Getting Ready to Go

The Cleaning Routine is divided into weekly design projects. Remember everything I do, I do in little bite-size chunks. While I was building the routine, keeping the weekly task comparatively short, made me feel like I had no excuse to side-step a bit of time each day for the project. Here’s the overview of the weekly projects; each week will get a more detailed post:

Week One: Evaluate each room you want to put onto a system. If you are a teen, you can probably just do your bedroom and/or the bath you use. If you share a bath with the rest of the family, adopt it anyway. Everyone else in the family will appreciate it. If you have a whole house, you will need to do each room. The evaluation form and an instruction sheet can be found here and here.

Week Two: A (very) limited time to work in each room each day trying out the tidy plans developed in week one.

Week Three: Big thinking week to coordinate the routine tasks.

Week Four: Running the routine plan and more big thinking to design the yearly schedule.

Week Five: Maintaining the routine schedule and beginning to work through the deep cleaning schedule.

Week Six: Third week of sticking to the routine schedule. Begin apprentice training. Designing any needed specialized quick fix routines.

Week Seven and Eight: Key training weeks, so need to allow extra time. By the end of week eight, do a final design evaluation.

Week Nine through Twelve: Keep to the schedules, and reward yourself (?) with the photo inventory sometime during week twelve. During week nine, determine the next self-improvement project to work on.

Before we jump into week one, though, we need to cover several more ideas for preparing for apprentices. Remember preparing for apprentices, even if we don’t have any right at this moment (and my collection is dwindling, I must say), leaving us to work for ourselves, helps us do a more professional job.

We also need one day of handy hints to  help with whatever actual cleaning work we need to do while designing our system. After that, room evaluations will be front and center.