Growing up, my mom made cleaning the house into a much bigger project than I thought it needed to be. Why spend hours cleaning and detailing and organizing your house, when it only becomes a mess again by the end of the day? What a waste of time I could be doing something else. So if you are looking for an overly organized way to meticulously clean your house this is the wrong place. This is more the way to clean your house quickly and efficiently then here you are.
First off you will need 2 Landry baskets, a trash bag, and a large storage tub with a lid like this:
Take things 1 room at a time. The first basket will be for laundry, the second for everything that goes in the room you are currently cleaning, and the storage tub is for all the odd things that don't exactly have a place. Like a huge junk drawer, I call it the 'Fuck it Bucket'
So turn on the music and sort through each room as quickly as possible, Trash, laundry, room stuff, everything else. After each room put away the contents of the 'room basket' and move on. When all the rooms are sorted then run through the house with window cleaner, wipe down counters, dust and vacuum. Each room should take no more than 10 minutes. Then snap the tub closed and put it in a coat closet.
The best part of the Fuck-it-Bucket is that whenever your spouse, or other family members ask where something is direct them to the bucket where they have to dig through the entire contents. Soon you will be amazed by what is left out for you to pick up because they are sick of having to dig their crap out after you pick it up.
Try it out, give it a week. Let me know what you think.
