Cleaning - how often?

[Csara]

How often do you clean? Are there things you do on a daily basis like vacuum if you have pets? What do you do on a weekly basis? Bi-weekly? etc?

Just trying to figure out a good routine and how often we should be doing certain things around the house!

[Deana]

I do a little bit every day. I know I'm totally anal, but I have a schedule --

Mondays: clean bathrooms or dust (alternating every week)
Tuesdays: mop kitchen floor and water plants
Wednesdays: vacuum and go to dry cleaners
Thursdays: pay bills, balance checkbook and meal plan
Fridays: go to grocery store and run other errands

Weekends -- Clean kitchen (stovetop, scour sink, wipe down appliances, etc.) and catch up on anything I missed that week (usually laundry).

On a daily (or almost) basis I sweep the kitchen floor (I have a swifter duster thing for floors that I love), wipe down the kitchen counters (several times a day) and run the dishwasher. I do a load of laundry almost everyday. I used to do laundry on the weekends but it would get so piled up, I decided it was easier to just do a little bit more often.

[Csara]

Thanks D! That is exactly what I was looking for. :D I actually WANT to be anal about cleaning b/c it gets so overwhelming and I end up doing a HUGE clean all at once instead of a little bit at a time and it's just too much!