Cleaning Schedule

The pictures aren't great, but I wanted to try and describe my cleaning schedule. I have a sort of obsessive personality, and sometimes I get too obsessive and don't know when to quit. This is why I like goals. This gives me a stopping point, and lets me feel like I still accomplished something. This is why I created my cleaning schedule. This way I can separate my chores throughout the week. I finish what I need to for the day, and then I can simply say I'm done and I don't have to worry about anything else for the rest of the day-- kind of :).

I have these fun little stickers for each chore. When deciding which chores to do when I just tried to decide what I needed to do, and how often I needed to do it, to keep my house clean enough so I didn't feel overwhelmed. This way most everything stays maintained.

I divide each chore throughout the month. Somethings I do weekly, like vacuuming and laundry. Sometimes I do thing every other week, like dusting and bathrooms. I then have once a month chores like cleaning the car and mopping the floor. With my schedule now I have split up the dusting and bathrooms to be done at least once a month. With the addition of school to my schedule I had to simplify a little more, so that is how I did it.

I also like to try and spend a little quality time with my kids, so on the weeks that I don't clean I try to sit down for "lessons". I truly hate calling them that, but I can't think of a better term. This is a little of subject, but I basically just have a little box for each kid with flashcards and stuff. I try to do an art project with them every other week too.

This is how I've decided to divide out my time, so everything can be maintained.

At the top of the calender is a deep clean sticker. I'm supposed to pick a different room each month, and work on deep cleaning that room throughout the month. This is yet to happen :).

This is my Daily chores list.

This is my wipe down list. Amongst my chore sticker there is one for bathrooms, dusting, vacuuming, etc. and then one for wipe down. This is what I get done on the days I have the wipe down chores.

Below the calender I have everything divided up into these envelopes.

I also have a sticker called "Project Day". On this day I'm supposed to pick a project from an envelope, which has become obsolete, and complete it. The idea was to write down all our household projects and for sure do one on this day, but this is yet to happen as well.

So that's my cleaning schedule. Setting these up for people was a service I wanted to provide, but I'm yet to figure out a good way. However, if anyone wants me to clean their whole house on a regular basis I recommend letting me set up one of these. Of course yours will include more consistent and frequent cleaning then mine, but I still think this will work the best :).