Make An Appointment With Your Home
O Quinn If you find yourself constantly missing areas of cleaning when trying to keep up your home consider making an appointment with each room in your house. Make a housekeeping schedule to plan when you will do your cleaning and in what room. Putting your cleaning on a calendar can help you because... 1. A housekeeping schedule keeps you from wasting valuable time trying to figure out what needs to be done and where. 2. A housekeeping schedule should be flexible enough to allow for such pleasant interruptions as your children, spouse, or company. What gets done depends on your individual household but here is a basic list to tweak to meet your needs. Daily: Dishes Wipe down often used bathrooms Wipe kitchen counters and sweep floor Make beds Tidy - Bedrooms, Dining Room, Living / Family Room Weekly: Dust Vacuum Purge fridge of leftovers Clean bathrooms Monthly: Vacuum under furniture Clean oven Clean fridge Seasonally: Have rugs / carpet professionally cleaned dry clean seasonal clothing Turn mattresses Have furnace / air conditioner tuned So now you have your list, how do you keep track of it? Well it's a good idea to have in writing when you will be cleaning. From daily to weekly to monthly jot in your planner, wall calendar, bulletin board what time is set aside for you to keep your home in order. Think of how the professionals do it. Have you ever noticed the sheet on public restrooms that gets marked and dated when it has been cleaned? Of course you don't need to post your list for all to see but put it in a place where you can refer to it. Cleaning your home will take time and effort. Organizing your cleaning efforts can help to to keep from becoming a slave to your home and from abandoning the schedule altogether and letting chaos reign. About the Author
Visit O Quinn on the web at Homemaking Organized and drop by her store The Vintage Homemaker's Shoppe for Household Notes a Housekeeping Planner on CD which includes fill-in form fields. O Quinn may be contacted at http://www.homemakingorganized.com. Click here to view more articles by O Quinn. Reprinted with Permission from IdeaMarketers.com
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