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I have to vacuum the house everyday. Maybe sometimes twice a day. If i'm home, once in the morning and once after dinner. I can't leave the house if its not vacuumed nor tidy. That is they way i have seen from my mother and i just have to do it.
My DH thinks i'm mad. He could go for days without vacuuming.
How often do you vacuum?
.....never if I can help it!;) I used to have a bad back and the most I could manage before I needed to lie down was 1 room at a time, so it used to take a whole week to vacuum the house and we'd just troop the dirt back into the clean rooms from the dirty ones. And I never had a clean house. So DH started to do it for me and now my back is better (thanks chiro!) I still play the helpless female and get DH to do it. He does it about once a week - but I have to bug him for a day or two before he will.
I vacuum atleast twice a week and probably would do it more except with a young baby i honestly cant be bothered. I hate seeing dust on my floor boards and fluff on my rugs but i sometimes just have to ingore it cause i'v learnt that id rather rest for 10mins than clean it everyday as within an hour its probably going to get dirty again :)
I aggree with your DP i think u r mad also!! I do it when i have to LOL gets done prob once a fortnight whole house and lounge and area where DS playing more frequently!!
Wow, twice a day is extreme!
I vacuum at least twice a week (luckily my mum usually does it once a week when she visits :D) and sweep on the days I don't vacuum. I've got a very dodgy pelvis so it's quite an effort. I reckon I could easily vacuum once a day if I was up for it!
That's a lot of vacuuming I only do it every fews days but agree it probably needs to be done more than that especially since we have an open fireplace and live in the country, no concrete etc
About twice a week here.
But we all have things that we HAVE to do - so nah I don't think you're crazy!!
I do it twice a week and before visitors if I know they are coming over. The other days I just do a sweep. I do vacuum everything though, tiles, carpet and the couch and the dining chairs.
About twice a week here, sometimes it could be more depending on how mess the boys have been.
I do it once a week and sweep on other days. We don't have carpet in the house, but I vacum and mop once a week to keep it clean as we have dogs. Today I did it, and then it rained, and then the girls ran out in the rain and came back in with mud... then they let the dogs in. I just let it all dry and swept it up... then I put a wet rag over the muddy bits. I wasn't going to do the floors over just for one small muddy bit. :lol:
OMG.
I'd go crazy if i were at any of your houses.
How can you not vacuum? Don't you see all the bits in the carpets or on floor boards?
OMG. I can't believe it.
I'm going to vacuum now !!
Domestic blindness - it's a blessing *shoves a bit of fluff under the sofa with her toe*
TD I used to be like you. But I was literally going insane. I still have my moments of insanity. My DS has gastro atm and lets just say my house smells like a combination of pine-o-clean, vinegar and lavender and bleach. My hands have had enough washing today to last me a lifetime. But am I a twice a day girl, alas not anymore. But ironically if I went to anyone's house I couldn't tell. I really couldn't. Unless you had like a lifetime of cereal and pet hair on the floor I really wouldn't know if you'd vacuumed two seconds before I arrived or last week... And its a ritual to me its not about other people's houses ;)
How do i catch it? The domestic blindness i mean? ;)
I do it once a week and same as Laranna, before visitors. I could not be bothered doing it any more often.
I usually vacuum almost every day. If I clean, I gotta vac. If I don't clean its well & truly hidden, so can't be seen.
So if I clean, I vac & sweep, if I don't clean, I don't vac, lol.
I only do the lounge & family room everyday. Sweep every 2 or so days, but the bedrooms are only every week or 2 unless needed.
I do the living room once a day, sometimes twice but only cos it can get crunchy underfoot with hard boards.....and for my sanity. The vac lives in the living room usually.
The rest of the place once/twice a week and you can hardly tell compared to the general messiness.
My domestic blindness came with a child who screamed 6-8 hours a day for 3 years..... I wish you luck in finding yours.
I'm with you Turkish Delight, I often vaccuum 2 or more times a day!
ATM (still settling in with a newborn) it's only getting done 1-2 times every two days and it annoys the crappers out of me!
I vacuum once a day also...have to - I cannot stand the bits of crap on your feet when you walk around (we have a lot of lino in the house and no rugs yet.)
So no, I dont think you are mad at all! Vacuuming is just part of my everyday routine now, so I hardly notice ...but I notice if I dont do it!
Me too - at least once a day, very often twice.
That has only been since we moved into this house with two kids though - we have tiles throughout and a big rug in the loungeroom. I cannot stand to leave crap all over the rug so usually vaccuum around lunch time and then later in the afternoon if needed. Generally only the loungeroom would get done twice though.
It doesn't really phase me but I've seriously been considering a hand held Dyson - I've seen them in action and they're amazing!
Woo-hoo. I'm not the only crazy!
OMG, I thought I had OCD when it came to cleaning the house, but clearly not!! lol.
I actually do the vac once a week, but wait, I vac EVERYTHING. Couches, cushions, chairs, lamps, remote controls, phones, tables, computer, printer, my cat....lol. When the vac comes out I am ruthless.
I actually feel better now, I'll have to tell my friends I am not a clean freak like they think I am haha.
only once per week at the moment and it's driving me crazy. I just can't find the time during the week at the moment with a small baby who doesn't sleep much during the day (and when he does I'm not vacuuming!). We have a fireplace and drag wood and crap in all the time. I just have to ignore it until Saturday morning. In my perfect world I would probably do it once a day, but I just can't see it happening.
i TRY to do it once a day....sometimes twice. My DH thinks im looney. after dinner, off i trot to get the dyson out, and i vacumn all the crumbs off the floor. DH thinks im getting anal in my old age...:rolleyes:
I think the fact i have a dyson makes a difference too..i serioulsy , serioulsy LOVE seeing the crap in the barrel my dyson picks up.....weird i know...
If I can 'see' stuff and it's really obvious then I HAVE to vacuum it.
So the bedroom carpets ahem, I have been known to vacuum them 2-3 times per day.
Now that makes me sound like Mrs Clean and honestly, if you saw my house you would laugh hysterically at the idea that I vacuum even once a month.
The rest of the house is polished boards and concrete floors. I'm impervious to dust and filth on there. I literally can't see it. It doesn't get vacuumed and it doesn't get mopped.
It's only stuff on carpets that bothers me. And I have this whizzy rechargeable, cordless vacuum cleaner so there's no faffing plugging it in. I don't know how I lived without it.