Can anyone relatively lazy help me sort out a cleaning plan?

[Laugs]

Have recently become a SAHM and love the childcare aspect but I am so rubbish at all the domestic duties that come with the territory!

I don't want a spotlessly clean home, just to stay on top of things.

I just seem to need one lazy day and the whole place descends into chaos and I spend the whole next day cleaning and tidying just to get it back to its normal semi-tidy state. This is not good!!

Any help? x

I do the absolute essentials daily and have an extremely quick tidy up of the worst of te mess last thing at night. then I do one room a day properly. Wouldn't really work if you had a massive house though!

Try FLYlady - it's cheesy but it seems to work, and you can always adapt it to your own needs.

Designate jobs to specific days, eg
Mondays - bathrooms
Tuesday - change beds
Wednesday - etc

Oh Laugs - I am so with you on this one!!!! I too am not a natural and after having had a real blitz on Monday and Tuesday, I feel quite depressed that it now looks as bad as if not worse than before!

I tend to do cleaning on a Monday and a Friday (eg, dusting, hoovering, cleaning kitchen floor, toilet & sink, bathroom). I tidy the kitchen and living room every day.

One load of laundry every other day or sometimes every day, dishwasher on every day even if half full.

Things like ironing, hoovering upstairs, tidying dcs bedrooms are done more sporadically I'm afraid! (our bedroom looks like a charity shop most of the time)

I'm with COV - I tend to do a job a day - makes it feel more manageable. Our house is fairly big, so can feel a mammoth task sometimes, so I've split it into:

Kitchen
Bathroom/loos
Dust and hoover downstairs
Dust and hoover upstairs

Sometime I'll split it - like ysterday I cleaned bathrooms but left floor mopping til today.

Also I try and factor in some time for the ironing.

Washing as and when thugh cerian things like towels or bedidng tie in with when that room being cleaned.

Dishwasher eptying - when necessary but often dh does that.

Thanks for your suggestions.

I live in a flat so you'd think it wouldn't be that hard to manage, but clearly I am a novice!

Think I'll have to draw myself up a timetable and try and get control of it. When there were just the two of us housework never seemed to be that much of an issue.

So, do you just do each room (except kitchen) once a week? I can't imagine that'd be enough in this messy house...

What it FLYlady by the way?

I have days for cleaning and changing beds etc also. This fits round my work pattern (work Tues- Thurs). So Monday is my cleaning day - goes pear shaped at this time of year with all the bank holiday mondays! And at COV being "relatively lazy".

I do thorough cleaning once a week tackling one room at a time, then general stuff on a daily basis as and when needed. Now the children are at school/nursery daily it is much easier to keep on top of it as (a) I have the time, and (b) they are here less so generate less mess.

15 minutes (set a timer) and blitz a room. You'll be suprised how much you can do in 15 minutes. ( this is sort of the basis of how FLYlady works btw).

I try to leave living room tidy when I go up to bed, so the mess is renewed each day rather than added to.

Hoovering once a week ( or just before visitors due).

Occassional blitzes of whole house hoover/mop/dust - usually morning before visitors.

Am both lazy and busy...

I blitz my house for a day once a fortnight. Toilets etc. i do everyday.

I tried to do something every day but it just didn't work for me as i'm self employed work from home and have put my work / home into compartments or it all gets too woolly.

Aah! Now 15 minutes sounds more like my kind of style

DP said to me the other day, in his most helpful tone "Some people find it easier to hoover every day". True, obviously, but FFS.

Also remember that you are a SAHM not a housewife.

Get DP to do his bit too.

House gets cleaned completely once a week and I hoover two or three times a week. Laundry over the week, beds and towels on Sunday. Ironing blitzed all in one go - usually Monday night with double Corrie! Tidy up at the end of every evening. Mind you ds now at school so there's not that much to tidy away at the end of a day - not like with little ones at home!

I clean Thursday evening - not ideal, but only once a week and I set myself the incentive of getting it done by 9 so I can watch House!

JossStick, you are right but stupid me -

DP was at home with DD for 7 months until a couple of weeks ago, while I worked, and I was VERY happy to let him do the housework during the week.

How shortsighted!!

I just make sure that I clean the kitchen and lounge every night and clean the toilet and bathroom sink every morning. That alone helps me to keep on top of things.
Other than that I tend to, not strictly, do a laundry load every weekday morning (and put away yesterdays), bathroom cleaned once a week(by dh), hoovering and mopping as and when but usually every day or two.
Clean out fridge once a week.
Ironing once a week (dh usually as its mostly his shirts)
Dh also unloads the dishwasher. A job I loathe.

In what way is it easier to hoover every day? Of course, it is not. Regular tidying and washing are good ideas, mind you.

I have a cleaning lady once a week for loos, bathroom, vacuuming, floor cleaning, etc, and I try to do 15 minutes a day as per flylady every day, even if it is just loading/unloading the dishwasher.