Countdown to Clean Series: Annual Routines {with free printable checklist}
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These 12 tasks can be tackled one a month and are the key to maintaining a clean house. By creating good cleaning habits, your home will be a neat and tidy nest where you can relax and enjoy company. Annual Cleaning Routines.
Part four in a four-part series in how to clean your house and keep it clean.
In the past few weeks as part of the Countdown to Clean we have covered what you can do daily, weekly and monthly to keep your house from getting out of control. Today we will cover what you can do annually.
Don’t miss the free printable cleaning checklists at the end of this post
There are several tasks that only need to be done once a year as part of your home-cleaning routines. These tasks are best spread out over the year, and just do one each month.
Annual Cleaning
January: Clean medicine cabinets; toss expired meds.
February: Clean all the hard-to-reach places: behind the stove, refrigerator, washer/ dryer, sofas.
March: Steam-clean carpets.
April: Wash windows (inside and out) and screens.
May: Organize the pantry and kitchen cabinets.
June: Wash duvets, blankets, comforters, spreads, pillows.
July: Clean and organize the garage and or basement.
August: Clean out drawers and closets. Donate usable clothing and items to charity.
September: Wash walls and use touch up paint where necessary.
October: Defrost and clean freezer, stove, oven.
November: Polish silver, wash china, dust inside the china cabinet.
December: Clean and organize personal files
Not everyone likes to clean, but everyone loves a clean house. The key is maintenance so things don’t get out of control…..by creating good cleaning habits, your home will be a neat and tidy nest where you can relax and enjoy company.
Thanks to my friend Mique of Thirty Handmade Days you can download this 4 part series for FREE! One free download will include four checklists (daily, weekly, monthly and annual) you can print just one or all four!
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I’d love to hear what routines and tips work for you!
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Thanks, Cheryl! These are just what I need.
So helpful! Thanks!
omg super helpful! Thanks Cheryl and have a good day!
Can’t wait to print these out! Thank you so much 🙂 Also, i particularly like November…because I don’t own china! haha
Jenna
callherhappy.com
Thank you! I printed this out for myself and my daughter. XO, Pinky
Thank you for making these printable – just printed them out and will be referring to them often.
I LOVE these printables!!
Thanks for the printable checklists! They’re great. It is so much easier to keep the house clean if you stay on top of things. I especially like clearing the kitchen before bed. It’s so nice to wake up to a clean kitchen.
Cheryl, I’m sure you’ve just saved my life. Up until now I’ve always had someone to clean our house in 27 years of marriage. However, this afternoon I let our cleaning gal go. We’re empty nesters now with 2 labs and the cost of cleaning our house once a week was crazy when you added up for a month. I decided it was high time I do it myself. So I let her go. Terrified at the thought of doing this on my own when my husband is a clean freak and literally does spring cleaning daily. He walks into the house and only sees what’s out of place. I may be ready to kill myself by the end of the month but printed off your 4 page cleaning tips in hopes to keep my sanity and our house like “Tidy Mom”. Heaven help me.
I may need a pep talk every once in a while. By the way, these tips look great and make perfect sense. I believe I can do this! THANKS!!!
These are fantastic, THANK YOU! Being a busy mom of 15 month old twins (I can’t belive they are 15 months already) I am all about checklists to keep organized and my daily, weekly, monthly chores in check. This helps out tremendously! Thank you!
This is a fantastic resource. I really need to follow your annual cleaning list versus trying to do all that in a short amount of time! Thank you so much for sharing this list and helping me get more organized!
Jill of oursevendwarfs.com
You need to host a Tidy Boot Camp, Cheryl! Seriously, I need to some lessons on getting organized with my cleaning-it would make it so much less painful!
Oh, that yearly list is awesome!!! Thank you! So nice to have a checklist for that!
What if I just did the yearly option? 😉
I love the idea of an annual plan, broken down by month, for these larger not-so-fun tasks. It makes it feel like it can actually get done!
Hi all, just dropping in to say thanks! The calender download in very useful – would never think of half of the things in that list.
Peter
Thank you for sharing this – going to try this starting tomorrow!
Thank you SO much for sharing these routines. I became a stay at home mom in June with my third child was born, and despite the fact that I had “more time” I found that I still could not keep organization and a “perfect” house. I knew it was because I didn’t have a plan. After working 13 years in the finance industry my “life” was organized by a constant task list. You have given me exactly what I needed, and I have been keeping my house much better for the past month (well, with the exception of last weekend when we lost power). Thanks again!
Exactly what my husband need! 😉
Fabulous, what a website it is! This website presents valuable facts to
us, keep it up.
Thank You for posting this one! I will try to download and frame this! It will really help me sort out things and keep my home tidy!
These are great! Just thought you should know though, that there is a mistake on the Weekly Routine: Bedrooms, Dining Rooms, etc. It says, “When you’ve finished all thee rooms on a floor…” should it say, ” all the rooms on a floor…” Just wondering
thanks, what a helpful website!
Hello! My Dana I just downloaded your 4 step series to maintaing a clean home daily, weekly, monthly and yearly. I’m so excited to get started and into a simple yet effective routine of cleaning. One of the most important things to me is my health and a clean home. I truly cannot operate in a home with zero order. Thank you so much for your routines and I will be sure to share it with the rest of my family.
I love the printables, thanks so much. I’m using it in my 2014 planner and sharing it on my blog with a link back. Thanks!
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The weekly and the yearly routine seem not to be there, I can’t download them.
they are still there for me – try the direct link https://tidymom.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/TidyMomCleaningSeries-1.pdf
Thanks it is really helpfull
If we make a plan before start cleaning then we can save a lot of time and also do effective cleaning. I think we should start cleaning from guest room and then kitchen and use natural products for cleaning.
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Thank you for this printable! I just got married, and it’s been hard trying to keep up with our house cleaning. It’s definitely an adjustment! My biggest challenge is keeping up with cleaning the bathroom. It just seems like such a daunting task. I would like to know what other’s do to help make it easy, what cleaning supplies they like to use, and whatnot would be helpful too.
I’m not a mom, but thank you for this cleaning schedule as I have trouble keeping my house neat. I shared this also in a facebook group, so others can have a schedule as well to keep their house neat also.
Thank you for the printables! I have my own system of cleaning the house but it’s always good to have a proper checklist. Greets
That’s alot of effort that went into creating those checklists! Thanks for putting them up for the rest of us. Great idea to break down the chore of doing them all at one go into smaller easier to manage chunks..
Thanks for sharing these tips! I’m about to paint several rooms and I’m definitely going to be doing quite a bit of deep cleaning! Decluttering is number one on the agenda too! Hope you’re having a lovely morning!
I love the printable, thanks so much. I’m using it in my 2020 planner and sharing it on my blog with a link back. Thanks!