So, the way I grew up I'm actually shockingly good at deep cleaning

[conuly]

I'm even not bad at decluttering, so long as it's okay to literally throw everything out. (They'll sooner or later send another copy of that late bill, don't worry! And you can always order another birth certificate, probably.)

But I'm not so good at routine maintenance. Does anybody have any already set up daily/weekly/monthly/periodically checklists for various areas of the house that they can recommend?

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[hudebnik]

When I was in grad school, I rented a room in a house with a couple, one of whom (the landlady) expected every room to be dusted and vacuumed weekly. And no shoes inside the house. I thought it was kinda extreme, but things weren't covered with thick layers of dust, as they are in our current house. And (also unlike our current house) there wasn't a lot of unused clutter piled up, because we had to pick it up every week to dust it.

No, we don't have a workable schedule of regular cleaning. We pick up dust-rhinoceri of dog-hair whenever we notice them, and change the dining-room tablecloth with the seasons (which forces us to get everything off the table at least that often), and scrub the tub or the toilet or the shower-curtain when we notice that they're not white.

[conuly]

I thought weekly dusting was the norm for people who clean?

[hudebnik]

Who are these "people who clean"? Other than my former landlady?

[conuly]

Clearly none of my friends, but some people do it regularly.