Here are some easy weekly cleaning tips you can follow to help you stay on track with your cleaning schedule and make your life easier:

Print off the pages in this weekly cleaning planner page bundle, and keep them in a binder or stick them with cute pieces of magnets on your fridge. If you don’t have a binder or an organized system for keeping your planner pages, and you keep your cleaning planner pages strewn all over the house or jot down your chores on scrap pieces of paper, this disorganized manner will add to your stress.

Keep the binder in a place that everyone in the family has easy access to so that you can always refer back to it easily. It could be the living room or the kitchen. I leave it up to you.

After each of you has done your part for the cleaning, check off the lists in your planner so that everyone in the family is kept up to date with regard to the cleaning sessions.

It is also helpful to allocate a fixed amount of time to each cleaning task so as not to waste time when you are cleaning. For example, you can allocate half an hour to cleaning and organizing your living room, during which you are not allowed to do anything else so that you do not get distracted by the TV.

Use the To-Do List page and the note page to jot down your cleaning tasks, who the tasks have been allocated to, motivational notes for each other on your cleaning chores, things to throw away, your decluttering lists, etc.

If your cleaning supplies are all over the house, or you have to dig for them deep in your storage, it will make it harder for you to start your cleaning sessions, and you will waste time retrieving your cleaning supplies. Remember, any time you save on this can make up your ME time for yourself. Don’t waste your time!

Ensure that everyone in the family knows where the cleaning supplies are and that they retrieve and place back the cleaning supplies in an organized fashion so that you do not mess up your cleaning supplies area. That will add to more cleaning and decluttering tasks for you, which eats away your ME Time! Write down where all your cleaning supplies are on your weekly cleaning planner pages, please.

It is essential to stick to your cleaning schedule so that you create a cleaning habit. It can be challenging to create a habit, but it’s worth the effort.  Once you have a cleaning habit, you will find it easier to stick to your cleaning schedule.

If you find yourself getting distracted by life’s tasks such as fetching your kids from school, paying the bills, etc., and this interferes with your cleaning schedule, allocate time to all these tasks so that you attend to these tasks on a specific day and time.

It can be easier said than done since life loves to throw curveballs, but the best way to manage these curveballs and stay calm is to ensure that your other tasks don’t get pushed back with the arrival of these sickening challenges. When you fall behind on all your tasks due to the curveballs, you will find that you have a lot more to handle than just the curveballs, and that will add to your stress.

Ashley Yeo

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