Back to starting this on Friday for anyone who wants to start early. I won't be home most of the weekend and into next week, so will try and finish up the master closet as my all house cleaning. Honestly with doing the branches each month, it is keeping the house is great shape, IMHO.

Think of your home as a tree and each room is a branch of that tree.

First, break the house up into branches (manageable areas), which can be DEEP cleaned in a week's time.

For each branch, compile a list of all the tasks you'll need to do to get that room to SPARKLE! This includes cleaning, dusting and vacuuming the areas behind and under furniture, washing windows and curtains, etc. (if possible in your schedule, it can be done in babysteps each day)

Also, put together a Weekly Cleaning List to keep things looking good. Each week, finish your Weekly Cleaning THEN focus on doing some deep cleaning in this week's branch.

Cycle through the branches, one per week, to maintain a high level of cleanliness throughout the house.

Here's the schedule of Branches we'll be following:

Week 1: Entry/Living Room
Week 2: Dining Room/Laundry Room
Week 3: Bathrooms/Front Porch
Week 4: Kitchen/Back Porch
Week 5: Children’s Room/Guest Room + Closets for those rooms
Week 6: Family Room/Room of choice
Week 7: Master Bedroom/Master Closet
Week 8: All House Cleaning

Some sample "Choice" Rooms:
Office, Pantry, Craft Room, Garage, Attic, etc.

Make your master and individual branch lists work for YOU. The lists we share here are just our own examples; yours should be designed to suit your own home and situation.

If the branch you're working on needs decluttering, focus on that first. It's much easier to clean a room that doesn't have piles and boxes everywhere. Even if the whole house needs decluttering, this is a good way to focus on a room at a time on a regular schedule.

This isn't a competition. Just go at your own pace, as that will be exactly right for you. We are all here to support and encourage one another.

Start with a new branch each week. If you don't finish all the tasks on your branch list for the week, that's OK--you're already ahead of where you were before, and the unfinished tasks will still be there for you when you cycle back to this branch. If you finish early one week, you can go back to work on previous branches
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The majority of the rooms only need the weekly cleaning. So, I will concentrate on the family room, laundry closet, and the 3rd bedroom. It's going to be a busy week for me, with DD having finals.

Hi Bless,
I am going to focus on a room a day. Everything is in disarray but I will do what I can for each room in a day and just continue on with the branches.

So tonight I will clean the kitchen and really dedicate the time when the kitchen branch rolls around again.

Wash dishes
Wipe down countertops
Clean stove TOP
Wipe down microwave

Wish me luck!

All house...

I agree Diana, less and less as each branch rolls around again...

Welcome to the the branch thread and Good luck Hudbud!

clean finger marks from door frames
wipe door knobs and light switches
clean and store area rug in second bedroom
replace a light bulb in the entry ceiling light fixture

keep up with PUPA and ETE is also a goal this week because I'll be working on school stuff a lot.

HiHudbud:
WELCOME to GON and the Branches. You are more than welcome here, and I would suggest you start to declutter as you go along if possible.

Almost finished up the bedroom branch (quilts are still being washed and dried and the curtains are waiting to be washed).

Started on the whole house cleaning by vacuuming the 3 bedrooms, hallway and cleaning DD's bathroom.

Dusted the living room and dining room, too. I am off to a good start on this branch!

You sure woke up Bless!!!!! LOL
Good to see you getting so much done.

I was able to finish the closet floor, so that completed my list for that branch! YEA US!

Too funny as I just posted on ROTM how what I planned wasn't happening yet I managed to do a whole house once over! I was off on Friday so did not set alarm, yet woke up at 3 am anyway. When SO left for work I couldn't go back to sleep so just started cleaning.

Swept entire house, cleaned kitchen, mopped kitchen and dining room, cleared off paper from all accumulated surfaces and put in office, dusted all bedrooms including ceiling fans, cleaned bathroom completely including mopping and washing of rugs, took out trash, did 4 other loads of laundry and changed/washed guest bedding.....all by about 10am Friday....rest of weekend has been lazy.

I vacuumed the rest of the house (living room, dining room, family room) today; swept the kitchen, and cleaned my bathroom. The whole house has been cleaned! What is left is the decluttering, deep cleaning, and organizing the 3rd room, etc. Will start on that tomorrow.

Bless:
Great going! Makes it easier to declutter when the rest of the house is clean, at least it does it for me, this way I ETE and PUPA so I don't make a mess in my clean house! LOL

Diana, that's what I am hoping will happen here, too. Otherwise, I am always thinking, I should be cleaning the family room or the bathroom, etc. Now, the whole house has been given a "once over", and I should be able to focus on one or two rooms for the rest of this week's branch.

Today's focus will be on the kitchen. Yesterday, I cleaned the kitchen floor. Today, I plan to clean the fridge, the counters, stove top, vent hood, microwave, and the sink.

Didn't clean the fridge, but did the stove, vent hood, counters, microwave, etc.

Been PUPAing (Pick Up Putting Away) this morning already. Seems like I was leaving things "for now" again! I hate when I do that! Things aren't that bad, but I don't like leaving things out, I was doing so good on the ETEing!' It actually fits in
on the Branch this week.

Going to do a babystep or two downstairs, it is looking so much better with just the few times I worked down there last week.....maybe this will be the last week? We'll see.

Bless:
That was pretty good what you accomplished.

clean finger marks from door frames *done today
wipe door knobs and light switches *done today
clean and store area rug in second bedroom *done Saturday
replace a light bulb in the entry ceiling light fixture

Keep up with PUPA and ETE is also a goal this week because I'll be working on school stuff a lot.

Took an hour this morning to go over every room, did some cleaning and put away stray stuff. It was garbage pick up day, I emptied out the cat litter and disinfected it too plus I washed the carpet that's underneath.

That PUPAing was a good idea, more time to do other things and sort thru some items I hadn't gotten to.

Cleaned one bathroom, yesterday, and did some paperwork.

Still sorting in craft room, and did the floors in the kitchen/breakfast room.

Purged one box of papers, washed two loads and folded one, washed dishes.

I love reading what you guys are getting done. I always log off and do something.

Good going HudBud1, getting rid of a box full of papers is one less thing to look after. Getting the 1st load of laundry all the way to folded is tangible progress.

I zapped through the guest room and am ready for summer should this lousy weather take a turn for the better. The family room looks good and will be 1st room vacuumed tomorrow.

Good for you HudBud! Every babystep counts!

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House is in good shape, other than the craft room, and that has items that need to be removed from there....will do that over the weekend. Today with company coming, I can close the door! LOL