A Google calendar cleaning schedule and home maintenance reminder will ensure you never forget essential maintenance tasks, which can save you money! (A stitch in time and all). Here’s how to set up a maintenance schedule using Google calendar.
For most of us, our home is the largest investment we will make during our lifetime. It makes sense then to keep it well maintained.
The problem is, it’s easy to forget to do routine cleaning and maintenance tasks, especially ones that only need to be done once or twice a year.
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It’s easy to see when the laundry needs doing: you’ve run out of clothes and the laundry basket is overflowing. There’s a visual reminder to clean the shower or fix a dripping tap. But what about other cleaning and maintenance tasks that don’t show obvious signs… until it’s too late? Then it ends up costing a fortune.
A pen and paper schedule works perfectly, but you have to update it each year. The good thing about using Google Calendar (or similar electronic calendar) is that you can set a task to repeat – no need to update it. Then all you have to do then is check your calendar. And if you set up automatic reminders, then you don’t even have to do that.
There are lots of cleaning and maintenance schedules on the net, but because we all live in different houses that have different needs, it’s important to make your own schedule.
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First of all, go round your house and list down all the cleaning and maintenance tasks that need to be done each year and how often you have to perform them. You can put weekly tasks on your calendar if you wish – I only use mine for infrequent tasks.
While following other people’s schedules to a letter doesn’t make sense, checking them out for ideas is a good way to make sure you’re not missing important maintenance tasks. So the next step is to look at home maintenance and cleaning schedules for ideas (you can find some schedules on my Pinterest board – some are intense! There’s no way I clean my oven once a
Finally, schedule your tasks into Google Calendar. If you already use Google Calendar, then you can see if your cleaning schedule fits with the rest of your schedule. If pruning the bushes is going to clash with Aunt Agnes 80th birthday bash, you can simply drag the pruning task to another day.
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This post explains how to create recurring reminders in Google Calendar to schedule cleaning and maintenance tasks. There is both a desktop version and an Android version below.
Before you start, you might want to set up a specific calendar under your account for your home chores. Having several calendars means you can share some calendars with your family and keep some personal.
Here are some different calendar ideas. You can turn calendars on and off by clicking them to just see the events for one calendar.
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Click the date on which you want to add a task (just to be confusing, we’re actually going to schedule an ‘event’).
For example, if a maintenance task involves calling in a professional (like pest control) you can add the phone number in the description so you don’t have to look up their number every time you need a pest inspection.
Set how often you want to do a task. If you want to be reminded to clean the windows every four months on a Saturday, this is how you do it.
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Times have changed since this post was first written. Most of us use the app on our phone rather than a desktop. Here’s how to create a reminder in the app version.
When your event is open, give it a name, choose which calendar you want to put it in, choose a time (I usually put all day).
Next, set the repeat on the task at the interval you’ve already decided so it will remind you every time you need to do it.
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Also, if you like, you can add any pertinent details for the task. As mentioned above, if a regular task is pest control, then add the phone number of the pest company to the description box.
Performing routine cleaning and maintenance tasks regularly will save you money by helping to avoid big repair jobs. Use a schedule (and automate it with Google Calendar – or any other electronic calendar) to ensure these routine tasks get done.
Mel Goodwin has been writing about frugal living for 10+ years but has been saving her pennies since she first got pocket money. Before writing about frugal living, Mel worked as an accountant. As well as a diploma in accounting, Mel has an honours degree in humanities, including writing and research. She also studied to be a teacher and loves sharing the things that she has learned and helping others to achieve their goals.
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