Weekly cleaning checklist to keep house tidy
A weekly hour long effort on a Monday cleaning and tidying the house using the following checklist keeps the house pleasant to live in.
I do also do a daily vacuum of room(s) which need it, as well as all the other daily housekeeping tasks (wipe the loo, clean the sinks, do dishes, clean up after food preparation and meal eating)
Each Monday I use the cooker’s digital timer to allow me to spend 10 minutes working on each of the following:
- Empty all waste paper baskets and bins
- Vacuuming - nothing fancy, no pulling furniture around for this just the high traffic areas in each of the rooms
- Dusting - with no polish just a very very well squeezed out duster
- Mop - a quick swish round the kitchen/breakfast room & hall with one mop then a different mop to swish over the wc and family bathroom
- Polish mirrors, pictures and doors
- Get rid of magazines (take to doctors surgery, see if your local library run a ‘magazine swap’), kids drawings (get kids to choose their favourite for the week to go on the wall and send other masterpieces to grandma), post and other papers which have outstayed their welcome.
- Change bedding on each bed
Some of these take less than 10 minutes, others take a little longer but I am usually finished in an hour and back playing with the kids or going on an outing with them before they’ve even noticed.
I tend to pitch in with this list straight after we’ve all had breakfast as I know that I have some time before the first little tummy starts getting rumbly again or the kids have an arguement over a toy.
Rather than thinking ‘Grrr here I am changing the sheets again’ I’ve noticed that I’m a lot more productive and happier if I remind myself how very lucky I am to have a nice house with nice people living in it and how grateful I am to be able to look after everything and everyone in our home.
June 28th, 2008 at 2:11 am
Your positive attitude to housework is inspiring