Hi everyone. I'm Ronnie and I'm Jessica and
you're listening to Clean With Me, the podcast where we walk
you through cleaning your house. Hey everybody, this is Jessica
and this is Clean with Me And what we do is we walk you
through clean your house step by step.
So let's get right into it. First thing I like to do when I
am starting my clean is getting ready for the day.
It's really important how you start your day and how you start
your routine because if you don't have some kind of
structure, it's really hard to get your chores done, at least
if you're me. I have trouble if I I don't have
some semblance of structure in my life.
I really struggle with getting started on my cleans and today I
wanted to do a thorough bedroom cleaning episode.
It's been a while since I've done this and my bedroom can
definitely use it. So pick the bedroom in your
house that needs the most attention and we are going to
thoroughly, thoroughly clean that bedroom today.
And that could be a kid room, it could be an adult room.
Usually when I do bedroom episodes, I kind of gear them
towards kid kid bedrooms just because that's the bedroom in my
house that gets the messiest the fastest.
But today I'm going to talk about an adult bedroom.
You can use this for a kid bedroom.
It applies to any and all, so let's get right into it.
So first thing I want to do focal point of the room is
usually your bed, unless you're a vampire.
So if you have a bed in your room and it's been a while since
you've changed those sheets, let's go ahead and strip the bed
and then we're going to put those in the washer.
So take off your comforter and your sheets and let's go ahead
and wash those. If you have already done that
and you don't need to do it, it's been maybe a short amount
of time since you've already, since you wash them already,
then you can just make your bed, make it look nice and pretty.
It always feels good in the morning when you get up and you
make your bed right away. It just, I don't know, it makes
me feel like I'm doing something right when I make my bed in the
morning because I don't do it as often as I should.
So either way, whatever you do, if you do strip your bed and you
have a bare mattress, I like to run, run over the mattress with
some kind of vacuum, whether it's like a shop vacuum, a hand
vacuum, a vacuum attachment or just a regular vacuum, whatever
you've got on hand, it's just good for your mattress health,
You know, little particles of things, skin cells, all kinds of
gross stuff build up on your mattress.
So it's good to give it a good vacuum every once in a while.
So if you are washing your sheets and you do have a bare
mattress, you might as well just go ahead and do that.
I also saw that people a lot of times like maybe use a steamer
on your mattress. I don't have one.
I would like to do that because my mattress is kind of old.
It needs a good steam cleaning. But I'm going to go ahead and
move on from there. And then we're going to treat
the bedroom like any any room that has a lot of just
miscellaneous stuff. I like to sort and just focus on
one thing at a time so I don't get overwhelmed.
And with bedrooms, I always start with the floor first and I
do repeat the steps with the floor with everything that I'm
going to talk about. And then I will repeat
everything with all of the surfaces.
So first let's start with floors.
And I want you guys to 1st just pick up any and all trash on the
floor. And you may be thinking, well, I
don't have any trash on the floor.
Well, that's that's fine, no problem.
Things you want to get rid of. Maybe you just have some
clutter. Just anything that is a get rid
of, I want to get rid of pile or a throwaway pile.
And the pile could be in a trash bag.
So you can either just throw things in a trash can if you
just have trash or if you're decluttering and it's a room
with a whole lot of stuff in it because we all have different
stages of messes in whatever room we're cleaning right now.
Maybe we're just doing some maintenance cleaning on our
bedroom, or maybe we have a major decluttering situation on
our hands. Either way, we need to get rid
of, umm, get rid of some stuff, whether it's just regular trash.
Maybe you just have like a, you know, wrapper on your, uh, floor
or something that needs to get picked up or you just need to
get rid of. For example, I had a rug that
was all stained up that was sitting in the corner of my room
for a long time. That would be something that
needs to be getting rid of or throwing away.
So that would be in this category.
So just get everything and throw it away.
This should be really quick. Just buzz around and get
everything. And then with trash, I also do
all of the trash that's on the surfaces as well, just because
they're usually not a whole lot of trash on the floor depending
on the room. So, you know, same thing, just
go around to your surfaces and just get any trash, throw it
away or any clutter that needs to be donated or getting rid,
gotten rid of and put it in a pile outside of the room.
If you prefer to like have different, maybe just cardboard
boxes. If it's something like a, like I
said, if you have a serious decluttering situation on your
hands and you need boxes to be able to sort the things in this
room, like maybe there's a whole lot going on and it's not just a
maintenance clean, then feel free to bring in boxes for this.
But if you're just getting rid of a few things, you can just
put it in a pile outside the door.
Next, usually the biggest issue in my room would be clothing.
So any dirty clothing, clothing. I like to keep a couple of dirty
clothes hampers in my room and in my bathroom.
So I will gather up all of The Dirty clothes and bring those to
the laundry basket and then bring the laundry baskets to the
laundry room to be washed. Because if they are just in the
room, sometimes when we're in the laundry room and we're doing
the laundry, we don't think to go walk all the way to the
bedroom and get the stuff out of those hampers, right?
So when I'm cleaning the room, I make it a point to kind of
gather all of those and bring them to the laundry area so that
they will be the next priority and not just be forgotten and
just be forever dirty in a laundry basket in the corner of
my room. And like any of my.
Episodes this is just ideas so maybe you don't have to do.
Half of the things I'm saying, maybe there's just one.
Area that really needs. A lot of attention, like maybe
you're just decluttering. A craft room.
Or a guest. Room or a?
Closet or something like that and you're just focusing on
decluttering. Just do whatever it is of all
the tasks that I'm. Shouting out that.
Applies to you. And your room personally and.
I'm just going to throw out a. Bunch of ideas and just.
Use what I need to. Do in the rooms.
In my house for a guideline. So yeah, once you've got all of
the clothes hampers in the laundry room, we've got the
clothes off of the. Floor.
Maybe you've got some piles of clean laundry on top of things.
Now this definitely applies to me because sometimes when the
kids are sleeping I will fold a bunch of my clothes or my
husband's clothes and I don't want to wake them up by opening
and closing drawers or something, so I'll just set them
on top. Of dressers so.
I definitely have clean clothes. Piles on top of dressers.
Or maybe my dressers. Are out of hand and they're.
Kind of. They're kind of.
Cluttery and I just didn't have room so I just threw them up
there so let's. Deal with all.
Of the clothes. Once you're done.
With the ones on the. Floor.
The Dirty ones, let's deal with the clean ones.
Maybe you have an in between chair where maybe I feel like
this is more for men. My husband always like wears his
pants like a couple days in a row.
His jeans. He'll place his jeans over a
chair or something. And if it has.
His belt still attached to it. That's like a.
Signal for me not to touch it. It's just something he's always
done. Like he's never actually like
said that, but I just know that if he has a belt on it and he's
going to wear it again. We've been together for like 10
years. So I just know him really well
because in the past, if I choose to wash the in between pants,
he'll be like, where are those pants that were sitting here?
Why'd you wash them? So, So you know, you know how
you grow to those of you that have been married for a while
know what I'm talking about. But yeah, let's get rid of that
in between pile. Let's get rid of any piles of
clothes, anything that you see. Just start with one side of the
room and work your way to the next.
And if you feel overwhelmed at any point, just break it down
into smaller. Tasks because like I said this.
Is the big point in my room is clothing that's going to take me
the majority of the time cleaning the room.
I'm going to be focusing on clothing.
You may be focusing on something else, decluttering or something,
but I'm going to be focusing on clothing in my room.
So that's what I'm going to spend the most time on, and I'm
going. To be focusing on putting stuff
away. Going through the if, if you
have an in between pile, you know actually washing stuff or
putting it up. Probably most of the stuff in in
between pile just needs to be thrown in the washer usually.
And then like I have mentioned before, I really liked this term
that I saw on the Internet. That is when you're cleaning you
deal with things that do belong and you put them in their place.
So things in the room that do belong, that just need to be.
Put away. And out of.
Sight. So let's do that next after the.
Clothing step and like I said, if.
You're on. Step 1.
You stay on step one. I'm just throwing out ideas.
You. Guys, go at your own pace and do
what you need to do in your personal bedrooms.
And then if clothing isn't the thing you have an issue with,
but it's clutter, then like I said earlier about, you know,
there are things that need to be put in their place and things
without a place. So things with a place and
things without a place. So you just start with one thing
at a time. Don't get overwhelmed.
Pick one dresser, one night stand, and just get everything
on there and separate it into things that just need to be put
away where they belong. And then things that need to be
be put in a different room. And the things that need to be
put in a different room. If it's not a whole lot of
stuff, you can just put it in a pile by the door and then put it
in the other rooms once you're done sorting everything.
And if you're doing a major, like I said, decluttering thing
in a room with a lot, a lot of clutter, then you might want to
have different boxes or containers to put the things
that go in the different rooms in or bags even.
And that might make it easier to sort through everything.
And that's also good if you're going through like a closet,
like a filing closet, coat closet, storage closet, things
like that, you're going to have a lot of keepsakes, things that
I haven't seen in months that need to be got gotten rid of,
things that need to be donated, you know, different piles like
that. So the first step is always to
just sort the things out into piles, separate them into
keeping, not keeping ever all the other categories I said.
And then the second step is to put them away where they go and
or put them in a box for donation or trash for throwing
away. Speaking of throwing away, I
also keep a trash can in my room personally.
If you do, then take out your trash underneath my bed, I
usually use it for storage. Under the bed is a great place
to use storage bins for clothing that's out of season and stuff
like that for many reasons. One, just so you don't have to
look at it because you don't want to go through all of your
summer stuff in the winter time every time you're looking for an
outfit because one, there's no room for that.
And two, it makes it hard to find things to actually wear.
So that's a great place to put stuff and also because things
don't get brushed or fall under the bed as easily if you've got
the storage containers underneath your bed.
But if you don't, and currently I do not, I need to get some
more storage containers. I don't have any right now that
fit underneath the bed. I need to get those short ones
that slide under your bed. I have a different type right
now, but right now under my bed is dirty and I do clean it
often, but I have wood floors so it's real easy for things to get
swiped underneath the bed. So what I do is once I'm done
with the rest of the room. So this is kind of a last step
guys, after you've done everything else.
And like I said, I'm breezing through this really quickly
'cause I'm just giving you guys ideas and just letting you go in
there with a plan. And if it's real bad, you know,
like I, I say in the other podcasts I make, take before and
after pictures or a video of yourself cleaning it.
It'll really motivate you just to see how much you can do in a
short period of time. But As for under the bed, if
you're physically able to move it, then move it.
If you can't, then just use a broom or some kind of tool to
help you get everything out from under it.
And then same thing you did with the floor.
You just throw away trash. First put any clothes on The
Dirty clothes, put away things that have a place, and then
things that do not have a place in that room, but in another
room, put it by the door to be sorted.
And I like to do that as a last step as well because there's no
point in well, I find it really overwhelming.
Say if I'm cleaning my room and I start by I'm just going to get
everything out in the open and I'm just going to get everything
out from under my bed and just add to the big pile giant mess.
I personally, I used to do that back in the day, but it it kind
of overwhelms me. So I just do my cleaning of the
room 1st and all of the steps that I mentioned to prior and
then I do the under the bed last.
That way I've got a clean service to work work with and it
doesn't seem like quite as much of an undertaking.
And of course, last but not least is wiping down.
So if you have mirrors in your room, if a certain once your
surfaces are clean, cleared out and everything like that, maybe
you have some sliding glass doors to your backyard, then get
some glass cleaner and just wipe everything down nice and
thoroughly and get give everything a good dusting and
organize anything that needs organizing.
Maybe you have bookshelves that need organization and these can
be classified as bonus chores. But if your room wasn't really
that bad to start out with, like if you didn't have a really
whole lot of clutter that you had to deal with, then that
leaves time for organization. So you can work on organizing
your clothes or a bookshelf or a night stand or anything like
that. And if you have time, use the
same method for your closet. If you still have that momentum
going and you're done with your bedroom and you want to do more
and you want to organize your closet as well and maybe your
closet is getting a little bit out of hand.
Same method, everything off the floor first and the same steps.
And then you go with the shelves and then move your way up at in
the closet as well and just use the same steps.
Things that do belong, things that don't, things that you can
donate, things that stay and just sort everything and then
put it all away. But do it in steps that way it
doesn't overwhelm you. So you don't just have these
gigantic. Piles.
That are going to stress you out.
So anyway I. Hope I helped you today.
I hope you get a lot done. I know this was a shorter
episode, I just wanted to do a quick bedroom episode because
it's been a minute since I did it.
I'm going to go clean my bedroom now because it desperately needs
it and I hope you guys have a great day and as always, happy
cleaning.