True confession. Cleaning the house has always boggled my mind. How in the world do you really get the WHOLE house clean??? When you think about it there are a LOT of rooms even in our small abode not to mention all the areas to be cleaned in each of those rooms.
In the last few years, I have gotten way better about decluttering which has been a HUGE help. I’ve never been one to have lots of what knots, but I do have LOTS of stuff. Years ago I found the flylady website. She taught me that you can do anything in baby steps. I do have to admit, though, that I kept falling off the wagon. I think she was still a bit too ambitious for me.
As we are getting ready to start painting, I realized that I do best with smaller manageable tasks where I can see completion. This led me to my AMAZING (at least to me…lol) way to clean my house in about 30 minutes a day.
One room at a time.
The goal is to completely clean a room in one week with a schedule like this:
Monday: Pick-up, Put away, Throw out, Declutter
Tuesday: Dust
Wednesday: Clean windows
Thursday: Clean baseboards, trim
Friday: Vacuum
In about 8 weeks (depending on the number of rooms you have or how much help you have), your house is totally cleaned from top to bottom. Then you can start all over again. I know it may not be a terribly ambitious schedule, but at least it is getting done.
