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Weekly House Cleaning Schedule
A one-job-a-day cleaning week with daily habits, and a spot to add your monthly jobs.
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Organizing Made Fun's one-task-a-day schedule gives each weekday one job: vacuuming takes 25 to 30 minutes depending on house size, dusting about 15 depending on how many knick-knacks you have, and each bathroom and the kitchen 15 to 20. Weekends are for small projects or nothing at all. On top of that comes a daily habit: put things away the moment you pick them up. This list follows that week, then adds tips for sticking with it from a template site. You'll need to fill in the monthly jobs yourself, since neither page names any.
Why these items are on the list
- Put things away immediately. Pick it up, put it away or drop it in a basket for upstairs. Don't set it down.
- Toss junk mail right away. Don't let it pile up. Sort the mail you keep as it comes in.
- Kids pick up toys. Do it before you leave the house, before a nap, or before swapping to a new set of toys.
- Monday: vacuum every room. Organizing Made Fun allows 25 to 30 minutes, house size permitting. Occasionally add vents, curtains, window crevices.
- Tuesday: dust the house. Organizing Made Fun says about 15 minutes, depending on knick-knacks. Occasionally wipe nice furniture with polish.
- Wednesday: back bathroom. Toilet, counters, mirror, tub, shower and floor. Organizing Made Fun suggests 15 to 20 minutes.
- Thursday: front bathroom. Toilet, counters, mirror, shower and floor. Organizing Made Fun again suggests 15 to 20 minutes.
- Friday: clean the kitchen. Mop the floor, clean counters with an antibacterial product. Organizing Made Fun suggests 15 to 20 minutes.
- Weekend: small projects or nothing. The schedule says doing nothing at all is an option. Take it.
- Add your monthly jobs. These sources list none, so add what your home needs and when it's due.
- Spread tasks across the month. The template site lists spreading tasks evenly through the month as a benefit.
- Use reminders, small steps, a reward. The template site's tips for sticking with a schedule. Pick whichever helps.
Tick one weekday job at a time, Monday through Friday, and leave the weekend free for small projects or nothing at all.
When to use it
Good to set up at the start of a week, or when a messy stretch has you wanting a plan.