Weekly cleaning Schedule

The House That Clean's Itself: The Power of a Weekly Cleaning Schedule I've been using a cleaning schedule for several years now, and when I'm good about keeping up with it, I really feel like my house cleans itself. With just a few 15-minute tasks a day, I have a presentable house pretty much all the time - and that's not a small feat with five kids, a dog, and two cats. I'll share my weekly cleaning schedule below. But first, here are four rules that make it work for me… 1. Good Enough Means Done Don't be too thorough. Aim to keep each task up to 15 minutes. Do what you can do in that amount of time, a la Flylady. It doesn't have to be perfect; you'll get to do it again next week (or sooner for chores you do more than once a week). Just get it done. 2. Keep Cleaning Supplies Very Close If it takes you 5 minutes just to gather up all your cleaning supplies, you're wasting time you could be using to actually clean. Keep rags and cleaning products in each bathroom so you can easily grab and clean, for example, and house kitchen cleaning supplies under the sink. An inexpensive cleaning caddy will be your best friend here. 3. Plan Strategically to Save Time In addition to saving time by storing products where you use them, save time by thinking about how you use them. For instance, if you haul out the vacuum to clean your bedroom carpet, make that day you vacuum all the bedroom carpets (rather than, say, cleaning your bedroom and bathroom in one day). 4. Keep Yourself Accountable Make a laminated printable and cross off items, or use an app. Tody is an app available in the Apple App Store and Google Play designed for just that reason — keeping track of housekeeping. You will know exactly what you need to do each day, and you'll feel accomplished crossing items off. A Weekly Cleaning Schedule You can use it as a starting point, and within a week or two you'll have a good sense of what you need to tweak. Thursday Vacuum bedroom carpets Wash bathroom towels Clean common area floors Tuesday Master bathroom Monthly to-do Dust surfaces and clean glass doors Wednesday Clean common area floors Outside pruning, sweeping, etc. Wipe kitchen chairs Thursday Guest and kids' bathrooms Deep clean kitchen, sorted through fridge Vacuum bedroom carpets Friday Clean common area floors Pick up desk, laundry room, mudroom Wet mop kitchen Saturday Strip beds and wash bed linens Monthly to-do Pick up closets Sunday Rotate toys and books Do you have a cleaning schedule? If so, what does it look like?