A 30 Day Challenge to Spot Clean Your House with 5 Minutes Each Day

A 30 Day Challenge to Spot Clean Your House
It recently occurred to me that there are hundreds of little things that I would like to do around our house. I'm usually too busy and never get to them.  In today's post, I'll share how our family spent 5 minutes each day on a 30 minute spot cleaning challenge that transformed our home.

The Rules:  We each spent 5 minutes or less for 30 days straight to complete spot cleaning tasks around our house.  (In our family, three of us participated, so that was a combined total of 15 minutes/day and 7.5 hours/month.)

Example Tasks:

1. Clean the mirrors in a bathroom
2. Clean the baseboards in a room (or multiple rooms as long as it is under 5 minutes)
3. Clean fingerprints or other marks off of cabinets and kitchen appliances
4. Clean windows
5. Clean the bottoms and edges of doors where our kids seem to get smudges on them
6. Touchup paint doors
7. Clean doors around hinges 
8. Dust plantation shutters in a room (or multiple rooms as long as it is under 5 minutes)
9. Clean corners of floors and baseboards where dust accumulates
10. Clean extra well around the base and sides of each toilet
11. Clean the faucets and around their edges for each sink
12. Spot clean furniture for any stains
13. Touch up any furniture in need
14. Clean around the fireplace
15. Dust the mantle extra clean
16. Clean the inside of the microwave, oven, or part of the fridge (as much as possible in 5 minutes)
17. Clean the shower ledges
18. Clean the corners of the shower
19. Clean the shower 
20. Use glass cleaner to clean the shower doors
21. Clean the bathtub faucet
22. Clean the area around the plug for the bathtub and jets
23. Clean the inside of any cabinets (as many as possible in 5 minutes)
24. Clean under beds or other furniture
25. Dust fans (as many as possible in 5 minutes)
26. Dust shelves, especially those with towels or other items on them
27. Clean out cleaning supplies
28. Clean the doorbell and door handle
29. Clean door knobs
30. Dust furniture
31. Dust and wipe down light fixtures
32. Clean the hood above the stove
33. Clean small kitchen appliances extra well, especially if there is dust or coffee stains
34. Clean around the bathtub
35. Clean the banisters
36. Clean the corners of each stair
37. Clean out drawers or cabinets
38. Organize a drawer or cabinet
39. Clean under bathroom sinks
40. Clean window sills
41. Remove scuffs from walls, baseboards, or doors
42. Remove scuffs from floors or fix any scratches
43. Wipe down light switches
44. Clean the outsides of the washer/dryer
45. Clean the insides of the washer/dryer
46. Remove any cobwebs in attic or crawl spaces (take multiple passes as needed)
47. Rotate towels or sheets in linen closets
48. Dust and/or wipe vents clean
49. Wipe down kitchen and dining room chairs
50. Clean the coils on the bottom of the refrigerator

These are just 50 examples, but each should take 5 minutes or less and your home will feel much cleaner after 30 days of family teamwork! In our experience, it was only a small amount of effort, but it added up quickly over the 30 days.