Kitchen

Daily Cleaning

  • Wipe down the sink after doing the dishes or loading the dishwasher
  • Wipe down the stove top
  • Wipe down the counters
  • Sweep, Swiffer, or vacuum the floor

Daily Organizing

  • Put everything back that is out of its location
  • Wash the dishes
  • Set the breakfast table/area
  • Take out what doesn't belong in the kitchen out of the kitchen, or at least corral odds-and-ends in a basket which is emptied at the end of the week

Weekly Cleaning

  • Mop the floor
  • Wipe the cabinets, backsplashes, and appliances
  • Wash the dish rack
  • Wipe the inside of the garbage can

Weekly Organizing

  • Create a meal plan
  • Grocery shop
  • Throw away excess plastic bags
  • Fill up the trash can with a stack of garbage bags at the bottom
  • Refill napkins, placemats, and kitchen towels
  • Empty the odds and ends basket
  • Go through coupons and paperclip them to your calendar by expiration date

Biweekly Cleaning

  • Wipe the switch plates and phone
  • Wipe down the baseboards with a microfiber dust cloth or wet wipe
  • Empty and scrub down the inside of the refrigerator

Biweekly Organizing

  • De-clutter your cleaning supplies
  • Reorganize your pots and pans with a pot lid sliding drawer or just by putting paper towels between each pot to protect them from damage
  • Clean and organize your pet food areas
  • Organize your junk drawer by taking everything out and organizing odds and ends in small dishes, flower pots, or plastic bags

Monthly Cleaning

  • Clean your freezer
  • Run these through the dishwasher: burner grids and knobs, brushes and combs, toothbrushes, plastic utensil organizer, refrigerator drawers, drain catch, sponges, dish rack, plastic toys, glassware

Monthly Organizing

  • Rotate the food in your freezer, use it up, and check to see what you need in terms of bulk food
  • Go through your plastic containers and weed out ones you don't use. Take them all out of the cabinets and put them somewhere that makes sense- perhaps in a covered wicker basket or on a lazy susan

Seasonal Cleaning

  • Empty and clean the insides of the utensil drawers
  • Scrub down the cupboard exteriors
  • Clean the stove-hood filter
  • Wipe down your pantry

Seasonal Organizing

  • Organize your tools that are kept in the kitchen
  • Reorganize your dishes, tablecloths, mugs, bowls, glassware, plates in your kitchen cabinets and shelves by sorting them and saying goodbye to what you don't use, what's missing, and what's unnecessary
  • Go through your spices, making sure they still are fresh
  • Go bulk shopping and organize your bulk storage
  • Organize your recipes by laminating or storing in binders, purge recipes/cookbooks

Living Rooms

Daily Cleaning

  • Vacuum with an electric broom
  • Fluff the cushions and fold throws after use
  • Wipe tabletops and spot-clean cabinets when you see fingerprints
  • Straighten coffee-table books and magazines, throw out newspapers, put away CDs and videos

Daily Organizing

  • Pick up stray items off of the floor and put them in their proper place, or in a wicker basket that gets emptied weekly.
  • Put remotes back in the basket
  • Straighten up your pile of books and magazines
  • Fold your blankets and throws
  • Write down messages and go through the family's schedule with the family
  • Open up mail and discard junk, put either in action files for papers requiring action or "to-file"

Weekly Cleaning

  • Dust all surfaces — including electronics, books, blinds, picture frames, windowsills and ledges, and tops of door frames — and remove all cobwebs
  • Dust-mop the floors with a microfiber cloth or a Swiffer, or vacuum the rugs and carpeting
  • Throw out old magazines
  • Wipe and disinfect the telephone
  • Shake out or vacuum the doormat

Weekly Organizing

  • Sort through the toys to put in their correct locations

Biweekly Cleaning

  • Vacuum the heating and air-conditioning vents
  • Wipe the switch plates, doorknobs, and doorjambs
  • Vacuum the upholstery
  • Wipe down the baseboards with a microfiber dust cloth or wet wipe
  • Lift big pieces of furniture and vacuum or mop underneath

Biweekly Organizing

  • Throw away old magazines when the new ones come in
  • Cut out pictures you want to save from a magazine and store in a binder

Seasonal Cleaning

  • Wash the insides of the windows
  • Take down curtains and drapes and dry clean them
  • Take down vertical blinds and wash them in the bathtub

Seasonal Organizing

  • Rearrange your books
  • File and organize your hard copies of pictures or your digital pictures
  • Go through CDs and videos you no longer use

Bathrooms

Daily Cleaning

  • Wipe out the sink
  • Swoosh the toilet bowl with a brush
  • Wipe the mirror and faucet
  • Squeegee the shower door
  • Spray the entire shower and the curtain liner with shower mist after every use
  • Wipe around the tub
  • Sweep the floor (keep a broom in the bathroom)

Daily Organizing

  • Put items back where they belong - toothpaste, brushes, makeup
  • Take items out of bathroom that don't belong in there

Weekly Cleaning

  • Scrub the tub
  • Scrub the tiles
  • Mop the Floor
  • Empty the trashcan and wash out bin
  • Wipe down light-switches and doorknobs
  • Change towels

Weekly Organizing

  • Organize your bathroom cabinets, folding towels, putting away toiletries

Seasonal Cleaning

  • Take down the shower curtain, then launder it according to the care instructions

Seasonal Organizing

  • Go through your medicine chest and weed out medicines

Bedrooms

Daily Cleaning

  • Pick up all dirty clothes and put into hampers

Daily Organizing

  • Hang up clothes-decide what needs to be washed or hung
  • Make beds
  • Straighten up nightstands and tabletops
  • Put away jewelry

Weekly Cleaning

  • Change the sheets
  • Dust all surfaces — including electronics, books, picture frames, windowsills and ledges, and tops of door frames
  • Dust or mop the floors or vacuum the carpeting, under the bed
  • Throw out old magazines
  • Wipe and disinfect the telephone
  • Empty the wastebasket

Weekly Organizing

  • Hang up all laundry
  • Go through closet and purge what you no longer wear

Biweekly Cleaning

  • Wipe the switch plates, doorknobs, and doorjambs
  • Wipe down the baseboards with a microfiber dust cloth or wet wipe

Biweekly Organizing

  • Keep a "to donate" pile and fill it up every time you notice something from your drawers or closets that needs to be donated

Seasonal Cleaning

  • Vacuum the heating and air-conditioning vents and the inside of the closet
  • Wash the insides of the windows
  • Strip the bed and flip the mattress
  • Launder the mattress pad and dust ruffle

Seasonal Organizing

  • Go through out of season clothing and store in bins or under bed