How does your bathtub look? How about the tub in the children’s bathroom? Let’s spend 15 minutes detail cleaning the tub. Because I like to use as few chemicals as possible in my home, I wipe down my shower walls and inside my tub each morning after my shower. This takes about 1 minute. We have well water out in the country, and it is hard water with a lot of iron. If I don’t keep the shower/tub wiped down daily, I have iron stains that require chemicals to clean it. I use The FlyLady’s purple cloths to clean in the bathroom, so I start with the shower and tub, and then I use it on the counters and sinks and finally the toilet. Using the zone cleaning will also work with detail cleaning your tub if you don’t want to do it every day.
Zone Mission: Detail clean the tub/shower.
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- Make Your Bed (Do this as soon as you get up.)
- Get Dressed Down to Your Shoes
- Swish and Swipe
- Start Your Laundry
- Decide on Dinner
- Check Your Calendar
- Start the Day off with a Shiny Sink. Don’t leave the breakfast dishes sitting.
- Clean out your refrigerator. Toss the science experiments.
School: How’s the weather where you are? Add some weather tracking to your school day for the rest of the month. Track high temperature and low temperature. Track precipitation. If it snows where you live, do some science experiments with snow. Make learning fun!
- Eat Lunch
- Clear off One Hot Spot
- Reboot the Laundry
- Declutter for 15 Minutes (Be sure to have your children declutter, too.)
- Drink Your Water
- Write up a menu plan for the next 7 days. Check your pantry and freezer and make a grocery list. This habit will save you time and money. Try out some new recipes with the slow cooker. It will save you time once you start back to your school schedule.
- Check the Calendar for Tomorrow
- Lay out Your Clothes for Tomorrow (Have your children lay their clothes out, too.)
- Put things at the Launch Pad that you will need first thing in the morning
- Shine Your Sink
- Clean Off a Hot Spot
- Go to Bed at Decent Hour