Our bathroom routine
is quick and easy and that makes it much nicer for all us. It also helps that we all work together to
make it happen. We have two bathrooms in
our home, a full bathroom upstairs and a half bath, or powder room, downstairs. Every morning when we are done in the
bathroom we take the time to do a simple wipe up so we don't leave water
splatters soap suds or toothpaste residue behind for the next person to have to
deal with. That has been my mantra
lately. Clean up after yourself so no
one else has to deal with your mess.
At the end of each
day, or at least every other day, we give our toilet bowl a quick swish with a
toilet brush. In each bathroom I keep a
container filled with a soapy solution of Fabulosa and water to keep our brush
in. I think this is so much better than
letting a nasty brush sit in a puddle of yuck.
I do the downstairs and the girls take turns upstairs.
Once a week we clean
the bathrooms. We scrub out the tub and
sink with comet and then wipe down the counters with Fabulosa I keep in a spray
bottle and a clean rag. Then we dump the
soapy toilet brush solution into the toilet and give it a good scrub with the
brush.
The brush and
container get rinsed out with hot, hot water and then new soap solution goes
in. We clean up the toilet with Fabulosa
and a rag. About once a month we scrub
it down really good with Comet and a scrub sponge.
Mirrors are washed,
trash is dumped and then the floors get vacuumed and mopped. I do the downstairs bathroom and the girls do
the upstairs together. They'll switch off
on who does what each week. Every once
in a while I do the upstairs bathroom just to make sure they haven't missed
anything.
Hand towels are
switched out regularly and the bath mat get washed once or twice a week as
needed on laundry days. I can't
emphasize enough, the key is everyone is responsible to clean up after
themselves which makes all the difference
in the world. This way on cleaning day
15 minutes is more than enough time to get the job done.
Love your routine.. You are so right, if you keep up with the picking up/cleaning after yourself, it makes the real cleaning days quick and fast
ReplyDeleteI love fabulosa.. Smells so good.. I like your idea about keeping the brush in it.. I will get me a container for the brush and start this routine.. thank you for sharing.
We picked our containers up at the thrift store. The one in my bathroom is the bottom of a cookie jar. The girls chose a pretty white ceramic pot.
DeleteI definitely agree that cleaning up after yourselves conquers half the work. We have two bathrooms, but one is really more my husband's and the other one is more mine and my daughter's when she comes home on the weekends. My husband cleans his shower and I clean everything else, but still just hime doing that helps a lot. The showers are the most time consuming and strenuous.
ReplyDeleteYour cleaning schedules are a lot more fastidious than mine - and it shows! Your bathroom looks immaculate :)
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Thank you! I try. My least favorite part of the job is the shower, definitely.
DeleteYou are training your girls well. It's too bad you cannot train a couple of boys! I hate following a guy into the bathroom who thinks he still lives with his mother who did or did not do everything for him. Yuck!
ReplyDeleteI think boys are pretty gross in the bathroom when they don't clean up after themselves. I raised a son and know this to be true. Yuck is right!
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