Housecleaning Timetable: How Often Should Your Tackle Various Chores? by Tara Aronson

Housecleaning Timetable: How Often Should Your Tackle Various Chores?
by: Tara Aronson

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.

Visit the author's web site at:
http://www.clean-organized-family-home.com