I sometimes run the crevice tool of the vacuum over the baseboards, but I basically never clean walls (didn't know that was a thing until I heard someone talking about it) and blinds I think about maaaaybe 1x a year. Windows are rare-to-never. I do my glass door to the balcony pretty often because the kids have their hands all over it, but I basically never do the real windows.
How often do you do these things and how do you do them?
60 votes
eggplant / 11716 posts
@Anya: How do you clean your blinds? I just read a cleaning blog where she takes down her blinds and washes them in the bathtub monthy! I could never, ever see my self doing that. I run a microfiber cloth over them verrrrrrry occasionally. Basically only when I notice they are super dusty.
nectarine / 2784 posts
@Anagram: no way! I just run them over with a microfiber duster. I don't have blinds in every window (the bedrooms all have shades) so it's not a huge task!
GOLD / wonderful apricot / 22276 posts
We don't have blinds, baseboards I spot clean when I'm down wiping something up and notice they are filthy ha! Walls also get spot cleaned with magic erasers.
eggplant / 11716 posts
@Bao: yeah, I spot clean when the kids get stuff on the walls, but never clean the walls just to clean them. Glad I'm not the only one!
My mom is a super clean freak and also extremely organized with things like cleaning schedules (for example, we had to clean all the windows inside and out twice yearly), but I never remember cleaning all the walls. But then in several cleaning blogs I've been reading, they mention cleaning walls.
wonderful pear / 26210 posts
I don't clean, but I do the windows once a year. I can do some of them from the inside, but some require a ladder, so I do those when it's warmer out. My housecleaner would charge me extra for this, but it's not a huge job once I get started.
Last time I washed walls was when we moved into this house, I did wash the playroom walls because we didn't paint down there.
No blinds in the house now, but I did have them in previous apartments and I would take them down a few times a year and wash them in the tub. I did that on windy days where they would dry fast.
wonderful cherry / 21504 posts
My cleaner probably does some of these things? Like I'm sure she vacuums along the baseboards, and she washes the windows in the French doors where the kids get their grubby fingerprints (and mouth and nose prints).
Walls I wash when the kids get food on them. Windows almost never. We don't even have blinds in most of our windows, and the ones we have are crappy vinyl mini blinds we are planning to replace so I'm certainly not going to take time to wash those! But the cleaner probably runs a swifter over them or something because they are not gross.
I'm the worst housekeeper.
persimmon / 1467 posts
I try to dust once a week, so blinds and baseboards get hit then.
My goal is to wipe down/wash blinds once a month.
Windows-once a year.... Maybe
Walls- whenever we paint or I notice kid marks on them. But that's usually just spot cleaning.
pear / 1553 posts
Blinds - we don't have blinds
Baseboards - maybe twice a year, but only as needed.
Windows - once a year - we don't have kids so they don't really get very dirty
Walls - rarely! only as needed. I will occasionally do paint touch-ups and clean the walls then. We've only lived in our house for about a year and a half but the last time I steam cleaned the carpet in the living room (only room w/ carpet) I also did paint touch ups on the walls and baseboards and wiped everything down before that. Figured I'd take advantage of no furniture being in the room to make it look spiffy!
nectarine / 2262 posts
LOLOLOLOL...... I can barely keep up with my laundry. So I guess I vote never? I did it occasionally pre-LO.
nectarine / 2521 posts
@Anagram: I voted weekly, but that's just baseboards and windows. We have those on a rotation schedule at one room a day.
We actually do not have blinds in our new house and I am very very happy with that situation, but I do wash our curtains every 6 months and vacuum them once a month.
We wash walls and touch up paint once a year.
The baseboards are because we have 2 giant dogs and live in Georgia with red clay dirt. My baseboards turn a nice color of brown if I don't clean them!
persimmon / 1445 posts
Blinds are every couple of weeks- once a month (DD likes dusting so we do it when she asks for the swiffer and then I dust the tops and anywhere else that looks dusty). Windows, walls, and baseboards are twice a year when I deep clean/ declutter and then spot clean as needed in between.
pear / 1521 posts
We don't have blinds. Our dog looks out our windows and gets slobber all over them so I try to clean them when I realize they're super gross.
Baseboards I vacuum if I notice they're dusty. I don't otherwise wash them but I prob should bc it makes me bummed how dirty and banged up they look when they were painted less than 2 years ago.
Walls would only be if I noticed food/crayon, etc. on them.
pomelo / 5791 posts
Blinds- never - we don't have any
Baseboards- whenever they look awful and I notice
Windows- maybe once a year
Walls- there are certain places I notice that get dirty and I clean every few months. The wall at the top of the stairs, the stairwell wall itself, and a corner wall in the upstairs hallway all get touched a lot and you can see the dirty handmarks on the white wall. I should just paint the darn wall a color instead 
wonderful kiwi / 23653 posts
Ummm never?! Only spot clean if I see something is dirty.............. 
squash / 13208 posts
baseboards - when I look down and see how dirty they are I clean them
Walls - spot clean all the time - my kids are constantly touching them with dirty hands!
blinds - don't have them
windows - once a month - except the kitchen ones which I do weekly because I have to look at them all the time
apricot / 360 posts
I clean the baseboards in the bathrooms probably like once or twice a month, but for some reason I never think of cleaning the baseboards anywhere else in the house.
I think we've cleaned our windows once since we've been in our house (1.5 years).
I never clean the walls and we don't have blinds.
coconut / 8079 posts
@MrsADS: um this is me too.
We don't have blinds. I have spot cleaned the walls and baseboards, but I haven't had time to do them all at the same time. Maybe that can be a summer project.
nectarine / 2262 posts
@jhd yeah without a house cleaner and working FT it just ain't gonna happen here. Gotta prioritize. If I saw something really filthy, I would wipe it down, but not sure I ever look!
blogger / wonderful cherry / 21628 posts
I don't have blinds. I spot clean the walls as needed, which is pretty often because my dog likes to shove himself into corners and rub on the walls. I clean baseboards and windows once a year as part of spring cleaning. I have never washed my windows from the outside.
eggplant / 11716 posts
I never noticed it before this thread, but the sun was hitting my living room walls at just the right angle and I noticed they are dusty! I'm still not going to "wash" my walls, but I'm totally going to go around with a swiffer and dust the walls. I never have before....learn something new every day, I guess.
I am on fire in the cleaning department. I cleaned the grout in the main bathroom and made my husband clean the grout in the shower he uses, and we did the bleach pen trick (which worked really well). So I just have a few problem areas to reorganize and I'm going to feel like my house is pretttttttty clean (for a house with 2 working parents, 2 kids, and no house cleaner).
apricot / 317 posts
A few short years ago, I'd probably take the cake in worst housekeeper. But, for some reason in the last few years, I've become borderline obsessed and cleaning my house on Saturdays has become my happy place. My husband is offering to help me by hiring a weekly housekeeper :).
pomelo / 5573 posts
I was almost holding my breath as I was about to submit my vote of never, worried that the rest of you are doing it weekly and I'm a disgusting pig. The results were a big relief.
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