Comparing 5 CLEANING ROUTINES! | Flylady, Clean Mama, Motivated Moms, Organised Mum, 3 Wave Cleaning

I always like to give credit to the two ladies who originated fly lady’s routines: Pam Young and Peggy Jones — Sidetracked Home Executives. They have since retired and Pam passed away.

Been doing Fly Lady for 15 years. My house is spotless.

The best one is the one you will use.😊

I love cleaning routines! I am always curious about other ones, but I always seem to come back to Flylady! Thanks, Betsy!

No one ever seems to mention work - the fly lady one sounds like a full time job! The organised mum one seems a bit ambitious to ‘clean floors’ in 15 minutes a day 😳 I have a system of binge cleaning at the weekends, it’s not great but working plus kids clubs til late 5 days a week doesn’t leave much wiggle room!

Great video! Another one I would add is A Slob Comes Clean with Dana K White. She has a cleaning routine that is a task per day approach similar to Clean Mama except she also adds errands and groceries day and laundry day. She is best known for her decluttering advice but her cleaning routine is solid. As far as I can tell, in her system, deep cleaning is done depending on your energy levels and motivation rather than on a schedule.

Great video! I’m currently doing a mix of FL and CM. I love that there is so much support for homemakers now. I bet my mom would have loved to have all these resources back in the day. Wishing you a very Happy New Year! ❤

Because I’m a tad lazy and dont want to be cleaning every day, i love the home blessing on a Monday. I kinda need the strictness of FlyLady. Even though i do zone cleaning on one day rather than 15 mins a day. I hadn’t a clue when i started a few years ago. It’s perfect for complete beginners and kinda lazy people. I tell everyone who will listen. Im paying it forward! 🥰

I have since transitioned into just Fly Lady. But creating my own routines, habits and zones in place of the ones she has that don't apply or click for me, and keeping the ones that to click dor me that I really want or need to work on. A couple of differences I do are, are furst, Zone 5 is a flex Zone. I get to add up to 4 cleaning tsks or up to 4 non-cleaning things that got missed or that I really want to focus on during Zone 5 week. Also, I'm now looping the zones so that zones 5 and 1 will still get a full week. So I'm on a 5 week rotation. As for her Fly Lady Plus app, i absolutely love it! It's very easy to use and adapt to your own routines. I'm not always on the same zone or room as the app is since I loop my zones, but that's a very small con. Otherwise, it's a fantadtic app! I highly recommend it no matter whst system you're using.

thank you for such a nice summary of all these methods/systems. I love the "Clean our Space" lady, yet her 3 wave system was new to me and oh so simple, thank you for sharing!

Great summary, Betsy!

I use the Fly lady App and its great. Great video, thanks, Betsy.

Nice video. Subscribed! I've tried all of these. I never stick with anything though. Right now I like TOMM but I also throw in practices from the other routines. I always start with dishes (per Dana K. White) then go on to do whatever routine is my flavor of the week. I figure as long as I'm cleaning it's all good! Also, someone commented on the Sidetracked Home Executives. I actually liked their index card system and their self titled book is a lot of fun.

thank you

Great video! After trying clean mama and flylady, I love using a mix! Flylady zones just make sense to my brain but I don’t care for the daily focuses like car and bag day because they fall through the cracks. I would rather plug those into the weekly blessing. But I love the clean mama daily focus! One day for each big cleaning task like dusting or mopping works well when you’re busy :)

Thank you for this. Great info & tips. I’ve tried Flylady‘s routines & found them ok but I found the daily focus really hard. For example, I don’t drive & my handbag is always organised, so I wouldn’t know what to do on a Friday. I like the sound of the one in the UK, as I’m British too & would be able to understand the words more than I do that US based ones.

Great video, thank you. You had mentioned another one "clean that place?". I would like to take a lot at that one, but cannot find it. Could you provide a link? Thank you very much! :)

Clean Mama does not have her own app but she has a collaboration with the cozy app and her routines are in there ready to use

The first one doesn't even mention dishes or kitchen, aside from wiping counters.

It's not realistic to do a load of laundry every day when you live in a small apartment with coin operated machines.