Just call me the maid

Due to the fact that I attribute blogging about my weight loss attempts to staying motivated, I'm going to try this with another area that I'm currently trying to change in my life. My household cleaning schedule. My goal has always been to have a different chore for each day of the week so I don't get overwhelmed with cleaning the whole house in one day. Obviously if I wasn't a stay at home mom, this would be different, and it was when I was a working mom. I did the majority of my house cleaning and laundry on the weekends. But since I am home the majority of my days during the week, I may as well use them to my benefit.

Here's where you come in. I'm going to post my tentative daily cleaning schedule, which I will start this week, and then I'll report in next Monday as to whether or not I was able to stick with this schedule and if I had to change the days around any. I may not post on this one every week like I've been doing with my weightloss recap because, well frankly, there's only so much one can say about house cleaning, but I'm atleast going to post this and a follow up or two. We'll go from there.

So here's the schedule I've put together. We'll see how it goes.

Monday: grocery shopping and *organizing

Tuesday: laundry

Wednesday: vacuum most of the rooms in the house

Thursday: mop and dust

Friday: bathrooms

*By organizing, I mostly mean decluttering. Picking up stray items that get misplaced, doing a quick runthrough of the boys rooms and my bedroom and just general clean-up. This gets done many days of the week, but maybe giving myself one day to definitely do it will mean that my room won't get overlooked. That's the room that typically goes without a lot of the cleaning because it's the room that can be closed off if people stop by.

We tend to do laundry over the weekends too, so we'll see if I actually do much laundry on Tuesdays, but I feel as if I need to give the laundry a day. If nothing else, that will be my day to wash all of our bedding.

If any of you have a cleaning schedule of any kind, even if you do all of your household cleaning in one day, let me know how yours works and what seems to go best for you. I know you would think I would already have something like this down, if for no other reason than I've been a stay at home mom for almost 4 years now, but I just haven't found anything that has worked consistently. I'm just hoping by posting this out in the open, it will be just the motivation I need to stick with it.