A lot of people know what to clean but don’t know when and how to go about cleaning, leading to dirty and untidy spaces. This situation gets even more complicated with a busy and full life.
Considering, however, the benefits to maintaining a clean space, it’s worth taking some time to learn and implement realistic house cleaning routines.
This article discusses the best daily, weekly, and monthly cleaning routines. Feel free to adjust the suggestions to suit your unique needs.
Daily House Cleaning Routines
Some cleaning chores and tasks are meant to be handled every day. Otherwise, it becomes difficult to handle all of them on the weekend.
Little drops of water make the mighty ocean. This old saying sums up how small cleaning tasks whether handled or not can become significant in the grand scheme of things.
Here are the areas to touch daily.
- Make the bed: Making your bed each morning before leaving the house encourages cleanliness. When you take 2 to 3 minutes to remake your bed, it activates and increases your awareness of other sections of your home needing attention. Also, experts have linked early bedmaking to improved focus, feeling of accomplishment, a sense of calm, and other health benefits.
- Do a load of laundry: Many wonder if there are people who do laundry every single day. Yes, many have developed this habit. If you have a big family, you may have to do at least a load of laundry daily. A good way to manage the constant influx of dirty clothes in big households is the everyday bit-by-bit washing. Letting items of clothing sit until the weekend could make it difficult to catch up on other routines scheduled for the weekend.
- Keep counters clear: Ensure to keep your kitchen and bathroom counters clear and clean as much as possible. A kitchen counter, for example, has this inherent nature of allowing messes to be made during its use. Instead of putting stuff away in cupboards, shelves, and drawers, many leave kitchen utensils, appliances, and other items on the countertop. Before you know it, the place becomes crowded with items that do not belong. So always remember to store items in their appropriate storage spaces.
- Check the floors: Of course, you don’t have to deep clean or vacuum the floor every day. But especially if you have little kids, you need to address spills and food crumbs as soon as possible. Some spills when allowed to sit for a long time, penetrate deep into the surface, leading to discoloration.
- Run the dishwasher: Run the dishwasher every day preferably at night. Overnight washing lets dishes have enough time to air dry. This can lead to energy savings as you don’t have to use the dryer function.
Weekly Routine Schedule
Just like daily cleaning routines, a weekly cleaning schedule prevents your home from building up with dust and general mess. The focus of weekly home cleaning chores is the commonly used rooms and high foot traffic areas.
- Kitchen: Once a week, do thorough kitchen cleaning. This includes cleaning the counters, cleaning inside out the microwave, scrubbing out the sink, and sweeping up crumbs.
- Bathrooms: Bathrooms are one area for many that take the longest to clean on a weekly house cleaning schedule. This is because of the many sections to be handled. Wash the floor, clean the toilet, rid of soap scum, clean the bathroom mirror, scrub and rinse the shower or bathtub, and clean the counter. If you keep your bathroom free of clutters daily, all left to be handled will be cleaning.
- Other rooms: First sweep or vacuum the living room, dining room, home office space, and other high-foot traffic areas before washing the floors. Washing can also incorporate disinfection.
- Do the laundry: Daily laundry means little to no weekend laundry. However, washing items such as bed sheets and blankets is typically done on a weekly.
- Catch-Up/ Organize: No matter how disciplined you are with your cleaning routines, life happens. It’s fine if you can’t attend to some cleaning chores scheduled for the previous day. You can always organize something for the coming week. This way, you catch up with those pending tasks.
Monthly Cleaning Schedule
If you’re able to stick to your daily and weekly cleaning schedule, then your monthly schedule would just be for typical monthly and tune-up tasks. Here are some cleaning tasks to do on a monthly basis.
- Vacuum the couch: Regular cleaning helps your couch or sofa last long. Use a vacuum to rid of food crumbs, pet hair, and dirt from the sofa surface. Clean also the metal or wood areas. You may have to use a neutralizer if your upholstery has an odor.
- Clean out the kitchen cabinets: Clean the cabinets and other parts of the interior.
- Clean the fridge: Areas of attention include drawers, shelves, and interior walls.
Wrapping Up
The feeling of stepping into or walking around a clean and organized home is priceless. You not only feel clear-headed but also increase your chances of healthy living.
These suggestions in this article are meant to guide you on what, when, and how to clean. Let the recommendations serve as guides or inspiration for how to create an easy-to-follow and effective daily, weekly, and monthly cleaning schedule.
Because we are creatures of habit, it may take some time for some or many of your cleaning routines to become second nature. That is fine, so don’t beat yourself up if it takes longer to stick to a routine.
If you still need help with the big stuff or you’d like to have a weekly or monthly cleaning done by the pros, know that Soji Cleaners has service technicians who can help keep your home in tip-top shape.
We use nature-friendly and family-safe products and practices. The size of your space is also not a problem. We’ve been for years providing services to different residential properties. So you can trust the expertise of our service techs to get the job done right.
See the locations we serve to see if we’re close to you. Our cleaning technicians will be more than happy to make your home sparkling clean and organized.