7 Days to Clean: Day 7 - The Full Routine

Welcome to the last day, or more appropriately to every day.  Stick to this routine and feel free to smirk when people tell you that you shouldn't have cleaned just for them and they wish their home could look as nice as yours.  Or you could always tell them how you learned to be a "neat freak".

In the morning:

• Make your bed
• Swift swipe the bathroom
• Throw a load of laundry in the wash
• Put away the clean dishes

In the evening:

• Check the mail
• Dry and fold the laundry
• Spend five minutes decluttering
• Wash the dishes after dinner.

Don't forget to do your Hump Day Half Hour and that's it! 30 minutes of cleaning once a week and a few minutes of cleaning here and there.  The best thing about habits is the more you do them, the more efficient you get at doing them.  

You can think of cleaning as something that's a drag or you can think of it as something nice you're doing for yourself. It might not be as relaxing as getting a massage, but you'll enjoy living in a clean home none the less.  Going to sleep in a bed with tidy sheets and waking up to a clean bathroom and kitchen with plenty of clean clothes is going to start to feel like a treat.