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What are your daily/weekly/monthly house jobs?

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shitebag · 14/03/2015 09:28

My house has always been clean and tidy enough on the surface but I have a bad habit of leaving the deep cleaning jobs until they really need done and it takes up so much time and seems daunting to get them done when its a big job. I don't want to be a domestic goddess putting all of my time into house work and just need help to break it down into manageable chunks. DH and I have just separated and the DC's are only 8 and 2 so it all falls to me.

At the moment I'm getting into a better routine so my list is as follows:

Daily-
General tidy of all rooms
Laundry on, hung and put away
Kitchen dishes and worktops washed down.
Toilet seat wiped down.
Wipe down dining table.

Weekly-
Bleach bathroom (toilet, sink, bath, lower tiles)
Hoover upstairs and stairs
Sweep and mop laminate, kitchen, bathroom floors
Dust surfaces, banister, skirting boards.

Monthly-
Inside windows (window cleaner does outers 2 weekly)
Clean microwave

I need to incorporate things like cleaning out cupboards, fridge/freezer, oven to keep on top of these jobs too but how often do you do it?

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LastGleaming · 14/03/2015 09:53

Your daily is pretty much the same as mine. I'm also a lp to two the same age. I incorporate wiping down bathroom at night and putting away clothes upstairs when the dc are in the bath. I can keep an eye on them but do jobs at the same time.

I actually clean microwave and inside windows once a week (dc with sticky fingers), outside of cupboards quick wipe, splash backs in kitchen along with other general dusting and cleaning which I separate into days of the week, except Saturday which is my day off. Most days I do a quick 15minutes declutter/tidying messy area. I set a stopwatch Blush but it's amazing how much you can achieve in that time.

Monthly:
Deep clean fridge (do quick clean every other week)
Clean oven
Inside cupboards
Table and chairs in kitchen washed properly
Washing machine and tumble drier maintained to get rid of the gunk that collects.
Skirting boards wiped
Light switches
Doors
Radiators
Have a few other specific to my house like cupboard under the stairs, utiliy selves sorted, wardrobe cleared etc.

Don't spend more than a hour tops every day on it. I have noticed a huge difference in how tidy the house looks rather than my usual day long tidy every week which did nothing than put me in a bad mood.

binspin · 01/04/2015 09:05

I've finally got my house tidy and need to be following your routines!

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