I watch a lot of turning YouTubes, and I do mean A LOT!
One thing I noticed is the sheer amount of shavings on the floor and on the lathe.
So, I’ve got a quick question. Do you vacuum after each session? Or do you let the stuff pile up?

When I first started turning, I cleaned up after every session.  Then I got lazy.  Today, I let shavings and dust accumulate until I can no longer stand the disorder. 

I keep an old plastic garbage can in the shop that serves as a stand/holder for a plastic bin liner.  So once a month (or thereabouts),  I will sweep up the shavings and stash them in the plastic bin liner.  I also use that as a place to dispose of the waste from the paper shredder in my office, and when it gets full, it goes out with the garbage.

I typically use either paper towel or toilet paper to apply finish, and when I am done, I drape the oily paper over the edge of the bin liner for a few days until the oil cures before tipping it over into the shavings and shredded paper. 

But there are some areas in my shop that aren't touched in that ordinary cleaning routine - under/behind the lathe stand, for example.  So every couple of years I get out the shop vac and do a thorough cleaning.  Seem to turn up a few dead mice whenever I do that.

I try to vac and clean up a bit after each session, then do a more thorough cleaning when it starts to get too much.

Depends.  If I'm doing something like a batch of rolling pins where I get little chips of wood, at the end of the day I'll just sweep everything into a pile under the lathe.  If I'm roughing a batch of bowls, then I'll usually scoop up the majority of the shavings at the end of the day. (keeps rust down once I had the leveling bolts on the lathe start rusting from being covered in wet shavings).

Louie, you & I are pretty much tuned the same. There's nothing tween lathe & floor so shavings pile up against the wall where I sweep (kick) them until they begin to kick back & and I whack em wid my shovel.  I have a stand-alone shop so twice a yr I grab my electric leaf blower & blow all da dust out da door.

just hauled off two 30 gal. cans full of curlies and a 15 gal barrel from the dust collector and no i didn't sweep ;) maybe later.  does that help answer your question?

I actually have more problems with the wood cutoffs from the bandsaw, etc. Shavings though bulky are fairly light and don't rip bags. I tend to wait till I have a problem, and it becomes the 'job of the day'. >:(

David I know what you mean.  I have a couple of plastic trash cans I put cut offs in.  But the chunks from rounding bowl blanks are a pain.  They don't even stack nicely on the firewood stacks.

I guess i'm lucky enough that the local tree dump allows us to cut log sections for blanks, or fire wood, and return ashes and saw dust, curlies and cutoffs to the burn pile. Guess there's something to be said for living in small town kansas  [smiley=023.gif]