Create Habits You Need for a Clean and Decluttered Home in Just 21 Days!
Day 8 – Five Minute Room Rescue
Here are the daily habits we've built so far! Now we can see how we are building a morning and evening routine, which is the foundation of the Flylady system.
Morning Routine
- Get dressed to shoes
- Check your daily routines in your home management binder
- Come back to this post to see the next baby step, or check your emails
- Become aware of a few of your negative thoughts and replace them with positive ones
- Take two minutes to tackle one hot spot
Evening Routine
- Shine the kitchen sink
- Plan your outfit for the next day at bedtime
- Take two minutes to tackle one hot spot
Five Minutes, One Room
Today set your timer for just five minutes and clean up as much as you can in one room. You'll probably be amazed at how much you can clean up in that short amount of time! This helps us to realize that keeping our houses clean really doesn't take much time at all.
Timers Can Be Fun to Get Kids to Clean!
A timer is a great tool to make it fun for children as well! Tell them it's a race and they have 5 or 10 minutes to clean up their rooms. Have a little treat or prize for them when they finish! You'll get a lot more cooperation from them and less whining. The rooms that often need rescuing in my house are the playroom and the kids' rooms, and sometimes the kitchen.