Hate housework but cannot bear an environment that is messy and untidy, so I have a housework routine that means if I skip a week or so it doesn't matter. I always do a normal clean before going on holiday so that I return to a clean tidy home with no need to do anything but holiday washing for at least a week.
Couldn't give a toss what the neighbours think, or the police, if they have to come in in our absence - and that has happened twice when we have had break-ins. We have very nice neighbours but it is our house and they can think what they like about how we keep it.
DS & DDiL had a break-in when they were away. Police were chorrified by the extent the burglars had turned the house over . DDiL's mother, who lived locally, had to tell them it wasn't the burglars, it was the occupants who left the house like that. It was very small, they did have a lot of stuff and things are much tidier now they have moved.