This makes sense to me!

I know that many of you follow Teresa's blog, and read about her new system for keeping her house clean. Well, I am on the bandwagon and am trying my best to use the system and keep my house clean too! I have done Fly Lady and am so overwhelmed by the whole system and it never really worked for me. I would spend time cleaning the outside of my fridge, but the rest of the house would be a pit!

Anyway, the system Teresa is using, asks you to list everything that needs to be done in your house (daily, weekly, etc) and put chores into days of the week. So, it is Tuesday, which means I am changing the sheets and vacuuming today. (Of course, I still have to clean the kitchen and pick up the living room every day!) Really, this makes sense to me! Before, I used to simply wander around and clean random things. Or, the "I have to clean my house" thing? What part of it do I clean? And lately, it has been just crisis cleaning, so none of the non-visible areas were getting touched!

Now, is my house immaculate? No. But is it okay enough that I would let someone in the door? Yes! Doing just a few things every day eliminates the frantic house cleaning and I have organized the chores in a way that works for me! For example, it seems like people are always over on the weekend, so I plan to clean the main bathroom on Friday, so it is guest ready on Saturdays.

This is an area where I really do struggle, but this is making my life a LOT easier and less stressful! I have tried to do similar things over the years and they have never worked--or I didn't stick to them, but this is working!