Anybody else taking this time to deep clean?...

[NoNameNoGame]

Spent some time today:
Cleaning all my horizontal blinds today, couldn't believe how dusty they had gotten! Cleaned and organised the fridge and freezer in the kitchen and the garage in prep for my Ocado delivery tomorrow, (hopeful!)
Reorganised, cleaner and de-cluttered my shoe closet.

Sunday mowing the lawn and weeding.

Monday cleaning the windows.

Tuesday moving furniture and dusting / vacuuming behind.

Wednesday emptying and cleaning cutlery drawers.

Thursday reorganising and cleaning my makeup and brushes.

How about you?...

For anyone who wants to really take their deep clean seriously - here is the general plan I follow in autumn. Caveat - I have NEVER done the whole thing in any 1 autumn, and there are chores I have never done full stop. But it is useful to go around each room and do it methodically.

Cleaning Grand Plan

Yes. Sad, but I'm looking forward to it. I'm also going to include it as part of the home schooling for my partner's Year 7 daughter. I'm going to call it DT the Domestic Engineering Module. I'm not holding out much hope, but I can try.

I've made a list and intend to do something each day, whatever I'm in the mood for.

Today was clear out and clean bathroom cabinet. Tomorrow I hope skirting boards.

They don't take long so why do I so rarely do them?

Iwant2move

Domestic Engineering Module that’s just fantastic, but as you said good luck with that!!

It’s funny I loved cleaning even as a child, I think it’s because all my family were just so messy, my mum and all my aunties were just mingers, but my nana was a clean freak, my mum said that the cleaning gene had just jumped a generation.

Yes. I've been doing a at least one job a day. So far I've

Sorted garage and moved ex stuff in there so it's ready for him to collect

Rearranged furniture in two downstairs rooms

Cleaned, painted and rearranged my bedroom

Sorted out the crap on our landing

Cleaned and tidied the porch

Today I did my cupboard in utility room. This included the medicine cupboard.

My house has never looked so clean!

Oh and cut the grass!

I've cleaned the fridges
Cleaned the windows

I'm already clutter free so plan on doing the conservatory windows tomorrow.

I cant get motivated to clean anything tbh

Yep
I'm not a naturally clean and tidy person but am going to force myself.

Any ideas how I can clean my carpet without a machine? My house is tiny so not much carpet. I wondered if a bit of laundry liquid in warm water and a scrubbing brush would work on spot stains?

I went shopping today, and the first thing I did when I got home was wash my hands and my face in soap and water, then squirt some First Defence up m nostrils. It probably is useless, but worth a try. I then filled a washing up bowl with hot soapy water and wiped down everything I bought with a dishcloth that had been dunked in the hot soapy water and squeezed out.

I then wiped down all my shopping bags with a bleach solution.

Under normal circumstances I would never do anything like this, but it is all becoming so real now.

I have managed to get loads of washing line dried in the lovely sunshine we have been having.

I got loads of washing as well because it was a great drying day very windy!!

But other then that I have been a disgrace today!! Did it even get dressed just eat to much food, watched TV and read my book. Did manage to make two fish pies one for tea one went in the freezer.

Must try harder tomorrow!!

Actually, I have made it all worse today as I brought home some of my work office things to WFH for the foreseeable future - I left 5 crates and 5 archiving boxes to be moved to my new office (great time to change role!), but have the equivalent of 3 archiving boxes at home (2 boxes and some bags...). Office materials, like pens and rulers, will get used up or go back in with me later. And hopefully I will work through some old notebooks and write up the minutes of meetings for electronic files, so I can burn/shred the notebooks.

The spare room is currently looking like a bomb hit it - and that needs to be ready as a sick room for isolation if 1 of us does get sick, so DH and I are tackling the worst of it tonight.

But we've agreed that we now have at least 3 weeks, probably longer, before things get back to normal, so we have time we don't normally have in the house . So we will do a proper de-clutter, and then the deep clean to go alongside it - which will all be worth it in the end.

But we've agreed that we now have at least 3 weeks, probably longer, before things get back to normal

Just the 3?!

My husband is hell bent on clearing everything out. Which is just resulting in loads of sacks of things to dispose of, nowhere to dispose of them and nowhere to store them. He is driving me mad.

Angel2702

Black bags and chuck them neatly lined up in the garden.

Yes, we’re just doing one small space in the flat when we feel like it (every couple of days or so).

Most of the indoor side of windows done today. I'll try to finish inside tomorrow and start the outside.

Joining in as I will be at home for the next 12 weeks.

Today - Cleaned cooker top

Well it's a start.