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Getting Started, Lifestyle, Productivity

Basic Home Cleaning Schedule

Corie Muldoon
Basic Home Cleaning Schedule

A clean home is a happy home. A clutter free home = a clutter free mind. When we deep clean our homes, we’re quite literally deep cleaning our minds too. Our outer world reflects our inner world.

I love cleaning! There I said it! Something about the process, and completing a task that helps the hive as a whole. Cleaning is a great deposit for your home life, positively affecting you and everyone you live with.

That just cleaned feeling, when you finally sit down, light a candle, maybe hit a joint, and soak it all in. Just being. Quiet, clean, happy, at peace.

Below is a basic home cleaning schedule I’ve been using with success. Remember a little bit everyday adds up. If you can commit 10 minutes a day to cleaning, it’ll go a long way.


Daily

Make bed as soon as you get up

Wipe down kitchen counters and sink after meals

Quick pick-up of toys and clutter

Vacuum or sweep high-traffic areas


Weekly

Monday: Dust living areas, dining room, and hallways

Tuesday: Bathrooms (sinks, toilets, showers, bathtubs)

Wednesday: Mop kitchen and bathroom floors

Thursday: Vacuum or mop other floors

Friday: Clean kitchen (counters, sink, stove, refrigerator)

Saturday: Wash bed sheets, blankets, and towels

Sunday: Wipe down door handles, light switches, and windowsills


Monthly

Deep clean bathrooms (scrub sink, toilet, shower, bathtub)

Deep clean kitchen (oven, microwave, cabinets)

Wipe down windows, blinds, walls, and doors

Vacuum or steam clean furniture


Seasonally

Spring: Clean out closets and donate unwanted items

Summer: Clean out garage or storage areas

Fall: Clean out gutters and downspouts

Winter: winterize home (pipes, hoses, etc)

Check and replace air filters once per quarter


Remember this is just a basic schedule and you may need to adjust it based on your personal preferences, lifestyle, and the size of your home.

Happy cleaning!

Nutrition

Healthy Snacks

Corie Muldoon

By now in your health and fitness journey, I’m sure you’ve found that eating whole food is the key to feeling better.

If you’re looking for an easy place to start, I’ve got you: healthy snacks.


What are healthy snacks?

Healthy snacks are a small portion of food consumed between your everyday regular meals.

They include a high amount of vitamins, are low in saturated fat, low in added sugars, and have a low-sodium content.

Ideally, these healthy snacks follow the whole-food plant-based diet.

Healthy snacking is essential for those in the midst of a busy day and are looking for an energy boost.


Tips for healthy snacking

Find healthier substitutes for high-fat snacks

If your favorite snack is potato chips and dip, try baby carrots and hummus – or better yet try out a new recipe and make your own chips at home (fun solo or date night idea).

Make snacks interesting

If the idea of a plain piece of fruit doesn’t appeal to you, try a smoothie bowl with fun toppings like nuts, seeds, coconut flakes, chocolate drizzle (cacao powder, plant-based milk, pure maple syrup), sea salt.

Be prepared

Have snacks ready for when you get hungry; make sure to pack a lunchbox and keep healthy snacks with you at work, school, in your car, and at home.

If you have a healthy snack in-sight and on-hand, you’re more likely to steer away from the fatty foods and reach for the healthier alternative.

Remember that the key to long-term results is choosing the healthy alternative time and time again, consistently overtime.


Healthy snacks examples

  • Fresh fruit bowl
  • Apples and peanut butter
  • Oatmeal with pure maple syrup, cacao powder and fruit
  • Nuts and raisins trail mix
  • Baby carrots with hummus
  • Cucumber slices with homemade bean dip
  • Granola cereal topped with fresh bananas
  • Low-fat, low-sodium popcorn
  • Whole-grain crackers with avocado (+ hot sauce)
  • Sliced tomato with black pepper
  • Edamame with sea salt
  • Fruit smoothie with chia seeds (+ flax seeds)

Healthy snacking combos are endless!


Read your labels

As always, remember to check your labels. A jar of peanut butter can have 5 weird ingredients for example, or just 1-2 normal ones (peanuts, maybe salt).

You may have to look at a few brands before choosing the best, however those small switches make all the difference.

Take that extra 30 seconds to be sure of what you’re buying because that’s what you’re ultimately fueling yourself with. Health starts at the grocery store.


Wrapping Up

A great first step to better health is to think about what you normally like to snack on and how can you make it healthier. If you have any questions or need more ideas / feedback, just comment below or message me, I got you!

Enjoy the moment, enjoy the food, one snack at a time 🙂