Cleaning Strategy Posted on Fridge
Have you ever felt like your continuously cleaning? It’s hard to enjoy a space that’s cluttered, unorganized; it feels unsettling. So you clean up the mess and before you know it the mess returns and you’re back at it, cleaning again!
If you and I are anything alike, I know what you’re going through; the situation feels out of control and you’re a borderline slave to cleaning messes around the house; Dishes, papers, bathroom and living room clutter. It’s like it never ends.
Maybe you can relate, or maybe you think I’m just nuts. I’ll be the first to admit that I can get a little coo-coo for cleaning clutter.
The problem is that I reacted, under completion to clean things up. My mindset was “if I don’t do it now when?”. If I did put off cleaning a mess, it would stress me out until I broke down and finally cleaned. In short, I was stressed because of the lingering mess and I stressed by compulsively cleaning.
So how did I overcome? With some simple planning, here’s how:
I’m going to share with you how to manage your cleaning tasks by implementing a simple strategy. This will squash the mess stress, ensure all the cleaning will be done, remove you from reaction mode and the delusion that you’re “cleaning all the time”. Sound good eh…
I should charge for this information but it’s yours free; Aren’t I sweet?
Download the Cleaning Strategy files discussed in this post. This is a zip file that contains the Weekly Chore Scheduler, and the Weekly Chore Tracker (Word documents) |
First step: A Bit of Brainstorming
Brain Storm what chores must be done on a daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly basis. Also write down what cleaning/organization tasks must be done on demand? Here’s a picture of the one I did
Cleaning List Brainstorming Result
Second Step: Making a Weekly Cleaning Schedule Matrix
Now that we got our list we’re going to first focus on the weekly and daily tasks; after all this is the stuff that drives us all bonkers.
You can do this by hand, or any other way you can creatively come up with. I like doing this on my computer to get a nice clean and professional look.
Take your weekly and daily clean up chores and put them in a table that assigns the week day and general time. Here’s the sample of the end result:
You can see in this scheduler I put in weekly and daily activities on the left with the days of the week on top. The time of day each cleaning activity will be performed is specified as morning, afternoon, or evening. (I find it works best if you’re not extreme with times, just give it a range so that it’s flexible around the more important stuff)
Third Step: Show off your Work
Hang the cleaning schedule up where everyone will be able to see it, the fridge is a good place. It not only looks cool, it actually serves the purpose of reminding you and others when chores are to be done.
As the cleaning is done you can cross it off the scheduler to signal to others that it has been finished. If you do this you will need to print out a new cleaning schedule every week. So be kind and recycle. **
Weekly Cleaning Chore Scheduler in Action
Bonus tip: if the scheduler is on your fridge, you could get innovative and put a little magnet over the completed task to signify completion; when the new week begins your remove the magnets and save yourself the hassle of printing, wasting paper and ink.
Whew, That’s a Load Off…
you can now relax knowing that following the chore schedule will have you and your family managing the cleaning without compulsion and stress. You can now set yourself into response mode instead of running around in reaction mode.
You can be calm, cool and collected knowing your garbage will be taken out this evening, the dishes done this afternoon and the sweeping will be taken care of on Saturday morning; YES no worries.
Go to the next page to find out how to get everyone involved by incorporating fun and what to do with the Monthly Yearly and on demand cleaning chores.
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