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Feb 23

Week Four: Using the Cleaning Calendar

In a twist of your sub-conscious mind, as you have been sitting there plugging in tasks, you have been alert to the actual days of this current year. You may have plugged into April 6:  Q: B1: wash win1 (Quarterly task in bedroom 1, washing window 1 in the room) into a slot that just happens to be a Saturday, because you always do jobs like that on a Saturday.

But it won’t always be  Saturday, will it? Next year, April 6 will be Sunday, and who washes windows on a Sunday? Or even worse, if it is leap year, it could be a Monday–or is it a Friday? What possible good can such a calendar be, and after you’ve wasted ALL THIS TIME MAKING ALL THESE LISTS!! Read more

Feb 21

Week Four: Building a Cleaning Calendar

Admittedly, if you have only your Executive Oversight time for design planning, and no quiet afternoons or pleasant evenings on the back porch for extra fill-in-the-calendar sessions, week four may stretch over two or three actual weeks to co-ordinate all the tasks on the calendar, but that is really all right. In the meantime, you can simply invest more time concentrating on the weekly routine plan: tweaking it by combining tasks into little efficient packages, taking note of distractions, and discovering ways to permanently solve nagging frustrations. Besides, slowly building the cleaning calendar and routine cleaning plans has an ulterior motive.

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Feb 16

More Odd Looking Calendar Strategies

Joshua remembers the progressive dinner as “a lot of work,” especially for a middle school age young man. But to have him have time to throw a dinner party, he had to have time to learn to cook, and to have time to learn to cook, he needed a mentor who had time to teach, and to have a mentor who had time to teach, the mentor needed time to prepare, and for the mentor to have time to prepare, routine life had to be under control, and for routine life to be under control, attention and time had to be given to planning, and to have time to give attention and time to planning, Executive Oversight meetings had to be a settled issue. Accrued Benefits. Now are you ready to finish the list of thinking strategies before scheduling the deep cleaning tasks onto a perpetual cleaning calendar? You see there is a House-that-Jack-Built connection between all this cleaning detail and the world of family frolic and fun. Read more

Feb 12

An Odd Looking Calendar

When does a yearly calendar not look like a yearly calendar? When it only has twenty-four days in a month.

My perpetual cleaning calendar has only twenty-four planned opportunities each month to handle all the deep cleaning projects on the room cleaning chart lists. This schedule automatically eliminates all Sundays from cleaning (hooray!) and builds in four to seven additional “free” days for catch-up, sick days, book reading marathons, vacations, cooking sprees, puzzle building, or whatever else life brings.

Unlike the typical twelve page calendar, this calendar is only one sheet, a true year at-a-glance, to show which deep cleaning appointment you have scheduled for each day. Now all of that should make the task seem manageable, shouldn’t it? Read more

Feb 9

Dirty Clothes and Hunger Cries

All you diligent teens with only a bedroom to worry about can listen in today and prepare for the future.

Real life means household overseers cannot spend all their time tweaking strategic room cleaning plans no matter how much fun time trials are. Within a few days, someone will need clean socks and within a few hours everyone will need warm food. Read more

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