Take your house by storm and really change the way you’ve been tidying!
Whether you are one of those people that cleans the kitchen for hours in the evening or you take a whole saturday to do all the chores at once – this 10-minute strategy could have you rethinking how to better manage your time around chores!
Here’s the pattern – because everything is better with a pattern, right??
Floors, surfaces, levels of the house
That’s it! It can become the evening mantra for the family or everyone living in the house!
Start one night with getting everyone in the house together and set a 10-minute timer. Focus ONLY on the floors of one level of the house, for example, the main level. All of the stuff on the floors on the entire main level has to be tidied as much as possible in that 10-minute window of time. It’s only 10 minutes, so everyone has to work hard and work together! If the house is really messy, you may need to go room by room rather than by the whole level of the house.
The following night, work on the same level of the house but focus ONLY on the surfaces. Focus on the counters, desktops, benches, chairs, and tables. Again, put away as much as you possibly can in the 10 minutes!
After those two nights, go to a different level of the house for the next two nights. Do all the floors upstairs one night, then all the surfaces upstairs the next night.
Then head into the basement! Work hard for two nights down there! Focus on the floors, then the surfaces!
If you have three levels to your house, the pattern will take six days. So, it could take you from Monday to Saturday, then you can have Sunday night to chill as a family!
Keep rotating this pattern each week! It will get easier and easier to tidy each space as time goes on because there SHOULD be less and less to put away! ALSO, it helps teach any of the kids in the house (no matter what age) that putting things away sooner is actually easier!
Have fun with it! These are actually family memories in the making – even if there are some mismories sprinkled in!! Pick a song that pumps you up. You can rotate the song pickers if you need to make it fair.
Make working hard until the timer goes off a huge deal!! When the timer goes off, jump up and down to celebrate! You can even save dessert to enjoy after all the hard work is done! But do something to be excited about the fact that you all worked hard and that you all worked together! Those are big life lessons in the making!
Keep your house tidier with only this 10-minute strategy. You’ll notice a big difference around your house!
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