Start the year with a clean, mess free home. Take it room by room, task by task to declutter, dust and decorate for the year to come. Maintain your never-ending cleaning to-do list with Tru’s Simple 20-Minute Cleaning Checklist: A printable, low-effort cleaning checklist so your home stays clean without stealing your time.
How to Make a Simple Cleaning Routine?
Life is a balancing act of work, school, home, family, and more. This will vary from person to person and household to household, but there is one thing we all have in common – how do youmaintain a simple cleaning routine on top of everything else that life throws at you?
Start cleaning for only 20 minutes.
The 20-minute cleaning rule means setting a timer for just 20 minutes and focusing on cleaning. When the timer goes off, take a 5 to 10-minute break and then reset the timer for another cleaning session if you have the time and energy to do so.
Starting to build your cleaning routine with short time blocks will make it easier to maintain your home in short bursts throughout your day and week rather than hours of one day.
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Set the mood
Thinking about cleaning and actually cleaning are two different things. In order to make it easier to get started, set the mood. Turn on your favourite playlist, podcast, or audiobook.
Your Simple Cleaning Routine is made of three parts:
1. The Daily To-Do's Checklist
2. A Weekly Cleaning Schedule
3. Monthly Cleaning Tasks
The Daily To-Do's Checklist
The goal of any cleaning routine is to be as easy as possible. Your daily cleaning to-dos are designed to be quick and easy. Think only 5 minutes or less per task.
7 Daily Cleaning Tasks to Make Your Life Easier:
1. Make the beds
4. Unload or load the dishwasher
5. Quick Kitchen wipe down (counters and sink)
6. 5 Minute Tidy of living spaces
7. Laundry (fold a load or start a load)
A Weekly Cleaning Schedule
Follow a weekly schedule to spread essential cleaning tasks across the week, focusing on one small area at a time, so nothing piles up or feels overwhelming.
Here are handful of weekly tasks to add to your cleaning schedule to make life a little easier:
1. Dust and disinfect visible surfaces
2. Sweep and vacuum main areas
3. Bathroom Reset (toilet, sink, mirror)
4. Kitchen Reset (Wipe down appliances + Mop floors)
5. Catch-up and quick declutter of main living spaces
Monthly Cleaning Tasks
Use monthly tasks as light maintenance check-ins that prevent deep-cleaning marathons and keep your home running smoothly with minimal effort. Tru’s 20 Minute Simple Cleaning Checklist will release a monthly cleaning list on the last Monday of every month.
The February Monthly Cleaning Task are now available:
Remember, maintaining a clean home takes practice and commitment. You are not going to snap your fingers and change your cleaning habits overnight. To get started, download Tru’s Simple 20 Minute Cleaning Checklist now.
