If you do The Organised Mum Method

[Henrywilldoit]

Can I ask how you manage to get your level 2 jobs done in 30 minutes?

I'm trying to start this but it took me 1 hour 30 minutes to do the kitchen. There's no way I could do that list in 30 minutes. Or do you rotate the jobs? So for example surely the cutlery drawer/windows/cupboard fronts don't need doing every week?

Same with the living room, I could do the whole lot in 30 minutes especially as I have the dining room in with that too. But then I don't think you need to dust everything weekly.

Any tips would be really appreciated.

I don't know it, but maybe you just need to customise the list of jobs for yourself and tailor it to your own needs. I mean cleaning out the cutlery drawer, I have done fairly recently but I could count on one hand the times I've ever done that in this house, and we've been here 15 years, and possibly in my entire life, and I'm 46 years old.

I did (I must start again) 30/40 minutes and got as far as I did. I did find that as the weeks went on it got faster as everything was cleaner to start with.

I use the 30 minute timer on the app and stop when I’m finished. I don’t get it all done in the kitchen or bedrooms, but it’s slowly starting to look better.
The cutlery drawer was minging the first time I did it, but second week it barely needed a wipe down so I moved on to the next thing.

It works in a little and often basis, as the weeks go on it takes less time. You’re not going to declutter your wardrobe every week for instance.

Thank you, just trying to get my head around it and get into the routine.

I usually spend my day off spending all day cleaning for the whole day but still never actually get round to doing those other jobs such as cleaning out the cutlery drawer.

You're meant to stop after 30 mins and roll over anything you didn't get to as a prio for next week.

Also, it takes less time over time. The first kitchen day took bloody ages because I was contending with months of build-up in some places, but now a clean of cupboard doors takes me about a minute because they haven't been allowed to get dirty so just need a quick spray and wipe. Same with the fridge, cutlery drawer, etc.

The whole point of the method is that over time, stuff takes much less time because it's being done so frequently. But yes, the first few times it will take longer to achieve everything because everything probably needs a proper scrub.

(Our cutlery drawer was absolutely minging the first time I cleaned it, it was quite shocking. It hadn't looked that bad till I got everything out! But I did it yesterday and it needed a quick wipe and that was that.)

We have an active thread running on here that you'd be more than welcome to join!

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/housekeeping/4338583-The-Organised-Mum-Method

It's definitely the little and often principle. I'm now out of the house eleven and a half hours a day, so don't do it anymore, but still do basic Level One jobs every day, plus, say, dusting the living room for 5 minutes before leaving the house. It all builds up, and is a lot less boring than cleaning for hours!