Do you have a cleaning schedule? Can you tell me about it?

[annettemarie]

Right now, I do a room a day
Monday: Living room
Tuesday: Steps and hall and kids' rooms
Wednesday: Kitchen
Thursday: Bathroom
Friday: Bedroom
Saturday: Playroom

We do 10-minute tidies here and there as well. But this doesn't leave room for other spaces like the attic and basement and mudroom and porch and garage, and it doesn't address really deep cleaning.

If you have a cleaning routine that really works for you, I'd love to hear about it.

[nascarbebe]

Morning: Every morning I spend 30 min to 1 hr on the morning routine. This is after I shower, get myself dressed, makeup etc and breakfast. I Toss one load of laundry in the washer, make beds, sweep, clean up kitchen kitchen from breakfast or anything leftover from day before, sweep and vaccum.

Mid-day: Pick up any major messes. Always straighten up somewhat before leaving the house.

Early evening: cook and try to clean up my mess as food is cooking so that by the time the food is done it's mostly clean.

Evening: spend another 30 min to 1 hr. sweeping (hardwood floors with kids and a dog make a big mess for some reason), cleaning kitchen and dinning, sorting laundry to get a load going for morning, random cleaning like bathroom.

With little ones the daily routine works best. But here's my weekly routine:
Wed and Sat: water plants
Sunday: wash all sheets and towels

On the days that the house is pretty clean that's when I dust or maybe spend a little time decluttering or cleaning gross windows and other things that get overlooked.

[BetsyS]

Reading along...

I used to have a schedule that worked great. And somewhere in the fog of the first trimester (now coming to an end) and the clinginess of the 12-18 month *best age of all* , I have lost my schedule. As in, out the window, bye, bye, it ain't coming back.

I have to find someone new to take its place.

[marimara]

Every day as soon as I wake up I:
Make all beds
clean out sink and load dishwasher if it wasn't done last night
open all blinds and shades (and wipe down the condensation on the metal windowsills)
pick up house multiple times a day

I do daily as needed:
laundry
straightening
water plants
take out trash

Mondays are my major cleaning day. I like to start the week off with a clean house. I don't schedule anything to do if I can help it. On Mondays, I:
clean toilets
sinks
mirrors
countertops
sweep bathrooms floors
vacuum house
sweep dining room/foyer/kitchen/brkfst room
empty ALL trash cans since trash and recycling come on Tuesdays
and any other major cleaning I need to do like: clean stove top, ceiling fan blades, air conditioner vents, dusting


The most important thing is that I clean as I go all day. The only day I do major cleaning is Monday. When I cook, I clean up as I go along, and make sure it's all cleaned up after the meal is eaten, down to the counters being wiped off. I do laundry whenever I notice that it needs to be down, or we end up doing a lot of laundry on Sunday, before dh work week begins. But I don't use paper towels and always have wet towels and rags in the washer so I usually do a load at least every other day.