I was wondering if anyone had some cleaning tips i could use to keep my home clean. It seems like all i do all day is clean, and when i am not cleaning for like 30 mins it seems like my home is trashed. So if anyone has some tips they like to share i would apperciate it.
I have 3 kids and a 2 story house with 2 1/2 baths, and hubbys not here to help me. So any ideas that could help me clean faster and more effectivly would be apperciated.
2006-11-12 06:21:41 · 4 answers · asked by Charisma 6 in Home & Garden ➔ Cleaning & Laundry
PS i guess i should mention that hubbys not home because hubbys in Iraq.
2006-11-12 06:37:57 · update #1
1) Create some kind of system, specific places for people to put junk so only one place is messy, like a junk drawer for example.
2)Get your kids to help you! Teach them to put things in their place when they are done using it. You can even make it a cleaning game. My dad used to have a bag be a "monster" and "eat" all the blocks, which I thought was hilarious, and little did I know it but I was cleaning.
3) One room at a time. It always takes me forever if I start in one place and end up running all over the house putting things away. Stick to one room at a time, and just make a pile of stuff that goes somewhere else, then you can put it away after the room is clean.
2006-11-12 06:31:10 · answer #1 · answered by Emily T 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A place for everything is so important! No matter how many times you clean, if something doesn't have a permanent place, it will come back to the dining room table, floor, etc. Try putting bins (like plastic bins or straw baskets, etc.) in strategic places. Advise your family that from now on, this is the place for so and so, and it MUST go there when you're done or else you'll take it away for a week or whatever. Find a place for everything, and also get rid of anything extra. Throwing away stuff is so freeing! Also, find good cleaning tools. They make life so much easier. If you have pergo or hardwood floors, for example, but a little cordless stick vacuum. It takes just minutes to clean up any mess like cereal, glitter, etc. Then, get a big swiffer type of mop with a towel-head. Find the proper cleaner for your floor (they sell them online or in stores, and specialty stores, like for pergo/laminate floors.), and use that. If you get like a pattern down, with the right tools, it's so much easier. Or get a Roomba! Get your family cleaning/tidying up/keeping the house clean too! You're not their maid, and they will learn life skills if you teach them now.
2006-11-12 06:38:46 · answer #2 · answered by Emo B 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like you need to get your kids involved in helping to keep things picked up. Make a chart and put it on the wall with a list of chores that they can do on their own and check off throughout the week.
Other than that, I wouldn't worry so much about keeping it spotless. Sounds like you are spending a lof of time cleaning and worrying about cleaning....Who's coming over? The President? If you are worried that people will judge you, then maybe they arent your real friends-real friends would help if it was a desperate situation, but you dont sound like you are that bad off. Unless its its your hub or you, tripping on a *super clean place* -come on- you have 3 kids, your hub isn't home to help and your house is huge. Either get a maid, or get used to it.
2006-11-12 06:33:51 · answer #3 · answered by ShaMayMay 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do a chart as to what chores everyone should do and when to do them. If they don't pitch in, put them in time out for a min. per yr. of the childs age. It is too large of a home for you to maintain yourself. Tell hubby he could help also. If not tell him you want a small house,(even if you don't) where the kids have to share rooms. You only have one bath to clean. You shouldn't have to clean faster.Go on strike if you have to.
2006-11-12 06:42:25 · answer #4 · answered by ruth4526 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋