Do you have a special day for the major house cleaning?

Yes, I clean on Monday... hi hi hi

I seldom get a whole day off to complete anything or deep clean. My mom did less and less cleaning as I got older, and I do not really feel that I know how to deep clean all that well. When I was a kid she did most of the major stuff except laundry, while we were at school. I remember doing extra cleaning if company was coming. I think your plan is good, since you have a set schedule. My hubby does not have a set schedule and if he is at home he and I want to spend time together.

Growing up my mom always had us do the housework as a family Saturdays, each kid got a room to do. I don't really have a day set aside, I just kinda do bits and pieces throughout the week, but I try to do the carpets on Saturdays so if I need to I can shampoo and then we can spend the day out and not have to worry about being home for kids to get home from school etc!

My husband and I don't have our own place so with that being said our chores are just that chores. We're expected to clean our bathroom, and the kitchen, and to keep our room dusted. On Saturdays I will usually dust the computer room for my MIL and my husband will dust our room. He's picky about things being moved so that's why I let him dust our room. As a child I don't remember our major cleaning days. When living with my parents my mom wasn't well enough to do cleaning so we were expected to do all of the laundry of the house, that is my sister and I. We were also to vacumm and clean our bathrooms. I'll be honest though, I hated the lot of it! I hated to clean so I wouldn't. When living with my grandparents I also hated and didn't do it. I had my spells of wanting to, and of course I always loved to rearrange. If it was major cleaning with promise of rearranging, I would! My grandmother used to be so picky, it was her style of cleaning the floors or it wasn't done properly! There was one time (unrelated note) that I was rearranging my room, and I rearranged it only to find it wasn't possible for my grandfather or grandmother to get to their stuff. My room was in the storage room, and though they moved some things, I still had to share the room with a lot of collectibles! I had to rearrange it right back so the whole process took about four hours! I'd love to rearrange mine and hubby's room but I don't think we could do so without having to remove a shelf, and then we wouldn't have anywhere to put our vcr/ dvd combo and our xbox 360, our games, yearbooks, his national honor society books, our guiness world record books... lol.. etc... etc...

well when i was a little girl mom always did it saturday and i had to help. reason for that is she worked during the week. when i had kids at home and wasnt working for a while it was usually every day thing of doing all i could get done. my 1st hubby was a nut for clean and orderly house. then when i worked and kids were grown, i did it on saturday also. now, im so disabled with arthritis and emphezema, its lucky i get much done at all but i do enough to keep it from getting filthy.

Hi Rose, WE have a weekly schedule for mjajor house cleaning and that is every saturdays. we are all involved in the cleaning, we all have our own respective areas to clean including my two kids. it was a fun, physical bonding moment with the family.

before my wife and i became disable it was on the weekend. but now its whenever we feel like it unless we're having company over then we'll at least straighten up

Hello rosepedal, I'm thinking about house cleaning and I'm wondering what that is!. I don't have any real plan to clean my place up, I just do the neccessary when required. I hoover my place occasionally and I generally tidy things up but I don't have any particular day in which I do this. I nice to live in a clean place anyhow but I'm pretty sure that most people treat this as a chore rather than taking real pleasure from it. Andrew

Hi rosepedal, I hope you're settling into you new home fine and naturally there you are with all that extra space to clean. Let me see, when do I do mine. When I have a burst of energy. I loathe cleaning and would rather just do a little bit at a time, but I quite often do more if I'm determined, but it is just so tedious. I prefer to let it clean itself, if I'm going out I will spray everything in the bathroom with blue bathroom cleaner then just wash it off when I get home. And I can generally sweep a room or two as the coffee is making in the brik, which is what I'm going to do now. Of course if I don't pay attention and the coffee boils over then it means cleaning all the burnt coffee from the hob.

I have to clean my house as well as the garden every day.Well i tidy up and set myself a goal of keeping the downstairs clean as well as tidy every day as i have 6 children and they are messy.I tend to clear upstairs of rubbish each time i put their linen away as that is the only way to keep up.So here it is a constant battle.As for the garden well i have 3 dogs to clean up behind.

hi rose, its saturday for me. weekdays its always work hence during weekends i get to do the chores in the house. sunday is family day hence i sometimes is out of the house. thank you for this discussion. have a nice day. ann

I am glad we now have a household help unlike before when I used to help my mom with all the household chores. I use to study and have to clean at the same time.. :( Now, the help gets al the things done everyday but when i notice that something's wrong, that's the only time I'd go work on it. Also, our major clean-up day is only when we feel we need to or when it's a day before a major occassion. :D

I clean daily, but we do major cleaning four times a year. I have a Spring cleaning day, Summer cleaning day, a Fall cleaning day and a Winter cleaning day. I go through the closets and donate any old clothes that do not fit or things we do not wear any more. My hubby and I both clean. We share all responsibilities together.

yaa i used to clean my hose every sunday ..ther are 2 reasons behind it .first is that i am on hliday that day and second is that it provide me chance to loose my weight...i used to clean my stairs and my stoor room as it provide me a lot of exercise....

When I was growing up Saturday used to be our major cleaning also. I used to do my major cleaning on Saturday. Now as I am a lot older I split up my cleaning into 2 days. I try to usually clean on Thursday and Friday but sometimes it might be Friday and finish up on Saturday. It is just me and my husband so it does not get to dirty.

Hello rosepedal64 this is checkmail and often do daily try to clean some of my house, as to reduce the load of the major cleaning day.Yeah atleast in a month or so we do completely clean our house.Means make it nice , neat and tidy and clean enough to dwell within it.Normally its on holiday when everybody is at home and have spare time to clean and arrange the stuffs at home.It includes everything dusting, washing, Ironing, even colouring, etc.

Hi, Yes! I keep major cleaning of my house including my garden on every sunday. Sunday is the day identified for that task.I also do not go out for work and my wife helps me in that cleaning task.Thanks.

Hi yeah my cleaning day is fridays my husband is here for the weekends only so I pick one day before he gets home.

I have to clean my home everyday because it is dusty in Hong Kong. My son can't stay in a dusty place because he is allergy to it. My maid needs to clean my son's room everyday. You are correct, duties never get done. It seems when you finished one, the other one will appear. Therefore I need somebody to help me to do such cleaning duties. If I need to do it myself and I go to work in day time, I will become crazy very soon.

In all honesty, I don't like the house cleaning work, but my wife always punch me to clean the house with her very Saturday or Sunday. You know, every working day, we leave the house in the early morning, and back at late night, have no sight to the cleaning work, in the weeken, it's the time we live in the house for long time, house cleaning is part of our weekend playbill. I always turn on the music in loud, enjoying the rhythm, and let's the house cleaning time goes more fast.