after a year of always cleaning up after myself and NOT nagging anybody else to do the same it has happend: the kitchen is almost always clean! stetting a good example obiviously works a million times better than all the talk in the world. i´m very happy, because not only is goal achieved, i´ve learned something too!
How to keep my kitchen clean
How I did it: First things first, I cleaned the whole thing from top to bottom, scraping gunk for neglected crevices and dusting off the tops of shelves. Yuck.
After that it was all maintenence. I've been careful to remember every night to go through and spot clean it back into shape and I've been running the dishwasher every night right before I head off to bed.
The tricky part was getting everyone else to stop piling everything up in the sink or on the counter. Into the dishwasher, please! So far so good. Now I just have to keep it up. I've missed a night or two here and there, but for the most part I think I've finally got this down!
Now to get to the laundry...
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School has started, and I am consumed. DH has been somewhat helpful, but the whole house is just sad. Hope I can get back to working on this soon.
i might as well give up on this one: i live in a shared flat. even if i keep the kitchen clean, it will be messy again an hour later. and cleaning up like a maniac after everybody, no thanks. i´m neither housemaid nor mother.
...got behind again, but did a serious cleaning of the kitchen Friday, including changing out to my spring candles. Hopefully this time I can keep up.
Boy did I get behind last week. But I’m pretty much caught up now. It’s amazing how much more piled up dishes bother you when you have been keeping up with them.
of my entire house… I almost want to get rid of some of our dishes so we can’t let them pile up this much
Sweeping the floor & wiping down the counters more often. Not every day, but definitely more than once a week.
Getting back into the FLYlady routines definitely helps. Not perfect yet, but my kitchen has been looking pretty good. My sink is shiny most every evening. I’m sure I will consider this habit accomplished by Christmas.



