Good morning, Mrs. Jones, it's another great day for keeping our house clean, isn't it?
Oh my, you look bored! And there's so much to do.
Next door, Mrs. Smith is already working. What's her secret? Let's look:
Mrs. Smith has just as much work to do, but she's concentrated on certain rooms on different days. In the morning, she gets herself and the children up. Everyone is in charge of making their beds. Once the little ones are off to school, it's time to see what the task of the day is.
Monday: Bathrooms.
Tuesday: Bedrooms.
Wednesday: Kitchen and Meals Planning.
Thursday: Shopping and Living Room.
Friday: Dusting and Floors.
Saturday: Car.
After that, there's laundry to get done, and after the children get home, a dinner to get on the table. In the evenings, after dinner and dessert and before bed it's time for a 10-15 minute clean up for the whole family. Mrs. Smith is not overwhelmed cleaning the whole house every day, but maintains her house with an easy schedule.
A clean house provides a relaxing, comfortable place to look forward to and makes guests and family alike feel welcome at home. Keeping such high morale at home gives the boys overseas something wonderful to come home to.
Keep 'em flying, Mrs. Smith!
I love it. I'm in the process of trying to come up with something similar, though I admit I am tempted to start with scheduling 2 hours on Saturday mornings (since I work outside of the home during the week).
ReplyDeleteI think it's a good place to start. I would say start with 15 minutes from the whole household, you'd be surprised how much can get done with several people working on different things for 15 minutes.
DeleteCarl and I were talking this morning about this very thing. We did the "ten minute tidy" a few times week before last, but then the kids started school the same week I got sick. Whoops. Tonight, the tidy is back on.
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