Cleaning:

“Cleanliness is next to Godliness” is a quote I have been taught from when I was a child. Imagine a clean and organized house; life becomes easy and less chaotic in a clean environment.

Each one has a different ‘clean-o meter,” even in the same family; expecting that your family will be as committed to cleanliness as you is a huge pitfall. After being a mother, my obsession with cleanliness has reduced, and I try to see a workable solution for all of us as a family.

Cleaning is such a repetitive process. It’s never once done and forgotten. It humbles you because you would have one deep cleaning session, and you think you are good for the week before someone steps in or some mishaps happen, and you will have to clean it all over.

Before, cleaning was a huge task for me, and it usually put me in a bad mood. I have realized that it need not be, created a song playlist that I usually play while I am cleaning. 

I have broken the whole process into small manageable tasks, and if no one helps me the whole week, I can still do it alone, and the house will be clean.

These are a few tips for creating a cleaning schedule.

Create an annual, monthly, bi-weekly, weekly, daily schedule. I have created two sessions of twenty to Thirty minutes, each for morning and evening. This makes it a breeze to finish the task.

While planning the month, I look into monthly and annual cleaning lists and schedule a time to complete that task.

I have the weekends as a buffer if anything does not get done over the week. 

Life has been easy, and the house is clean. I could enjoy my weekends too.

So what is your cleaning strategy? Do share, and happy cleaning.