Tiny Tasks for a Clean House
Organization and Action Steps for a Clean House
Cleaning your home in small increments of time is the best way to keep things clean on a regular basis. A good suggestion is to keep a cleaning caddy under the bathroom cabinet with all your cleaning supplies in it. Look to The Uncluttered Life’s Declutter Deck® for tips and tricks about home organization.
Organization
If we wait for the best chunk of time (30-60 minutes) to clean our homes, we will never have the clean and tidy house we really want.
A tiny task is any job that can be completed in 3 minutes or less. This is essentially taking a larger job and breaking it into pieces. The same is true of organizing. That’s why the Declutter Deck® was created. It breaks large organization jobs into small pieces. We call these small, bite sized chunks.
Examples of tiny tasks include cleaning the toilet instead of cleaning the entire bathroom, just making the bed instead of washing the sheets, sweeping the kitchen instead of sweeping and mopping the entire room.
The power of compounding tiny tasks in the same room is that all the little pockets of time add up. Then, the entire space is clean.
Action Steps
Make your bed each morning while you’re brushing your teeth.
Sweep one room. Then, when you take time for lunch, sweep another room.
Clean one refrigerator shelf each day. Do the same with the cabinets. At the end of the week, the entire refrigerator is clean. Cabinets may take a little longer. Do the same with the freezer and any other space that allows you to do one shelf at a time.
Do something while waiting for your coffee to brew.
While talking on the phone, clean something. This can be the countertops, a table, or anything that requires only one hand.
Do a tiny task while your child reads to you. That way, you’ve done something good for both of you.