Adding Cleaning Chores to Your Calendar

Just one look in your home and you will quickly realize that if you fail to plan you may as well plan to fail. In the cleaning department that is.

Did you know having a simple plan for keeping your home clean is all it takes to keep things in tip top shape order.

If you ever talk to people you know who’s homes seem to always be clean and well organized you’ll find that they don’t have some hard to follow plan in place. They probably simply don’t like messes and have found a simple way to keep things in order.

Regularly scheduled cleaning chores

Instead of wasting valuable time trying to remember what needs cleaning and when just mark it on your calendar and be done with it. Clean when it’s time.

So make a Cleaning Calendar!

I know you’re just excited about this so let’s get started.

• To begin making your own cleaning calendar start off right. That means why rebuild the house if it’s already done for you?  Get a Periodic Cleaning Chart from those great Real Simple people here. You may and you may not do everything on this list but it’s an absolute great place to start. Household chores are listed according to how often they are done.

• Get a monthly calendar with pictures you adore. Fill in the dates when you will be doing the house hold cleaning and bam you’re done. You could also print out some stickers with little pictures to remind you of the stuff you are to do. Or buy some stickers to place on the dates when you will be able to your cleaning.

• Find some free time to organize you cleaning year. Get your calendar and the Periodic Cleaning Chart and starting with the weekly chores (Just keep a list of daily chores.  It's too much to put them on the calendar) put them on the calendar. Don't try and do it all at once. Try filling in a month a day until you have the year spaced out.

Create Your Perfect Cleaning Schedule

Happy Cleaning!