Have you ever felt like it was a fight to get your husband to do any housekeeping or any simple thing like empty the dishwasher? do you fight to get your kids to put their laundry in their laundry baskets and take it to the washing machine, or even a fight with yourself to vacuum for the fourth time that week? Every day there are mothers and fathers struggling to get every housekeeping chore in the house done by themselves. The easiest way this can be fixed is a simple house cleaning intervention! Let your family know that you need more help cleaning around the house, and here’s how to begin.

We will start by sitting down with your family and listing off all the chores that need to be done in the house. I mean everything. Laundry, kitchen cleaning, emptying the dishwasher, vacuuming, washing the floors… you name it. Anything you do in your house! By listing all the housekeeping chores one by one will help you break it down even further to show the rest of your family exactly how much there is to do!

After the long list is completed, you can start dividing the housekeeping chores between the family members. This way everyone gets an equal amount of housekeeping work and it takes a huge load off the main person doing everything in the beginning! There might be a few things where no family member will agree to do – so I would make the decision. You can’t do everything, right? But, let’s say we wanted to do this an easier way, one that is more fun and spontaneous, so no one gets grouchy about the decision they were handed. Take a good amount of large colored popsicle sticks, write down one chore on each popsicle stick and put them in a mason jar. This way everyone can pitch in their share of chores and it can be fun in the meantime. Something else that you can do if you have kids doing this, is to make a reward system for them. They might work harder!

After we have divided the chores or made our popsicle sticks, we can go ahead and begin creating a schedule for the family. Weekends are usually a great time to schedule some cleaning because it gives the family more time to get everything done, rather than start tackling chores after dinner. Doing the usual clean-up after dinner is fine, but we don’t really want to hold off on vacuuming or mopping until the weekend, do we? Creating a schedule that works for your family means you will get the best out of everyone and your house will be clean!

Hopefully, this will help you get started on what you need to do to get more out of your family members without a fight. You shouldn’t have to be the only one to clean the house, so sit your family down and let them know you have figured out a great way for everyone to start contributing! And if all else fails, hire a cleaning company to give you a hand. We will follow this checklist when cleaning

Here is an amazing resource for you to use when trying to motivate your family with chores around the house. This chore chart is very useful.