The Ultimate Household Chore List Guide

Have you ever found yourself bored on the weekend? Or perhaps you’ve been meaning to feel more organized but unsure where to start. A household chore list may be the exact thing that can help both situations.

Everyone likes to stay tidy as much as possible, and you can simplify tasks with a list. Keeping a list of chores of the house for you and your family or roommates will create an equal amount of duties.

It may even help to break down your list into individual sections for each member. For younger members of the house, keep them away from hazardous chemicals and cleaners. Give them the simple task of picking things up, making their bed, sweeping, or even feeding your pets. 

For those still young but can be trusted around some cleaners, have them clean windows, mirrors, counters, or even cabinets. Each younger member should clean their room individually to start understanding the importance of tidying their spaces. This will shape them into becoming an organized person.

1. Daily Chores

There are some household chores that you must complete on a daily basis. Doing these daily chores will ensure your house will stay in great shape. Here is the list of daily chores listed in alphabetical order:

• Checking the mail
• Clearing the counters and putting things away
• Cooking or preparing meals
• Feeding pets and getting them fresh water
• Loading/unloading the dishwasher
• Making the bed
• Packing lunches
• Setting the table
• Sweeping or vacuuming the kitchen and eating area
• Taking out the trash
• Walking the dog
• Washing dishes

Let’s start with the rooms of the house; The kitchen, living room, dining room, bedrooms, and bathrooms. Make sure each place has its place for chores to be placed down. You would make the best start for daily chores by making your bed when you wake up and get ready for the day. 

While you are getting ready, you can put any items you see in their correct places as you go. Rinsing your dishes before washing them helps to keep this job easier, and washing dishes daily assures that you will always have clean ones when they are needed.

It’s as simple as if you see a mess, clean it up instead of putting it off for later or making someone else do it.

More tedious tasks that can be a bit more challenging on a day-to-day basis are taking out the trash, vacuuming where people walk the most in your house, catching up on laundry, and even dealing with the mail. However, doing these things every day will keep your place clean and organized. 

2. Weekly Chores

Weekly chores are the most common jobs that people choose to do. It seems to be easier on a weekly scale than on a daily one. Here is the list of weekly chores you need to do listed in alphabetical order:

• Changing out bedding
• Changing out hand and kitchen towels
• Cleaning the bathrooms
• Doing laundry
• Dusting shelves and window sills
• Grocery shopping
• Mowing the lawn
• Planning weekly meals
• Rolling out the garbage and recycling bins
• Scrubbing all sinks, drains, and faucets
• Sweeping or vacuuming and mopping all hard floors
• Vacuuming all rugs and carpets
• Watering plants

Washing clothes, towels, and bedsheets is something we all have to do. Do not put it off so that you have this overwhelming tower of laundry that needs doing. It will make things difficult in the long run.

Another weekly job that needs doing would be keeping the bathroom clean. This clean-up involves the shower, the trash, the toilet, the sink, the countertops, and even the floor.

If you need more space, you can always go through your things and see what you use the most and what you do not. If you haven’t used an item in more than three months, it is probably time to let that go. 

Now with the kitchen and refrigerator, look for expiration dates and any indicators that a product has gone bad or can no longer be of use—these both grant more space for new items or items you may already have.

3. Monthly Chores

Now that you have the daily and weekly chores planned out, we can look at the monthly things that should be done regularly. Here is the list of chores you need to complete on a monthly basis:

• Bathing the pets
• Changing the HVAC filter
• Cleaning all windows and mirrors
• Cleaning out the oven and microwave
• Cleaning out the refrigerator
• Cleaning the walls
• Dusting the baseboards
• Dusting the blinds or shutters
• Organizing the closets
• Tossing out expired pantry food
• Vacuuming furniture
• Vacuuming or steaming the curtains
• Vacuuming out the car
• Washing the car
• Weeding the garden

Washing your bed sheets, blankets, and linens will help keep your sleeping space nice and fresh. Dusting window sills, ceiling fan blades, light switches, and counter or shelf that collects dust will keep debris at bay. 

Vacuuming and steam-cleaning your furniture guarantees that stains do not stand a chance. Some people recommend cleaning your oven once a month to keep it in pristine and working condition.

So now you have a better idea of what things should be done on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis. However, you probably have the question “what comes next?” in your mind.

Well, you have likely heard of the term “spring cleaning.” But the truth is, cleaning doesn’t happen in just one season. It occurs in all of them. Having down a list of chores, including seasonal chores, will be of aid. 

4. Seasonal Chores

Seasons like Spring do make it easier to deep clean everything because, unlike Winter, you can open up the windows and let the fresh air in while you focus on the labor ahead. You do not have to wait on the flowers to bloom to keep things tidy. However, the chores that can be done each season can be done at any time. 

• Deep clean any crevices or hard-to-reach places
• Dust surfaces and air vents
• Minimize your wardrobe
• Open windows
• Sweep
• Use an industrial vacuum

For example, cleaning under and around things like big furniture pieces, vacuuming and cleaning out your air vents, cleaning and polishing any wood furniture you may have, and cleaning out your dressers and closets.

Some people find that renting out a vacuum from a professional company for a few days helps to improve the cleanliness of their floors as long as it gets done each season.

After all, industrial vacuums have better suction and can assist in keeping your rugs, carpets, couches, and even staircases free of dirt or any other things that would prove harder to get picked up by a typical vacuum. 

Final Thoughts

Regardless of how often you clean, you must do so on at least a semi-regular basis. Keeping your living space clean helps to eliminate germs and bacteria that could make you and your loved ones ill.

It keeps your surfaces and appliances in clean and working condition. If you take care of your devices and products as you should, you get more time and value out of them. 

Cleaning is a way to help clear out the clutter in your mind as well.

Studies have shown that when people live in a more cluttered or unorganized environment, it can impact how we think and feel, causing us to become overwhelmed more easily and conflicted with things we have put off. It is much better to do something now rather than later, which does not change with chores.