Spring clean your home the simple way!!!
Spring is my absolute favorite time of year! However, there’s is one thing about Spring that I don’t really like and that is Spring Cleaning the house. It just seems overwhelming and I don’t like that feeling. I am so excited to share how to Spring Clean Your Home The Simple Way.
Confession…
I don’t like to clean and have often let things go. I believe from time to time I have ever had the plague growing in my kitchen sink! This is not a joke.
That said, I have been using a cleaning binder for the past 20 years as a way to effectively organize cleaning my home. What is a cleaning binder you may ask? It is a binder that contains the cleaning schedule and a room by room list of cleaning tasks.
Spring Clean Your Home The Simple Way
SUPPLIES
three-ring binder
calendar
FREE printable Cleaning Binder
First, grab a binder. It can be one from a garage sale or thrift store or even one of your child’s old school binders. If you don’t have a binder get creative. Do you have a clipboard floating around?
Print off your FREE Cleaning Binder Task Lists and insert each page into plastic page protectors. Put the page protectors into the binder.
How easy was that? You now have completed your very own Cleaning Binder!
Let’s talk…
I have had success with a cleaning binder for two reasons. One is that it is portable and goes from room to room. If you have young children and are the only one that cleans. Just take the whole binder into the room you are cleaning.
If you have children that clean the home along with you, the cleaning binder works just as well. Each room’s cleaning task list is removable and in a plastic page protector (very handy while cleaning the bathroom and kitchen) so that you can send the page with your child as they go to clean their assigned room.
Find out what’s in my Cleaning Pantry HERE!
THE CLEANING SCHEDULE
I have scheduled my cleaning tasks in two different ways. When I was the only one cleaning my home I cleaned one room a day. That way it was not overwhelming to me and if I skipped a room one week (which I often did) it was only one room a mess and not the whole house.
Later when my children were older we picked one day a week to clean. We handed out the task sheets from the cleaning binder and we all went to our rooms to clean. We could clean the house in two hours on Saturday morning.
The next step is to write your cleaning schedule on both your family calendar and your personal calendar. Intentionally scheduling your household cleaning will give you a much greater chance of accomplishing it.
Many hands make light work!
YOUR TURN…
Today’s task is to organize your house cleaning make a cleaning binder and cleaning schedule.
Blessings,
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Good series. Keep it up.
Thank you…hope you will find it helpful!
It is definitely great to get help from your family. I do it on my own, and take about an hour or so a day to work on different areas. I schedule certain tasks for each day of the week. Great tips, thanks for sharing!
Hi Laurie, It sounds like you have a great plan! Divide and conquer…thanks for stopping by and sharing your cleaning method. I know it will be a blessing to another reader!
Definitely using this Janelle! Cleaning is not my forte, but I have been learning to operate better with checklists. Thanks so much for sharing!
I’m so glad you found it helpful!