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Do you ladies have a cleaning schedule
Do you tackle the whole thing over one day??? Do you do small projects throughout the week?? I need some kind of regiment to go by so it doesn't end up being an all day hassle.
Re: Do you ladies have a cleaning schedule
Cleaning schedule?? You're funny.
When I have more downtime with school, I generally try to do one or two big things per day - so Fridays I'll clean the bathrooms and vaccum, Thursdays I'll clean the kitchen good, Wednesdays I'd wash/put away laundry, including changing the sheets, Tuesdays I try and get our office under control, and Monday is a miscellaneous day. That way I don't end up cleaning all day on the weekends. I also have a schedule where I'm working from home for about half the week.
In reality, like now, when I'm slammed with school stuff, I do only what I absolutely have to, and usually on Fridays. My FI is great about running the vaccum, washing and putting up dishes, and laundry, so when I get busy, I just tell him and he picks up on doing stuff.
I tried Fly Lady, and while it was good for a while, once I got really busy again, she made me mad with all her demands.
I second Flylady.net!!
I just wish I could follow it. I am a believer in organized chaos.
For example, I'll tackle the bathroom counters and toilets at the same time. Then, I'll do all the wood furniture/dusting. I clean the showers and bathroom tile at the same time. Sometimes all of this happens on the same day, and some of it over a couple days. In general, everything gets done once a week.
Vacuuming is a little different because I do it more frequently. I vacuum downstairs (where the dogs are) every other day. I vacuum upstairs once a week.
Laundry is always on the fly
We used to do the whole procrastinate until Sunday, then spend the entire day cleaning thing.
Then when I picked up a second job life got hectic, I got stressed and we decided to hire a housekeeper. She comes every other week and does all the deep cleaning, our laundry, etc.
On her off weeks DH and I do the laundry weekly and the dishes almost daily, and that's about it.
I wish I operated on more of a schedule! I have heard great things about Flylady.com, my problem is that I usually can't stick to just tasks, like only cleaning the countertops or whatever. I just like it all to be clean at once, so I guess I focus more on the room as a whole.
I have found that usually on Sunday, I will take a stab at freshening up the whole house. And usually, once a month, I go at it really hard with things like pledging all the wood, dusting blinds, vacuuming around baseboards really good, etc. Twice a year or so, I go after the crazy stuff like washing down the baseboards, cleaning all windows and blinds, cleaning fans, crap like that.
Day to day stuff, if laundry is piling up on me, I try to wash a load during the week...same with dishes. I clean the kitchen and living room nightly. I have a stick vac that I try and run over the tile and wood every few nights....since Monkey's kitty litter and hairballs try to make their way around the house.
So....yeah, as you can see, no schedule here! LOL.