With kids home all day and day care kids, I vacummed several times a day. Now just one child at home during school hours and no day care kids, I vacumm at least one time per week, but usually every two or three days.
For help with making cleaning routines, I strongly suggest
www.flylady.netShe has a "weekly house blessing" routine 7 or so tasks, 10 minutes to do each one, so a little more than an hour for all...including vacumn,sweep, dusting etc. The key is not to obsess and just get as much done in the 10 minutes alloted for the task as you can.
Fabulous web site!!