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January
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5 Tips for Creating a Cleaning Schedule for Your Home
If it feels like your chore list is neverending or that there are some cleaning tasks that you never get to, it's time to rethink how you clean your home.
Our real estate agents suggest creating a cleaning schedule for your home. A cleaning schedule basically states when you'll complete certain tasks (daily, weekly, monthly, etc.).
Here are some tips to help you create a cleaning schedule that's right for your household.
- Start with a Master List
Before you can decide how frequently chores need to be done, you need to know exactly what tasks should be completed. Make a comprehensive list of what needs to be cleaned and any chores that you want to make sure get done. Go through each room and write down all the tasks for that specific space. For example, your list for your bedroom might have:
- Make bed
- Change linens
- Vacuum
- Sweep
- Dust
- Clean handles
- Shake out rugs
- Mop
- Empty trash
- Decide How Often Tasks Should be Completed
Now that you know what tasks need to be on your cleaning schedule, you should decide how frequently they need to be done. This depends on many factors, including your preferences (do you prefer to clean a bit each day or all at once?), your lifestyle, how often you're home, and how quickly things get dirty. It's common for tasks to need to be done more frequently in some rooms. For example, in your kitchen, you might decide to sweep and mop every other day or even daily. Or, if you're ready to add your home to the list of Augusta homes for sale, you may want to make more tasks daily chores so that you can quickly prepare your home for a showing. Using the previous bedroom list, you might assign the following frequencies:
- Make bed-daily
- Change linens-weekly
- Vacuum-weekly
- Sweep-daily
- Dust-weekly
- Clean handles-weekly
- Shake out rugs-bi-weekly
- Mop-weekly
- Empty trash-daily
- Assign Estimated Completion Times for Each Task
Next, you need to estimate how long each task will task. This ensures that your cleaning schedule isn't too ambitious for your lifestyle and helps you with knowing how much time to set aside each day. For the bedroom list, estimated completion times might be:
- Make bed-10 minutes
- Change linens-10 minutes
- Vacuum-15 minutes
- Sweep-10 minutes
- Dust-30 minutes
- Clean handles-10 minutes
- Shake out rugs-15 minutes
- Mop-15 minutes
- Empty trash-5 minutes
- Decide When You'll Complete the Tasks on Your Schedule
Now that you know how much time you need for your cleaning tasks look at your schedule and decide when you want to complete the tasks. You don't have to do everything at once if you're struggling to find a chunk of uninterrupted time. Feel free to split your tasks throughout the day if that works better for your routine.
- Revise Your Schedule as Needed
Don't think of your cleaning schedule as set in stone. Instead, look at the first few weeks as a trial run. Are things getting done too infrequently? Are there some tasks that really don't need to be done every day? Revisit your schedule and adjust as needed so that it's a better fit for your needs.
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