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TrendyNannie6 Sun 17-May-20 10:25:12

Having conversation with friend this morning she was asking me, how often do I vacuum, and was I doing it more since lockdown or less, I’d say it’s the same, I don’t go into every room every day no, but I do vacuum downstairs everyday and clean my floors, she was saying she vacuums once a week, she has no pets so no flurries of pet hair,

pollyperkins Sun 17-May-20 13:36:01

I wish there was a like button!

Callistemon Sun 17-May-20 12:56:52

No, I would not wish to wear out my hoover

grin

I do have one of those handheld rechargeable vacuums and can pick up the occasional dead fly, cake crumbs etc with that daily.

Otherwise - well, no-one is visiting are they.

Daisymae Sun 17-May-20 12:50:52

Once a week. Not so much at the moment

sodapop Sun 17-May-20 12:48:06

I vacuum every day due to three dogs and a cat. Often need to have a quick second whip round If we are having visitors. Fortunately we have hard floors throughout.
It doesn't matter how many times I brush my JR he still has lots of loose hair.

GagaJo Sun 17-May-20 12:44:02

I'm working full time from home, actually BlueBelle, but like downstairs at least clean and tidy at the end of the day. I like to relax after teaching/planning/marking AND spending time with DGS. Dinner, bath, bed, tidy, hoover and ahhhhhhhh

Blinko Sun 17-May-20 12:39:58

We don't have pets, so I do it when I feel like it. My cleaner's back this coming week anyway. Problem solved.

BlueBelle Sun 17-May-20 12:36:28

Thank goodness some other people got other things to do (even in lockdown) not just me I love the cobwebs on my hoover and my iron they really so pretty

henetha Sun 17-May-20 12:15:56

Good grief, no! I hate hate hate it..... it does dreadful things to my back. I only hoover when forced to do so at the point of a gun.

DanniRae Sun 17-May-20 12:08:50

I only vacuum when it needs it. I have far better things to do - like being on Gransnet!! wink

Rosalyn69 Sun 17-May-20 12:00:18

I hoover the kitchen diner every day - dog hair.
The bedrooms - hmm probably when I have nothing better to do.

merlotgran Sun 17-May-20 12:00:17

I get the hoover out when Peggy's hair starts skittering across the floor like tumbleweed! grin

Purplepixie Sun 17-May-20 11:58:51

No, no, no!!!! I think I put the hoover away and a cobweb grew over it so I just left it there! grin smile

farview Sun 17-May-20 11:58:06

I used to do before lockdown...crumbs,tiny bits of paper where grandchildren had been cutting out shapes,dirt,leaves,grass etc trailed into the house by grandchildren...so just vacuum once a week now...floors eerily clean....

dragonfly46 Sun 17-May-20 11:52:52

I am with kitty despite having a very hairy dog staying with us I only vacuum when absolutely necessary - I am not sure how to empty it!
I do have a little Dyson though which picks up the leaves he walks in!

Tweedle24 Sun 17-May-20 11:49:10

I don’t have to wait for my cats to go outside before I use the vacuum EllenVannin.. They shoot out of the catflap the minute they see me put my hand on the vacuum to take it out of the cupboard, I don’t think it causes them any irreparable mental damage because they are back in soon after the cleaner is put away.

pollyperkins Sun 17-May-20 11:46:08

No way! I hate vacuuming and only do it when it looks as if it needs it, or when visitors are coming, so hardly ever at the moment. No pets and DH is very tidy - he sometimes gets a few crumbs up with a hand held thingy. He’s fussier than me and sometimes vacuums the whole house if visitors are coming. I do sweep up crumbs on kitchen floor fairly frequently with a long handled dustpan & brush though. And clean the bathrooms when they need it.

grandtanteJE65 Sun 17-May-20 11:43:23

I vacuum when I think the floors need it.

We live quite happily with cat hair, though I do regularly brush said cat.

Witzend Sun 17-May-20 11:40:46

Our dog used to hide behind the sofa when I was vacuuming. and bark at it if it dared to come too near. I think she’d have liked to do battle with it and kill it, but was alas too much of a scaredy-dog. She once hid behind the sofa when a dd’s friend brought his house-rabbit for a visit!

Tangerine Sun 17-May-20 11:35:53

Once a week but I do use a carpet sweeper after about three days. A lot depends on the colour of your carpets and the type of flooring you have generally. Also, having pets or young children may make a difference.

It doesn't do carpets much good to keep going over them with a vacuum cleaner.

GagaJo Sun 17-May-20 11:35:20

At least every other day, due to the muck of DGS. When I lived here on my own, it was more like once a week. I don't make a lot of mess.

Love him but I DO miss the tidy tranquil house I used to have! However, it'll be back all too soon when he grows so I try to ignore the mess most of the time.

EllanVannin Sun 17-May-20 11:34:46

I have to choose the time when the cats are outside as they don't like the hoover one bit.
It must seem like a monster when they see its lights coming towards them, which means that I don't hoover every day. When the weather's really fine the cats will be out sitting in the sun so it's then that I get really cracking.

Maybe next week when we're promised good weather I might even move things instead of hoovering around them.smile

Witzend Sun 17-May-20 11:32:48

Maybe once a week, whether it needs it or not. ?
Was def. a lot more often when we had a cat and a dog, both now RIP.
But nearly always just before any guests are due,, so I can pretend the house always looks like that.

For the odd few bits I have a lovely old-fashioned Ewbank - very efficient for a quick pick-up without all the faff of getting the hoover out. A friend was going to chuck it - I gave it a new and loving home.

Tweedle24 Sun 17-May-20 11:31:35

Every couple of days; more if cats have been play fighting leaving clumps of black and tortoiseshell fur on the carpets.

glammanana Sun 17-May-20 11:27:20

About 3 times a week removing cat and dog hairs where they have left their presence known.I have never known a place that has so many cobwebs as my bungalow they spring up overnight its unbelievable sometimes where they come from ? thank goodness for my long extention.

jude2006 Sun 17-May-20 11:27:00

Yes, I love hoovering, downstairs is done every day and upstairs once or twice a week!
My husband and son say they will bury me with my hoover!!!