Organize Holiday CleaningOrganize Holiday Cleaning and get started early with a plan which will help reduce stress and have your home clean in time for the Holidays. I love the Holidays but Holiday Cleaning is another story... Cleaning and Organizing go hand in hand. Organize Holiday Cleaning by scheduling it on a week by week basis. Plan and shop ahead of time for cleaning supplies that you will need and then DO the actual cleaning! First Rule For Holiday Cleaning: Start Early!Start with the rooms that will be used most during the season...kitchen, family room, bathrooms, guest room. Then they will just need a "tune-up" in December.Schedule each room on your calendar giving a day or two up to a week for each room. Focus on cleaning only that room during that day/week. Ideally, cleaning one room at a time all through November will leave you with only having to do a "tune-up" on them. This approach works well throughout the year too. A friend of mine has 10 rooms in her home. She schedules one room per month for cleaning and organizing, excluding the months of July and August when her children are on summer vacation. When it's "Kitchen Month", she cleans out all the cabinets, the refrigerator, cleans the light fixtures, her china cabinet, etc. all throughout that month. Same thing for the other rooms. During a month when she has just a bathroom to clean, she uses the extra time to maintain the rest of the house. My friend says it really helps keep the balance when it comes to having a clean home which is very important to her. Try It! Second Rule: Let Go Of Perfection!Just one room a little cleaner all day/week, then move on to the next.I won't tell you HOW to clean as this is an Organizing Web-Site, but be sure to get some great tips from the "Fly Lady" who has an upbeat and easy-to-do approach to keeping up with the cleaning. After several weeks, you have several "more-clean-than-they-would-have-been" rooms! Great Job...treat yourself to something special. How about TIME with a loved one? During the month of December it is only realistic to just "keep up" with the cleaning. Do what you can to maintain and don't worry, Santa doesn't dust with those white gloves :)
Enjoy the Meaning...
|
