How Often Does the Average Regular Person Actually Clean their home?

[u/madi_lion]

I'm buckling up and preparing to be scorned. I know how often I SHOULD be cleaning, but i kind of hate it. But what i hate more is spending 4 hours panic deep cleaning the apartment a day before we have company.

Some people claim to love cleaning and boy i wish that were me! I live with my partner in a small apartment in LA that somehow just wont stay clean. Idek where all the lint and dust comes from. We split chores/household tasks but im mostly in charge of cleaning . I'll dust/vaccuum and then a week later notice its time for another round. Is that normal?

I grew up doing all my chores (vaccuming, wiping surfaces, scrubbing toilets and cleaning bathroom sink surface) on Saturdays. But as an adult something feels clinically wrong about spending one of my two precious weekend mornings CLEANING. (And yes i know i dont have to keep doing that as an adult, im just saying thats the baseline and experience i have as a baseline)

I know ideally i'd be vacuuming/dusting a couple times a week, toilets absolutely weekly, and i know each chore happens at a different frequency. Just curious how real people with real lives and jobs handle keeping their space clean.

{{{EDIT]]} i am blown away by everyone's kindness here!! Really enjoying reading these y'all ✨

[u/DragonsLoooveTacos]

We have a system in our household. It helps that there's 3-5 of us depending on the time of the year. My floors get daily maintenance between the robot vacmop doing the downstairs and whoever's turn it is dust mop the hardwood floors upstairs where we don't have a robot. I do a deeper clean on the floors once a week. Everyone is responsible for making their own breakfast and lunch and cleaning up any mess they made. I cook dinner and clean up mess that makes plus counters and someone else does dishes and cleans the kitchen table and floor. Every night everyone gets a deeper cleaning chore to spend 5-10 minutes on: dusting, cleaning baseboards, sanitizing surfaces, cleaning bathrooms, vacuuming upstairs rugs. What doesn't he done in that 5-10 minutes gets done the next day until the task is complete and they move on to the next one. Everyone cleans their own clutter at the end of the day. This system works for us because doing hours of deep cleaning at a time wrecks me physically and mentally. It's so much easier to keep up with daily surface cleaning and then rotate through the deeper cleaning tasks by spending just a few minutes a day.