Deep cleaning is easy to put off because the list feels endless. This wheel holds the bigger jobs that only come around a few times a year, such as defrosting the freezer, scrubbing grout and cleaning behind the fridge, and lets chance choose which one you tackle today. Each finished job drops off the wheel, so the list visibly gets shorter.
When to use it
Spring and fall are the classic seasons for a full house refresh. Spin out the whole list in one sitting, give each job its own weekend on the calendar, and the house is done within a few months without a single exhausting marathon.
Before guests arrive for the holidays, a household can spin for the jobs that visitors actually notice, like windows, baseboards and the guest bed.
Moving out of a rental often means a long checklist for the deposit inspection. Load the wheel with the landlord's list and split it among helpers.
Ideas
- Kitchen deep clean covering the oven, range hood filter, fridge shelves, cabinet doors and pantry shelves.
- Bathroom refresh with grout, shower head descaling, the exhaust fan cover and washing the shower curtain.
- Bedroom reset including flipping the mattress, vacuuming under the bed and decluttering one closet.
Variations
- Make one wheel per room and spin the room first, then the task, when the whole house feels overwhelming.
- Use the team generator to split a big group of helpers into pairs, then spin one job per pair.
- Give the dreaded jobs extra weight, for example Clean inside the oven*3, so they come up before motivation runs out.
Tips
- Gather supplies for the whole session before the first spin. Nothing kills momentum like a trip to the store halfway through scrubbing grout.
- Open windows and wear gloves when you use strong cleaning products, and never mix bleach with other cleaners.
- Work top to bottom in each room. Dust from the ceiling fan lands on the floor you just vacuumed if you do it the other way round.
- Save the wheel on your device and press Start over at the beginning of each season so the full list comes back.
Make it yours
Change any entry, weight or color above, or open a copy of this wheel to edit and share as your own. This page always keeps its original entries.