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Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Daily Cleaning Routine

I am starting a cleaning routine. If I stick with it my house will always be 'company ready' (not like that really matters) but also will eliminate the need for spring cleaning (not like I have ever done that). This routine envolves 3 daily routines, a weekly schedule, and zone missions. Lets start with the daily routines:

There is a morning, afternoon, and evening routine. The following is what is currently set up and will change shortly (today was day one):

Morning-
make bed
dress
swish toliet/swipe bathroom countertops
empty dishwasher
check calendar for appointments (this will change since I do not have many appointments)
check online bank accounts

Afternoon-
get dinner started
fill sink with warm soapy water
set table
spray air freshener
light a candle

evening-
shine sink (this is the only daily challenge...I hope I can keep up with this one)
wipe kitchen counters
brush teeth
wash face

the daily routines are designed to last 10 minutes or less

Now the weekly schedule:
Monday-grocery shop
Tuesday-weekly home blessing with discuss this later
Wednesday-Free day, but with 15 min zone work
Thursday-Clean fridge/write thank you notes
Friday-Errand run (non-grocery errands)
Saturday-paperwork-menu for week, file papers, clean purse, clean car
Sunday-laundry

(Home Blessing-this is my one basic whole house cleaning day-you are suppose to toss papers, change sheets, empty all trashes, vacuum, sweep/mop kitchen and bathroom, clean mirrors, clean stove top, and dust----everything is done easily and by that I mean just vacuum center of room (( do not move furniture)) no deep done detail cleaning)

and the final thing is zone cleaning:
every week is a new zone and everyday is a chore for that zone
The zones are as follows:
Entrance, Front Porch, dining room
Kitchen
Bathroom and extra room
Master Bedroom
Living room

So for one week you only detail clean one zone and one one challenge in that zone per day...so you spend 7 days cleaning one room (you are actually suppose to only spend 15 mins per day in the zone..but I am not timing myself)

For example-this week is zone 4 the master bedroom-yesterday was dusting the ceiling and walls and today was dusting the floorboards-I will have to check the website tomorrow to find tomorrows master bedroom challenge-possible tasks might be moving furniture to vacuum or sweeping the bottom of the closets or so on and so forth.

I have a binder that should keep me organized and I check things off as I go...lets hope I stick to this.

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