It is funny how it seems no matter how hard you try there is something to be done!There is someone that dropped a cracker, washed their hands, maybe came in from out side! I never knew how many corners there was until it came time for me to clean my own place.
I was never the worst at keeping calm in my house, however I was not the best either.. by far. I always wanted to have one the nice big pintrest worthy houses, and then I relized it will only look like that if we are not here lol. Well that won’t work!
There had to be a better way to get the house in order, and stay for even just a little. I have had many different cleaning habits through the 13 years I have been living with my husband.
The routines always were and still are changing, but just like trying to get those kids back into the habit of school, trying to get a new cleaning schedual and keeping it is just as hard lol.
When I had started with getting into finding better scheduals it was shortly after I had my 3rd kid. They were mom videos on youtube I had found, these would help me on days that I was:
over whelmed, feeling like not the best mamma, and when I could not seem to get my head in order, or figure out why I never seemed to be getting a head!
Ever feel like that?
Things just seem to blurr together, the dishes and just always there and I don’t want to think about the laundry lol.
Now, I know!
This is all parts of the pregnancy, and post partome is a vibe killer! There was just something about seeing it and finding it to realate to that was so interesting.
I have went through a couple different cleaning ways, some worked and some didn’t. I was am not one to spent my nice spring months deep cleaning, when I should be outside getting the yard and garden ready.
In saskatchewan our summers are short and I look forward to busting out of the house after a very long winter.
A couple years ago I sat down and tryed a cleaning system by “the flylady” its a zone cleaning design system!
Have you heard of the fly lady?
Have you heard of zone cleaning?
I hadn’t either, and it was a game changer for me!
Now, that I have had some BIG changes, I need to relook my zone cleaning.
The nice thing with this set up is it is all about you and your house! It can be switched, changed, added to or slowed down all depending on you!
Now I have croppeded this in a way that fits for me and my family. This is a system that is really a perfect guidline to help jump start my chaos! I found anyways.
There is so many people and places that follow the fly lady:
-Instargram
-Pintrest
– SO MUCH ON YOUTUBE
WHAT IS ZONE CLEANING?
This is really just a wonderful way to break your house up into… yap ZONES!
This allows you to hit all the spots in your house without trying to do it ALL in a day! This is a set up where you only really have to clean your “zone” for about 15 minutes a day!
The nice thing here also is it can be more or less time, you can take a hour on a day off to do it once a week, or however it fits in your schedual!
Every week you will work a zone, with the weeks in the month each week is a new zone!
What about half weeks?
Take the first and the last half week for the month and that is your week! You will have 5 zones for a month, to break up. Or however you feel to split up your cleaning!
In that week you can spend 10-15 minutes (or more or less) in your designated zone. These couple minutes are not for crazy cleaning, it is to see progress not perfection. This will allow you to chop at it over a week vs trying to do it in a day, or an hour.
Have you ever set a timer and see how much you can actually do in 10 minutes? It is more then you think you would.
I like to have a checklist of the daily and weekly chores to be done, then when my zone cleaning time comes I can look and go. You will not have the same time frame, or motivation for that matter everyday.
With having a list I can go off of I know I can reframe from getting lazy and just do the easy tasks everyday vs getting stuff off the list done. This is a way to keep up with deep cleaning to so you are not scrambling to get it done in the spring.
I don’t spring clean! I always thought it was silly as in Saskatchewan we spend 8 months inside I always do my “spring cleaning” in the winter months. January- March are my “spring cleaning” months here!
Do you spring clean?
Do you spring clean in the spring?
HOW TO SET UP YOUR ZONE CLEANING!
When you sit down with your paper, think about your house as if you were looking at in from the top down, or as if you were looking at the blue prints. The nice thing with this is it is to fit YOUR home, and YOUR cleaning!
Look at your house and what I always did anyways, and as I said I am needing to re doing my zones. This is a way I like to combine my rooms, so I am not bouncing around all over the house.
Example:
Zone 1- upstairs
Zone 2- living room & bathroom
Zone 3- bedroom
Zone 4- kitchen & bootroom
Zone 5- basement
Each week is a different zone, so each week you are hitting different areas of your home to declutter, organize and deep clean. I try to spend a little bit of time in the zone everyday, for 15 minutes.
This way I will not get as destracted when I get into a spot that is requiring maybe more tasks or different tasks! There is so many ways to fit the fly lady system into your schedual!
I am more excited to get back into the rhythm of having a good system that I know can work! There is so many different situations that no one persons schedual will fit everyone’s.
Take your time, think about your home, and your life when you try to get a schedual. Many times we will hope on line and search, get all excitied, write everything down, get all motivated then, a week later be right back where we started!
Don’t get discouraged!
Something that I learned with getting my own schedual sketched, and more so with my organizing coarses, is that like shoes and hobbies not everyone is the same! Your best friends schedual may not work for you but it might give you the motivation that you are looking for to get your running.
Habits take 21 days to form, so take your time, maybe make a list as you work. Figure out your schedual as you are doing it! I bet you have more habbits for a clean house then you think. When a habbit is formed you tend to do it without thinking about it. So chances are you have more of a cleaning routine of habbit then you think!
Make your goals!
Make your cleaning schedual!
Match up, move around, get creative see how much of the cleaning routine is already there and start slow.
Add ONE chore a day!
That is it ONE chore and at the end of 21 days I bet it will become habbit, and you will be on a roll!
I hope you liked the ZONE CLEANING BLOG!
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There is more cleaning routine blogs coming.
Can’t wait for a new one cleaning routinr (coming soon) check out some older cleaning blog posts!
Morning Routine with 4 Kids And Coffee!
After School Routine Trying To Do It!
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