By room or by task? Like do you do your entire family room- dusting, vacuuming, etc? Or do you dust every room, then vacuum every room? I can’t decide which I prefer.
Post by puppylove64 on Aug 23, 2021 12:03:02 GMT -5
Lol usually I start cleaning the kitchen counter, then go throw the rag in the laundry room, then realize I need to do laundry, then fold in my bedroom and realize I need to carry something to the kids room, then realize I need to take the blankets off their bed and back to living room, then realize I need to straighten the couch and vacuum the floor, then realize I never finished in the kitchen what I started in the first place 🤣
I do a combination of the two. I'll do all of the dusting, then all of the windows, then floors in the main living spaces; then I'll go to the back of the house and do the same in the bedrooms. Each bathroom gets done at once.
For me cleaning the kitchen is one task - so all flat surfaces, appliance fronts, sink, and window. Same with the bathrooms - flat surfaces, sinks, mirrors, toilet, tub/shower. Neither of these task include the floors or dusting up high (like to remove cobwebs, but I will dust off the edges of the towel racks).
Dusting is a separate task that encompasses the whole house and may include things like the blinds and cobwebs.
Vacuuming is a separate task that encompasses the whole house.
Mopping is a separate task that only includes the kitchen, bathrooms, landing, and one hallway.
It's easier for me to take my cleaning supply bucket and go room by room to do the "wet" cleaning first, and then come back through to do dusting and floors.
I start in the kitchen - wash dishes, wipe counters, put stuff away, run the dishwasher. Then I'll do the tidying in the living room/dining room/main bedroom. Then I go back and vacuum all of those rooms. If I dust I do it before vacuuming. I do the bathrooms last, then do the floor in there. Then start laundry with all the kitchen towels/bathrooom rags/etc. If I'm not pressed for time, there are also a lot of stops and starts in there for random organizing too.
I guess kind of neither? I often just clean when things look like they need cleaning, so if I notice the counter looks grubby, I clean it. If I notice the floors are looking like there is a bunch of lint/dirt on them, I'll vacuum. Sometimes if I have the vacuum out already I'll just keep going and do the whole house, but sometimes I just do the room that seems like it needs it. And just because I vacuum the kitchen doesn't mean I'm going to scrub the whole room at that moment, either.
Very occasionally I'll go through the whole house and clean everything, and then it's more by task - like I'll do all the dusting at once and then move to the next task. Honestly, now that we've hired cleaners, I don't really anticipate ever doing that again though lol. I'll just be doing touchups in between cleanings.
I have a housekeeper now, so I really only pickup. I do pickup by room. We have open concept so I try to do the living/dining/ kitchen picked up first. Last is our bedroom and bathroom.
If I’m actually cleaning- like dusting, mopping, vacuuming: I do it by task. Actually I would clean the kitchen and bathrooms plus dust while bf would vacuum and mop the entire house.
I go room by room, but my children get task oriented chores (dust all the baseboards, clean all windows and mirrors, empty all trash cans, wipe down all bathrooms, swiffer all picture frames, doorways, window ledges and lights/ceiling fans, etc). I start in my kitchen, which takes me the longest, and then when I'm done in there, they are usually done with their things so I can both doublecheck their work, and also finish up what I need to do in each room.
We listen to Hamilton soundtrack while we clean, and it usually takes at least one through, sometimes one and a half, to finish the whole house. Kids are responsible for their own bedrooms, the kids' tv room and the second floor office once their done with my chores.
I find nothing more satisfying than a deeply cleaned house and the smell of bleach.
Both. I mean, I wipe up the kitchen every night after dinner, same with the bathroom counter, and I vacuum throughout the week. But on Saturday mornings, I really clean the kitchen, then the two bathrooms we use, then I vacuum the whole house and on some weeks also mop the floors. Some weeks I also do a dusting before vacuuming.
Post by sofamonkey on Aug 23, 2021 12:47:41 GMT -5
I googled family cleaning calendars. Lol. It looks like it’ll be easier to do spot as needed still, but a dedicated day to do specific tasks. We will see. Hahaha
I kind of have a routine: throw in a load of laundry, tie up the drapes, pick up the floor and clear what I can so I can run the robot vacuum, while the vacuum runs I clean the kitchen then work my way to the dining room and then the living room. Our bedroom gets cleaned last. We have a very small house (for Texas) so it's not too terrible to clean. David's 12 so he can clean his own bathroom and bedroom, I have him clean his bathroom Fridays before video games and his room has to be clean before any screen time during the week.
Post by doggielover on Aug 23, 2021 13:17:21 GMT -5
I dust everything first then go through and vacuum every room. Usually twice a week I run roomba. I do a deep clean seasonally where I clean the blinds, drapes etc. Kitchen gets done everyday where i wipe off counters, load dishwasher and make sure we have no dishes in the sink etc. I can't stand a messy kitchen.
Post by goldengirlz on Aug 23, 2021 13:32:54 GMT -5
It depends. I go task by task for anything that requires special cleaning stuff — for example, I vacuum the whole house while I have the vacuum going, same with cleaning mirrors and glass (because once I have the Windex and special rags out, I’m doing all of them.)
For bigger tasks like wiping down counters or decluttering, then I go room by room.
We have a roomba, so it does most of our vacuuming. For straightening up I do room by room. Dusting can be done either way. I can straighten and dust at the same time or dust the whole downstairs at once after I straighten. I try to limit myself in some tasks to room by room because otherwise I get distracted and run all over. Room by room at least allows me to say OK I started in the sunroom and got that done, now onto the living room.
I kind of have a routine: throw in a load of laundry, tie up the drapes, pick up the floor and clear what I can so I can run the robot vacuum, while the vacuum runs I clean the kitchen then work my way to the dining room and then the living room. Our bedroom gets cleaned last. We have a very small house (for Texas) so it's not too terrible to clean. David's 12 so he can clean his own bathroom and bedroom, I have him clean his bathroom Fridays before video games and his room has to be clean before any screen time during the week.
Ha, I have a feeling that “very small” for Texas is still bigger than my big-for-the-Bay-Area house! (We have under 1700 sq ft.)
For picking up if I am walking through the house I am always just grabbing stuff as I go and putting it back where it needs to be. I do clean the kitchen start to finish ever night.
Post by Doggy Mommy on Aug 23, 2021 14:05:44 GMT -5
By room. I never clean the whole house at once and I need some sort of instant gratification, and breaks in between. DH is in charge of floors, which helps a ton, and also he's good at it and awful at counters (doesn't seem to see clutter?) so that works well.
I kind of have a routine: throw in a load of laundry, tie up the drapes, pick up the floor and clear what I can so I can run the robot vacuum, while the vacuum runs I clean the kitchen then work my way to the dining room and then the living room. Our bedroom gets cleaned last. We have a very small house (for Texas) so it's not too terrible to clean. David's 12 so he can clean his own bathroom and bedroom, I have him clean his bathroom Fridays before video games and his room has to be clean before any screen time during the week.
Ha, I have a feeling that “very small” for Texas is still bigger than my big-for-the-Bay-Area house! (We have under 1700 sq ft.)
Haha, yep, 1800 sq ft. It was so hard finding a newish house this small, honestly. They make huge homes here, I hate it, it's just more for me to clean, furnish, air condition, etc.
Post by definitelyO on Aug 23, 2021 14:34:06 GMT -5
by paying someone to do it....
it depends - the kitchen counters I do all together - but the floors flow from Kitchen to DR to hallway to LR - so I'll do the kitchen, then all the floors. Bathrooms are one room - do everything before leaving the room including the floors.
Each bathroom is one task. The kitchen is one task. Tidying/organizing the family room is one big task. But I might dust each room at the same time. Then polish all the wood furniture. Then the floors.
Lol usually I start cleaning the kitchen counter, then go throw the rag in the laundry room, then realize I need to do laundry, then fold in my bedroom and realize I need to carry something to the kids room, then realize I need to take the blankets off their bed and back to living room, then realize I need to straighten the couch and vacuum the floor, then realize I never finished in the kitchen what I started in the first place 🤣
Yes, but add in the step where I decide that I need to completely declutter/rearrange a random closet or cabinet (or garage) that no one else even sees thereby distracting me for the majority of they so that when I go to bed nothing else is cleaned up. Or sometimes I get too tired/overwhelmed/run out of time for said declutter and random piles of give/sell/trash remain for a few weeks until I remember what I was doing and have the energy to do it again.