Getting Started: Household Rotation Part Deux
In a previous article (Getting Started: The Basic Housework Rotation), I talked about they Why of household rotation, as well as how to set up the framework of the rotation. Once you decide on which rooms get attention, though, you need to decide what will happen in each room. Here is a framework of questions to get you started:
Note: this is not an exhaustive list, and your individual lists will change with time. Don’t aim for getting a total list done, rather think of it as a work in progress.
Getting The General Tasks For A Room
This works best if you are standing in the room looking around. Let your eyes go clockwise around the room, scanning from top to bottom. Look for things to:
- Dust
- Wash
- Straighten
- Declutter/purge
Example #1: My Dining room
My dining room has in it one window with drapes and sheers; a hutch with two drawers, three shelves and three cabinets; a dining room table with six chairs; various art pieces on the walls; and a closed glass display cabinet. Here is the list:
- Take down cobwebs
- Clean the curtains and sheers (this means either wash or dust)
- Wash the windows (this means either inside or inside and outside)
- Dust the light fixture
- Clean and purge the hutch shelves (I don’t put “wash dishes” in here because we use them often enough that they do not need washing in
- between uses)
- Straighten and purge the hutch drawers
- Straighten and purge the hutch cabinets
- Clean glass cabinet
- Polish/dust dining room table
- Polish/dust dining room chairs
- Polish/dust hutch
- Spot clean dining room chairs
- Detailed vacuuming
- Dust floor baseboards
- Clean carpeting (this is taken to mean either shampoo or spot clean)
- Change seasonal decorations
The either/or scenarios are for those tasks that don’t need to be done monthly in a little-used room. I clean the curtains once a year, wash the outside of the windows twice a year, and shampoo the carpeting once a year. I dust the furniture every month, but will apply lemon oil every six months. If a task doesn’t need to be done that month (change seasonal decorations), I get to cross it off after making the assessment.
Example #2: Master Bathroom
- Take down cobwebs
- Clean exhaust fans
- Clean light fixtures
- Clean top of shower stall, tub
- Wash window
- Purge medicine cabinet
- Wash vanity top
- Clean cabinet fronts
- Purge cabinets
- Straighten/purge linen closet
- Inventory bathroom supplies
- Wash bath mats
- Clean shower floor/walls
- Refill shower supplies
- Dust baseboards
- Scrub floor
- Clean shower door track
These all get done monthly, and it takes about 30 minutes total.
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