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May 3, 2020

Spring Cleaning Week 4: Start a Cleaning & Laundry Routine

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Congratulations, you’ve made it to the 4th week of the Spring Cleaning Challenge! This means that you’ve gone through your home and deep cleaned!!! I could probably use about 100 more exclamation marks because WHAT A GOOD FEELING.

Now, I want to help you keep your home feeling good all the time. Having a home that feels good doesn’t mean it’s always perfectly clean, it means it’s always clean enough.

Homes should be clean enough to be healthy, and messy enough to be happy!

But before we jump into this week’s assignment, let me make sure you didn’t miss anything.

Remember that Spring Cleaning just really means “deep cleaning,” so if it’s no longer spring when you do this, that’s okay. This challenge is just a plan on how to get your home deep cleaned and STAY clean. It’s always a good time to do that.

If you’re just joining in, this is what you missed:

  • Week 1 – Deep Clean Your Public Areas
  • Week 2 – Deep Clean Your Private Areas
  • Week 3 – Household Jobs

Feel free to start at the beginning, or start anytime. I can’t say this enough – it is always a good time to deep clean!

The Entire 5-Week Plan

We’re almost done, but keeping a copy of the plan in one place is still handy!

If you want to see the entire plan at one glance, you can find the printable bundle here. The calendar and checklists are completely editable, so make it match WHENEVER you are doing this! (There are lots of other goodies loaded into the bundle as well.)

SPRING CLEANING PACK Includes:

  • Spring Cleaning Calendar (Customizable) – 1 page
  • Spring Cleaning Checklists (Customizable) – 18 pages {Checklists include – List of Rooms, Kitchen, Dining Room, Living Room, Office, Bedrooms, Bathrooms, Halls & Closets, Laundry Room, Household, Garage, Outdoors, Bonus, and 5 empty lists of varying colors in which even the room heading is editable.}
  • Cleaning How To Guide & Tips – 8 pages
  • Home Management & Weekly Cleaning Routine Printable (Customizable with Sample Schedules) – 4 pages
  • Household Checklist, known as the HH List (Customizable with Sample List) – 2 pages
  • Kids Chore List Printable (Customizable with Sample List and Preschooler Sticker Chart) – 3 pages

This Week’s Assignment

This week’s assignment is getting into a routine with cleaning and laundry. Here’s an example of a successful weekly schedule:

Week #4 Starting a Cleaning and Laundry Routine:

  • Monday – Clean: Kitchen | Laundry: Kitchen Cloths
  • Tuesday – Clean: Dust | Laundry: Clothes
  • Wednesday – Clean: Bathrooms | Laundry: Towels
  • Thursday – Clean: Floors | Laundry: Clothes
  • Friday – Clean: HH List | Laundry: Cleaning Cloths
  • Saturday – Clean: as needed | Laundry: Bedding

I’ve written so much about how to have a successful cleaning routine. Please please please PLEASE PLEASE read my tips for having a successful routine.

I spell out specific DO’s and DON’Ts! You need to read this:

Even though I mention it in the blog post above, it is worth mentioning on it’s own:

You can use my free printable to customize and create your own cleaning routine schedule. The best schedule is the one that works for you, so keep tweaking until you find the groove for you. It’s worth it!

Cleaning Tips

You can browse all of my cleaning posts here. I have never counted, but I think I’ve written more about cleaning than decluttering if you add it all up. There’s lots of posts in there that will help this week.

And yes, as you browse the posts, you can see that some of my cleaning habits have changed over time, but yes, my main cleaners are still from Shaklee … but over time I’ve added a few more brands and favorites, like Mrs. Meyers from Grove. Don’t feel stuck in a rut! Try new things and keep cleaning fresh! (Pun intended.)

Alright, people, you’ve got this!!

Have a great week staring a cleaning and laundry schedule!


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