Creating a Kitchen Plan: Keep Your Kitchen Clean with These Fun Guidelines

There is someone coming over, and your counters are still covered with the lunch-making items. The mayo has the knife in it, the bread loaf is open, and there is a bag of chips on the counter about to spill onto the floor.

Is this a normal sight an hour after everyone is off to work, or worse yet, when you get home from work? Make your cold items last longer by following your own kitchen plan. Yes, even if it is just you. Write out your kitchen plan and hang it on the fridge.

How do we make it fun? How do we take an everyday activity and make it fun? You do the same thing every day. The same lunch meat the same chips the same juice. One way that I make it fun is to hang a timer on the fridge next to my Kitchen Plan. After the lunches are made and all the stuff needs to be put away and the counter wiped or it is after supper and the dishes are left behind. Set your timer and follow your Kitchen Plan:

Kitchen Plan

Close all cabinet doors (Start at the sink and go around the room in one direction.)

Wipe them as needed (Only wipe here if there was a spill. The rest can be for major cleaning.)

Place all dishes in the sink, fill items that need to soak.

Put away all supplies. (Gather like items, as many as you can safely grab at a time.)

Wash all the dishes or put them into the dish washer.

Wipe the counters.

Sweep the floor.

Stop the timer. Here you can dance around at how fast that you finished. Next time you may be faster. This can be more enjoyable if you list your times on a small white board placed on the fridge. Also, you can include others into the mix. One way to include others is by assigning a job for the week. Allow them to time themselves as well and they can improve on their times each day. We also start on each side of the sink and head in different directions. Meet in the middle. If one needs more time then the other keeps going around until they are both done. The goal can be to see how fast the job can be finished. Work together and you will bring more joy to your day and spend a little time with your helper.