 Hey friends, welcome to Norris Cove. I'm Yoshida and today we're gonna talk about zone cleaning. So My good friend Anika, she asked me to go into a little more detail about zone cleaning I have some different sizes here. I just wanted to show you guys the insert that we're gonna be referencing referencing Today, let me go. So this is it. This is my personal Motrin planner. This is where I keep it and I keep it in my home section So what I did after I got, you know, a couple of requests about the zone cleaning One, I decided to make this video too I decided we need some more different sizes and I thought I had put them in my sd shop But I hadn't so this size here is for The mini HP and that's something else I kind of like to do is to point stuff first before I offer it and I think I may have been trying to tweak that I don't know why I didn't put it in there. I thought I did but I didn't so I'm just gonna stick it in here just randomly So you all can see So this fits the mini HP. This size here is pocket. I don't own a pocket. I do have a pocket Tn, but I don't have it in front of me. Let me see if I can find my passport Tn. This is my passport Tn I'm just looking to see if it'll fit so it should fit Your Tn okay in your Pocket, I'm sorry So now we've gotten that out the way. Oh one more thing I decided like once I go into detail My zones may not be your zones You can use my zones as a guideline. I do have them You know, they're printables in my shop, but I decided you may want to add your own stuff Because everyone's house is set up differently. So what zone cleaning is and I got this from The fly lady system. I use the fly lady system off and on I've added added it to my cleaning routine Some of her ways I've kind of made it work for me the first time I tried it Um, I'm not going to say it didn't work for me, but I just wasn't consistent I'm still doing it and I'm really still not consistent. So the zone cleaning inserts kind of helped me to be a little more Consistent and like in writing it out and seeing it. Um, also So what I did here was left it open in case your house is designed differently And you may not have a front porch. You may not have a front area. Like I have a front porch um, I have a four-year area, but that is included somewhere else. I like kind of grouped them together the way my house is Um done and like I didn't include on mine. I didn't include the front porch and the um Four-year area because to me that's why I hit my Two minute hot spots. Those are like my two minute hot spots or a 15 minute tidy So I just didn't feel the need to like Put that in zone cleaning. So what zone cleaning is zone cleaning is taking your house Dividing it into five different zones And it's basically a decluttering process for a lot of people Um cleaning can become overwhelming. You may spend Days hours cleaning. I know growing up every Saturday. We cleaned We got about two cartoons in a bowl of cereal and then it was cleaning For hours until we could go outside. So we would try to rush the process so we could clean outside But I mean go outside, but then doing um the middle of the week We would just pick up behind ourselves and tidy. So it's kind of the same thing but with This system of zone cleaning you're only going to spend One week in one zone at first I would put a different zone a day and spend 15 to 30 minutes in that zone And the thing with this zone cleaning is that you don't want to go over the time that you have a lot of yourself Because what happens is and that's what I like about the fly lady. Um system is that I would just take a day and clean and then I would be so Done that I'm like, oh it looks nice. I don't want anybody to touch anything Like if somebody with it would just put me on edge Like if somebody touched something, I'll just clean like I have an attitude And then I would just feel like okay. I'm tired of cleaning. I clean nobody picks up behind themselves But with the zone cleaning and the fly lady system It allows you to just spend 15 to 30 minutes In that zone and you have the whole week to do it. So let's say for here My zone one is my kitchen, which I stay in the most. So I'm always on zone one always I stay in zone one always. So for what I have for zone one is the kitchen. So I have the fridge Dishes sweet mop countertops cabinets and table. And so this is also your chance to kind of declutter So let's say it's May 1st Let's see what to be the third to be no the fourth to be monday. So let's say I want to start Zone one on monday I will just take 30 minutes a day You can even go up to an hour if you have an hour to give But generally it's supposed to be for 15 to 30 minutes. Sometimes I do an hour Because I know I'll go over it but just spend 15 to 30 minutes doing these things and it's kind of like a Not a race to clock but kind of see how fast what you can get done in that 15 to 30 minute time period And you set your timer and so you go in your kitchen and you may clean out your fridge You know clean up all the dishes sweet mop right down your countertops cabinets and tables and to me this is Something that is done quickly the only thing I didn't add on here is pantry because pantry is one of those things that I do Every few months. So it's not on a you know a zone basis like I'll take everything out and conmari method that so That's the reason why I didn't add that to zone one So your first week of may you're going to stay in zone one You're only going to spend 15 to 30 minutes now if you find that On day one you were able to get all this done, you know decluttering Out of your kitchen like okay, let me give you another example. So let's say My kid's like we got a big cereal eaters around here. We've become cereal eaters because you know everyone's been home So in the past I used to buy cereal and it would just go to waste and it would just go on top of the refrigerator In a basket and once we start eating cereal again I realized some of that cereal had been there for like a year Okay, or two and it was time to like throw it out. So what you would do in zone one is maybe Decluttered oh cereal maybe clean off the top of your refrigerator the top of your cabinets Things like that. Okay. So zone two. So you'll be done Like I said, you'll be done probably in a day So you can go on to zone two or you can just save for next week there But you don't feel overwhelmed. You wanted to clutter and clean your bathrooms. This is maybe a deep deep clean for you Um, I know my mother she was famous for like having this get That I call it the pee pod Around the base of the toilet and around and you know, maybe like some hand scrubbing, you know scrubbing on the floor what I'm trying to say Uh hand scrubbing pretty much hand scrubbing on the floor. Normally you may just do a quick Sweep and light mop Maybe shake your rugs out things like that. So I have sweep and mop The sink the mirrors the toilet the toilet, of course is you see the first thing and depending on how many bathrooms you have So if you like we have three And so going to each of those bathrooms, that's what you would do in your 15 to 30 minutes Let's say your first bathroom takes you That 15 to 30 minutes and you still may not get it clean. It's okay Stop after that 30 minutes and then the next day within that next week you're still in zone two You're gonna go to your next bathroom So some of this may not take A whole week, but it just depends on your clutter and you know, the level of your home And how big and how small your home is. So next I have zone three, um, which is My office. Let me see if I can get it because this little tiny one. I don't think y'all can see. Hold on I'm gonna pull this out for reference as well And then so zone three We have my office, which is organized inventory empty trash clean desk vacuum and declutter paper And so you could change that to something else. You may not have a home office Um, it may be your computer area. It may be another room Let's say you may want this to be your foyer area or what have you And that's what I'm supposed to do in zone three. This will take me all week to do. Okay. So zone three That's what I need. Okay zone four Um, the den laundry area So like what I did was because the way my house is designed My den and laundry is not connected But they're on the same floor like as my office My den we hardly go in there But the laundry area is the place in my in my house to me that gets kind of neglected Like we do laundry in there, but nobody takes the time to maybe wipe out the machine after they're done Like the other day my husband noticed he did a lot of laundry and notice water was sitting in the I guess the tub of the thing because we have a newer washer. So we I guess didn't know how to use it So now that's something I need to do is run that extra like empty the extra water out of something I don't know But that's what it would be on my laundry and den area and in my den Like I said, we hardly are in our den because it is downstairs. And so like lately my son's been in there We do have a workout equipment in there So maybe I can go in there and wipe down the equipment or what have you and then zone five Is my dining and living room because they are connected. I put those two together So again, I have this one where this is what my zones are that is available on my Etsy shop, but I also made an empty one for you to fill out your own So what I've done I'm thinking maybe I need to add this but then the price would go up I don't know. So right now I have the mini hp size in the Naked the blank one that way you can write your own zones in so let me see Let's say zone one you want to be the front porch And you know the front porch, you know, maybe sweep leaves sweep rug White door glass I mean it's so much And you just can put your own zones in there and you can write it in or however you want to do it I thought about it after I did that. So once I do this video These are going to be You know, it may be something that they need to have of their own According to their home But these are mine and I decided to do the empty one so that you could you know write it in But you still have this beautiful background that I like. Um, also I did These task cards and you can do these yourself Again, the task cards are available in my amazon storefront and you can just take these half flags You're gonna actually take a sticky note Let me see if I got one So that I can show y'all what you can do So if you don't have these little cards here, you feel like this side is your Sticky part you can just take and write them here and then cut Or put your you know, that's how you can make your own Task cards So that's pretty much how zone cleaning works and that's kind of the breakdown what I will do Um, so to be a little more helpful for you. Like I said, I decided to change this to where you can write your own Zones in that way um, I'll leave you with a piece of um information like videos where I kind of get inspiration for for my Zone cleaning one of my favorite fly lady babies to watch and Maybe two of them and also the link to the website on zones the fly ladies website on zones Her website used to be a little hard to the fly ladies website Used to be a little hard to read and understand because everything was kind of jumbled Um, I looked on there today is it was readable for me So she may have made some changes, but I will leave those links below So I hope this was understandable. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask me I don't mind sharing and I don't mind helping as much as possible. Like I said, I'm kind of new to the fly lady Zone cleaning myself. I definitely Use them and just kind of go over and do checklists. Like I said, I can spend two weeks in the kitchen Okay, I've been in the kitchen for this whole time to seem like this as fast as I declutter and clean I'm cleaning up behind people and this works for me because I'm not a neat freak, but once I get I'm I have obsessive behavior So once I get on the cleaning spree, I'm just on it And I don't want nobody to touch anything and I'll get frustrated. So this worked for me because Now I don't get frustrated if somebody leave a glass You know hanging around. I just pick it up because I want my house to stay neat I don't get frustrated if somebody drops on the floor. I just pick it up because I have got to keep it clean. So Again, I hope this helps. I hope it wasn't a ramble sash. I hope it was, you know, easy to understand again Please don't be afraid to leave me some comments in the comment section Let me know what you think and I hope this helps. Oh, also, um, right now I think I only have two sizes in the blank On my website on etsy So if there's a size that you need and you would like it on the blank version Or even the regular printed version, please let me know and I'd be happy to get that size up for you I hope you all are doing well during this pandemic. I hope you can get these zones clean I'm really trying to get this done before We go back to work. I want everything to be perfect. So I will see you all in my next video Thank you so much for watching. Bye