It is that time of year again and I am so excited to share with you my spring cleaning goals and accomplishments for this year. To be honest, I really dread doing the spring cleaning routine, but I do love the sense of accomplishment I get and being able to restore my home to some semblance of order for the year.
I work hard as a mom and I work hard on our site so doing an entire marathon of cleaning won’t be on my agenda. I keep a fairly tidy home, but I do have problem spots that desire attention. Maybe you work? Maybe you homeschool? Maybe you have a new baby? Marathon cleaning might not be for you!
I am hoping my proposed agenda might be a little more appealing. Each week we will tackle one room in our home and our tasks will be divided into one hour tasks for each day of the week, concentrating on our focused room. I am hoping to put together some printable checklists for the rooms, to help accomplish our goals for the year and to act as motivation for our spring cleaning routine.
The first room that I will be addressing in my home is my kitchen. Tidy enough to eat in? Yes! Scared when company opens a drawer or cupboard? Absolutely!
My goals for the kitchen might be different from yours though so take this weekend to think of seven one hour tasks you could do to get your kitchen/dining room in order.
Goals for My Kitchen (7 Tasks)
1. Clean out the refrigerator (interior)
2. Deep clean the floors (I steam my floors bi-weekly) and washing/shaking out rugs
3. Organize Pantry
4. Clean the refrigerator (exterior) & organize the cupboards under the sink
5. Weeding Out Day (removing unnecessary or unused items in my kitchen)
6. Continue Organizing Pantry (can do inventory at this point for grocery shopping needs)
7. Clean out the freezer
** Monica at the Homespun Heart is offering a giveaway to help motivate you to do your cleaning! Be sure to visit her site for the scoop on the contest and how to participate!!**
Thanks for the inspiration!
I intend to join in on your agendas. And I am encouraging my readers to as well..I linked to you!
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Printed checklists would be great! Thank you so much for this post. I will join in as well.
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Great idea, Amy! I am already enjoying the fruits of some of my cleaning and am sure it will be a blessing to you as well!
Thanks for the link also!
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That first sentence had me worried!
I’m more of a fall cleaner, motivated by two things: spring is pretty occupied by gardening, and more importantly we host the Thanksgiving meal.
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Checklists would be great! With a toddler and a full time job I often put off cleaning because the thought of it is too overwhelming and there are so many other things I need to do…I like your suggestion to break down 7 tasks over a week for each room, one at a time. I often make a huge list of the things I want to do for the month and then try and loosely assign them to a day or week, but I hadn’t thought of doing that regarding spring cleaning.
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I no longer have little ones at home so it is easier for me (if I don’t get distracted)…..but I try to take 12 week days and completely clean one room a day….including floors,windows, basebaords, ceiling fans, closets, drawers…..at the end of the two weeks hopefully the whole house is done!!! once in the spring and again in the fall….then keeping up with the daily and weekly cleaning isn’t so overwhelming. I also keep an almost empty closet in our guest bedroom and put all potential “garage sale” items in there(priced as they as placed)….then when our family has our annual sale I am ready. It is a great feeling to be organized. God Bless, Pam, South Bend
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Amy -I am so excited to work through this process with you! I was just thinking the other day that I need to find motivation and steps to get our house cleaned from all of the winter yuck! We acutally just got another 8 inches of snow on Friday…ugh…so the ice melt continues to be tracked throughout the house. Suposedly it is going to be in the 50s this week! If so I will be doing a happy dance with my two year old!
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Amy,
Just a comment to check on you really. It’s not like you to go 5 days without posting. Hope all is well there with you and your beautiful family!
Sheila
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