By practicing small micro habits of care each day, we honor the home God has blessed us with while keeping it a place of peace and order. Plus we don’t lose our minds trying to do it all!
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You don’t need hours of cleaning time to keep your home tidy. But intentional small increments of time that move the needle forward to a tidy home even when you have been gone all day since breakfast and come home later after school sports totally works and is do able.
Easy Micro Habits to Adopt for a Tidy Home
- Wiping your bathroom counters – keep a small spray bottle of Force of Nature cleaner and a microfiber cloth or paper towel under your sink or in a caddy. After you brush your teeth, wipe the counters. Remember Force of Nature cleans, disinfects and sanitizes. Consider that a great win before you have even begun your day.
- Tidy all side tables – Side tables tend to collect all the things we put down. Every day, make it a point to clean these areas off as you pass by.
- Wiping down the toilet – Avoid being caught off guard if someone walks into your home on short notice and goes into the bathroom. Keep it cleanish until your next deep clean by wiping them down with some alcohol or using Force of Nature. For the fastest option, I like alcohol because it dries super quickly.
- Rinsing the bathtub after use – When you rinse the tub right away you avoid soap scrum from hardening and which saves you time and your back when scrubbing later.
- Wiping microwave after last use – grab a warm microfiber cloth after you have used the microwave and clean up splatters. So much easier to clean.
- Five minute toy resets – a quick win to making sure piles don’t add up. Remove toys from one room into a toy bin
- Wipe down all counters – after dinner wipe down all counters or can habit stack this with the next tip
- Sort through counter piles- you dropped everything on the counters when you walked in now set that timer and put those items away.
- Use a bin catcher – New things come inside the house all the time and we haven’t assigned homes for them right away. Create a simple bin for those items of maybe a hidden shelf that can store them until you are ready to assign it a home.
- Add a stair bin – If you don’t have time to put things away on another level use a stair bin to place them in and when you go up the final time take that bin with you to put those things away.
Why this works
Focused task reduce overwhelm and decision fatigue. Time limits keep you moving and motivated. Daily micro tidies mean less messes and a more peaceful home.
Developing micro habits is much easier to master and to stay consistent with even when you are short on time.
Kids can help and won’t lose focus and can turn it into a game racing the clock. It’s also a total teachable moment for them on responsibility in a fun way. The family tidies together.
Five minutes could be a commercial break while watching a show in the evening. These specific tasks don’t require a lot of prep work and can be easly completed even with being distracted.