keep my apartment clean

now sweeping and doing dishes regularly, putting things away, have found a home for almost everything and it’s rare that it looks really messy anymore.
This is getting checked off.

I am hosting one for 11 people at least in 2 weeks, this will force us to really clean the place. It’ll be good.

House was getting pit-like again recently, so we attacked it yesterday and now it’s feeling bearable again.
I think we need a master list of stuff that needs doing all the time along with stuff that are one-off tasks that have been waiting for ages.

Husband has decided that doing dishes more than once or twice a week actually works pretty well and is much less labor intensive. Also,the house has been very uncluttered at least in the living room, so that cleaning for company took less than an hour on Friday and we got to do some extra wiping down.
Now to deal with the guest room yet again and our bedroom, which is getting cluttery.

Just general tidying of the house. It always starts out as picking up the obvious stuff: trash, shoes in the living room, dishes far from the sink, dirty clothes. But after I’ve counted to about 25, it gets more specific-surfaces cleared, things put with other things like itself, stuff hung up. After about 60, scouring of sinks, mirrors, stoves and the like, sweeping floors, repotting plants and weeding, and sorting laundry.
I just got back from Fred Meyer-I needed to accept that the little box of nails for picture hanging is gone forever, so I bought 3 for differing weights, as they didn’t seem to have any assorted packets. That and backup cat litter, also rather a good idea for a clean house to have.

Scrubbed microwave(ewww), spot cleaned kitchen floor, shook out 2 rugs, swept everything but the bathroom, cleaned cabinets, hung up more pics, wiped off the stovetop and the teakettle and scrubbed the table as well as cleaned off the coffee table and put lots of stuff away.

We’ve drawn up a chore list but it needs to be typed and made into a calendar/graph sort of thing so we can mark things off as the weeks go by. It’s too easy to forget who agreed to do what without some kind of reminder.

This isn’t exactly cleaning, but the husband has been on an absolute tear to change rhe living room around to better effect. He’s doing some sweeping and vacuuming on the way, so it counts, right?

We have been organizing closets, washing dishes, vacuuming, cleaning sinks and generally picking up. My husband and I made an agreement to spend at least part of every Saturday on keeping the house from degenerating into the kind of chaos that reigned when I was in school.
The logic is that if we do a whole lot of hours of cleaning for a few Saturdays, eventually we won’t need to do more than at most an hours worth after we get it organized and set up the way we want it. This is our second Saturday at it and it’s already way cleaner and more orderly than it was, not to mention noticeably less crowded with clutter.
Two closets are looking a lot better, the stove is scrubbed as well as both sinks, about 2/3 of the dishes are done, one room is looking considerably cleaner and the vacuum had some use as well.
We started at about 2 and we are still going strong.

We shook out the rugs, vacuumed/swept the floors, washed dishes, cleaned most of the bathroom and even washed out the litter box.
Then we put away a bunch of dishes, took the garbage and recycling out, washed the mirrors, scrubbed the cupboards and the stove, and
sorted the laundry in preparation to do it either tomorrow or sometime this week. Oh, and I also deep cleaned, decluttered and reorganized the area under the kitchen sink. What a mess that was.