See here for some help on how to set up a new calendar or watch the video below! That way you can easily see all your cleaning tasks (because each separate calendar in Google Calendar is assigned a color!). But I would recommend if you are just starting out, to create a separate calendar for your cleaning tasks. Set up Google Calendar. If you have a Google account, then you have a Google calendar! Now you need to decide if you want to set up a calendar in Google Calendar for just your cleaning tasks or if you want to just add cleaning tasks to your “To Do” calendar if you have one.I explain this in detail in my ebook, Setting Up a Cleaning Schedule…That Works, if you want more help with this! Make a list of tasks that need to be done on certain days, tasks that you do each week, tasks that you do once a month, and tasks that are seasonal. The first step is to create a list of cleaning tasks that you need to do. How to Set Up Your Cleaning Calendar on Google Calendar I use this feature more on some of my other calendar items, but it can come in handy if you need that little extra boost to get something done. You can have an email sent to you, a pop up reminder, etc. You can set reminders for yourself if you have something that you really don’t want to forget. I can set reminders! This is another awesome feature of using Google Calendar.As I have moved through different seasons of my life, my cleaning schedule has changed a lot! Being able to shift things as my life changes is a huge plus to me and makes it so simple to get myself back on track. With Google Calendar, I can simply drag and drop a task to another day, edit it totally and change the day I do that cleaning task or change how and when it repeats. Cleaning tasks can easily be changed or moved.Easy! It also works great for seasonal cleaning that doesn’t happen every day or even every month, but you don’t want to forget to do it - things like changing the furnace filters, washing the curtains, washing windows, etc. I clean my dishwasher and washing machine twice a month (we have hard water here and I have to do this to remove the buildup), so I set up tasks to repeat on the 14th and 28th of each month. Google Calendar makes it so easy to set up a task to repeat and this works great for cleaning tasks! For example, every Tuesday I do all the laundry, so I set up an “all day” task called, “Do Laundry”, and set it to repeat every Tuesday. This is probably one of the biggest reasons I moved over to a digital cleaning schedule. So it made sense to move my cleaning tasks over too! That way I can easily see what needs to be done each day. Since I moved my complete calendar over to Google Calendar, I really wanted to have all my daily tasks in one place. Why I Moved My Cleaning Calendar to Google Calendar Below are some of the reasons I made the move and how you can set up your cleaning schedule on Google Calendar. I have not had any schedule and just cleaned as I had time and what was most needed at the time.īut a few years ago I decided to move my cleaning tasks over to Google Calendar. I have made cleaning schedules and kept them in my Intentional Planner. I have made lists on paper and put them on the refrigerator. Over the years, I have set up my cleaning schedule in many different ways.
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