Parenting Pointers: Home Cleaning Chart (Guest Post)

Home Cleaning Chart: Divide Into Daily, Weekly And Monthly Goals

Many people divide their housecleaning duties into daily, weekly and monthly goals. Making a chart of different household cleaning chores you have to do will help you stay organised and focussed. It may seem like an overkill when you start out, but you will find that having defined milestones and action plans will actually help you get your home much cleaner than it is now!

Making daily, weekly and monthly charts will help you assign specific chunks of time to the different activities you need to perform. You will know just how much of your time is going to be used up and this precise system will make cleaning the house a regular part of your schedule.

Let us take a look at some common household cleaning duties we all have to attend to, and how we can categorise them into different charts:

Daily Cleaning Chores

• Put back everything into its place once it has been used. Whether it is a book that you were reading that needs to be returned to its shelf or a jacket you wore during the day that you can now hang back in the closet, tiny steps such as these can make a huge difference in keeping your home clean and clutter-free.
• Doing the dishes daily is a very effective way of keeping the kitchen clean and making sure the mess doesn’t pile up. Experts recommend washing the dishes as soon as you’re done using them. They are easier to wash, and the faster you do them, the less inclined you will be to put the task off until later. This is especially true of very delicate crockery and dishes that cannot be loaded into a dishwasher.
• Tidy up all the rooms in the houses by simply picking things off the floor, dusting a few surfaces, rearranging items like cushions or floor mats that might have gotten moved around the day and sweeping up the floor with a long-handle broom at the end of the day. Imagine how much easier it is to do a little bit every day, instead of having to slog all day at the end of the week.

Weekly Cleaning Chores

• Plan a deep cleaning activity for the house on the weekend. While you do some basic tidying up and vacuuming through the week, let the weekends be devoted to more intensive and organised cleaning. You can clean upholstery, wash linen and hang it out to dry and properly sweep and scrub the floors.
• Tidy up and rearrange cabinets and shelves around the house once every week. If you put things back when you use them daily, you won’t have a lot to do at the end of the week.

Monthly Cleaning Chores

• Deep clean your refrigerator once every month. This will help you get organised, get rid of food items that you can no longer use and will make sure your refrigerator gets a thorough cleaning and will keep it in better condition for longer. If you have a cold storage compartment or deep freezer, make sure you clean these out too. Take out all the food items, consume the perishable ones if you can, and unplug the refrigerator. Allow all the ice to melt and drain away before you clean the body. If you have a frost-free refrigerator, you won’t have to defrost but the cleaning is still essential.
• Most households get rid of waste on a day-to-day basis but things like newspapers, old plastic bottles, cardboard, magazines and old jars and scraps tend to pile up. Take a day out every month to take these items for recycling. You’ll be doing your bit for the environment and will also get brand new items and materials to put to use, without spending on purchasing them.

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