By spending just 15 minutes a day, you can have a presentable house pretty much all the time! It’s almost like your home will clean itself. We’ve created a weekly cleaning schedule that will help you out majorly, but first we’ve got a few rules to make it work…
Good Enough is Great
Don’t be too thorough. Aim to keep each task to just 15 minutes. Do what you can in that amount of time. It doesn’t have to be perfect; you’ll get to it again next week! Just get it done.
Keep Supplies Nearby
We’ve talked about this on our blog before. The trick to a quick clean is having things nearby and in-reach. If it takes you 5 minutes to gather up all your cleaning supplies, you’re wasting time you could be using to actually clean! Keep rags and cleaning products in each bathroom so you can easily grab and clean, and house kitchen cleaning supplies under the sink. Use an inexpensive caddy to keep it all neat and tidy.
Plan Strategically
In addition to smartly storing products where you use them, save time by thinking about how you use them. For example, if you whip out the WOW Mop to clean the floors in the bathroom, make that the day you mop all the bathroom floors.
Keep Yourself Accountable
Make a lamenated list and cross of items, use a tracking app, or simply create a list on your phone. However you do it, just make sure you know exactly what you need to do every day, and you’ll feel accomplished crossing items off.
Now, here’s our cleaning schedule! Use it as a starting point, and within a week or two you’ll have a good sense of where you’ll need to make tweaks and adjustments.
Schedule
Monday
Vacuum bedroom carpets
Wash bathroom towels
Clean common area floors
Tuesday
Master bathroom
Dust surfaces and clean glass doors
Wednesday
Clean common area floors
Outside pruning, sweeping, etc.
Wipe kitchen chairs
Thursday
Guest and kids’ bathrooms
Deep clean fridge, sort through fridge
Friday
Clean common are floors
Pick up desk, laundry room, mudroom
WOW Mop the kitchen
Saturday
Strip beds and wash linens
Pick up closets
Sunday
Rotate toys and books
should bleach be used when washing the mop pads? I mopped my floors & the pads are pretty dirty. I hesitated to use bleach in the washing machine without inquiring about appropriateness of using bleach in the wash.
Thank you.
Nancy Truitt
Hi Nancy! We do not recommend using bleach at all. The pads should be used with an unscented detergent (Nellie’s Laundry Soda works great) and absolutely do not use any fabric softeners as they will harm the microfibres of the pads!