I mop every day...maybe it's because I walk barefoot, so I notice the dirt very quickly.

I sweep (dust pan and brush) about 3-4 times a week. I don't think I have ever mopped though!

I've actually never bought a broom or a mop -- any recommendations for eco-friendly models?

When I was a kid, my mother wanted us to sweep the floor every night. It was part of dish duty. Now I sweep 3 or 4 times a week. But mopping? That's a different story...

I have a floor that attracts dirt like no other, and I still don't sweep/mop as much as I should. Now I probably sweep at least 3 times a week, and mop about every week and a half (though just with swiffer wet sweepers or whatever those are called). I should get down on my hands and knees and scrub, though. I hate my kitchen floor.

Sweep? Oh, once or twice a week. Mop?

I sweep after every meal, but this is solely because I have a two year old. Mopping happens probably once every two or so weeks. But really, if I didn't have a kid? Who knows how often I'd do it!

It really depends on how often I cook or make a mess. My apartment is small and the crumbs, dust bunnies etc get noticed quickly. I spot sweep with a dust pan and brush in front of the sink and oven all the time, at least once a day, usually after dinner dishes. The rest of the apartment once a week.

Mop? Hahhahaha... that's funny :)

Sweep at least once/ day, depending on how crumbly the meal was. I have 2 children under age 5, so if I don't sweep often, it gets tracked thru the house. My husband's a much better mopper & he gets to it about 2x/month. I will sometimes spot mop in between when my socks start getting dirty :)

Ha! What is this "sweeping" "mopping" you speak of?

Last night we swept the kitchen and gathered up enough cat hair to knit another cat....

I'm glad I'm not the only one that is this lax in their habits. I'm always a bit embarrassed by my sweeping/mopping infrequency. I sweep once a week....and I bought a mop when I moved to my new apartment 3 months ago and haven't used it yet. This has inspired me to put it on my to-do list for this weekend!

My roommate and I didn't own a mop for the first 2 years at this apartment. I finally bought a cheap one recently and now my Sunday ritual includes the kitchen floors: sweeping and "mopping" with a spray bottle of vinegar/water. And I sweep up little messes as I make them.

The rest of the house isn't so lucky.

I try to sweep all 750 SF of hard surface floors in our apartment once a week - and I too gather enough fur to replicate all both our cats and the dog. Yesterday however the sweeping duty went to my marathon-runner husband, who is still complaining that he is sore and tired from all the cleaning he had to do... probably a sign that we should both do it more often.

With three kids and a long-haired cat who likes to hang out in the kitchen, I usually need to sweep 2 times a day just to keep most of it from being dragged onto the living room carpet.

Mopping is another story. I usually spot the area around the sink and counter every few weeks but it definitely could use more frequent attention.

@apointe: I know a lot of people who like the Sh-mop. It basically is a metal pole with a rectangle that has a bunch of terrycloth or microfiber covers that are great at picking up dust. It also has a lot of flat surface area that is great at doing the job quickly.You can soak the covers in hot water, or water/vinegar, wring them and then mop with them, or you can just get them damp and then spray your vinegar/water directly on the floor and do it that way. My mom has a Sh-mop and typically will go through about 2 covers each time she does the kitchen, fewer in less dirty rooms. You can use a dry one to dry the floor after if you like. The covers clean up nicely in the washing machine, unlike other sponge mops or string mops, which in my experience are so good at trapping dirt, I feel like I sometimes make my floor dirtier by mopping with them.

I sweep as needed throughout the week. Around the catbox every day. My boyfriend made these reusable swiffer pads for me:

http://blueeyedmexican.blogspot.com/2008/09/wfmw-reusable-swiffer-wetjet-pads.html

I live in a small place with a fake wood floor, so it's nice to swiffer without using up all those awful disposable pads. Plus the microfiber towels are way tougher on dirt and stuff. I usually do that once a week, and spot clean as needed (depending on what we cook!)

this might sound bizarre, but i a) clean up any food spills immediately, b) vacuum the whole (800 sq ft) apartment 4-5 times a week, and c) generally wipe down the kitchen floor on a night that i use it (rag, dish soap, hot water, hands and knees). i also mop the rest of my hardwood around twice a week...

my answer would be not often enough. My boyfriend usually ends up sweeping whenever he does the dishes though, score!

My floor could use a little more TLC though. Because I'm a messy cook.

I don't sweep - waste of energy - I vaccuum. Sweeping never gets all of the dirt off the floor. I don't use a traditional mop. I use a steamer, which gets floors squeaky clean. BTW, I don't do any of this, my husband does and I believe he does it twice a week (the upstairs and downstairs, including the stairs). Poor hubby.

I usually sweep once or twice a week. I probably should do it more often but we have 3 dogs so anything that falls on the floor usually is "swept" up by them. Mopping is only done when company is coming over =)

Our habits are like Emma's. We vacuum the kitchen once a week and mop every month or two. It isn't ideal, but with wood floors, I'm wary of mopping more often. Oh, and lazy.

When we were first married we swept the floor once a week! We didn't even cook in our kitchen every day - both of us worked incredibly long hours. We have friends with a couple of kids who swept every day and I was astonished... how bad could it be!!! Well now that we have a couple of kids of our own we sweep the whole floor after every single meal - trust me it needs it. Last one to finish gets to sweep!!! I mop the floor every day - its just nicer for everyone to live with... the thought of a car scooting through breadcrumbs or picking up crayons from amongst food spills - I just can't do it... I guess with kids we are cleaner than without!!!

I live by myself and it has made me very lazy. My housekeeping anymore is kind of embarrasing. I'd like to have someone over but that would really entail running the vacuum and mopping. I try to hit the floor with a swiffer once a week but that only accomplishes so much. I really can't wait till week three's deep cleaning. My kitchen desperately needs it and I'm hoping that getting started in one room will inspire me to carry that through to the rest of the apartment...

I don't get the point of sweeping. You always end up with some crud that you can't get off the floor.

I vacuum once a week and probably mop every other week.

I sweep as needed (usually 2x week) and usually mop every weekend with the Swiffer WetJet. How often do I bust out a real mop and bucket? Maybe every other month or so or before we have guests over.

Vacuum every other day, mop one to two times weekly. Our little guy is a Kix-scatterer! And I cook a ton, so some always ends up on the floor, despite my best efforts.

I don't. Thank god I have a housekeeper who does it once a week or I wouldn't get around to it until things started crunching underfoot or my shoes got stuck to the floor.

Not so much sweeping as vacuuming, whenever I'm vacuuming everything else - every couple of weeks, give or take, with maybe some kitchen sweeping in between. And I've always been a poor mopper, but have adopted a habit recently that seems to be working better: when the sink is empty, I'll mop with the sponge mop, rinsing the mop under running water to rinse it out before continuing the mopping. It's a galley kitchen, so it doesn't take long. One of the main things that's always irritated me about mopping is that if you're using a bucket of water, it's immediately dirty, so it doesn't really feel like anything's getting clean. So, while probably not the greenest, my new rinsing-under-the-faucet method is working much better for me so I at least wash the floor periodically.

I don't have particularly high standards, but our kitchen floor gets disgusting if we don't sweep, well, at least a couple times a week and mop every fortnight or so. Not to say that we DO that, but we really need to.

You people who don't mop - don't you have drips? Bleah. Maybe I'm just a sloppy cook. (Sorry, this is a fiery issue in my house. My husband doesn't seem to notice the gross.)

mmm yeah. kids and pets - vacuum almost daily and sweep around the catbox every other day or so. mop? wood floors, so mopping is... sporadic. in my defense i do spot clean.

I sweep or get out the DustBuster when the floor needs it. If the kitchen floor begins to look like the garden, then I get down on my knees with a wet rag and give it a good cleaning.

I sweep just about every day, sometimes twice a day. Young kids (2 under 6), and lots of crumbs!

We have a cleaning lady (who we couldn't live without!), who washes all the floors once a week. And in the mean time of course, I spot clean.

I sweep and mop my kitchen (and bathroom) floor every night.

Eco friendly mop apointe? How about your foot and a dishrag? I cook pretty much Monday through Friday in my tiny kitchen and every other night or the nights i get messy with my cooking, i use a little dish soap, and baking powder scattered on the linoleum, i drop the dishrag on floor and use my foot to scrub around applying more pressure when needed but gerally sweeping the rag around over the entire floor. It's a good workout too feels like yoga and works like a charm!

krapartist, your comment made me laugh, i was just thinking the same though.

i tend to vacuum once a week and mop 1-2x/month. and of course any patch spills that may happen in the course of a day. like the bag of quinoa that i am still cleaning up after spilling its contents entirely a week ago!

I'm brutal, I usually try to sweep once a week but I'm currently stupidly busy/pregnant so my housekeeping skill have gone down the drain. And I never mop, I'm a wash it on the hands and knees type girl. Probably because I've never lived in a big house.

This post makes me feel a lot better. I sweep... when I can't help but notice it needs it. I don't really ever mop. Usually what happens is the dog slops water and I drop a dish towel on the floor, stand on it and use the spilled water to shuffle along the kitchen while I'm standing on the towel.

I think if someone other than my boyfriend and I ate at my house, I might actually be more strict about it.

We have to sweep once a week. With two dogs, the excess fur builds up quick.

As far as mopping, I brew beer at home on the back porch, and the kitchen is my staging area, so it always gets mopped after brew day with all the in and out with wet shoes. We have cleaning ladies that come once a month, and they do it if I haven't brewed lately.

I sweep at least once a week due to our Corgi who likes to attack anything that moves. Sweeping as well as vacuuming is a coordinated activity- someone has to take the dog for a walk whilst the other cleans.

I run barefoot and can't stand to feel icky stuff touching my feet! So I sweep daily. I wipe up any dribbles immediately, but only actually pull out the mop every couple of weeks.

I sweep the room with a glance...

We sweep and mop almost daily. Well, let me rephrase...my husband is in charge of the floors and HE sweeps and mops almosts daily. With a 20 month old toddler dropping crumbs all over the house, a 50 lb white labrador retriever and two messy cooks in the house, we can't stand it any other way.

i sweep my kitchen every other day and the whole apartment once a week. i too use the old foot and dishrag method as i go with vinegar and water, and then do a thorough mopping once a week in the kitchen/bathroom. on the hardwoods in the rest of my apartment, i do a dust mop once a week to keep the bunnies at bay and a proper murphy's oil soap mopping at least once a month.

I used to swept once every 2 to 3 wks, mopped once every 3 months. After one of us sneezes so much, I weep 2x wk, mop once two weeks and vacuum twice a week. The sneezing has improved.

Sweep and mop? Do you mean Dustbust and Swiffer?

Actually, I can no longer Swiff since discovering that the wetjet solution was giving my kitty hotspots.

I can't recall the last time I did anything but Dustbust or spotclean. It's a small kitchen, small apartment; I really don't want to dedicate space to a bucket and another mop. (Bathroom has mini mop and washable mats on the floor. COnvenivent homey.)

I try to sweep once a week. I mop by feel of the floor. I hate it so. I have tile throughout my house and it is quite a chore to mop the entire kitchen, den, hallway all the way down to the hallway with the bedrooms and the bathrooms. Sometimes I wish I had wood floors instead. The mopping really only needs to be done once a month in the main hallway. But I admit the kitchen could be done at least once a week.

I cook every night and we also have 2 Labs...our entire house is hardwood floors, so I sweep 2000 sqft every single day. Luckily I have one of those giant dust mops that I use for everything and I can have it all done within 15 minutes. If we don't sweep everyday, the pet hair will coat the floor and I can't stand that.
I also mop every other week and spot clean every night.

lotusmoss - the Sh-mop looks SO much more effective than my swiffer, which I think only picks up about 50% of what's actually on the floor!

MissMarked - I like the idea of yoga while I mop! I'll have to try this!

I sweep every day! Two times a day if I am home all day. I love wearing socks and can't stand the thought of getting cat hair, food, dirt, etc. on them and then cuddling up on my couch and getting the couch all dirty. Yes, I am a control freak. But I do get compliments on my clean house. :-)

And jonnifer's got a point. If you don't have any carpet and you have animals, you pretty much have to sweep every day. I have a few rugs down on the hardwoods to catch fur, but they don't quite do the trick.

twice a week I sweep and I mop on the weekends.

My mom made us sweep every night... and like dusting (my other regular chore growing up) I rarely do either now that I'm an adult. We "sweep" with the vacuum once a week if we are lucky and my husband "mops" (with the method O mop) whenever he gets around to it... maybe twice a month if we have company.

Swiffer about 2-3 times a week, vacuum about once a week, spot clean in between. 500 sq. feet two gray kitties two people cooking almost constantly = a fair amount of dirt.

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