Wednesday, September 21, 2011

7 Days to Clean: Hump Day Half Hour of Housework

It's Wednesday, aka Hump Day.  Doing a few minutes of cleaning here and there throughout the day will keep most of your home clean, but some cleaning either doesn't need to be done every day or isn't time efficient to do in small chunks.  Today we're going to do the Hump Day Half Hour of Housework. Use a kitchen timer to time yourself so you don't go over the limit.
  1. Dump cleaner in the toilets of each bathroom
  2. Spend 10 minutes vacuuming.
  3. Spend 10 minutes sweeping or dusting
  4. Take the trash out, this should take no more than 5 minutes
  5. Scrub the toilets and flush
That's it!  Depending on how messy your house gets you can play around with what you do each week.  Maybe you want to scrub the shower instead of toilets or maybe you don't have any vacuuming to do so you might sweep and mop.  The important thing is not to spend too much time on anyone one thing.

Again, the point isn't to clean everything.  We're not going for floors you can eat off, just hit whatever looks dirtiest.  Chances are you're not doing this stuff every week right now so you'll start to see after a couple of weeks that everything looks cleaner and eventually you'll only be cleaning up last week's dirt.

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