New Year. New Cleaning Schedule.

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Let’s be honest cleaning your home can be overwhelming and feel never-ending. The problem most of us face when cleaning our home is we don’t know exactly what needs to be done. This leaves us stressed and constantly feeling as if the cleaning isn’t done. If you never quite know what the next cleaning task is or whether the house is clean enough it can create feelings of stress and anxiety. Creating a cleaning schedule for your home can help you approach cleaning in a new way that helps you feel in control and on top of your cleaning. Creating your own schedule means that you can design it around what works for you and your home.

 

The goal of cleaning your home should never be perfection but rather to be content. There is peace of mind that comes with a home that is clean enough at any given time that you can feel content. Let’s look at how you can create a cleaning schedule that helps you instead of hindering you.

 

Let’s jump right in.

 

  1. CREATE A LIST OF CLEANING TASKS THAT NEED TO BE DONE

 

The first step is to identify all cleaning tasks that need to be done. Start by going around your house, room by room, and write down every cleaning task that is necessary for that room. Add how often each cleaning task should be done. This is how you create a room-specific cleaning list.

 

Example of a bathroom cleaning list:

 

CLEANING TASK:

FREQUENCY:

Clean the toilet

Twice a week

Clean the shower

Weekly

Clean the bath

Weekly

Wipe all surfaces

Daily

Clean the sink

Weekly

Clean the cabinets

Weekly

Clean the mirrors

Weekly

Sweep the floors

Weekly

Mop the floors

Weekly

Declutter the cabinets

Annually

Deep clean shower head

Monthly

Empty trash can

Twice a week

Deep clean and scrub tiles

Seasonally

 

  1. GROUP TOGETHER CLEANING TASKS BY FREQUENCY

 

Group together the cleaning tasks by how often they need to be done. This will help you see which tasks should be done daily, weekly, monthly etc. Within the frequency grouping, you can also sort by room to organize and simplify the process further.

 

Example of cleaning tasks grouped by frequency:

 

DAILY

Kitchen:

Wipe surfaces

Empty dishwasher

Empty trash can

Bathroom:

Wipe surfaces

General:

Tidy and declutter main areas

Laundry

Water Plants

 

WEEKLY

Bedroom:

Change bedding

Sweep, vacuum, and mop floors

Empty trash cans

Bathroom:

Clean the shower

Clean the bath

Clean the sink

Clean the cabinets

Clean the mirrors

Sweep the floors

Mop the floors

General:

Sweep, vacuum, and mop floors main areas

Dust main areas

Empty trash cans

Iron clothes

 

MONTHLY

Bedroom:

Deep clean mattress

Deep clean carpet

Bathroom:

Deep clean shower head

General:

Wash windows

Polish

 

  1. CREATE A REALISTIC CLEANING TIMELINE

 

We often overestimate what we can do in a set amount of time which leads to disappointment and discouragement. To avoid this, you should create a realistic timeline of which cleaning tasks you will be able to do when. Take a look at your schedule and decide what time of the day you will do the daily cleaning tasks, which days you can do the weekly cleaning tasks, etc.

 

Some days you will be able to do more than others which is fine. Your cleaning schedule should fit into your life and not the other way around.

 

  1. PUT IT ALL TOGETHER

 

Now that you have all the basic elements for a cleaning schedule you can start putting your schedule together. We recommend you add your cleaning tasks to your calendar, the same way you would schedule appointments. This will help you to know when what needs to be done and will also keep you accountable. Place a printout of daily, weekly, monthly etc. cleaning tasks somewhere you can see it for easy access and as a reminder.

 

  1. EVALUATE AND ADAPT YOUR CLEANING SCHEDULE

 

A cleaning schedule should help and not hinder you which is why you will need to evaluate and adapt. As you use your cleaning schedule you will find some tasks are successful in terms of frequency and time or day of execution while others aren’t. Maybe you will find you need to empty the trash cans daily instead of weekly due to trash build-up or your bathroom surfaces only need to be wiped every second day instead of every day. These little things you notice can help you to change your cleaning schedule in such a way that it continuously benefits you and your home.

 

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