Now I know that seems like a no-brainer. For some folks (so I hear) it’s daily. For others it’s weekly. Around here, the schedule is flexible. Very flexible. I just finished cleaning them both tonight. Here’s what I’ve discovered.
If you only clean them once every 2 months, they are just as clean afterwards as if you cleaned them every week.
If you only clean them every 2 months, yes you might have to squirt cleaner on the stains twice in order for them to rub off easily, but it still saves lots of cleaner over cleaning them every week. (Hence, it’s more frugal to clean every 2 months.)
If you only clean them every 2 months, you can get a lot of other things done in the hour or (when I’m moving slowly as at this stage of pregnancy) hour and a half that you would spend cleaning the bathrooms every week. In 2 months, that’s 12 hours of time you would have spent cleaning the bathrooms that you can use to work on special projects.
If you only clean them every 2 months, you won’t be very tempted to have spur-of-the-moment company because you won’t want them to use your filthy bathrooms.
Last, but not least,
If I only clean them every 2 months, all of the above is true, plus I nearly go insane because I can hardly stand dirt and filth!
As I was cleaning them this evening, huffing and puffing away (I have reduced lung capacity, remember), I mentioned to Andrew that I hadn’t learned the tricks and ways of other pregnant women who have managed to beguile their husbands into believing that no pregnant lady is able to clean a bathroom or wash a floor, and therefore the husband does all that for the entire pregnancy.
Andrew responded with something to the effect that confirmed my suspicions (if I was to try that on him): the bathroom and floors just wouldn’t get cleaned for 9 months.
Hahaha!! 9 months… eww. I don’t know that Daniel ever washed the kitchen floor for me, but I did ask him to sweep and wash the bathroom floor a time or two, and I think I asked him to clean the bathtub once, too. Both times it was getting REALLY bad and I was just sore enough (and our bathroom is about 1/4 the size of yours) and big enough that I positively couldn’t bear the thought of doing it myself. And he was nice and did it for me
I’m glad I married Daniel and not Andrew 
Well, me too! If you had married Andrew, I would be up a creek, especially since he was already married to me!
Oh, congratulations to Daniel on doing menial domestic duties for you. I’m sure that’s not the first thing on his “romantic things to do for my wife” list.
Well, I’ve never been pregnant, but I think I married the best guy! I’m glad I didn’t marry Andrew or Daniel! Ha, Ha, Ha!
I’ve never been preg. but I feel I have had my share of surgeries that make doing some things difficult, but I think I got the best guy!!!! He vaccumed the house for me, and has loaded the dishwasher and done the laundry and even made the bed with new sheets when I have been under the weather from surgery, now thats a good man for ya!!! I’m glad I have him instead of any of ya’lls!!!
Well, I don’t think James even has a “romantic list” or a domestic duty list either! He has become fairly adept at hitting the clothes hamper when he thinks the pile by his chair is too deep, or someone’s coming. Oh, he did move his big bear head off of the island this past wk.!!!!! I held my breath every time cooking/splattering was occurring near it, and told him after Christmas when he put it there that it was a dangerous spot! I am so conscious of training my boys to be helpful, and James does back me up….but I am always thinking EXAMPLE, EXAMPLE, EXAMPLE!!!!!!!!
This post made me laugh…AND the comments! You girls are so funny.
Sally, you know I like FlyLady’s principles. At the risk of overstepping my bounds and being annoying, can I suggest that you learn about her swish & swipe for the bathroom? I used to definitely be a “I’ll put off cleaning this bathroom until it’s disgusting” kind of person, but now in less time than it takes me to brush my teeth, I keep my bathroom clean every day. It’s true. Why didn’t I start doing this a long time ago?
I hope I’m not being too pushy.
Well, for all you folks that have the “best” guy, I would like to throw in that my man is the best. He never questions me, actually, he never talks at all, he doesn’t care if I get up and go somewhere or fly to the moon, and he doesn’t care if I don’t make dinner or clean my room or the bathroom for more than a week. My man is invisible and nameless……that has got to be the best one!