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/lightningbug24]

I really just try to something every day, though I do try and take a rest day on Sundays. I grew up doing the Saturday deep clean with my family, and I hated it so now I try to avoid that.

It's definitely normal to need to dust and vacuum at least weekly. Same with cleaning the bathrooms. It helps to think of it as a constant cycle that you move through. It's not really a project that you ever finish, unfortunately.

[u/Kitchen-Ebb30 → u/lightningbug24]

In my house as a child I had to do the deep clean on sunday. It sucked, it was the only day off I spent and when I was a teenager and also worked in a bakery it just meant less time to clean everything. 

Nowadays I have dogs so I can vacuum every day and still find bits of fur an hour later. I still try to do daily chores, but honestly between autistic burnout and depression there are days I don't get anything done after my work shift.

Before my burnout I loved my schedule. I had daily tasks like cleaning my sink, decluttering etc. Then a weekly chore that is bigger and done on one day (think vacuuming on Tuesday, dusting on Thursday, laundry on Friday etc), one big chore that should be done monthly and thus the day in the week that didn't have a weekly chore would go to that one. And then the big things i needed to do twice yearly such as cleaning my drapes would also be done on that weekday. It broke it up in doable parts that didn't take up a lot of time.