10 Minute Quick Cleaning Tasks Anyone Can Accomplish

Time is limited, no matter who you are. Working fulltime, stay at home parents, volunteers, social calendars, activities, dating life, all of it consumes your time incredibly. The mundane cleaning tasks of keeping up a home are far less glamourous or exciting and the longer they are put off, the longer our lists get. We don’t want to be bombarded with our chores, and it can feel easier to see past the clutter and mess versus tackling it all.

It has been proven by multiple sources around the world that living in clutter and mess can also clutter our minds and productivity, cloud our judgement, as well as cause sadness and depression. This world is already hard enough and full of sadness, let’s not allow our homes to also contribute to this.

Here are a number of suggestions of tasks that can be accomplished within 10 minutes or less. Time yourself and allow yourself to be impressed with how fast you can actually get through these as you find a pocket of time to tackle one or more.

• Create a to-do list
• Pay a bill
• Clean out the junk drawer
• Clear off the counters
• Wipe down the counters
• Clean off the mirrors
• Write out your goals for this year
• Create a plan for next week
• Make a list of workouts or exercise classes to stay on track
• Load or unload the dishwasher
• Create a vision board
• Clean out the fridge
• Clean out the freezer
• Clean out a shelf in the pantry
• Clear off the coffee table/end tables/dining table
• Declutter your command center
• Find 3-5 DVDs or books you can declutter
• Dust a room
• Clean the blinds on the windows of one room
• Clear off the top of a dresser
• Declutter a dresser drawer
• Declutter a section of your closet (dresses, pants, shirts, etc.)
• Declutter under the sink
• Clean a toilet
• Clean a sink
• Wipe down the shower
• Clean out the medicine cabinet
• Find 10 toys you can declutter
• Clean under the bed (especially kids beds)
• Fold and put away a load of laundry
• Wipe down the washing machine
• Clean behind the dryer
• Organize the laundry supplies
• Straighten up the linen closet
• Declutter the entryway
• Clean out the car
• Clean out your purse or diaper bag
• Organize some photos digitally on your phone or computer
• Organize your spices
• Vacuum a room
• Mop a room

By keeping things limited to a room, or a single space you may surprise yourself how quickly you can whip through such a task and move on to the next. Many tasks feel like they will take forever, yet don’t. And once they are done, you’re able to move on. Anyone can find 10 minutes here and there. It is finding the discipline to use that time wisely that is our own personal battle. Anyone can accomplish any of these, take a moment and give one of them, or more, a try.

Melanie xoxox