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Cleaning Routine
So when I first got married I had one down packed. Laundry was done on Wed and Sat and Sundays was cleaning day. But somehow or another I got off track.
Does anyone have a cleaning routine that works for them? I looked at the Cleaning Lady routine from the Cleaning and Organizing board but it was too OCD for me IMO. TIA
Re: Cleaning Routine
I tried to make Wednesday my official cleaning day (until the new season of Lost starts...lol) but I got off track too...
I'm thinking of doing a little each day and clear up the weekend fro having to clean. Maybe I'll do the 20 min timer idea.
I'm open to suggestions too.
Yeah Jackie that's what I was talking about. I forgot the exact name but I meant flylady. Its kind of confusing to me and the steps just don't seem to get to the point fast enough.
Like I think the first step is shine your sink or something. And then something else. I don't know, I just wasn't patient enough to go through the steps. I'm sure it works for other people though.
I'm looking for a routine that's makes the daily upkeep the least time consuming yet covers everything.
Oh okay. I don't do flylady myself, but I know some women that swear by it. But most of them are homemakers. I don't have a jobn right now, but I am looking, and I think that flylady would be great for women that are OCD about their homes, but I'm not!
I don't have a set day for doing certain chores, but after dinner DH and I will do chores. One of us will take the kitchen, and the other will do something around the house - bathrooms, trash, clutter patrol.....whatever needs to be done. Then when the kitchen is done, we quit. It really does help!
I am a neat freak about the house! I do laundry on Saturday and once a month all the towels and all the sheets get washed (also on Saturday). I try to do one thing every day after dinner to clean the house. I vaccum 3 times a week and mop twice a week. Then Saturdays are usually deep cleans - i.e. bathrooms, re-organize the closet, re-organize the drawers, deep clean the kitchen.
The kitchen pretty much gets clean every day after dinner. I can't stand a cluttered dirty kitchen. Drives me UP THE WALL!
Your best bet would be to do one thing every single day in the evening. Just pick one chore - de-clutter, vaccum, mop, dust, clean the bathroom, etc. This helps bring everything down so you don't spend one entire day cleaning.
I would keep doing laundry one day a week - that's a great idea in my opinion because it keeps water costs down!
Does that help at all?
Yes it does. Wow Jenny you vaccum three times a week? You're so totally R's daughter! Yeah I'd probably lose ten pounds if I did that. Its such a pain in the ass to have to take the vaccum upstairs. Right now we only vaccuum once a week if its a good week.
D dirtys clothes too quickly to only do laundry once a week. He changes so often I can't keep up. When I try to keep it to just once a week he complains that his stuff isn't available. Which is redic because you know how many clothes he has!
I hate waking up to a messy kitchen but sometimes Im so tired that I just cant imagine staying up for another 30 minutes to clean it.
Cleaning is so overrated. My most hated chore is cleaning the bathrooms. And it doesn't help that I have 2.5 of them! Ugh having to go up and down with the cleaning supplies is such a pain. I can't wait to live in a one story house again!
Sorry for going on a rant. Vent over. Thanks! I think I'm going to go with one major chore a day like vaccuming, dusting, decluttering, deep cleaning of kitchen, and then leave the heavy stuff like bathroom cleaning for Sundays. Let's see how that works.
Yea! I'm glad I could help. Tonight is Stuffed Shells.
lol. It helps me a ton and helps me stay on budget for groceries becuase I buy the stuff I need in one trip and am done!
J wants to move into a two story house and my argument is also hauling the vaccum up an down the stairs. UGH. I like one story houses - but we're not even in the market right now so it doesn't even matter! Damn buying a house during the bubble!
I hate living in 2 story! Little things like being softly tucked into bed and about to drift off into sleep and then forgetting something you need downstairs is really annoying.
I guess its harder for me to be used to it because I didn't grow up in a two story house. I know people that love it. They think its more "homey".
I totally think that's what it is - we both grew up in one story homes! J grew up in a THREE story house so imagine forgetting something ALL the way downstairs. Blah.
I totally think that's what it is - we both grew up in one story homes! J grew up in a THREE story house so imagine forgetting something ALL the way downstairs. Blah.
To me I hate having to do everything at once. It makes me want to put it off so instead I do one or two things each night. That way it takes me about 20 minutes each day instead of a couple hours on one day. In my mind it makes it better
I usually vacuum on Mon and Thurs, steam clean tile on Friday, laundry on Tues and Sun, Bathrooms on Mon and Thurs, Dusting and de-cluttering on Wednesday. DH and I clean up the kitchen together everyday after dinner. With both of us it's quick and painless. Once a month or so I will take a Sunday morning and do a DEEP clean (dusting floor mouldings, cleaning our fridge and freezer, moving furniture to vaccum, scrubbing grout as needed, etc). When I do that it usually takes me about an hour and a half to two hours