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How to create a cleaning schedule

Sometimes you get a really strong urge to clean and tidy your home. When this urge comes upon you, make the most of it and act on it quickly!
You may wonder where to begin these home improvements but the thing is to settle down, gather your cleaning tools and set to concentrating on all the very urgent bits.
Once those are out of the way, the time has come for you to organize your cleaning schedule.

How to Create a Cleaning Schedule

The aim of a Cleaning Schedule is that, if you have a list of cleaning jobs to do every day for a week or month or year and keep to the plan, the home will always look beautiful.
Unfortunately and all to often, we start off following the road of good intentions and one day the Cleaning Schedule is put away in a drawer and forgotten about, until the next great peak of energies, loaded again with excellent and will-follow-without-doubt-this-time good intentions, when the schedule is resurrected.
But despite these misgivings, it is a very worthwhile idea to making a Cleaning Schedule and to work really hard following your plan for as long as possible.
At least, even if you forsake it after a few weeks or months, you will know that the cleanliness in your home has been much improved.

a) Put aside a few hours to contemplate why you want to make a Cleaning Schedule.
b)Think about what you want your home to look and feel like when it is both clean and tidy. Will you clean both inside and outside the home?
c) Arm yourself with a piece of paper and a pen and go through each room or area making notes of items you wish to clean once in a while or items that you want always to keep clean.
d) Work out when you can devote some time to cleaning. Will you do the easy jobs in short spurts every day or will you work hard for a few hours on your days off?
e) When you have this list in draft, check if some jobs are really in urgent need of a thorough clean and may need prioritizing.
f) Now you should have in front of you all the jobs and the times when you are free to do the cleaning.

WELL DONE! You have planned your very own Cleaning Schedule.

Now it is the time to get your planning in an ordered and workable form

I would suggest that you organize your Cleaning Schedule on a weekly programme bases.

• Draw on paper or write on the computer, a weekly work sheet, leaving a blank space at the bottom of the paper so you can add any jobs, that you forgot about, when you wrote the week's work plan. These cleaning jobs can be added to your next week's work or added whenever convenient to you.
• Block out times when you are unavailable to do any housework and place your cleaning jobs to times appropriate for the work needing to be done.
• Try to make your cleaning times as much fun as possible. Perhaps you can clean to the beat of your favourite music? You may wish to do a cleaning swap with a friend. It is often more fun tidying and cleaning other people's homes.
• Congratulate yourself when you have finished a cleaning job well done.
• Don't worry if you have not been able to achieve as much cleaning as you would have wished for. Just put the left over work onto the next week’s schedule.
• Now you have learnt how to create a cleaning schedule.

Remember every job done well is a step on the way to reach your goal of a cosy and clean home.

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