Cleaning & Organizing
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cleaning tips
Hi, I was just wondering what you all do in terms of your cleaning routine. How often do you clean your floors (we have mostly wood)? Do you and DH clean every Saturday and for how long? Do you clean a little bit every day, or a little bit on specific days of the week, or is it just random? We are new home owners and I'm trying to establish some sort of routine to get us in the groove of cleaning. Sometimes we'll go a while without cleaning and it gets rather gross! We are very busy and just wondering how you all fit cleaning in your busy schedules. Thanks!
Re: cleaning tips
I find it easiest to do the "deep cleaning" on the weekends, by the time I get off work, work out, cook dinner and eat i'm exhausted! here is what i do daily vs. the weekends:
Daily:
Wipe down kitchen countertops (usually after cooking)
Unload/load dishwasher
start a load of laundry - i do this as soon as i get home so while i am working out it can be washing. then when i'm done i can cool down by hanging up the delicates and starting the dryer.
once a week:
bathrooms
dust master bedroom
clean stainless steel appliances in kitchen + sink
clean stove (i cook alot though)
every other week:
floors - we have all hard wood floors. best hard wood floor cleaner is Hoover, hard wood floor cleaner.
dust kitchen cabinets and cabinets on either side of tv.
hope this helps!!
the best thing i have found is get up no later than 7:30 am on the weekends. I get SO much more done when i start early and if I have worked really hard during the day I might take a 30 min afternoon nap for a little re-charge
Where have you been my whole life??? Your household binder=amazing and I need it in my life. Seriously. Market it. Sell it. Make millions of dollars. Ok maybe not millions, and I am pretty excited right now, but I'm sure you could put some cute ones together on etsy and include a disk/flash drive with additional templates!
Ok I'm now done gossiping about the household binder. On to cleaning. I'm horrible at cleaning. I blame my mother, she is aware of this. My mother was and still is horrible at cleaning. She vacuums fewer times than she has fingers. She vacuums for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter. Three times during the summer, once when school lets out (she's a teacher), once when the grandkids come to visit for 2 weeks, and once right before she goes back to school. Then periodically as the cat hair reaches knee level.
Don't get the wrong impression, the house is not disgustingly filthy, is comfortably lived in. I attribute my wonderful immune system to her lack of disinfecting every surface.
How I clean: I clean as I go. If I am in the kitchen cooking, load and unload the dishwasher, clean the countertops, etc. Taking the trash/recycling out? Clean the cans. Waiting for the shower to heat up? Wipe down the counter/sink.
You will find that you have that few little minutes while your waiting for the perfect al dente pasta (7-8 minutes) that you can do something useful. 7-8 minutes is not much time, but its the perfect amount of time to quick clean your kitchen.
I fold/hang all of my clothes straight out of the dryer, in the laundry room. If I don't they get dumped into a basket, forgotten for a week, I end up wearing my green lantern t-shirt to work again, and they get rewashed the next week because the wrinkles have taken over.
FI is HORRIBLE about picking up his dirty clothes. Honestly he is 6'4" and takes a t-shirt off and drops it on the floor next to the hamper instead of in it. Wouldn't it be easier from that height to drop it in the hamper? I don't have this problem. So we put a small laundry basket next to his side of the bed and I go and wrangle his clothes into it as I make the bed. Once it gets full I separate it into the hamper.