{"id":5169,"date":"2020-02-18T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/betondinner.com\/?p=5169"},"modified":"2020-02-18T13:02:02","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T20:02:02","slug":"cleaning-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/betondinner.com\/cleaning-schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"If you’re a clean person, this post is not for you."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’m messy. But I don’t want to be messy. I have Pinterest boards devoted to minimalism. I purge things (just…not as much as I hoard things). Our current house has set me up for success with abundant drawers and cabinets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But I still naturally function with organized-ish piles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lucy wants you to know the piles are just on the outskirts of this picture.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

And for some reason I have a lot (more than average? do tell) of half-worn clothes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kid-stuff-containment (omg the artwork) is a losing battle, but I can’t blame them…I’ve been an essentially lazy panic-cleaner for a lot longer than they’ve been around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Does your living room prominently feature a princess castle?<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I even swore that when I started working again, I would hire cleaning help, but apparently I’m also a little bit of a hoarder when it comes to dollars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year when I teed up for my yearly swing at being consistently cleaner, I even titled my doc “Unrealistic Cleaning Schedule.” BUT. Six weeks into 2020, it’s kinda working for me. It’s definitely nothing unique, and in the past I’ve rejected this type of “one room a day” plan because I wanted everything to be all clean at once, sometimes. But whenever I succeed at everything being clean at once, I feel like I deserve to relax and Not Clean for a few days, and then everything ends up dirty again at the same time, which is a discouraging cycle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is it! Every day has a room or area. The main task is vacuuming (and as I think you can probably guess, that involves some picking up around here). The secondary tasks (in parentheses) rotate weekly. It usually takes me less than 30 minutes to do both, which if I’m honest with myself, I definitely have each day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The cleaning schedule:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n