whole house cleaning

Ilona

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Ilona

System

....and when your lacking in motivation, check out Speed cleaning videos on YouTube.

LameWolf

I used to take a fortnight off work every April (carefully including my birthday ) for the purpose of spring cleaning the entire house.

I would have a detailed list before I started, as I found that crossing things off the list helped me feel like I was making progress.

I would start at the top and work downwards, systematically.

So my list would start off:

BEDROOM 1

• wash curtains
• clean windows
• empty cupboards/drawers and turf out garbage
• move furniture; clean behind
• deep clean floor
• take down light shade and clean
• sheep-onna-stick round tops of walls/inaccessible places
• dust all surfaces, remove/recycle/chuck any garbage
• wash all washable ornaments

And so on.

I would REPEAT the list for Bedroom 2 (this is what I mean about it being detailed) and do a similar type of list for each room, including the hallway and landing (I had a house as opposed to a bungalow back then).

It means that not only do you get to do frequent list crossing-off (good for motivation), if for some reason something needs to be left til later (eg you want to wash 2 sets of curtains together) you can easily see what still needs to be done.

HTH

Slinky

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GreenQueen

Slinky wrote: »

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Suppose in a way they did us a favour :rotfl::rotfl:! I'm certainly finding some useful things in this thread. Like lameWolf, I love crossing off things from my list, just need to realise that making a list doesn't mean that the jobs miraculously do themselves once they've been written down.

GQ