Thursday, March 10, 2011

Honesty Blog: Housewife Shmousewife!

I have decided to start a new series of "Honesty Blogs"... I find that many answers given to questions on facebook are not the whole truth, nothing but the truth, so help us GOD!

There are a few reasons... some of us have "friends" who stalk everything we do on FB, so we are reluctant to share certain information! Also, there is no way to do it anonymously (unless you have fake accounts). And some shit is just, well, embarrassing!

So here's the deal. I'll ask a question on this blog, and answer it HONESTLY, but ANONYMOUSLY! I have my comments set to moderation, so if anyone comments under their real name, I won't post that reply. So make sure you do make is ANONYMOUS!

To start I am going to ask you about what kind of housewife you are. Me? It is REALLY not my forte...

Here are the questions I would like the REAL answer to! Hopefully this will make me feel better about my own slovenly ways, not worse!

How often do you do the following...
1. Change the sheets on your bed
2. Vaccuum
3. Mop
4. Clean bathrooms/toilet
5. Dust
6. Clean windows
7. Wipe down dining room table
8. Clean your stovetop
9. Clean your oven
10. Clean out your fridge

Don't be scared, no one will know who it is! I hope not, anyway, because the answer to some of those questions, for me, is abysmal!

Next blog will tackle some parenting issues, and I am open to suggestions. I am sure some of you would like to know the TRUTH about some things! Recently I reached out and asked a question on FB, thinking my AP friends would shoot me down for considering it... then I find out they all did it too! Knowing your not alone is such a relief!!

{Peace}

27 comments:

  1. OK so here goes! Are you SURE you wanna know?1. sheets, maybe monthly?
    2. vaccuum once a month
    3. mop, where IS that mop? haven't seen it for 6 months!
    4. bathrooms, every 1 - 2 months
    5. dust, once a year?
    6. windows, never!
    7. table, once a month
    8. stovetop, every two weeks, but properly once a month or even two months!
    9. I cleaned an oven once, when we sold our last house!
    10. Fridge, every 6 months to a year

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  2. ok,here goes
    sheets,once a month or if someone wets them
    vaccum,if i can't see the carpet anymore or if we're having visitors!
    mop,every 3 months.
    bathroom,visitors or rent inspection!
    dust,rent inspection.
    windows,rent inspection,so every 3 months
    table,when there is so much paint you can't see the wood anymore
    stovetop,maybe once a month or if we have a major overflow
    oven,we don't have one at the moment :p but every rent inspection so 3 months
    fridge,6 months or so
    so yep,housewife,smousewife,heehee :D

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  3. How often do you do the following...
    1. Change the sheets on your bed: Probably monthly :/
    2. Vaccuum: Every day or two (or three)
    3. Mop: Weekly (unless floor is obviously dirty)
    4. Clean bathrooms/toilet: Every week or two
    5. Dust: uhh, never
    6. Clean windows: Very rarely
    7. Wipe down dining room table: Daily
    8. Clean your stovetop: After every use
    9. Clean your oven: uhhh, I've only ever cleaned it when we move house...
    10. Clean out your fridge: Once or twice a year

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  4. 1. Change the sheets on your bed - every two weeks but was six when my husband went away (didn't want to wash his smell off) I love clean sheets off the line but hate putting the quilt cover back on
    2. Vaccuum - wooden floors in heavy traffic areas twice a week, carpets in bedrooms once a month
    3. Mop - when there are too many sticky spots - about once a fortnight
    4. Clean bathrooms/toilet - WORST JOBS! toilet once a week or maybe two bathroom once a month
    5. Dust - roughly in seen areas once a fortnight
    6. Clean windows - when my MIL comes over & does them for me!
    7. Wipe down dining room table - every night
    8. Clean your stovetop - once a week or if it's gross
    9. Clean your oven - when my MIL comes over & does it!
    10. Clean out your fridge - properly once in a blue moon, saw there was grossness in the top of the seal of my freezer & wiped it because I thought Gordan Ramsasy would f*#kin freak out if he saw that!

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  5. 1. Change the sheets on your bed - probably about once a month

    2. Vaccuum - every few days, or when I get sick of walking on crumbs

    3. Mop - whenever it looks dirty enough to need it, so sometimes every few days, sometimes every few weeks.

    4. Clean bathrooms/toilet - toilet every few days, bathroom very rarely!

    5. Dust - when it looks bad enough to need it, maybe every few months?

    6. Clean windows - we've been here 9 months and haven't done them yet.

    7. Wipe down dining room table - several times a day!

    8. Clean your stovetop - when there's enough food splattered over to warrant a clean lol

    9. Clean your oven - ditto to the windows, been here 9 months and not cleaned it yet.

    10. Clean out your fridge - when something gets spilt? lol

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  6. 1. Change the sheets on your bed - Um so the sheets usually are on for a week before being taken off, but then we usually sleep straight on the mattress for another week before they go back on lol. The kids maybe every three weeks...more often if there is an accident or someone is sick etc.

    2. Vaccuum - 2 to 3 times a day, vacuuming is probably the only thing I am super vigilant on

    3. Mop - I make hubby mop every 3 to 4 days, if I'm left to do it, it is more like 3 to 4 weeks lol

    4. Clean bathrooms/toilet - um I honestly cant comment on the bathrooms except to say "when they start to look bad" no Idea how often that is though. The toilet usually gets done twice a week though because otherwise it would smell with me vomiting in there all the time from morning sickness

    5. Dust - I have purposely made it so that I have very few surfaces in my house so the only place the dust has to settle is the floor which gets vacuumed everyday

    6. Clean windows - approx every 6mths

    7. Wipe down dining room table - every 2nd day

    8. Clean your stovetop - same as tables, every 2nd day

    9. Clean your oven - approx 6mths and I make hubby do that as well

    10. Clean out your fridge - everytime its empty so usually every friday before we go grocery shopping, so easy to clean when its empty only takes a second. some weeks I cant be arsed though and it will go two weeks.

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  7. i'm such a procrastinating housewife and i despise washing dishes

    How often do you do the following...
    1. Change the sheets on your bed: when they need it or seasonal
    2. Vaccuum: once or twice a fortnight or when needed
    3. Mop: never unless the floor get super bad and now i dont even own a mop i manly just wipe the bad spots
    4. Clean bathrooms/toilet: bathrooms clean once a month shower clean once or twice a fort night, toilet is hubbys job as he only does lawns and bins and i cover everythng else
    5. Dust: never or when realestate need a inspection
    6. Clean windows: same as above
    7. Wipe down dining room table: we dont have a dinning room or even a table as we dont have the space
    8. Clean your stovetop: once a month or when needed i manly clean when mess is made
    9. Clean your oven: never really as we hardly use our oven
    10. Clean out your fridge: once a week as we have a small fridge and alway need more room

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  8. How often do you do the following...
    1. Change the sheets on your bed ONCE A WEEK
    2. Vaccuum TWICE A WEEK
    3. Mop TWICE A WEEK
    4. Clean bathrooms/toilet TWICE A WEEK
    5. Dust ONCE A WEEK
    6. Clean windows ONCE A WEEK
    7. Wipe down dining room table 3x A DAY
    8. Clean your stove ONCE A DAY
    9. Clean your oven ONCE A YEAR
    10. Clean out your fridge ONCE A MONTH

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  9. 1 & 2- weekly
    3- umm i honestly hate moppin & are guilty of lettin mr 4 slop water on the bathroom floor just so it looks cleaner lol
    4-weekly
    5- as if
    6- maybe once a year
    7-daily
    8- 1-2 times a week
    9-when the mother in law comes to visit once a year
    10-once a week before bin night

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  10. How often do you do the following...
    1. Change the sheets on your bed: Monthly or when they look a bit dirty- my daughter loves to feed until the let down then let milk spay onto the sheets... She does it in her sleep, I don't think she is aware.
    2. Vaccum: weekly
    3. Mop: Weekly, I did a big clean tonight though and poured boiling water onto the tiles and scrubbed the whole room with a scourer - blw is messy business. The floor looks great now though.
    4. Clean bathrooms/toilet: Every week, will never put white tiles in our house again!
    5. Dust: I love dusting I do it every couple of days.
    6. Clean windows: seasonally
    7. Wipe down dining room table: Each night
    8. Clean your stovetop: After every use
    9. Clean your oven: my oven is an absolute embarrassment! 4 years and I have never cleaned it... It's too far gone now. I kept putting it off because we r planning on redoing our kitchen so I just tell myself I will clean the new one when we get it.
    10. Clean out your fridge: Every couple of months

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  11. Oh loving this I'm not feeling like such a domestic slob anymores but more domestic average!!

    1. Change the sheets on your bed - Usually when wet but otherwise hmmm maybe monthly maybe a bit longer. I changed them yesterday, put my favourite ones on, woke this morning to child with blood nose of course managed to get sheets, pillow case, doona cover so changed again today.

    2. Vaccuum - Main areas usually weekly, bedrooms maybe onace a month.

    3. Mop - So my mop head disintergrated maybe 2 or 3 months ago, have done it once since with a nappy square wrapped around the mop but I'm holding out for a steam mop!

    4. Clean bathrooms/toilet - toilet, basin etc weekly or more often if needed. Shower once every couple of months. Child tends to clean glass more often with squeegee.

    5. Dust - Maybe once every few months, sometimes more sometimes less.

    6. Clean windows - Ohhh am I suppose to? Was wondering why my view was getting a bit cloudy. Ok so a job for moving out and in the mean time hot days I give child spray bottle and cloth and it is such a 'fun' activity.

    7. Wipe down dining room table - I just remove the tablecloth when it goes crusty.

    8. Clean your stovetop - After use as needed so maybe once every 1-2 days.

    9. Clean your oven - Bahahahahaha! Oh you're serious umm thats a moving out job!

    10. Clean out your fridge - When it starts to smell! Maybe once every couple of months.

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  12. I've always said i would never make a good housewife! :)

    1. Change the sheets on your bed - I actually do this once a week... as much as i hate doing it i like fresh sheets!
    2. Vacuum - when it starts getting too ick so say once a week more if we have been outside lots
    3. Mop - every 3 months for inspections
    4. Clean bathrooms/toilet - as above or if i have guests who are coming over
    5. Dust - never
    6. Clean windows - when i move out of a rental property
    7. Wipe down dining room table - well mine is normally covered with books so about once a month when i clean it off.
    8. Clean your stove top- every few days....I'm a messy cook!
    9. Clean your oven - every 6 months
    10. Clean out your fridge - when it looks really bad

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  13. 1. Change the sheets on your bed: twice a week
    2. Vaccuum: every day
    3. Mop: every 2nd day
    4. Clean bathrooms/toilet: once a week
    5. Dust: every 2nd day
    6. Clean windows: once a month
    7. Wipe down dining room table:every day
    8. Clean your stovetop:once a day
    9. Clean your oven: once a week
    10. Clean out your fridge: once every fortnight

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  14. 1. Change the sheets on your bed: Sheets can stay on for like 2 months, even sometimes if the kids pee on them :/ Then we sleep on the mattress for a few weeks.
    2. Vaccuum: When I get sick of crumbs, every day or 2.
    3. Mop: Uh I've lived in this house for over 2 years and I've mopped maybe 5 times.
    4. Clean bathrooms/toilet: Visitors or rent inspection. Once a month?
    5. Dust: Once a monthish
    6. Clean windows: Never have
    7. Wipe down dining room table: Don't have one.
    8. Clean your stovetop: When it's filthy.
    9. Clean your oven: I've cleaned it once.
    10. Clean out your fridge: Every fortnight when I do groceries

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  15. How often do you do the following...
    1. Change the sheets on your bed... Maybe once a month (or 2)
    2. Vaccuum ?everyday or when needed
    3. Mop? when needed
    4. Clean bathrooms/toilet? when needed
    5. Dust? Never
    6. Clean windows? never
    7. Wipe down dining room table? there is so much junk on the table i cant wipe it haha
    8. Clean your stovetop: After used
    9. Clean your oven? Never (my mother in law does haha)
    10. Clean out your fridge? when needed

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  16. 1. Change the sheets on your bed - This one I dont do very often, every couple of months... My child's cot sheets have never been changed :S
    2. Vaccuum - daily, because our carpet is white...
    3. Mop
    4. Clean bathrooms/toilet - bathroom once ever 2 weeks, toilet gets done every 2 or so day because we dont flush for wee's it gets pretty rank fast.
    5. Dust - Black shiny furniture means daily.
    6. Clean windows - Kitchen/living Windows monthly, bedroom windows, 6 months ago?
    7. Wipe down dining room table - after every meal.
    8. Clean your stovetop - After every time cooking (its so much easier cleaning fresh mess on a stove than baked on old mess)
    9. Clean your oven - When I think it needs it or something spills over.
    10. Clean out your fridge - This needs doing NOW! Juice spilled through the fridge :( I usually wipe it down once a week.

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  17. 1. Change the sheets on your bed - Whenever the kids put food or dirt in our bed, otherwise maybe once every 2 months if they don't look dirty.

    2. Vaccuum - It's probably the only thing I do regularly.

    3. Mop - Er... I don't own a mop :/

    4. Clean bathrooms/toilet Once every two months.

    5. Dust - Dust? What is dust? ... Never.

    6. Clean windows - Once a year.

    7. Wipe down dining room table - Give it a good scrub maybe once every three weeks, other wise I usually just wipe up the chunky bits so it's passable.

    8. Clean your stovetop - Monthly?

    9. Clean your oven - We've been here for 3 and a half years and I've only cleaned it once.

    10. Clean out your fridge - When it starts to smell funny.

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  18. 1. Change the sheets on your bed... they're supposed to go ON the bed?? oops

    2. Vaccuum... everyday in summer, when I vaccuum up the ant trail that invades our home

    3. Mop... I know I know that word from somewhere.... oh yh, the thing I use to push the water uphill to the drain on our wonky tiled bathroom floor.

    4. Clean bathrooms/toilet? DADDY'S JOB! He refuses to change nappies, I refuse to scrub skid marks in the loo (fair's fair in love and war)

    5. Dust? Never, it's no use here. Bare sandy outdoors = dust and sand influx in the door as you attempt to sweep/dust it out the door

    6. Clean windows? the kids lick them clean once in a while.

    7. Wipe down dining room table? when I remove the sewing machine and make up the table (once a month or two??)

    8. Clean your stovetop: hahahaha... seriuosly??

    9. Clean your oven? nope...

    10. Clean out your fridge? every time I go through and clear out old food and restock it (once a month)

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  19. 1. Change the sheets on your bed

    about every 3 months

    2. Vaccuum

    once a month (we have hardwood; only carpet in our son's room)

    3. Mop

    once a month

    4. Clean bathrooms/toilet

    every 2 weeks to a month and ds does this chore (he's 10)

    5. Dust

    never

    6. Clean windows

    never

    7. Wipe down dining room table

    every couple of days

    8. Clean your stovetop

    twice a week

    9. Clean your oven

    when it gets gross so maybe every 6 months

    10. Clean out your fridge

    if something spills otherwise 6 months plus

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  20. How often do you do the following...
    1. Change the sheets on your bed
    I do mine about once every 3 weeks, just before DF gets home from working away, the kids shower just before bed so every month or two (maybe 3?)

    2. Vaccuum
    i vacuum the loune every day or two, as i hate the feeling of when it gets dirty, it is only 1 room and takes a couple of minutes so its easy. the bedrooms ares of the hosue - when it gets bad, every 3 months or so?

    3. Mop
    Since im pregnant, and i ADORE the smell of pine o cleen lavender disinfectant, its usually once a week or two. but usually - every 3 months, just before a rent inspection haha

    4. Clean bathrooms/toilet
    proper clean? every 3 months or so. quick pour of bleach down the toilet, and wipe of the vanity - wen someone's coming around :)

    5. Dust our TV cabinet gets a dust every months or so, but as a whole, every 6 months or so.

    6. Clean windows
    when we move rentals.

    7. Wipe down dining room table
    have table cloth on it, when it actually gets used it just gets washed.

    8. Clean your stovetop
    When it gets grotty from me boiling something. once a week or so.

    9. Clean your oven
    15 months in this house and counting... no clean.

    10. Clean out your fridge
    since we just bought a new fridge, and it cost us a mint, im doing it quite often, once a week. my old little fridge got the disgusting point before i'd even consider it...

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  21. 1. Change the sheets on your bed
    2. Vaccuum ...i don't own one i sweep once a day
    3. Mop...lol maybe every fortnight
    4. Clean bathrooms/toilet...bathroom fortnightly , toilet once a day
    5. Dust...whats that ? lol
    6. Clean windows...never or inspection
    7. Wipe down dining room table 3 x a day
    8. Clean your stovetop...once a week
    9. Clean your oven...inspection
    10. Clean out your fridge...when its really gross lol

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  22. 1. Change the sheets on your bed - nearly every day - I love a clean bed
    2. Vaccuum - once a week
    3. Mop - twice/three times a week
    4. Clean bathrooms/toilet - once a fortnight
    5. Dust - Once a month
    6. Clean windows - never
    7. Wipe down dining room table - 5 times a day
    8. Clean your stovetop - every day
    9. Clean your oven - never
    10. Clean out your fridge - once a month

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  23. OMG I think we need to teach house keeping at school again... on a more serious note at least change your sheets more regularly and vacuum.
    Or get your partners, kids or willing Mums to help out more often :)

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  24. How often do you do the following...
    1. Change the sheets on your bed
    about monthly, or when they seem smelly or spills on them
    2. Vaccuum
    when we're expecting company or inspections
    3. Mop
    same as vacuuming, but hubby does the mopping
    4. Clean bathrooms/toilet
    bathrooms-before inspections, toilet-when expecting company
    5. Dust
    bahaha never
    6. Clean windows
    never
    7. Wipe down dining room table
    it's covered in piles of stuff, we dont use it
    8. Clean your stovetop
    when washing the dishes
    9. Clean your oven
    when leaving rental property
    10. Clean out your fridge
    when spills have happened

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  25. 1 change my sheets about once a month

    2 vacume onece a week

    3 mop about twice a month

    4 bath room and toilet once a week quick wipe over with a proper scrub once a moth

    5 as required when i can see the dust so about once every three to six months

    6 windiows i have not done them in years but been loking at mine lately think i should really do them lol

    7 wiping down table whenever we eat off it

    8 clean stove top about twice a week

    9 clean oven about once a year

    10 clean out fridge once ervery 1-2 months

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  26. 1. Change the sheets on your bed: monthly
    2. Vaccuum: not often enough (maybe fortnightly)
    3. Mop: monthly
    4. Clean bathrooms/toilet: fortnightly or more often
    5. Dust: when it looks disgusting
    6. Clean windows: yearly maybe
    7. Wipe down dining room table: every day
    8. Clean your stovetop: weekly
    9. Clean your oven: yearly maybe
    10. Clean out your fridge: empty it on bin night, wash it out a couple of times a year

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  27. How often do you do the following...

    1. Change the sheets on your bed - Monthly-ish
    2. Vaccuum - Fornightly*
    3. Mop - Fortnightly*
    4. Clean bathrooms/toilet - Fortnightly*
    5. Dust - Fortnightly*
    6. Clean windows - On leaving a rental property
    7. Wipe down dining room table - daily
    8. Clean your stovetop - daily
    9. Clean your oven - On leaving a rental property
    10. Clean out your fridge - bin nights, I do a 'proper' clean every 6 months or so


    * Recently got a cleaner to do the bathrooms/vacume/mop/dust thing. I wanted it done fortnightly and would kill myself trying to find the time and grumble at hubby. We have spent so much time over the last 8 years arguing about cleaning (me wanting a cleaner place, no time to do it). Now we have the bub, I decided to give us a break. I heart my cleaning lady. $60 a fortnight.

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