Cleaning Routine

[kelly237]

I have my son's dog right now because he has been out of the country.
That adds lots of dog hair.

But the dog will be gone in a few weeks. I will miss the dog but not the hair.

[bookspage]

Originally Posted by reneeh63

To break up your cleaning into daily pieces you have to psychologically accept/resign yourself to never seeing the house fully clean at any one time. Sometimes that's the only thing that motivates me is to see the vacuumed carpets, clean floors and dusted furniture gleaming! Otherwise it just seem like you're not really accomplishing much to have a clean bathroom when everything else looks the same.

That's the hard part.

For me the key is to have a good daily routine for the most-used areas so nothing ever gets too dirty in the meantime.

[kelly237]

I just worked on a list of 15 minute tasks that would cover all the cleaning except for
special tasks like blinds, ceiling fans.

I came up with about 14 tasks.

They are on my iPhone reminder list and I can check off what I do. If I dust/vacuum & mop
on the weekend I can do the other tasks during the week. I can also experiment
with other ways to split it up.
By checking off what I get done daily I will know what has been done and what needs to be done.

Lists motivate me so maybe this will help.

[Schmooky]

I used to do something roughly like this:

Monday - mop and vacuum
Tuesday - downstairs and guest bathroom
Wednesday - dusting
Thursday - kitchen scrub and wall cleaning
Friday - yard work
Saturday - master bathroom
Sunday - rest and seasonal tasks

This took me roughly half an hour every day and worked so well. I only changed it after four kids because we had to spend so much time with school that it cut into the cleaning blocks. The other nugget of wisdom I have is that if any one room takes more than fifteen minutes to get perfectly ready for company, you have too much stuff to shuffles and a declutter and organizing is in order.