How Clean is Clean Enough - when it comes to one's home
#12
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Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: Houston, TX
Posts: 9,520
My bathrooms are always clean and the kitchen is clean but messy. My mother was a fanatic. She cleaned the bathrooms every day and the kitchen after every meal. Thoroughly cleaned, not just wiped down. I decided early on that I would never be like that. I have a lot better things to do than spend my spare time scrubbing cracks. I now have cleaning people twice a month and other than that, I wipe down counters and mop floors when they need it in between.
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Clean enough to suit Husband and me. Kitchen is cleaned after each three meals. Bathroom cleaned at least once a week, toilet, countertop and sink more often. Kitchen floor several times a day, dog food crumbles and log droppings.
#18
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Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Twin Cities, MN
Posts: 2,490
My mother was a meticulous "housekeeper". We had nine kids, and end of day, everything was in its place. Bedrooms were for sleeping in. We had a playroom that we cleaned up every Saturday. When I was in high school my friends would laugh at her sign "come in, sit down, relax converse. My house doesn't always look like this, sometimes it's even worse!" I on the other hand have two signs..."My house was clean last week, sorry you missed it!", and "you can write in the dust, just don't date it." My dishes are done daily, floors swept/vacuumed, bathroom cleaned, rooms dusted, but I don't obsess over it. Sometimes good is enough.
#19
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Join Date: Jul 2015
Posts: 594
I go through stages when the clutter drives me nuts. Mostly it's my DH's magazines, newspapers, various things he drags in and leaves on the counter or table. Grrr! Since he never cooks, the kitchen is my territory, and I don't want his mess on my counters. I don't go in his workshop and leave quilting or gardening stuff lying around.
#20
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Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: east kilbride Scotland
Posts: 1,330
Kitchen and bathroom always clean, vacuum daily as I have two German Shedders, can be untidy, grandaughter here a couple of days a week so lots of toys for her, if you don’t like it, don’t come in is my motto now. I used to be houseproud, but two boys a husband and large dogs soon sorted that obsession out of me
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