Easy Ways to Organize Your Cleaning Schedule

Disclaimer: This is a sponsored post on behalf of Bissell and Best Buy, but all opinions expressed here are mine.

Being frugal with money in today’s economy has become a must-have, but what about being frugal with our time. When I was single, it seemed there was always enough time, and this continued even after I got married and have kids. With our busy schedule of school, sports, and other extracurricular activities, time seemed to disappear slowly, I feel like the day really wasn’t 24 hours long. Since you can’t buy hours to add on to your day, I had to look for other ways to save time. When I looked around for easy ways to organize and be frugal with my time I realized that I should start with our home and since I want a clean house and it takes time to clean our whole house, it’s essential to have a cleaning schedule.

Here are my ways to make cleaning less time consuming and stressful.

1. My first order of business was to make my children aware of their responsibilities

This included making their beds, changing their sheets, putting their dirty clothes in the hamper, putting their clean clothes away, cleaning their rooms (which includes dusting, vacuuming, and every day messes), putting their dirty dishes away, and packing their lunches for school. In order to teach them responsibility of pet ownership, they also have to pitch in and help with our dog.

2. Next, I informed my husband that he had to take ownership of our household chores. He loves doing the laundry, so that’s his territory. He is also in charge of steam cleaning and vacuuming the house.

To get the job done thoroughly and faster, we need the right cleaning tools to help us. Since we have kids and a dog, it’s a must that our cleaning equipment of choice is powerful but at the same time safe for our floors. Right now, our choice is the new BISSELL CrossWave Cordless Max which is available at Best Buy.

With this super cleaning tool, we can vacuum and wash our floors at the same time with cordless freedom.

We super love this machine because of its cool features. With multi-surface cleaning, BISSELL CrossWave Cordless Max is safe and effective for use on any floor such as tile, sealed wood floors, laminate, linoleum, rubber floor mats, pressed wood floors, and more. It even refreshes area rugs.

It has a 36V lithium-ion battery, which depends on your mode, and usage can usually last up to 30 minutes of cordless cleaning power. It also saves time and energy with no bags to buy or replace. 

It also features a self-cleaning cycle that helps maintain the machine’s cleaning performance with its Two-Tank Technology that keeps clean water and formula separate from dirty water and dry debris.

If you have pets like us, you will love its improved edge cleaning feature because it quickly picks up pet hair that gathers along baseboards and in corners of your home.  

It even has Wi-Fi connected capabilities, so you can connect it to the BISSELL app, which will provide helpful alerts, maintenance tracking, and usage tips.

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3. Last thing in my agenda of streamlining our cleaning schedule is to make a calendar with all my chores listed for each day.

This would make it easier to get motivated to clean since I knew it would take 30 minutes or less a day. To figure out what needed to be on the calendar, I made a list of everything that needed to be done (even if it was only once a month). Then I went thru and wrote next to each thing how often I wanted to do it. I decided not to bite off more than I knew what possible. I figured if I got the inkling to do it more frequently then I could.

Once I knew how often I needed to figure out what day would be best for each. I tried not to put to much on one day and opted to leave Sunday empty and Saturday with very little so we could enjoy family time without feeling like we had a lot to do at home. I created a calendar in Microsoft Word and got to typing and this is the finished result. For the things I need to do daily I listed them in one of the blank boxes on the calendar and the same with the monthly chores. We cross the things off once they are done so the other family members know what needs to be done. I did it month specific so I would have a handy calendar on my fridge as well but you could make a generic calendar with just the days of the week and follow it on an every other schedule if that is how you have it scheduled out.

The greatest benefit from the chore calendar was my husband and kids are pitching in more. It seemed that once they saw it in black and white and knew what needed to be done he didn’t mind doing it.

Here is my Free Printable House Cleaning Checklist

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This Printable will help you stay organized while spring cleaning your living room!

We also have Free Printable Chore Charts: 10 ideas for School Age Kid Chores and 10 ideas for Toddler Chores + Free Printable Chore Charts

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