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Our house is usually pretty clean EXCEPT for the play room! I will clean it and I swear 5 mins later its a disaster zone again!!!

I usually leave it and clean on Friday nights when the kids are sleeping - if I clean when they are awake its impossible!

I try to wipe down counters in the kitchen after cooking, and do the same in bathrooms in the morning. Getting a Roomba has also helped that I can just turn it on during the week to clean up floors a little bit, but I still have to clean clean every week.

My living room is a war zone, I pick it up every night before bed, and then she destroys it again in the morning. I can't wait until she's old enough to be downstairs in the play area!

i'm the worst at keeping house. i like cooking, i'm pretty good at staying on top of most things (keeping things stocked, keeping up our calendar, making sure DH has meals packed, clothes ready for work, meds refilled, bills paid, etc), but cleaning, i suck at cleaning. i can go way too long letting it slide and then i get overwhelmed.

i love my parents to death and they were (and still are!) amazing parents, but cleaning wasn't something they made a big deal about (unless we had company coming over) and i wish they had been more strict about instilling a cleaning routine because it doesn't come naturally to me.

We do not clean every day. We pick up if people are coming over, if the clutter is getting out of hand, or if the cleaning lady is coming to clean.

Eta: we do vacuum fairly often as we have pets.

@mrs. bird: I'm the same! Cleaning has never come naturally to me and even now being a SAHM for over a year, I'm waiting for that to happen. I tidy up throughout the day, run errands, cook and do laundry, but I absolutely despise cleaning. The only daily cleaning I do is the kitchen and picking up toys. I hate mopping, vacumming, dusting and only do it once or twice a week which I know should be more often.

I'm a cleaning failure. I blame my mom, who was a total neat freak, because she always forced us to clean constantly and now I loathe it (total cop out. secretly, I'd love to be a clean as my mom).

My husband is also a cleaning failure, so yeah.....we just try to make sure it's presentable when company comes over. The rest of the time, not so much.

I clean like once a week. Our house is cluttered, but I'm just exhausted!!!

Sometimes I give up the daily war (basically living room tidying and dishes/counters) but I always regret it the next day when the mess is twice as big. I gave up the war on bathrooms a long time ago... it's awful. I only clean when people come over.

I clean everyday, but once LO could crawl it seemed to go downhill from there. I can only get things done when she is sleeping.

@mrs. bird: We don't wear shoes in the house either, but we have a dog so he tracks dirt in. Before we had him a few years ago and we didn't have our young son, I won't tell you how often I mopped or vacuumed. It was great! Well, great for me anyway, maybe not the house!

@Mrs. Bee: The messes get more sophisticated. There's nothing quite like a room full of glitter, or nailpolish on the sink.

At the same time, Ellie, at 7 is very responsible for taking care of her messes, so that really helps. She tracked mud in yesterday and was fantastic for cleaning it up when she noticed. She actually asked me for a wet cloth!