News Flash: SAHM's CAN Keep the House Clean

When I was a brand new SAHM I was a terrible home keeper. I didn't know how to keep anything clean. All I knew how to do let everything become atrocious and then spend 5 hours cleaning. Over the last 9 years I have learned, struggled, loved, and hated becoming a better home keeper.

My first big break through came 5 years ago when I found the FlyLady. A website designed with anything and everything you need to get organized an keep it up. You can sign up for daily emails, which I still get everyday, or download a "Control Journal." The FlyLady can and will help you get motivated and stop beating yourself up because your are a "bad" home keeper.

Speed Cleaning by Jeff Campbell and the Clean Team is a great book. It gets right into the nitty gritty of cleaning. How and when to clean something. Where as the FlyLady is wide focus, Speed Cleaning is close-up. Jeff helps you set up your cleaning kit, gives you a weekly cleaning routine and at the end of the book there is an alphabetical list of home items and how to clean them.

The best advice I can give is to just pick a system and keep it up. Do a little bit everyday, and to borrow from the FlyLady, don't go to bed with a dirty kitchen.