Clean up time!!!

[Sunflower]

I would like to know when you do yours? Do you do your daycare cleaning during daycare hours? What about the rest of the house... do you do it when they nap or do you do it during the evenings and weekends ?
Do you have someone come in and clean for you ? ( I would loooove that !)

[Emilys4Guppies]

Cleaning.......

I do the majority of my routine first thing in the AM before kids arrive. Bathroom swipes, beds made, dishwasher emptied, load of laundry in, and sweep. I tidy as we go through the day (the children help with toys and activities). I do meal/snack prep and dishes, and put away laundry during nap. The rest of the cleaning gets done on the weekends.

[Play and Learn]

Wish I could do laundry during the day - but it's high peek time for us (totally sucks), so I do laundry on weekends when it's cheapest.

Don't have a dishwasher - have made hubby promise to get one once we have kids of our own (but that's another 2 years down the road). I wash dishes after snacks and while they're eating the end of their lunch.

We tidy toys throughout the day, and then my 22 month old girl and I (or hubby) clean up the remaining toys and put them in another room. Hubby cleans the floors (we have hardwood and tile) usually on Fridays after work, and on weekends I clean the bathrooms.

It would be nice to have a cleaning lady, but we're so particular on how we clean, she would have to be amazing! lol

It would be nice to clean throughout the evenings, but that's when I teach my dance students.

[Alisa]

Most kids have a talent to mess things up. Throw toys and other things all over the house. Get food stains onto clothes during self-feeding. And mess up the dishes in an unbelievable way. We parents spend time to clean up all the thing again and again. For making the cleaning-up easier, please prepare some boxes to collect babies' toys, make sure your kids wear a baby bib when they are eating, get effective dish scrubber and dish soap for washing-up.

[dalevel47]

Yeah, I think so.

[FS2011]

Cleaning...whats that!??? HAHA
Seriously though...I keep a perfectly clean daycare centre in which I clean during daycare hours as I get time or at quiet time. My house is another story...its awful, maybe I should consider cleaning it during quiet time.

[Sunflower]

So far I have tried a few different methods and found that cleaning after daycare hours made the days feel so long,wore me out and ate up the little bit of time I have to spend alone with my own kids. So now, I do all the daycare cleaning during daycare hours ( except for the disinfection of toys which I do Fridays since my daycare is open Mon-Thurs)
I clean up the snack and lunch dishes while the kids do a little free play,puzzles,drawing s etc.
I clean the bathroom at the end of the day while they put their bedding away.
I wash the floors while they nap and on Thursdays I put all the bedding in the washing machine as soon as they wake up.

I also do the majority of my housework during nap time. There is always laundry to be done around here so I also do this during the day. Although I fold it while they nap.
I also do all my paperwork during nap time.
This system works for me and I love having more free time in the evenings and weekends. (family loves the system too lol)

[Emilys4Guppies]

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