I'll casually wipe the doors if they look like they need it but about twice a year I do a good cleaning of cabinets inside and out

Dusting furniture/flat surfaces and knick knacks a rough dusting? a couple of times a month (I rotate around the house during the month). A pull everything off and polish and dust? I aim for twice a year

I'm a fairly indifferent housekeeper. I use the Motivated moms checklists to remind me of stuff that I might not otherwise remember to do. My house is clean but not spotless and I prefer scrapbooking to scrubbing

Bathrooms weekly
Vacuuming weekly
Outside of appliances weekly or when there are smudges
Mopping hardwoods maybe once a quarter - I use a microfiber sweeper in between and they rarely need mopping
The kitchen floor gets a steam mop once a week unless it needs it more often
Inside of microwave once a month or so
Inside of fridge every couple of weeks
Oven a couple of times a year
Baseboards never
Windows once a year except the front door which is always dirty so I do that more often
Dusting maybe once a month
Sink most evenings after doing the dishes - I use a baking soda essential oil scrub I make and it smells really nice
Cabinets maybe once a year unless they need it


I am NOT an intensive housekeeper and I don’t keep an impeccable home.

Cleaning the bathrooms (either in full or touch ups, specify)
I at least touch them up every day. I’d say I put cleaner in the toilet and wipe down the mirrors maybe once a week or so or if it looks like it needs it. We have hard water so the toilets get weird water rings from that.

Vacuuming rooms with carpet
I used to do it every 2-3 days when we had the shedding dogs, once they were gone and we only had the poodle I backed off a little to maybe once a week. But now that I’m aware DD has dust mite allergies I’m going to have to step it up again especially in her bedroom. Having said that, I hate carpet with a passion and wish I could rip it all out, but at the moment we’re seriously strapped for cash so that’s not an option and I have to just do the best I can to deal with what we’ve got for now.

Sweeping/mopping hardwood/tile etc floors?
I vacuum all the hard surface floors. Floors maybe get mopped once a week or week and a half, more often if it looks like it’s needed or if something gets spilled (which happens more often around here than one might think).

Wiping down the outside of kitchen appliances (stove, dishwasher, refrigerator etc)
Pretty much daily, or anytime I see any greasy fingerprints on them. I’m a clean as I go kind of person, the rest of my family not so much.

Cleaning the inside of microwave, refrigerator, oven
Microwave, pretty much daily. Refrigerator, every few months unless something spills in there (again, more often than you’d think, ugh). Oven, only if there’s something spilled in there. I try very hard to get my family to put stuff on a larger cookie sheet or parchment so that doesn’t happen but they don’t always listen.

Cleaning the kitchen sink
Daily, usually multiple times a day.

Wiping down the baseboards
If they look dusty or gross, or if my sister is coming for a visit LOL. Or if we’re having a party.

Washing the windows
The patio doors get wiped down every couple weeks now that we don’t have any big slobbery dogs that used to muck them up. Other windows, not as often. The thing that really needs cleaning are the screens, they are covered with that fluffy white tree stuff that’s impossible to get off.

Cleaning/polishing the kitchen cabinets
They’re supposed to be polished?   Ha ha, never. I do wipe them off around the handles periodically, or the fronts of the lower cabinets if I notice something had been spilled down the front (recurring theme around here, I don’t know how people can spill so much stuff and NOT see it, ugh)

Dusting furniture/flat surfaces and knick knacks
Again, this is something that needs to be stepped up due to my kid’s allergies. We don’t have a lot of knick knacks per se, DH hates all that stuff cluttering up surfaces. But DD has toys and stuff sitting around that she sometimes plays with so there’s that kind of clutter to work around. We don’t have a lot of dustable furniture, entertainment center, one shelf, one end table, fireplace mantel. The previous policy was, “You can touch the dust but don’t write in it.” LOL. I’d really deep clean if people were coming over, 2-3 times a year. But just in general dusting I’d do it if I noticed it was starting to look bad.

As others have said, I’m the only one who notices any of this stuff, cares if it’s messy or not, and actually ACTS on the fact that things would get gross pretty quickly if nothing was done. My other family members could live in a dusty dank windowless cave and as long as the iPad and TV work, they wouldn’t ever notice a thing until there were no clean dishes or laundry left. I only wish I was kidding about that but it’s the sad truth.

1. Daily. We tend to swish the bowls, wipe surfaces each time we go in. Floors weekly. Showers/tubs 2x monthly scrub down, we squeegee the showers each time we shower.

2. Vacuum living areas a few times a week. We have a dog, it’s muddy out, pollen, in the midst of setting out door work. We have a vacuum on each floor plus a hand held for quick spot vacuuming. Bedrooms and office once a week, unless needed sooner.

3. Hardwood surfaces—several times a week (2-3) they get vacuumed/swept, scrubbed 1x month—more often in late winter and spring because of it being wet/muddy.

4. Wipe down of appliances. Pretty much daily unless we aren’t in the kitchen! It’s something I do as I finish for the night after loading and turning on dishwasher before I head to bed. I wipe everything down, then wipe out sink, then toss towels into washer (laundry room is right next to kitchen).

5. Cleaning out microwave. Daily/each use. Oven-monthly unless there is a spill. Refrigerator-every Wednesday, trash goes out Wednesday night for early Thursday morning pick up, so I’ve gotten into the habit of cleaning out the fridge on Wednesday to toss anything necessary.

6. Kitchen sink. Daily. We have a huge white enamel farmhouse sink and to prevent stains, I clean wipe out every day. I run cut up citrus rinds in the disposal I hate smelling the sink, lol! Once a week I will do a bit of bleach water to sterilize it.

7. Baseboards. I’d be lying if I said more than 4x a year! I will run my vacuum attachment over/near when I vacuum but I don’t get down and aggressive with them unless I’m deep cleaning or I notice they’re really dusty. 2 times that I always do is after Christmas trees come down, and once all the (pollen) trees have “finished” in spring. We tend to get covered in lime green pollen.

8. Windows. Whenever they are dirty! We have huge open windows (no curtains) so I like a clean window! Outside windows a few times a year and I’m always hosing/spraying them when I water my gardens!

9. Cleaning kitchen cabinets. Weekly wipe down. I don’t polish ours, it’s really not necessary. I also clean our range hood weekly with the cabinets—soak the filter and degrease/clean inside and out.

10. Furniture/Knick knack dusting. We have all leather furniture so we condition it 2x a year. As for dusting it, we do that when we vacuum the room. I will dust whatever objects on my table when I water our house plants, I have varying schedules for those.

Laundry is done once a week, usually Friday night, Saturday night or Sunday. (I just adjust to fit my schedule) I sort, wash, dry-family folds, puts away.

Bedrooms get a good “company coming” cleaning monthly (under beds, closets, etc) otherwise we dust vacuum weekly.

Frequency is as needed on everything. Bathroom gets wiped down at least once a week, sometimes more. I sweep two or three times a week. I mop the kitchen and bathroom floors every Sunday and do spot wipes as needed.

If it looks dusty, dirty, or I know it has been a while, it will get cleaned.

I cannot say the same for my kids' rooms. I recently had to go in one room for something and found it in a pile of dust bunnies under his bed. They do not see the necessity of cleaning unseen areas.

Cleaning the bathrooms (either in full or touch ups, specify): cleaning lady does full every other week, I touch up the guest bath/main bath as needed, usually at most once a week
Vacuuming rooms with carpet areas where the dog goes, a few times a week; upstairs never (cleaning lady does it)
Sweeping/mopping hardwood/tile etc floors? same as carpet, most of the house is hardwood
Wiping down the outside of kitchen appliances (stove, dishwasher, refrigerator etc) never, see cleaning lady
Cleaning the inside of microwave, refrigerator, oven microwave as needed, usually cleaning lady....fridge when it looks gross, oven a couple times a year (no clean setting )
Cleaning the kitchen sink usually nightly after loading the dishwasher

I shall plead the fifth on all the rest, cleaning lady dusts and touches up cabinets/windows as she sees spots
Wiping down the baseboards
Washing the windows
Cleaning/polishing the kitchen cabinets
Dusting furniture/flat surfaces and knick knacks

I've bequeathed these jobs to hubby as he's at home.
FTR, he's a better gardener than house cleaner but it's clean(er) than some, not so much as others. We have 3 dogs so I don't tend to worry about stuff too much.

I also found out after joining Mrs. Meyer's Grove group for a deal, that I would never ever ever clean enough to warrant the amount of crap they want to send me.
I quit from the pressure! LOL

I used to do that also - probably because my mum used to make my sister and I clean on Saturday mornings before we could play. It feel by the wayside here because it seems we are never HOME on Saturday mornings any more.

Most of the list would be once a week. Cleaning the inside windows probably once a month for the first floor, and every few months for the second floor. Our baseboards get so dusty, so I probably do them every month. When my husband used to travel for work, I would get so much done! I would clean like crazy when he was on a trip. He doesn't travel much anymore, so the deep cleaning takes longer.

I live alone and don’t make much mess. I work full time, long hours and some weekends when needed (I’m a lawyer). I basically do a clean every couple of weeks - bathrooms, kitchen, dust and vacuum. Skirting boards and other things like windows and blinds when needed. The outside of the windows gets done once a year when the house cleaners come. There are only so many hours in the day and I have a large garden to keep as well.