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What is your house cleaning routine? Help with getting others to clean?

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5 Responses to “What is your house cleaning routine? Help with getting others to clean?”

  1. Mom of 2 great boys Says:
    March 24th, 2009 at 11:53 pm

    Tell him you don't like living in a pig sty.

    We clean our bathrooms every other day, but that is because I have three boys, that's including my husband.

    We all take turns.

    We dust once a week, and I vacuum every third day, because again, boys and pets.

    Laundry is done once a week, and I have about 4 loads that day.

    If your boyfriend cannot help you out, then leave all of his "stuff" and you clean up after yourself. Don't do his laundry either. He will get the hint real quick.

    PS, don't lower your standards AT all! This is how you like to live.
    :-)
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  2. Bambi Berkowicz Says:
    March 24th, 2009 at 11:59 pm

    My husband and I have an agreement where I clean the inside of the house and he takes care of the outside. The only exceptions is cleaning up after major accidents and disasters in which case we take equal responsibility both inside and out..

    I wash the clothes and linens, but he frequently helps putting clean sheets on the bed, but even after years of doing so, he still hasn't learned how to do it properly. I wash the clothes, but he is exemplary about putting all his laundry in the hamper. I fold or hang his clothes, but he puts his away. If he has some immediate need for something specific, he takes care of it AND makes sure it's a full load that gets washed with it.

    I do the shopping and cooking, but he enjoys cooking once in a while and does it if I'm sick. Generally, men hate shopping because women show them meaningless items like paper towels with cats printed on them, comment on how cute they are, and expect the old man to get equally excited.

    I will unload the dishwasher, but the cook doesn't do KP. Either he or the kids do it and I don't complain about how quickly it happens, either.

    I take all the trash to the garage, he takes it to the dumpster and to the road.

    I vac, dust, mop, and clean bathrooms daily. He mows, rakes, shovels snow, and paints. He also can plumb and wire any of his new construction that he might add to the house which means he will re-wire or re-plumb anything we need. I've never had to pay for a plumber and the only time I ever paid an electrician was when we upgraded our service from 100 amp to 300.

    He opens and closes the pool, but I maintain it all season. Beside watering a few annuals daily, this is the entire spectrum of my outdoor duties.

    This has worked quite well for both of us, but know that I'm basically pretty lazy and he's one of those guys who can't sit still. This works for us, but it may not work for you.
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  3. scy80 has violated Y!A again Says:
    March 25th, 2009 at 12:29 am

    Ah….the age old problem: How to get a man to clean to a woman's standards. The answer is: lower your standards. Sorry, but he's never going to clean it just the way you like it, just like you'll probably never fix the car/plumbing/etc. just the way he likes it. Its one of those facts of life where you have to choose your battles. And trust me the "not cleaning well" sure as heck beats out the "not cleaning at all", so ease up on your standards a bit.

    My house cleaning takes probably an hour to 2 hours tops every 2 weeks (this is a vacuum all the floors, mopping, clean the bathrooms, change all the beds, etc. cleaning). We also do a once every 3-4 months whole house cleaning that includes the dusting everywhere including the ceiling, move all the furniture so you can vacuum & shampoo the carpets, flip the mattresses, wash the ceiling fan blades, etc. that is an all day affair. I might have the unfair advantage with the cleaning thing though because in high school my summer job was working as a housekeeper for 2 different hotels. Because we were expected to clean 18-25 rooms a day (average room took 20 mins to clean), I've learned how to clean efficiently and quickly.

    Tips to make it easier on him:
    - Get him "manly" products that make the job easier. No man wants to wear bright yellow plastic gloves unless he's staining wood or something equally as macho. Get him (and you) those toilet bowl wands, bathtub/floor scrubbers on sticks, Swiffer sweeper type products, etc (anything attached to a stick is good, except mops & brooms, mops & brooms are bad & "girly") are all "man friendly" items and they make cleaning a breeze.
    - Don't expect him to use a vacuum. Guys are genetically not programed to use vacuums. I know, I don't get it either! Fixing them, no problem! But using them? They look at you with that glazed over expression….yeah you know the one I'm talking about.
    - On that note, don't expect him to know how to dust either. Unless its his Star Wars/Star Trek/Hall of Famers of Bowling/etc. "action figures" collection, don't expect him to even have a clue how to do it. Hand him that duster on the extending stick and let him go to town on the ceiling while you attack everything from eye level down.
    - Give him the correct items to clean with before he heads off to the room to clean. Have you ever heard that Bill Engval joke about "What's Comet?" Yeah, that's reality. If you don't want him using Clorox wipes to dust Great-Grandma's antique oak buffet, make sure to hand him the Old English wood polish wipes before you send him on the task. And for God's sake, make sure you send him with ONLY bleach products or ONLY ammonia products when he's cleaning the bathroom. Guys love to mix chemicals just to see what would happen, they need your guidence and supervision NOT to kill themselves. They don't know about that whole bleach + ammonia fumes = DEATH thing.
    - Give him the easy stuff to do. Empty the dishwasher, load the dishwasher (don't stress about how he does it), take out the trash, change all the light bulbs, take all the linens off the beds (explain to him what "linens" are), fix something, etc. While you do the complicated stuff like "dust" and "scrub". Just make sure part of his "hunny due" list includes "Give Your Girlfriend/Wife/etc. A Back-Rub"
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  4. schneidmanbabe 09 Says:
    March 25th, 2009 at 12:50 am

    I have a certain house cleaning day: this is the days the boys dont have homework , and they get to dust the living room and vacuum the floor and sweep the kitchen..my hubby puts the dishes in the dish washer each night and one of the boys take turns cleaning the kitchen… hubby cleans the bathroom since him and the boys make the biggest mess, and i cook and change all the beds twice a week and wash the clothes and blankets to each bed every week… i make the beds and hubby and boys put away the clothes… tonight if no one has homework is cleaning night…

    Tell him u need his help to keep up the house u are in or clean all your stuff and leave his alone and he will get the message… U work as hard as he does and should take 50 %of the chores… my hubby doesnt work so he agrees with the cleaning arrangements… he helps with out being asked and our boys do it for maturity and to teach them that a house doesnt clean all by it self…
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  5. Green & Clean Says:
    March 25th, 2009 at 1:24 am

    Sadly, from my experience men need incentives to clean around the house especially when they no that you will do it in the end anyway.
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    been there

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