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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For simplicity just assume I will mostly be doing it on my own. Family will put their stuff away but it’s too much drama to get their help cleaning. I’m tired of fighting about it. Standard 3 story, 4br house. Do I break it up by floor? By type of room (ie: bathrooms day)? Do I do tiny bits every day (and how do I motivate myself for this) or do a big push a few times a month (what I’ve been doing.) I know HOW to clean. I’m more looking for a schedule or way to divy up the tasks so that I don’t keep procrastinating and getting way behind. Also, if you have suggestions on small discreet tasks I can have others do, I’m all ears. Things like “clean your bathroom today” cause way too much drama and I’d rather just do it myself. Yes I’ve failed as a parent. Thanks in advance. [/quote] Who do you live with? If you live with kids old enough that you think they should clean their bathrooms, then I think with just as much effort, you can move them *toward* cleaning their bathrooms. Also, do you have a spouse? I totally hear you on needing discrete tasks, especially for kids. "Clean the bathroom" is overwhelming. Maybe start with one week showing a kid how to wipe down the sink, then making that their task for the next few weeks. Once they have that down, add in the next bit. We do a family blitz clean once a week. Start out with tidying -- everyone is responsible for picking up the living room. If you have sulky teens it might take a bit of doing this to get them going, but for me the key is routine. We do this every Sunday morning. The first few times it will be painful because nobody will want to do it. You gotta push through until it becomes habit for them. A reward system might work -- fifteen minutes of tidying every week for a month and we get XXX. After that, kids pick up bedrooms. I do the kitchen, spouse does the bathroom. I dust; I might enlist a kid to help with that, or with taking out trash or recycling. Spouse vacuums. Takes us maybe 90 minutes total (and we are not all working full bore for all of that time). But we have a smallish house. [/quote]
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