subject: Housecleaning Timetable: How Often Should Your Tackle Various Chores? by:Tara Aronson [print this page] Is there a steadfast housecleaning timetable? It's a common question, but (this is good news) there is no hard and fast `right' answer. Yet there are some general guidelines on which room and items to tackle daily, weekly or even monthly.
The right answer is your call, and even that depends more on how fastidious you are, how much time you have to clean, and how active your family is at home.
Here's a general plan that can help you put your cleaning on a rotational schedule you - and your family - can live with.
Daily Duty - or Thereabouts
In the kitchen:
* Wash dishes
* Disinfect countertops
In the bedrooms:
* Make beds
In the bathrooms:
* Squeegee shower (or sponge tub)
Weekly Once-Over: If You Can
Housewide:
* Vacuum carpets
* Dust
Kitchen:
* Disinfect countertops
* Mop floor
Bedrooms:
* Change bed linens
Bathrooms:
* Clean toilet
* Clean shower or tub
* Mope floors
Monthly? Maybe.
Kitchen:
* Clean refrigerator shelves
Utility areas:
* Disinfect indoor trashcans
Quarterly Quest
Housewide:
* Wash windows
* Wash walls and baseboards (aka spring cleaning routine)
Kitchen:
* Clean refrigerator shelves
Semi-annually; Sorta
Housewide:
* Shampoo carpets
Bedrooms:
* Vacuum and turn mattresses
Annually? Ah, Yes
Housewide:
* Reseal wood floors
* Clean ceiling fixtures
About the author
Tara has appeared in numerous magazine, newspaper and online articles featuring her lifestyle, organizing and cleaning expertise in addition to writing her twice-monthly column, Coming Clean in the San Francisco Chronicle. Tara is also regularly a guest expert on news, feature, and talk-show programs across the country. She most recently appeared on the "Rachael Ray" Daytime talk show Feb. 4, 2009, in New York City. Tara appeared as the guest expert on Human Lab: Laundry.
In addition, Tara also puts her well-tuned journalistic skills to use on the road, writing travel articles about her as frequent as possible road trips to venues across the United States and abroad. Tara is a proud mom to three who cleans and writes in West Los Angeles.
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