The Smart Productive Mom Podcast - Time management, Self improvement, Work from home, Intentional living, Productivity, Self care · LaCresha Sims

[EP. 63] Why I stopped using a cleaning schedule (and what I'm doing instead)

June 12, 2023·19 min·1 clip
Lucretia gave her husband an ultimatum: help clean for free, or she would hire someone and cut the budget elsewhere.
The host, Lucretia, explains why traditional cleaning schedules failed her as a busy mom and entrepreneur, leading to overwhelm. She shares her five-step alternative method focused on decluttering, creating logical homes for items, making the home accessible for children, setting boundaries for shared cleaning responsibility, and establishing a simple, collaborative family cleaning routine.

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A practical case for ditching rigid cleaning schedules when little kids keep changing the day.

The episode makes a plain case that cleaning systems fail when family life refuses to stay on schedule. Zone cleaning, day-of-week chores, and time blocking all sound workable until a baby or child interrupts at any moment, and the speaker lands on a simpler answer: declutter…

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You keep missing the cleaning plan because real life will not stay put.

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