Free Home Cleaning Schedule Printables
Grab one of the most popular free home cleaning schedule printables on the web! You'll also get tips on how to start/stick to this popular routine.
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How it Began
I'm not exaggerating in the least when I say that this cleaning schedule changed my life.
In the summer of 2015, I was totally overwhelmed. I had a very active preschooler, was trying to run an at-home blogging business, and was beginning a pregnancy that left me either exhausted or nauseous 95% of the time. It was a lot for one person to handle. Needless to say, cleaning was way, way down my list of priorities. I was aiming more for survival at that point. 😉 But, whether you like it or not, you have to clean your house every now and then, right? So, I whipped up a cleaning schedule that changed the game.
With this schedule, I was able to keep my home neat and tidy with just around an hour of work a day. I set aside about 30 minutes in the morning and 30 minutes in the evening to dedicate to this plan. Within weeks, I could tell a difference in my home with a very minimal amount of work. I am naturally a very scatter-brained person. I need something like this to take on bigger tasks like home cleaning. There are so many moving parts that can be daunting to keep up with if you don't have a plan. But, by simply sitting down and really organizing what needs to be done when, you're streamlining the process and taking away the stress of constantly second-guessing what needs to be done.
On The Blog
I knew my readers would love it system too. I published the post in June of that year to share this. It absolutely took on a life of its own. I might have had a hunch they would love it, but I never expected the response it's gotten. In my ten years of blogging, this is by far, no question my most popular blog post. It's been viewed and pinned hundreds of thousands of times. It also inspired my first ebook, Journey to Clean (more on that below), and prompted the creation of my publishing company and writing career. I wasn't kidding when I said that this changed my life.
And, today, I'm giving away this system for free. Seriously, you don't have to pay a dime to get the two most popular cleaning schedule pages in my arsenal.
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Here's how this free home cleaning schedule printables system works:
You'll use both pages daily. On the daily page, I follow the morning routine each morning (usually right after I drop my kids off at school) and the evening routine (usually right after we put our children to bed). Each one takes about 30 minutes. With the evening routines, you'll need to add in the daily chore in the right column and a few items on the “Room of the Week Chores” checklist.
That checklist can be found on the next page. It has 15ish tasks per week that need to be done in certain zones of the house. I find that, by dividing the house into zones and tackling each zone weekly, you can consistently maintain your whole house with the least amount of attention and effort. This routine has worked for me for years, even though we've lived in a few very different homes (a garden home, an apartment, a ranch-style house, and now a two-story home). If you're consistent, it works!
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Who does this cleaning schedule work for?
I get questions all the time about whether or not working moms can use this schedule. Absolutely! I specifically designed this schedule to work around many different lifestyles. As long as you can carve out a chunk of time in the morning and a little bit of time in the evening, you can make this work for you. (And, spoiler: if you only have an hour in the afternoon or late at night, you can make it work too! The secret to making this work for you is its flexibility. All it takes is about an hour a day, no matter when you can dedicate that time.)
(FYI – The printable you see above is from an older version of this post. You might have found your way here because of that version. Just in case you wanted this older printable as well, it is still available in the printable collection! Just sign up for the newsletter to access that.)
Journey to Clean
Now, I said I would get back to Journey to Clean. Once that first cleaning printable post really caught on, I had an overwhelming request to expand it into a full home cleaning system. So, with every spare second I had, I got to work creating just that. In the summer of 2016 (with a 4-month-old baby), I published my first ever ebook – Journey to Clean 2016. This ebook took the original cleaning schedule you see above and expanded it. It's now a home cleaning system that walks you through cleaning your home every single day.
As of 2022, thousands of readers have tried and loved this system. We're now on our sixth edition of Journey to Clean! In the latest edition, Journey to Clean 2022, you'll get a collection of eBooks that gives you absolutely everything you could need to follow the printable pages you see above. You will find monthly cleaning calendars for December 2021 -December 2022 that break the schedule down into easy-to-complete parts, tips on how to integrate this system into different lifestyles, and even a deep cleaning section that shows you how to really make your home shine! I also have a light version of J2C that lets you maintain a clean home through busy months with simple, pared down calendars.
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