I have tried many times to fit myself into one of the popular cleaning systems and always fail. I have picked up some good habits from them though. Now I just have my own thing going simply by observing my house and noticing how often things need to be done to stay on track. I do a big block of cleaning one day on the weekend and then spend a little time every morning before work maintaining. It's not for everyone but so far it's working for me.

The way I've been functioning is trying to stick to bedroom on monday, bathroom on tuesday, kitchen on wednesday, living room on thursday, friday and saturday are free for all days and meal prep and rest sunday. Laundry, dishes and pet care get picked at daily. Combining cleaning, tidying, organizing, dusting, sanitizing, decluttering on an as needed basis in one space for that scheduled day. I do not want to think about the whole house in one day. 😅

"Side Tracked Home Executives" Pam Young and Peggy Jones, came out when I was a young mother, 40 plus years ago. This is very reminescent, but with a bit more customization perhaps. And it served me well. Three babies in 38 months, cloth diapers, wringer washer, wooden drying rack; organizing was the only way to come out on top.

I have a friend she cleans her house from top to bottom every day. I struggle and try to keep my house clean and tidy, but struggle with ME/CFS/Fibromyalgia. So as well as physical problems, some days I find it so hard think straight and work out even simple strategies. I need a clone of you.

I don't see how you can help, but thanks for offering. I moved into 1/2 the house in the middle of a 3-year illness and did not have any money to pay for help or buy shelves. I am FINALLY well, used my small inheritance to buy shelves and am finally working to find a place for everything. I did no cleaning while bed-ridden so I have some major deep cleaning to do. It feels good to be making progress in the right direction. I like a 3"×5" card file system and have created daily, weekly, etc., tasks as well as one-time tasks that need to be done. My energy is still low, so I focus on priorities and urgent needs. I love the fable of the tortoise winning the race. I still need frequent breaks to rest, but seeing progress, however small or slow, feels GREAT.

will you please do a organize/unpacking from a move type of video as my dad n I are in the process of unpacking from a move into a new place n putting a daily, weekly n monthly cleaning schedule is such a great idea/plan great motivation

Two huge stumbling blocks for me are 1. Motivation and 2. Just getting started without feeling overwhelmed!

I had no idea you had a book, so I will be taking a look at that. I have a chronic illness so my motivation/energy differ on any set day. I am trying my best to get into some good habits and your morning and afternoon videos helped me start to find my routine and I am going to time all the different tasks, so that I know if I can do a 5 min job or I can master the 20 minute job. Thanks for also giving us the permission to do what suits us as individuals - I always feel like I have failed if I can't follow one of the more popular cleaning systems.

Thank you so much for this video! Your specific cleaning tips are always super helpful, but I really appreciate videos that help me be more efficient and plan my time better. The more I can “automate”, the less planning/thinking I have to do each day. Given how fast we live these days, saving that mental energy is priceless!

it would be cool to see a video on how to get back into your routine after having to pause it for a bit. I recently fractured my foot and things are sliding a bit; it seems daunting to have to catch back up. Tips on quick ways to get back in order, or suggestions on places to focus on or start would be apricated.

I think that whether you own a home or rent one, you should feel that it’s yours and you need to keep it clean and neat

Your suggestion to write ✍🏽 everything down has helped me a great deal. I stay on track and if I stop to do something else, I can go back to where I left off quickly. Having a system in place works for me. Thank you! ☺️🥹 👩🏽 ✨ 💛

Thank you! From a tired, pregnant homemaker with toddlers haha

Thank you for your videos and better ways to do all these tasks.

Love your tips

This is heaven-sent aaaahhh thank you CMS Team!!! ❤

I also have your first book & and I do read it. It's my go-to mostly.

Just love your videos! I don't always get to the end of other cleaning ones (can be repetitive) but I learn lots throughout yours. Thank you!

❤❤❤ Love this video!!! Thank you Melissa!!!

I watched until the end!! Thank you for this video!!

I definitely have tasks that only happen monthly/ 6 monthly and annually in my phone calendar and set reminders. Definitely find that do a little each day really helps maintain and keep on top of the mess. You have to take less time out of your life to clean and house looks tidy and presentable so it’s doesn’t matter if you get an unexpected visitor.

Great tips and ideas 💜

Thank you for this video 😄

Thank YOU! 😊

Thanks for sharing ❤

I watched till the end!!

My big stumbling block is too much stuff, keeping too much. Everything, but paper stuff the most. Clutter makes actual cleaning difficult.

I do a room a day - so i don't mind if my bedroom floor is a mess because i know that every Tuesday I need to tidy and clean my bedroom. I'm not a daily cleaner so this helps me.

Maybe a guide on how to handle housecleaning when you have a chronic condition or acute stressors. For example, today I wanted to clean a few areas but was so tired from my day, I came home, went straight to sleep & nothing got done. What’s a more graceful & flexible routine?

Well explained and simple. Thank you.

I've got my kitchen down too a good daily routine. I just need too get other rooms into a routine, (my bedroom, ect) Thank you as always Melissa! ❤❤❤

Dealing with paperwork (or not) is a stumbling block for me. It seems to multiply on its own during the night, and sorting/filing is incredibly boring for me, an ADD-Chronically Disorganized booboo, so I procrastinate.

Thank you

A big stumbling block for me is that I seem to be ADHD in *very specific ways* ... and one of those is just friggin' leaving things wherever whenever no matter how conscientious I try to be about it. So I think a daily "put stuff back where they belong, dummy" routine is a good thing for me lol

Love your videos. I need a schedule to do my cleaning ❤❤❤❤?

What are you spraying on the shower doors? And then what are you following with. I feel like a dope I'm trying to figure out my cleaning cloths. Thank you

i was wondering when the mini optical cloths will come back, because i have been trying to get them but they are never in stock.

How much should one charge for an 9 room office 4 bath office? basic vs deep thanks

Well, thanks...I think...😂 ❤ This actually goes along with a 52 Week challenge I'm doing since rush moving to a new home and unclogging emotions while upkeeping the house and grounds, as lovingly as possible.. Do you have outdoor cleaning tips? See, I have to balance inside and outside or else I want to run away and be avoidant.

I do not like dusting. Thank you for the video ❤❤❤

What's the best way to clean baseboards? Which product or cleaner does the best job? For baseboards that haven't been cleaned for years...

I feel like I'm my own road block when it comes to cleaning. Long ago I was a perfectionist and if I couldn't do it right and perfect, I didn't do it at all. I learned how to appreciate progress and not perfection so I do keep my kitchen clean frequently along with my bedroom. I dust my living room as needed and it could probably be dusted more often than I do it. I dislike doing my floors...I have all hard woods. They get really dusty. Sometimes I just vacuum them, I mostly just vacuum them and I rarely mop them with a cleaner. I should probably hire a cleaner but I have a difficult time justifying spending money on something I can easily do myself. You know what I could really use your help with? How do you manage all the electronic cords? I have 2 areas in my living room with cords galore! Charging cords for phone, cordless drill, etc. Gaming cords for the console & the controllers, an ethernet cord which goes from living room all the way up to the 2nd floor in my primary bedroom. These attract so much dust and are also a horrendous eye sore. Can you help with this? :)

Smooches Melissa, thank you so much for your channel. It has really helped me recently with cleaning out my filthy dishwasher. It was horrible 😖😖😖.... By the way, where did you get those cute pink cleaning gloves?💋

seems like I haven’t been blocking time on my calendar… gotta do that!

how do you clean microfiber cloths

I recently saw a video where a young lady was helping a woman who was depressed clean her kitchen. The kitchen had been neglected for quite a while so it was really dirty. I was a little surprised that she used spray on oven cleaner on the stove top. It worked but all could think about is the damage it could have done. Has anyone ever tried using oven cleaner on the top of the stove? I wouldn’t do it. My stove is a glass top and is in good condition. The stove was a gas stove and that concerned me too. Just asking.😊

What is the color paint on the bedroom walls love it

Changing your life starts with changing: What you talk about and who you talk to. What you listen to and who you listen to. What you spend time on and who you spend it with.

I find it hard to keep up with a routine now that I have a 9-month baby around. It used to be so easy: just do your whole kitchen in one go once a week, but now my time is scattered and this makes it hard for me to get started because I’m the all or nothing type. I get frustrated if I can only do half, but maybe I have to get used to it. Just worried I’ll forget what I have done when. 😅 (btw been following this channel since I was just a student living on my own for the very first time, learning how to keep my dorm room clean, how time flies!)

Stumbling block is definitely the oven. It's self cleaning but it wasn't cleaned between meals. Tried scraping grease off the glass but it didn't fully clean in the self-cleaning cycle. The rails are covered in baked on grease which unfortunately cannot be put into self clean mode because they would melt. Reducing the splatter as much as I can without breaking my wrists is the issue.

You're welcome 😁

I struggle to get my kitchen cleaned up properly after dinner. I hate waking up to dinner mess in the morning, but I haven't been able to change this bad behavior.

I have the worst time getting a scedual that works for me. I have adult ADHD.... I also have been getting cortisone shots in my spine for herniated disks. Any ideas for me? I'm open to any suggestions

I hit menopause, by the time i work 40+ hours i can't find the energy. My house has never looked like this.

My stumbling block is that I want everything to look like new when I’ve deep cleaned it, and I am living in an old rental apartment where a lot of messy tenants left their traces. I am not good at all at „good enough“ so cleaning my very small bathroom takes me two whole workdays, meaning around 16 hours 😣

The house I used to live in, and still own (my friend still lives there) is a disaster (part of why I had to move out). I’m over there a few days a week, and end up “sprucing up” areas (dishes, counters, stove…). It’s impossible to do a deep (or, heck, weekly maintenance) clean because of all the crap on the floors and flat surfaces. My apartment, on the other hand, is easy to clean because there are no obstacles in the way. I don’t let things build up. Yes, I know there’s a big difference between living by yourself and living with others who either can’t (time or health constraints) or won’t (talk about stressful) help, or at least not contribute to the mess.

DH & I pick a small area to “team clean” each weekend. Indoors are winter and outdoors are summer. It might be a closet, bookcase or something in the basement. It helps motivate us and keeps the house pretty much up to date.

thank you very much I am good at organizing stuff but of course sometimes you will get lazy because of having a job. but because you give easy, intermediate and difficult schedule it make sense for me and for me it's easy to follow than doing randomly this whole cleaning process

I have a cleaning schedule on Saturdays ( if it's not raining,)I'll mop my floors. I wipe the window sill once a week as I allow my 2 parakeets to fly around my living room and they both perch on my photo frame so I wipe that spot weekly. Every other week I change my linens ( except in the summer I do it weekly)I wipe my mirrors every day and yes Melissa I use the s method ( I have a saying that I recite,as both my parents were in the army, I spray on the glass cleaner let sit then I go ( in the s motion,right left right left until I'm finished by doing this I remember from watching your videos to use the s method

I did a semi deep clean today. I looked and thought oh today won't be so bad it's looking alright. BUT lately I've walked in and thought it smelled stale very unfresh, I have 2 big dogs and 3 cats and a husband and live in south Florida. Anyway, Melissa has said dirt smells so with that in mind today I did a fairly deep clean and boy did I bring some dirt out and every time I said to myself did was part of the smell, not to belittle myself but to remind me and drill into me that it loomed alright and thought I needed to buy scented this and scented that but all it was it Really was it all that dirt and dust that sneaks around. So with Tony Robbins in my ears for my soul and Me Melissa in my head on how to go about it . I breathe different today.

I really HATE a messy house. I make myself do things/chores. NO MATTER, how painful it may be.

Laundry in rental is in the basement of the building. So hard to keep up.

I use a task chart that I made and wrote down daily and weekly tasks no monthly because I see them as weekly tasks I'm Janie from Spunky clean by the way

I find it really hard to meal plan and cook on days when I’m cleaning. Any suggestions?

Question: How are you able to clean your house with young kids around? 😂 I have a 5 and 10 year old and any time I attempt to do anything they are interrupting me every 5 mins (it feels like) so 1 task that should only take 30mins takes me like 1.5 hrs

Hi Melissa, my pet peeve is cleaning the fan…need I say more

E' possibile avere la traduzione dei vostri video in italiano? Molte grazie

Sad the facecloths are on sale in the US and not for Canadians 😢

Please restock your bath towels and large waffle weave kitchen towels they have been out of stock for awhile

Im so bad at keeping up with cleaning schedules 😢

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Has nothing to do with the video but wondering why KZfaq allows scam ads on the site was showing on here b4 the video surely that's some what illegal?

There are only 2 people who live here, my daughter works all week.

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One stumbling block - finding space to put up some things. Tiny house ..

Oh my god! I’m a lost cause 🤪

I value a clean home. I just don’t like cleaning it. 🥺😕😞 👩🏽

I loved the video right up until your comment “If you rent a place with old hardwood floors, what do you care about the floors?” Honestly, that attitude of lack of care for something because it doesn’t belong to you is abhorrent. If you’re living somewhere that belongs to someone else, that only increases your responsibility to take good care of it. I have cleaned out more crap from rental houses that were previously occupied by people with this attitude than you can imagine. Disgusting approach. Disgusting attitude. Not what I would’ve expected from you and you just lost a customer.

Who d f read a book to clean your house. It's pretty basic right? Damn

House is too big. Multiple bathrooms. 4 people dirtying things up.

Get a life.

THIS WOMAN IS AN ABSOLUTE SNOB!!

Hard wood or not the floors sill gotta be cleaned. Black sheet or White they still gotta be cleaned. 🧹

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