I'm a great cook, but I'm a terrible housewife when it comes to cleaning. Won't you help a sister out and share your cleaning schedule?
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People coming over? Clean. That's my schedule :S
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@highwire: lol.....me too!
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Sadly, my schedule is generally the same as @highwire. I did download the Home Routine app which tells you which zones of your house to clean in which week and such. Now all I have to do is use the app more than twice and I'm sure my house will sparkle.
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I don't have a real strict schedule. I do laundry once a week, clean the dishes every other day, vacuum and dust once a month or so. I clean the bathrooms when they look messy. I don't like mess so I straighten evey day. I deep clean when I having company. By deep cleaning I mean wipe baseboards, scrub windows, etc.
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I've learned that if we don't clean a little bit each and every day, the house quickly becomes really dirty. Once I finally accepted that, the house became much cleaner I think.
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I don't have a regular cleaning schedule, but I recently started adding non-frequent cleaning/house tasks to my iCal so that I don't forget about them entirely - things like changing the air filter, washing the inside of the washing machine*, watering my air plants, etc.
*i just did this for the first time ever in my life last week and it was so gross.... but now it's all sparkling clean and wonderful!
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We have a cleaning crew that comes twice a month . . . I keep things picked up/wiped down/straightened in between. That's my only schedule.
@MrBee: I agree! Whether it's a load of *easy* laundry (like towels), or just unloading/loading the dishwasher, a little goes a long way!
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I used to lol before I had a kid. Now it's nearly impossible to follow it.
I divided it by daily, weekly and monthly chores.Daily:
Put away clean dishes, load dishwasher
Wipe down surfaces in Kitchen, bathroom, dining roomPick up clothes/toys/crap off the floor
Sweep the kitchenWeekly:
vaccuum the whole house
Mop any hard floors
Wipe down the cabinets, refrigerator door, microwave and oven
Dust
Laundry (yeah... that was before kids. Now it's a daily thing!)
Clean shower
Sort through mail/files/folders/misc papers
Thoroughly clean bathroom - toilet, mop, mirror etc
Wash windowsMonthly:
Clean Oven
Wash sheets (some do this weekly :-/)
Clean microwave
Organize garageWe don't have a big place so it doesn't take too much work for up keep. But like @mrbee said, a little every day goes a long way.
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My house runs the smoothest when I have a place for everything (EVERYTHING) and contain the daily mess with good habits. Don't let the dishes pile up, fold the laundry the evening you pull it out of the dryer, dust when you see dust, etc.
I also made the commitment to turn Sundays into scrub day. It tends to be a day with quiet afternoons, perfect for mopping the floors and cleaning the bathrooms. If those are still clean after a week, I can tackle a different house project.
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I have Monday's off so every Monday is hard core cleaning day. I change the sheets, vacuum, scrub the bathroom, laundry and sweep and mop all the floors. The dishes we just do everyday.
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I remember as a teen I just hated cleaning. I would wash my clothes and not hang or fold them and just shove them in my closet. And then after all my nice hung up clothes would rung out I'd have to wash everything again, even though it was washed, and fold everything. I would do like 18 loads of laundry to get it done. Stupid procrastinating!
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I REALLY NEED A SCHEDULE. because if not, we are bitching at eachother that the house is a mess.
I've purchased daily cleaning sched. but they never worked for us. egh. I wish we didn't have to clean. ever
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I used to have a schedule of one main thing a day, such as dusting, vacuuming, bathrooms, etc. During this pregnancy we had a cleaning service and I loved it. Now it's back to reality... The only real schedule I have is laundry on sunday nights and dishes every night.
Sorry. I am zero help!
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I used to have all-day cleaning/manual labor days on Sundays every 3 weeks or so, and then just did light cleaning here and there. BUT while I was on bedrest in the first tri, I had a cleaning service come and they did in 2 hours what would take me ALL DAY and then some. They kicked ass and were not nearly as expensive as I would have thought. I am using the money I WOULD be spending on wine every couple of weeks to pay them!
So, um, I've kind of been getting them to come twice a month to do "deep cleaning" ever since...I still do light cleaning every day or so....
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Our cleaning schedule used to look like this:
Daily: rinse dishes/load dishwasher, put dirty clothes in laundry basket
Weekly: trash, laundry, wiping down counters, dusting
Bi weekly- vacuum, bathroom, stove, microwave, mopThen.....I found our incredible housekeeper, luisa, on care.com and she cleans 100x better than the hubs and I combined. She comes 2x a month to deep clean, does our laundry when we're backed up AND she organizes our closets and cabinets. she also babysits, which will be so awesome when our lil peanut is born. She's worth every penny
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I have one on the fridge I made for myself and I never get through the whole week. It's so hard to do with LO, for example he's scared of the vacuum so someone else has to be around to take him outside or he shrieks the whole time it's on. And when he naps I try to have a little quiet me time. Though I'm usually straightening up, starting dinner, doing dishes. I do the dishes daily and do daily straightening up, but the house could use more cleaning more often.
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Ahh... a topic close to my heart! I have a schedule; I formally drew it up and stuck in on the fridge a few months back because I was tired of always "firefighting" and because I was hoping it would inspire DH to help without being asked. It didn't!!
Behold my schedule:
1) Walking the dogs as soon as I got in from work daily. No sitting down!!
2) Doing one load of laundry every day (if there's washing to be done)
3) Washing up as soon as we have eaten
4) Planning meals a week in advance and shopping every Sunday... I make up big batches of soup, chilli etc on Sundays and freeze them for easy meals mid-week.
5) One simple housekeeping job per evening - eg quickly clean bathroom, hoover lounge, ironing (I have a rota showing which job per day)
6) Deep clean house once per week (wash bed-linen, hoover stairs, mop floors) - it's easier if you've done bits all week.
- Then, for each week of the month:
7) Once a month at the weekend mow front and back lawns, weed flower beds, clip hedges
8) Once a month, at the weekend bath and blow-dry dogs and wash their bedding.
9) Once a month, wash and hoover cars
10) Once a month, sort and file paperwork and deal with correspondence, upcoming birthdays etc (I have a filing tray in the home-office (soon be be nursery hopefully!) for opened post so it's not lying about the house)That said, I'm really flexible with it. Although I do try to keep to the "spirit of the schedule", I'm not always as on top of things as I want to be - it's not possible with a full time job and a part time degree course! (I've so not got time for kids, have I?!)
The trick, @C.Sassy, is to do little bits as you go along. Going upstairs - take something up! Using the toilet - clean it afterwards. Waiting for the kettle to boil - clear out the fridge.
Hope this helps. x
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My cleaning lady comes every other Thursday
Other than that I just spot clean when needed. My house usually stays "picked up" because the dog will eat things we leave out if we go out.
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Yes, I made a schedule shortly after DD was born & it works out great for us! I am not sure about how it will change/work after DS coms
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