It’s easier to get motivated to clean when you don’t have to do everything yourself. Delegating is a great way to cut down on the time it takes to shine your home.

 

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In efficient cleaning businesses, it's always a team effort — often with certain jobs going to the ones who enjoy that particular job the most.

Draw up a master list of all the basic cleaning tasks — pay attention to the best and fastest ways of accomplishing those tasks by using resources here at The Housekeeping Channel, then delegate those tasks to the whole family or all house members. Johnny does bathrooms weekly — keep a cleaning bucket & supplies there under the sink for him to use. Give yourself vacuuming. Give your spouse dusting. You would be amazed at how much cleaner the house stays when all home users are responsible for sprucing it each week.

You won't get the whole house cleaned at once, but once you've trained your fellow house members you won't have to think much about housecleaning anymore. It's going to get done and you're going to save many hours each week.