{"id":5380,"date":"2011-01-13T19:17:46","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T01:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/?p=5380"},"modified":"2011-01-13T19:17:46","modified_gmt":"2011-01-14T01:17:46","slug":"clean-home-routines-and-cleaning-calendar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/13\/clean-home-routines-and-cleaning-calendar\/","title":{"rendered":"CLEAN: Home Routines and Cleaning Calendar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Clean1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5402\" title=\"Clean\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Clean1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"358\" height=\"477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Clean1.jpg 358w, https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Clean1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 358px) 100vw, 358px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s already 13 days in to the New Year, can you believe it?!\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m making baby steps in my CLEAN journey, and I plan to share some of what I&#8217;m doing to CLEAN in weekly or biweekly posts. Today I wanted to focus on what I&#8217;m doing to create a <em><strong>CLEAN Home<\/strong><\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m very much a routine and &#8220;system&#8221; oriented person, but I&#8217;ve had trouble finding a cleaning routine that has worked for me.\u00c2\u00a0 So I decided to create my own, consisting of Daily, Weekly, and less frequent Zone routines.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Dailies<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Remember my list of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/12\/the-dailies-my-daily-cleaning-list\/\">Dailies<\/a>?\u00c2\u00a0 Those are the things I need to clean each and every day.\u00c2\u00a0 Well, I&#8217;ve revisited that list and simplified it a bit.\u00c2\u00a0 Here are my current dailies:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dishes<\/li>\n<li>Spot Sweep<\/li>\n<li>Make beds<\/li>\n<li>Clutter Control<\/li>\n<li>Laundry<\/li>\n<li>Wipe surfaces<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m more or less staying on top of these.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m particularly proud of how clean I&#8217;ve been keeping the kitchen on a daily basis.\u00c2\u00a0 I know most or many people already do this, but it was something I struggled with!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Weekly<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>My Weekly routines include the things that are done once or twice a week:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Menu Planning<\/li>\n<li>Grocery shopping<\/li>\n<li>Change sheet and towels<\/li>\n<li>Vacuum (2x a week)<\/li>\n<li>Sweep<\/li>\n<li>Mop<\/li>\n<li>Dust (2x a week)<\/li>\n<li>Clean bathrooms<\/li>\n<li>Clean kitchen<\/li>\n<li>Throw out old stuff<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Instead of trying to do all of these on one day, I&#8217;ve spread this list out over my week in a way that works best for my schedule.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll note that I&#8217;m vacuuming and dusting twice a week now, due to my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/29\/allergy-testing-for-me\/\">severe dust mite allergy<\/a>. (I probably should be doing this daily or every other day, but that just isn&#8217;t going to happen&#8230;not yet anyway!)\u00c2\u00a0 I just ordered a new vacuum (highly ranked by Consumer Reports), and I&#8217;m looking forward to using it!<\/p>\n<p>The Picky Apple asked why I included Menu Planning and Grocery Shopping on my list of cleaning tasks.\u00c2\u00a0 Well, I feel like those are a vital part of household maintenance (and yes, I realize this argument could be made for other things as well, like bill paying and budgeting), and they take up a big chunk of time on the days I do them.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Zones, Deep Cleaning and Decluttering<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lastly are the Zones for deep cleaning.\u00c2\u00a0 A concept used by FlyLady and others, but I&#8217;ve adapted this to suit my needs and my home.\u00c2\u00a0 My zones are:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Entry\/Hall Closet\/Dining Room\/Living Room (I realize that&#8217;s quite a bit for one Zone, but the Entry is small, the Dining Room mainly sits unused and empty.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s the Hall Closet and Living Room that will be the focus here!)<\/li>\n<li>Kitchen<\/li>\n<li>Loft\/Playroom\/Office (all upstairs)<\/li>\n<li>Bathroom Zone: Powder Room\/Master Bath\/Finn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Bath<\/li>\n<li>Bedroom Zone: Master Bedroom\/Finn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Bedroom (I realize some of you may have more bedrooms than us.\u00c2\u00a0 We&#8217;ve got 4 but currently using 1 for the playroom and 1 for the office!)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I&#8217;ve seen the deep cleaning done in several different ways.\u00c2\u00a0 Some jump  from room to room in the same day (for instance, clean the toaster,  declutter the bathroom sinks, clean the top of the washer).\u00c2\u00a0 But once I  get in a room, I want to focus on THAT room for a while, so each week my  deep cleaning will be focused on a particular zone.\u00c2\u00a0 Many systems also  tend to declutter a room first then clean.\u00c2\u00a0 And while I wholeheartedly agree that you can&#8217;t clean clutter, I&#8217;ve mixed in a little of  both based on the things that are bothering me most about each room at  the moment.<\/p>\n<p>Right now I&#8217;m keeping\u00c2\u00a0 Zone work to 30 minutes or less, 3-4 times a week.\u00c2\u00a0 As much as I need to do some serious deep cleaning and decluttering in certain rooms like the office and hall closet, I&#8217;m easing my way in to this.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ll add more as I get a better grip on the routines themselves and have a better feel for long each task on my Master Cleaning List actually takes (I&#8217;ll share that another time).\u00c2\u00a0 For now, I&#8217;ll be completing one or 2 Zone tasks on days when The Littlest Apple is in school or with the grandparents.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Cleaning Calendar for January<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I thought I&#8217;d go ahead and share my cleaning calendar for the rest of January.\u00c2\u00a0 I LOVE To Do Lists and love the feeling of crossing things off as I complete them.\u00c2\u00a0 Several things to keep in mind&#8230;.I&#8217;ve got a decent handle on my Dailies at this point.\u00c2\u00a0 I get most of the Weeklies done, but up until recently it&#8217;s been as needed, not on specific days (for example, &#8220;Ew!\u00c2\u00a0 This towel is STINKY!\u00c2\u00a0 Probably time to wash towels again!&#8221;).\u00c2\u00a0 Zone work is going to take some getting used to.\u00c2\u00a0 Right now it is all about forming good habits!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/January-Cleaning-1.png\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/January-Cleaning-11.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5392\" title=\"January Cleaning 1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/January-Cleaning-11.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"557\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/January-Cleaning-11.png 557w, https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/January-Cleaning-11-300x210.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 557px) 100vw, 557px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/January-Cleaning-2.png\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/January-Cleaning-21.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5393\" title=\"January Cleaning 2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/January-Cleaning-21.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"557\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/January-Cleaning-21.png 557w, https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/January-Cleaning-21-300x183.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 557px) 100vw, 557px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s just a little sneak peek into how I keep a CLEAN Home!\u00c2\u00a0 But don&#8217;t be fooled for a second into thinking that my home is spotless.\u00c2\u00a0 Far from it!\u00c2\u00a0 Right now the counters are cluttered, there is apple juice on the floor, and toys all over the living room floor and clothes in the dryer that need to be put away.\u00c2\u00a0 (It&#8217;s been one of those days!)\u00c2\u00a0 BUT those things will all be taken care of at some point this evening so I can start tomorrow morning off right!<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Now I&#8217;m interested in some feedback from you&#8230;<\/strong><\/em>.I&#8217;ve got plans to share more details about how I clean, products I use for cleaning, and cleaning resources.\u00c2\u00a0 This is NOT going to become a cleaning blog, but it will be 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