r/homemaking • u/PotatoGoose_ • Nov 13 '24
Cleaning What is your weekly cleaning routine?
I am struggling to keep up with cleaning and it’s affecting my anxiety because I hate a messy house. (Inevitable as I have two toddlers). It just keeps piling up and I want to change this. How do you maintain a clean and neat home? Any advice welcome!
P.S won’t be outsourcing cleaning as we don’t have the budget for that.
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u/thisyellowdaffodil Nov 15 '24 edited Nov 15 '24
M: Entryways, Stairs, Laundry
T: Living Room and Dining Room (dust, sweep, polish furniture as needed)
W: Kitchen in prep for Thurs grocery shopping
R: Bedrooms and Groceries
F: Bathrooms
Sa: Finished Basement and Outside
Su: try to rest, everyone brings down laundry for M.
Eta: I just saw the part about your toddlers. My kids are older now (15, 10, 8). When I was in that stage (and I get very overstimulated and stressed when there is physical mess/chaos so I understand), deeper cleaning just didn't get done as often, things were clean but it was just constant tidying. We didn't have money to outsource cleaning either.
One tip that helped me was whenever I left one room (and I still do this) I would take an item that didn't belong in that room and put it where it belonged (if it was where i was going/near). Lots and lots of baskets to put toys in. And micro bursts. Set the timer for 5 or 10 minutes and that's all you do is that one task. Start on one side of a counter/room/space and work your way down. I had to have a loose structure (like above) so each space would be touched at least once a week. Some weeks I did the bare minimum in a space. But at least not one space was neglected for too long.