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How do you keep your homes clean?

I’ve just swept and mopped. Once the floor dries, I could easily go sweep again and turn up more dust and dirt. If I were to mop again, I’m almost certain the water in my bucket would be filthy. It feels like it’s never actually clean.

Beyond that, there’s dusting, cleaning windows, sinks, countertops, bathrooms, and probably things I don’t even consider. How do you all stay on top of these things?

Alpha71 ,

wait til’ it gets bad enough to bug me, then clean.

We’re almost there.

SomeAmateur ,

As a wise friend once said about home repairs “It’s easier to keep up than to catch up”

You can do a lot at once, you can do a little all the time but either way you have to clean regularly to stay on top of it.

RBWells , (edited )

Roomba twice a day. A dishwasher run every day. A biweekly cleaning by a professional, and a tolerance for some degree of chaos. We live in the world, not in some clean lab. There will be dirt, dust, clutter. Just don’t let it get too much.

I have a yard of weeds, and a flower garden and a vegetable garden, some trees. It will never be a weed free environment in my gardens, I just try to advantage the plants I want, and keep the weeds under control not gone. Same with the house, don’t let perfect be the enemy of the good.

MintyAnt ,

Yeah can’t stop the weeds. Nature is gonna grow and you can’t stop it. Better to plant native plants and let them bunch up, less to maintain once established

RBWells ,

Yep. I actually love the “lawn” we have, the mowed weeds are lush and green. I just also want vegetables. The flower garden looks fine with the weeds and as you say, the native plants are filling in nicely. And I put the veg in raised beds, dug out first so it’s not too bad. But with any real world situation it’s not going to be perfect and pristine.

Pulptastic ,

Define your standard of clean. How much clutter do you want? How much dirt is OK?

Then break tasks up - decluttering, vacuuming, dusting, mopping, and schedule each as often as is needed.tp.mwet the above standards.

My personal standard is to do light vacuuming and decluttering every day. Dishes and cleaning kitchen +dining room at least daily, sometimes twice as needed. Bathroom cleaning and more extensive vacuuming every week. Dusting and mopping every couple weeks.

Most of my non-floor surface cleaning is done with method pink or 409 and microfiber cloths. A battery Dyson vacuum was a game changer and makes touch ups way easier; no wrangling with cords, just grab it off the wall charger and push it around for a few minutes hitting spots you can see dirt.

Nature’s miracle is great for pet or kid messes, I use both the hardwood and carpet formulas.

masquenox ,

You’ll never be able to get things clean - all you will be able to manage is “cleaner than it was before.” It becomes easier if you accept that.

ShepherdPie ,

And unless you’re trying to save money on buying dishes by eating on the floor, it shouldn’t really matter if they have a bit of dirt on them.

dream_weasel ,

ITT a bunch of dirty mofos.

You can sweep and mop one time to a quality that you shouldn’t be able to see dirt and grit on your floor. Maybe a different story with pets… But I wouldn’t keep a shedding creature in the house besides my wife, personally lol.

daltotron ,

Smaller houses tend to be better for this, generally. Cut down on all the stupid useless crap you own that you only use like once every 3 years, it’s not worth it to keep it sitting around. Buy and sell everything on craigslist, and rent the rest of what you might need. Maybe look into a storage shed or something, or dedicate a portion of your house to this, a room, something like this. Most people have a garage, I think. Pawn stuff off on everyone around you, call them when you need it, and then that’s a good opportunity to socialize. The same goes for “makerspaces” or whatever. Get out of your house more.

Work from the top down, start in an area with your fans, cobwebs, whatever, then work down to the pictures and higher shelves, the windows, lower shelves, tables, then hit your walls and baseboards, and then, after all that’s done, do the floors.

Remove clutter and little aesthetic baubles on shelves where dust and hair and crap might accumulate, unless you’re actively using the things in that space, or frequently moving stuff around in that area. It also pays to be conscious of how airflow moves throughout your house and how dust settles. It always tends to be the corners, but then corners also tend to be the deadzones where people put things anyways. If you can turn this on it’s head, and keep things away from the walls and corners more, that’s probably a decent idea, and could also help you open up your house more. If you can’t do that, you could look into like, these triangular dust guards they make for the corners of things, especially stairs, though those are mostly for sweeping, and I think dust might end up sticking to them regardless. The best solution for most people is probably just to go in the complete opposite direction, and get some big sealed corner cabinets with actual doors, instead of just having a bunch of open shelves everywhere.

Make sure you always remove your shoes when you come in from outside, and if you’re especially dirty, your outerwear. It’s easier to clean this all in one location by the door. Cats and dogs and all your other pets also shed a ton which can suck really bad and get on everything. I really like having pets, but god damn it can get pretty nasty. I would probably not do it all over again if I had the choice. Maybe look for breeds that don’t shed as much. Or just brush your pets maybe more than daily, that might also help.

Also, invest in a good stick vacuum, don’t get one of those huge corded garbage vacuums, or those ones that roll around and have the tube, those also suck and are awful. Also a good spray mop with the bottom that sticks to the cloth pad, and not like a normal stupid mop with a bucket or whatever, because those suck.

Yeah. Do all that, revolve your life around just cleaning and maintaining the shit that you own, and then you can probably get away with like an hour maybe once or twice a week for your whole house. How fulfilling!

RozhkiNozhki ,
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I’m a little late to the party but keep in mind that people who stay on top of cleaning and have sparkling houses are doing just that and nothing else because it is so time consuming. You don’t want to invest all your free time (or all your time) into cleaning that will never end. Good enough is good enough.

soggy_kitty ,

Not true, it takes me a moment to put away my things into drawers and tidy up after myself.

RozhkiNozhki ,
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That’s not what I mean, I’m not talking about tidying up, I’m talking about proper cleaning, as in wiping the dust everywhere and keeping every imaginable surface clean, including walls, ceilings, cupboards etc.

ShepherdPie ,

I think wiping walls and stuff are only things people do quarterly, every 6 months, etc and not something people do weekly as that is insane.

RozhkiNozhki ,
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My mom does and yes, it is insane, and she spends all her time doing it. What I mean to say is there’s no limit to cleaning unless you set it up for yourself. For the sake of sanity it’s better to accept the fact that there will always be some dust around.

ShepherdPie ,

Not sure why you got downvoted as cleaning efficiently and maintaining things as you go (rinsing off stuff as you cook for example) makes the whole process so much faster.

For example imagine you’re going through your clothes looking for an outfit to wear for the night. You can either dump all your clothes into a pile while trying things on or try them on and hang them up as you go. That way when you’re done, you don’t have a pile of clothes to deal with.

ohlaph ,

A plan. Clean all floors weekly.

CuttingBoard ,

If you’re lucky enough to have a furnace, replace the filters monthly if you can. They sell them in multi packs. Buy the cheap ones and replace them often.

dan1101 ,

Clean the worst of it and let the rest be. I try to do a more thorough cleaning spring and fall.

systemglitch ,

How to create mental illness 101.

PriorityMotif ,
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20"x20" air filter taped to a box fan while you’re cleaning and leave it running for a few hours. Change your HVAC filter.

thesporkeffect ,

This seems like an amazing idea. Someone should sell 3d printed adapters for the filters

PriorityMotif ,
@PriorityMotif@lemmy.world avatar

The fans are also 20", so you can just tape the filter right on.

bitchkat ,

Part of the reason I downsized and bought a condo was to reduce the amount of time I spend doing “house” stuff. I just try to clean things as I go so that I don’t have specific cleaning days.

GiddyGap , (edited )

Set a weekly cleaning day and stick to it. On weeks when you can’t clean on that day, move it to a different day. Don’t skip.

And no shoes inside, ever. Tracks in lots of filth, even when you think you have clean shoes.

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