Wash your curtains every two weeks?! This post was made by Big Washing, for sure. Don't let them trick you into washing more than you have to! /conspiracytheory

Just don’t look down into the trash can when you hose it out. Very few things are worse than a face full of muk and grime because you sprayed high pressured water into a garbage can while staring right at it.

I'm too lazy to even read this whole diagram.

Looks like I should just never stop cleaning so I can never enjoy the house that I'm always cleaning.

Saved so I can never look at it and wonder why my house sucks.

I feel attacked

Also check behind your toilet. I've known a few people who didn't know the floor behind the toilet was very slowly rotting away from unnoticeable water getting back there. One had a leak around the base, one actually had the washers on their tank wear away and the tank was dripping from the screws.

If your mattress is less than 20 years old, it’s very likely it’s one sided and doesn’t need to be flipped. If your mattress is 20+ years old, it’s time to replace it.

Most of this seems excessive, yeah, but I'm trying to figure out what the fuck a water softener is

I think I'll just move

Great, this will just take several weeks per day.

cleaning pillow and bed sheets once a month? I feel like it should be at least every two weeks...

Replace your air filter every 3 months

Be careful though. I bought a smaller vacuum to clean my vacuum and then realized I would need a dust buster to clean my smaller vacuum. This continued for a few more months and now I have a Russian nesting doll type of situation. I am slowly going broke and the people at Hoover have blocked my number. They only make vacuums so small... I think this may be what ends up killing me.

Well I have been cleaning my hoise half-assed

How to clean your home. By, this infographic

Step 1: Don’t enjoy life Step 2: Never stop cleaning Step 3: Don’t enjoy life

toilets are commonly neglected?! what?!

Soooo, anyone got any tips for getting grout off an enamel tub? There's a stray splotch of it on mine and it's been driving me nuts but I don't want to fuck up the finish

There is no way I can go a month without vacuuming.

Cleaning tubs and toilets weekly? Not gonna do that - too busy vacuuming.

If there's one thing on that list I wish people would take seriously...it's their chimneys. Every fall and winter my department gets 10 to 15 calls for chimney fires.

Once a year, please, at least have it professionally cleaned, usually in the spring. If the chimney sweep/professional cleaner recommends the chimney be inspected before your first light later that year...take them up on it. It is not a scam.

I've been to structure fires started because the chimney was never inspected and the interior of the chimney caught on fire and spread through a hole in the chimney, into the attic, and then the rest of the house. Please take it seriously. It's often overlooked.

I’m so torn! The part of me with pets is like you are nuts if you think I’m washing my comforter only 2x a year and vacuuming once a month.... but then again I’m not cleaning my furniture every 2 weeks that’s nuts who has time for that?!

This guide was put together by the Marie Kondo Corporation

Anyone else see the length of this list and just immediately nope out? Denial is a beautiful and powerful force.

This seems like a weird priority. Your curtains every other week, but your comforter only twice a year?

I live in a part of the world where garbage disposals don't exist. Just wanted to say that I find them terrifying.

Sooo, it doesn’t mention buttholes. Is my bi-weekly schedule still effective or should I be moving to an after-every-poop wipe? (Which seems unnecessary to me tbh)

Did they mean to say to leave baking soda in the dishwasher overnight, or does baking powder have more uses than I realised?

Pet bowls should be semi-weekly or even weekly. It's really pretty unnecessary to clean them daily, especially considering the surfaces dogs are willing to eat anything off of anyways. They don't need sanitary bowls to eat out of and if anything may even lead them to be more susceptible to pathogens when they inevitably eat random grass or other things outdoors.

Honestly a lot of these seem overly neat freaky. If your kitchen cabinets get that greasy from you cooking for only a week fine, but you are a pretty messy person if you do so, not to mention not all cabinets are located near problematic locations.

How can I dishwasher wash my pets food bowl when I don't run my dishwasher that often?

Yeah, nah.

this guide says dryers are the number one cause of fires...

bull. it’s cooking, come on.

good guide, but what a way to sensationalize it a bit to make your guide seem better, whoever created it.

Vacuum my fùcking curtains every two weeks!?

I love how half of the sources are wikihow

To my relief, my household actually does all this stuff more often.

For a second I thought it said to take out your trash every 2 months.

Does that say vacuum your curtains every couple weeks? Does anybody do that?

seems excessive

With a list this long, I think that I will just keep living in my van down by the river

What the fuck do people clean then? I clean the majority of these regularly

I only thought I was clean.

In all my 4 decades on earth I have never seen a dryer catch fire from lint build up. And I’ve lived in some shit holes

Edit: I never said it doesn’t or won’t happen. I’ve just never seen it personally. My family’s owned rentals and had their fair share of problems with renters. I understand what it mean to have shitty renters.

That is the most relaxing citations I’ve ever seen

Wait, toilets and bedding are commonly neglected parts of the home?

some of the stuff are a just a given. for instance pet bowls? I have 4 pets and I clean their food bowls daily and clean and change water bowl daily ad well to prevent it from having biofilm/ yucky stickiness. i mean, you would do the same for your kids right?

Clean the outside of kitchen cabinets once a week? Fuck off, they're lucky to be cleaned once in their lifetime

This post is such fucking bullshit. Half the "reasons" are about items collecting germs. If you're not eating food off of it then who gives a shit? Bacteria and fungus is everywhere,and on everything. You're breathing in loads of them right now. There's trillions living on your skin and on the surfaces you touch every second. It's literally healthy to be around a large assortment of bacteria and other microscopic organisms.

Wash your hands after taking a shit, don't let certain foods sit at room temperature for long periods, protect against HIV and other immune destroying illnesses. That's all you need. The bacteria on your fucking curtains, floors, and cabinets is not going to harm you. Ever.

Who the fuck is never cleaning their toilet? Or their bath mat?

Too bad most mattresses you can’t flip anymore. Part of the reason is to cut material cost down, but the main reason is the US in 2007 put more strict fire regulations for mattresses so now you have to have a fire retardant of some kind at the bottom and sides of the mattress. If a mattress is cheap and flippable, be careful it may have gone under some nasty chemical treatments to meet those regulations. If it is using natural materials like wool it can still be flippable because wool is not considered an igniter. For even wear and tear rotate your bed every 2-4 months, have a protector on the bed and for the love of god use proper support. Most mattresses have foam now a days and we sweat about 2 cups a night, that goes into the mattress and degrades the foam over a period of time. Your mattress doubles in weight after about 6-8 years and that’s all dust mites, dust mite byproducts and anything else nasty you can think of over that period of time. Do not put a new bed on old box springs or if on a platform, make sure it has more than 2-3 inches between slats. If it is more than that get a mini foundation or cut a piece of wood to length to get an extra bit of support. If anyone reads this I hope I taught you something today!

Jesus I would have to quit my job to finish all this on schedule

Thanks!

I first read the monthly section as "who the FUCK vacuums once a month?!" but then realized they meant to clean the actual vacuum itself...

Vacuum once a month

Laughs in Bernese Mountain Dog

I feel targeted

I just bought a house for the first time after renting for years. I'm feeling overwhelmed about taking care of such an investment and this was helpful, so thanks.

This taught me how to adult.

Could add in replacing home air filters!

What about sinks?

Always always cleaning

I haven't even walked in my kitchen in a couple weeks. I have a vacuum but it may be in the kitchen.

Or, stay with me, you mind ya damn business

Probably good for r/adulting as well

"Kitchen Cabinets (exterior) - Wipe down with a cleaning product, especially in spots exposed to the mess of cooking."

Useless!

Putting frozen lemon and vinegar cubes down the disposal seems fun and easy. I like things that are fun and easy.

I put lemon or other citrus peels with soap in the garbage disposal - cleans, smells good!

Saw vacuum on monthly, thought okay good there’s one that I can do. Clean the vacuum, not vacuum the house. I’m disgusting

Anyone else appreciate how the references were ordered to make a nice slope at the bottom?

opened this and said helll nah lol

My dog eats rotten meat and baby poop if he finds it. I doubt a slightly dirty bowl will make him sick.

I prefer to just make it the next guys problem

For washing machine it's indicated to run full tub of hot water and a quart of bleach thats almost litre of bleach is that right or I read it wrong.

Yea I don’t do any of that.

Not gonna do this.. This is Big Cleaning Supplies trying to get me to buy their products.

Your phone too

You know some of the house hold choirs you listed here are really important to actually maintain a proper and clean home. What I usually use to keep on track are Calender apps and this app called To-Do by Microsoft which helps remind me and keep on track to keeping my home clean. Really recommend it and this is a pretty cool guide nevertheless

I need a cool guide request: For my Air Frier basket. It's sticky and minging

It's a really good guide! I will save for never see it again.

Does anyone do this?

How bold of you if you think i take a bath

I wash my dogs water dishes with soap everytime I change them, otherwise there's a coating of slime on the bottom. I can't imagine how people let that slide

I do this stuff weekly on the weekends. I love waking up Monday morning to a clean house ready for the week.

That list is so long.

I don't know wtf is wrong with all the people in this comment thread. I study for 40-50 hours a week, work 10-20, play PC games, work out, cook for myself and enjoy the outdoors. There were two things on this list that I hadn't done (curtains and outside bins) it doesn't take long to keep your place clean, yeah the list is a little excessive but I bet all the people complaining here don't do this shit even half as often as it's suggesting, which would still be a fine amount. Keeping your place clean isn't hard people....

I haven't washed my bed sheets in 2 months

Yeah, no. The level of cleaning we do now should increase, but this is insane unless you have the resources to pay for help. Even as a family, this is too much to be realistic. I’ll print this for the maids when I win the lottery.

I wipe down my light switches a good once or twice a year

And not a word about your TV remote control?

I don't pay rent to have to clean shit, too.

Since when is the grill commonly neglected?

Rotate your furniture so it doesn't get sun marks, this is especially important for those with allergies

Uhh okay sure

Wow. That’s a long list. They’ll probably stay neglected at my house! Haha

/u/lptaccount

“Commonly Neglected Parts Of The Home”

1 - everything

..and what about my marriage?

Bruh them sources though

BROUGHT TO YOU BY WIKIHOW

DONT PUT ICE CUBES IN THE DISPOSAL. Ice is a myth. It damages the blades

Toilet... Most Neglected? That doesn't seem right.

Too much shit to clean for my liking.

Why isnt my body on this list?

Two things that I think they missed. Put the vacuum hose to the smoke detector! Get that dust out if there.

And change your furnace fileters at least twice a year.

Is there an app that can help me remind me when do do each of the recurring tasks?

How is the middle child not on this list?

Anyone else tap the picture think there was ten or so things. Not a cvs list?

Basement with enough cobwebs to make a stack of wool in minecraft, anyone ?

Wasn’t expecting it to be that big when I first clicked on it. Not gonna lie

Okay, I'm not a clean freak by any means, but you're all washing your comforter and pillows more than twice a year right?

Does anyone know where I can actually buy this print? It seems like a great thing to have on hand and turn into a checklist I can keep on the wall. If I just save the image I will never look at it again. Lol

Lol, no.

No way! My mother of 8 children had a wood plaque that read “My house is clean enough to be healthy and dirty enough to be happy”. I’m taking her perspective.

Hate to be negative, but this guide is terrible.

As someone that has dust allergies I gotta do most of this on a weekly basis. Otherwise I'll just sneeze all day everyday.

I find it totally ridiculous that modern washing machines need to be cleaned.

Fuck you I’m not washing all my kid’s toys every month.

My dishwasher has a filter in it? Fuck me I was just about to go buy a new one because it doesn't seem to clean dishes anymore.

For me the most neglected parts are every part.

Pet bowls every day?

Is every other year good enough

So many reasons to downsize right here

Who’s out here not cleaning their toilet regularly?!?

The quality of this is kinda rough on mobile. Anyone got a HD link for this?

The dryer vent one is important, especially if you have a long distance from the vent to the outdoor exhaust. Also, try not to have the dryer vent connecting to the wall above the dryer because gravity can make it collect there.

TIL many people's homes are disgusting. Some of these, sure, but who doesn't know to clean their toilette or bedsheets?!

Be careful cleaning tubs bc some cleaners could damages the enamel

Doesn't say which cleaners to use

Lol

Me clicking on the thumbnail to pull up an image a mile long: ded

Clearly paid for by the chimney sweeping union.

I'm going to disagree with "every two weeks" for doorknobs and light switches. My kids and their friends are filthy beasts. Doorknobs, light switches, and faucet handles get sprayed with Lysol every two days.

This is good, but I wish it was in pdf form or something i could copy/paste. It is text, after all.

Please don't wait a whole month to wash your sheets

I grew up with two total neat freaks. The vacuuming 4-5 times a week kind. The kind that insist you spray bleach in the toilet after every flush. The kind that measured the grass after you mowed.

This is insanity, pure and simple. If you’re gonna clean this often and this much, go live in a padded room in a loony bin. It’ll be much less stressful... for everyone.

Saved to never be reopened.

human oils retches

Can confirm the garbage disposal cleaning with ice cubes. And it works FANTASTICALLY!

I don't clean it regularly like I should. But I do use a commercial cleaner in a package that you stuff in the disposal, run a thin stream of hot water, turn it on, let it bubble until it stops and voila it's lemony-fresh. BUT...

One time in the last year it sounded like it wasn't running properly. Seemed to take forever to work. And this thing was rock solid for years. Never had to worry about it.

I found the ice cube tip on the internet. The source I read said it also sharpens the blades. Tried it. Took 2 loads of ice and everything was corrected. I was amazed by how well it worked!

So is this list just the entire house?

I wish my sisters could see this. They ever clesn their pets water bowls. When i asked why they are play with l the pink in the water bowls, they were defiant about how animals survive just fine in the wilds dirty water, at least their water is fresh.

i dont talk them anymore.

this is triggering my compulsivity 😭

I thought and still do think that my life is a disgraceful mess, but somehow I already know and do all this. Why do I still feel like a slob?

Y'all only vacuum once a month? Jesus we have a robot vac run daily and I do a deep clean with the big vac at least once a month.

As soon as I saw the length: no, I don’t think i will.

Nah

Reminds me of when my Mom visited me in my new apartment. I cleaned and cleaned and cleaned. She arrived, said it was nice but what about the track of the sliding doors? Looks like it could use a good cleaning.

L O L

A man needs a maid

Apparently they’ve discovered a new allergy to sun-faded rugs and furniture. (Re: Furniture & Rugs, Sun Exposure, under Annually)

Why isn't my heart on this list?

TLDR

I would like to add: the gutter. Definitely once a year!

Clean your PC.

I vacuumed and cleaned my Puppy’s bed for the first time day because of this. Whoops

This is the to do list from hell

I would have like to add:

Time frame to clean a natural gas or oil furnace; ( cleaning these furnaces, and draining and filling the water from the in-house heat is something not well known at all )

Time frame to clean out the septic tank or the sewer lines from the house; ( houses with clothes washer need attention almost every year because not all the washed lint and garbage goes to the city sewer, and narrows the sewer lines causing clogs and back ups ).

Cleaning computers, TV's, Monitors, audio equipment;

Cleaning house siding with a pressure washer is the house has plastic or wooden siding;

Repainting stairs;

Fire/smoke detector battery replacement;

There are a lot of others...

interesting

What's a garbage disposal? The image next to it looks like a fan.

Mark

/u/vredditshare

Thanks for the OCD!

Vacuum... monthly? My family does it like 3-4 times a week

I vacuum my carpets once a week? Surely doing it annually would be way too long

Monthly Vacuuming? I do it once or twice a week and most people I know do. Am i doing it wrong?

Lol vacuum monthly. I'd have a new carpet on my floor made entirely of my SO's hair.

Water softener? Bruh its water how the fuck is it supposed to be soft

Why so long?

I've not washed my dogs bowl in the 14 years I've had her. It's not made her sick yet.