Tips for housecleaning...routine, etc.
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Tips for housecleaning...routine, etc.
| Tue, 04-10-2007 - 11:38pm |
Hello, I'm a lurker on this board and am trying to get my house clean, not just picked up. I work part time, just a few nights a week..I think I'm just getting lazy. I have 3 kids, a 6 1/2 year old dd in kindergarten and 3 1/2 year old b/g twins. My son is autistic and has 40 hours a week of intensive in home therapy...so it's moslty just me and my daughter, the other twin. I need to get off my lazy rear end and make this house clean. I just want to know what people's cleaning routines are like...cleaning products you use and how often you do things...thank you very much!!!!
Keri

I have 3 kids as well and my 3yr old is special needs so I know how hard it is to get things done!My advice is work one room at a time and try to make it the last room you would use that day.I don't think you are lazy,just tired and stressed.Thats what happens!LOL!Take Care!
Hi, Keri! It's good to talk to you. I'll tell you what I have done recently. My New Years Resolution was to de-clutter my house. It took until just a few weeks ago but I am pretty much de-cluttered at this point. I went through each room and boxed/bagged whatever we didn't use or didn't need. Over the past three years since my DH and I have been up here (we moved to AK with nothing but clothes, pretty much) we have accumulated so much stuff - a lot of it we don't need, don't want, don't use, don't know why we have. In the end we ended up with a whole truck full of things we didn't need to keep - clothes, shoes, kitchen stuff, odds and ends, etc. - that I took to good will and donated. Fortunately this also happened while I was in a serious nesting phase so that helped give me the energy and drive to get all of this done. Once all of that crap was out of my home I could go through and organize everything.
I'll tell you what, it is so much easier to tidy up my house now that all of that stuff is gone. I'm not left with stuff that I just constantly move from one place to another just because I don't know what to do with it.
So as far as cleaning goes, I don't really have a routine that I go by, but at least once a day I vacuum (it's a necessity because we have an 18 month old and four animals - three of which are shedders), I clean the kitchen once a day, usually do at least one load of laundry every day. Weekly to every other week I mop the kitchen and clean the bathroom. Everything else is kind of on an as-needed basis, such as cleaning Noah's room, dusting, etc. I normally get the energy to clean in the mornings more so than in the afternoons (it's probably the coffee) so more gets done before naptime than after. But as long as I can see the floor and walk through the house not feel like I'm stepping on toys, clutter, etc. I feel pretty good.
Take care!
Tarra
Hi Keri, hope to see you out of lurkerdom more often! I have a weekly cleaning schedule (though I'm extremely lazy and don't always keep to it) and this is it:
Monday: floors. After vacuuming I spray Fabreeze all over the carpets. I got a Hoover Floor Mate for the hard floors and I can sing it's praises horribly off key forever! Dry vacuum, then wet scrub/squeegie it up. I just use super hot water.
Tuesday: dining room. This gets it's own day because it's a "catch all" for the house.
Wednesday: bathrooms and change sheets. Here I'm very very lazy. I have those Chlorox wipes that I clean the whole bathroom with. I have swiffer clothes that I do the floor with before I do the floor with the swiffer wet cloths. I even have windex wipes for the mirrors and faucets.
Thursday: living room. I dust the blades of the ceiling fans with the swiffer duster. Vacuum again,