Cleaning schedule?How do you keep the house clean?

Question

I am a stay at home mom, w/a one year old boy. I feel like I never have time to clean and the house ends up looking like a disaster by the time hubby comes home. How do other people do it? How do you keep your house picked up and clean? I talked to other moms and they started telling me about keeping lists and master lists, I felt my eyes glaze over, any tips?

Answer 1

before you go to bed make sure your dishes are washed and out of the sink or dishwasher. in the daytime pick up whats on the floor clothes etc when you can, on weekend have someone watch your little one grandparents. spouse etc then clean whole house. have other pitch in also your child will never remember that mom didn't do the vacuuming only that you was there to read or spend time with them, don't worry about it its tough when they are little and people understand don't be so hard on your self sit and relax.

Answer 2

You need to make a to do list? I know one year old are a handful. You have to put him/her down for a nap at 12 so you can get some free time to clean the house. I start by making the bed when I wake up, while the baby is still sleeping. Then dust the bedroom and start the washer. I make sure I have quick easy dinner to prepare, and I prepare it then let it cool if needed and put it in the refrigerator. By then the baby is awake and I take care of the baby. I can manage the wash while caring for the baby, Whenever I need to fold or iron I put the baby in the play pen. If the baby gets upset while in the playpen I stop what I am doing and tend to the baby and I also put the baby in a bouncer so I could do some more work. I feed and change the baby as needed and do a little at a time until the household chores is done. My husband also help by picking up after himself making the table for dinner and preparing our beverage when he comes home. If the laundry becomes too overwhelming, my husband also folds and put away laundry. It is a team effort, his job is outside the home but it ends, my job is inside the home which never ends, and he pick up where I leave off. Usually the laundry will get too much if the baby is sick and need more of my attention then usually, and that is when he picks up.

Answer 3

No offense intended and take this all with a grain of salt.

Is your hubby the childs father? If yes, then he has just as much responsibility to keep the house clean as you do. This is coming from a hubby and a father so I know what I am talking about.

You could get up when hubby does. I mean get up when he is getting ready for work and before your son wakes up. This should give you some time in the morning to get some chores done before the young one is up and destroying the house again. As you will see when you read further it should not always be your job to do all the chores in the house.

Try to train your son to play with one toy at a time, put a toy away before getting another one out. This will help in keeping the toys out of the way.

Feed your child at the table and only at the table. Same goes for drinks and snacks. Only at the table. This will keep chips, candy, spilled drinks and other accidents out of the family room and bedrooms and will aid in keeping the house that much cleaner, less work for you.

If hubby is son's daddy give daddy a choice. Watch junior or go do the laundry as you do not have time to do both at the same time. Same goes for cooking the evening meals, let him cook once in a while or he can entertain the baby while you do the cooking or washing the dishes.

Hubby also uses the bathroom as much as you and son do so let him clean it once in a while. I don't mean just rinse down the tub, I mean a genuine scrubbing of the toilet, sink, counter, tub/shower walls, and floor. He dropps as much hair, toothpaste and other things in the bathroom, he should help clean it. If he has to clean it once in a while he may make sure he does'nt leave it a mess so often.

Try to do one major chore in the house each day and do light house cleaning on the weekend so you can spend as much time with the family as a whole as possible.

Good Luck!

Answer 4

when your husband is at home at the weekend get him to help you clean the house from end to end. now you have a clean house .lock off all the rooms you don't use through the day and keep all the mess in one room . clean 1 room a day . have a big cardboard box nearby and when baby goes down for an afternoon sleep .whip all the toys and mess into the box and sit it near you while you go through it and remove anything that should be put away or binned .the hour or two after baby wakes up is when you need to keep the room you are using all day ,clean.so don't put things down , put them away where they belong

Answer 5

clean a little bit at a time, whenever you get a few minutes. Sometimes the hardest part is to just start but once you do it'll be easier to keep going. Also try to train your son to help, likr picking up toys and puting plastic dishes in the sink. If you make it a game he will enjoy it and it'll help you too

Answer 6

First of all, your child is your number one responsibility. Relax and enjoy him as much as possible because he will grow up faster than you can imagine. Secondly, go online to www.flylady.net and register with her. It's free. She'll send you gentle reminders each day of things you should / could / might do to be organized and keep a clean house. Good luck, and remember: These are the good old days.

Answer 7

are you able to time table half-hour an afternoon not promptly to freshen up the homestead? this is the common volume of time that females clean each and on a daily basis. for the reason which you have no little ones, in case you ought to do quarter-hour each and on a daily basis, then you definately would be a protracted way in the direction of getting your place cleanser. i could recommend you divide up your artwork. Write down a itemizing of 5 or so chores around the homestead that could desire to get achieved. Then assign your self one or 2 chores to do each and on a daily basis of the week. That way you will experience sturdy related to the artwork you do. in case you may get your self delivered on sufficient to maintain cleansing for 15-20 minutes each and on a daily basis, it is then which you will think of roughly attempting to get your husband delivered directly to do it. many times adult males clean for below 50% of the time that females do--i comprehend it is unfair, regardless of if it is the fact. do not forget to make it common for him to commence. for example, quite of complaining approximately clothing being thrown on the floor, get a impede and whinge related to the clothing not being in the impede. make specific there are places for eveything to bypass and that he knows those places for the failings are. I additionally consider a prior answerer which you will desire to get a area time housekeeper that can assist you you out. in case you could time table quarter-hour of cleansing each and on a daily basis, and hire a man or woman to bathe as quickly as each and every week or so, i can not have self assurance that it is going to likely be plenty difficulty to maintain your place clean.

Answer 8

Hire a cockroach from the parking lot of Home depot, they do my toilets, I go around with an inspectors mirror later, and check under the rim, to see if it meets my tough criteria.