how does this sound as a cleaning schedule, and all improvements please given!

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Trying to get on top of the house and I've decided to try a schedule rather than doing it on an ad hoc basis. So how does this sound

Monday - 2 bedrooms and bathroom
Tuesday - living room
Wednesday - kitchen & conservatory

Then what for the other days of the week? Should it be then

Thursday - 10 mins in each room
Friday - 10 mins in each room

Am I missing something?

Hallway?
Garden?
Car? / Pushchair?
Chores (post office, bank, supermarket ....)

Flylady suggests a week on a room and rotates them over the month with an hour's tidy round at the start of the week to change sheets, hoover everywhere etc. She also nominates a day (think it's Thursday for doing chores, shop etc) with Wednesday being the day you clear the decks so you're ready to do your chores the next day. Worked really well when I did it - used to think I didn't need to do much to keep house looking great. (Did fall off the wagon though .)

hmm well we only have a tiny hallway but there is the porch. I dont really like our garden, its got overgrown and scary. That is sadly the truth, its so untidy I'm scared of it. Garden has always been DH's domain and I really want him to clean it up before I take over regular tidying. But in that case I could do garden Thursday.

I could never do flylady because I really really hate shoes. And that first hurdle just puts me off completely. But I sometimes want to do it, it just seems very complicated.

Hiya

It looks good. Its worth writing down what you do in each area and how long it takes to see if you are doing the right sort of amount each day

Re Flylady: If you dont like shoes dont wear them- it really is that simple. They are a good idea because they make you feel ready to start work and because you are not held back from getting on because you (for e.g) cant go empty the bin/ take something to the car because you dont have shoes on. But if they dont work for you thats fine- just keep some by the door instead.

These are my daily jobs from my control journal
Monday
Change Sam?s bed

Tuesday
Vacuum upstairs

Wednesday
Vacuum downstairs
Dry mop Lounge
Polish lounge

Thursday
Wash kitchen, hall way & downstairs loo floors
Polish hallway cupboards

Friday
Wash upstairs bathroom floors

Saturday
Change my bed

Sunday
Get ready for week ahead
Check uniforms ready
Iron any odd bits left
Tesco.com shop

Then I have all my daily jobs, plus I follow the flylady zones and do her daily missions

You could come and join the fledgling flyers if you liked?

thanks for that! that is really helpful!

I have always somewhat hankered after doing flylady and joining you lot here on MN too but I worry it will take over too much, I've had a bad tendency to get seriously addicted to MN in the past and it got in the way of real life. So I'm wistfully looking in at you through the window

You'll be really welcome on the November fledgling flyers thread (Hi DTG!). We're really friendly and non-judgemental.
Just start with the babysteps (I can't be doing with the shoes either - might manage slippers) and do what you can. Some of us post lists/requests for nagging etc but its not compulsory and no one will say anything if you don't manage to do what you had planned.
If you can pop in tonight around 10 someone will probably have the [virtual] wine ready

come and fly! The fledgelings thread is sooo friendly and bridges the gap between flylady and the real world. I can't do shoes, but I do now have some fetching stripey slippers!

Do you need to clean bedrooms every week?

I try to do an hours cleaning for 3 days a week.

Another day I do a big shop and mebbe cook something a bit fancy.

Another day I concentrate on putting laundry away and perhaps getting two loads of washing done instead of the usual one; washing the shower curtain or something like that.

On two days I do no housework at all aside from the usual dishwasher, washing and cooking.

We are reasonably hygienic if never exactly tidy!