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UPDATE: THE PRINTABLE CLEANING CHECKLIST IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE.
If you have kids, you’re probably familiar with messy bathrooms. I feel like I’m always in there cleaning up something, which is why I created a Cleaning Kit with a Printable Checklist. The checklist not only helps to make sure I give it a good top to bottom cleaning each week, it’s also a helpful list if others want to help pitch in too.
Yes, we’re looking at a real life photo here. Looking at that mess makes me want to shut the door. I swear a tornado spins through the kids’ bathroom on a daily basis. Almost every morning, I’m greeted with a floor full of clothes, towels, hair and various other items. It drives me crazy!
To create this Bathroom Cleaning Kit, I headed over to the Dollar General store to pick up cleaning products. I needed products that would do three main things: be multi-purpose, kill germs and make cleaning simple. Disinfectant Scrubbing Bubbles® Bathroom Cleaner and Scrubbing Bubbles® Multi Surface Bathroom Cleaner met all three of those requirements.
Bathroom Cleaning Kit with Printable Checklist
Supplies:
- Bucket
- Disinfectant Scrubbing Bubbles® Bathroom Cleaner
- Scrubbing Bubbles® Multi Surface Bathroom Cleaner
- Glass Cleaner
- Gloves
- Sponge
- Scrubber
- Old toothbrush (optional)
- Bathroom Cleaning Checklist (weekly)
- hole punch
- laminate (optional)
- card stock
- printer
- 1″ loose leaf ring
Putting It Together:
Place everything, except for the checklist, into the basket.
Print out the bathroom checklist onto heavy cardstock and cut to desired size. This is optional, but I opted to laminate my checklist at the local print center. Once laminated, cut the laminate to size and punch a hole in the upper left corner. Next, attach a loose leaf ring and hang it onto the bucket. Having a bathroom cleaning kit with a checklist makes cleaning up the bathroom a breeze. I love having everything I need in one container that I can tote to our two other bathrooms too. Now, I’m ready to tackle the bathroom and tackle the bathroom I did…
I had the kids pick everything off the floor and then the REAL cleaning began. To begin, I cleaned the sink. Apparently, my youngest daughter thought the bathroom sink was a good place to wash her hamster toys and clogged it with hamster bedding…ugh! I spared you the image of the sink filled with all the hamster goodness (you’re welcome), but can see the slight yellow tinge to the sink. To clean the sink, I used the Disinfectant Scrubbing Bubbles® Bathroom Cleaner because it can handle the tough messes and kills 99.9% of viruses and bacteria*. All I had to do was shake the bottle well, spray onto the sink surface and allow the foam to penetrate the soap scum. I was easily able to rinse the foam off the chrome faucet and wipe the sink clean. Easy-peasy! Next, I cleaned the counter tops and toilet with the Scrubbing Bubbles® Multi Surface Bathroom Cleaner. I love that I only need one product for both areas. The fast-acting formula made cleaning so fast.
The next big areas to tackle were the glass doors on the shower. I’ll admit that cleaning the shower doors is one of my least favorite things to do. Lucky for me, Scrubbing Bubbles® Bathroom Cleaner makes cleaning soap scum and hard water off glass easy. I was able to use the wide spray nozzle to cover the door with foam in about a minute! After a few minutes of letting the foam do its work, I wiped it off with a damp sponge and rinse thoroughly for a sparkling clean! You know that’s a plus in my book since it means less time cleaning and more time for the fun stuff in life.
I think I had the bathroom fully cleaned in about 30 minutes! If you want to create your own Bathroom Cleaning Kit with Printable Checklist, visit the Dollar General coupon center for Scrubbing Bubbles® savings and be sure to check out more ways to make cleaning fun at savewithbubbles(dot)com. I’d love to hear your favorite!
*When used as directed kills Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1, Herpes Simplex Virus Type 2, Influneza A (H1N1) Virus, Respiratory Syncytical Virus, Rotavirus. **Staphylococcus aureus (Staph), Salmonella enterica (Salmonella), Pseudimonas aeruginosa, Enterobacter aerogenes, Escherichia coli (0157:H7) (Ecoli), Liseria monocytogenes, Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).
Oh those teens and their bathrooms! The struggle is real, isn’t it. I have been working on teaching my grandson to clean his bathroom like I would. He is doing well, Love that checklist! Scrubbing Bubbles are great on soap scum!
Great check list:)
Great tips! Thanks for sharing them at the #AnythingGoes Link Party.
Having a cleaning caddie was one of the most helpful cleaning tips I’ve followed, it’s so handy. Love the idea of adding the printable. Visiting from Lou Lou Girls.
Great article. The kids can follow your checklist and clean the bathroom for you:-) I’m working on making that happen here, but it’s slow going. Thanks for sharing at Funtastic Friday.
I love the idea of a bathroom cleaning kit. Thanks for the printable checklist. Thanks for linking up on the #HomeMattersParty this week. Hope you will come back next week to link up again.
It makes cleaning so much easier to have everything I need in one place.
I will print this out for my son as he is responsible for cleaning his own restroom and with this checklist it would be done the right way and I will not have to stop what I am doing to tell him what he needs to do.
My kids help clean their bathroom too and I made this list with them in mind. Good luck 🙂
Thanks for being so bold as to show your dirty bathroom 🙂 Do you think a cleaning checklist will work with my husband?!
Well, it doesn’t work with my hubby…lol. I can count on my hands how many time he’s cleaned the bathroom since we’ve been married for over 18 yrs. It helps my kids though.
I have 3 boys and a husband so I avoid their bathroom. The toilets are always gross along with the sink.
I know right?! My kids totally wouldn’t keep their bathroom clean if I wasn’t on them about it.
What a great idea to keep the cleaning checklist in the bathroom where the kids can see it! That way there is no “I didn’t know I had to empty the trash!” Thanks for the tips!
You’re welcome Carissa. I hope it works for you.
I need to print this off for the teenagers dwelling upstairs. . This is perfect! Thank you!
Yes, this is totally why I made the list. My kids need a guide of they will just pick up the clothes and towels.
I love the idea of a printable cleaning list. Maybe one of my kids will see it and want to pitch in!
Yes, we can always cross our fingers and hope for the best 🙂
My two tween girls (12 and 11) share a bathroom. I told them if they can keep it clean all summer along with their room, I’d give them each $50!
That’s great incentive! How are they doing so far?
Ha! I loved the Hamster bit, it made me chuckle because I have two turtles and made the mistake once of cleaning their water filter in the sink! In all honesty, I love the checklist idea and the fact that your little ones help around!
Yeah, my dd clogged up the sink with the hamster bedding and it was so gross. It was hard to get a good pic of the scum, but it was there.
That’s the perfect checklist for me because I tend to clean a mess as I see them and never clean up from top to bottom!
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I do a good cleaning at least once a week, but I’d like to get my kids to pitch in more with the daily cleaning. They’re in middle school and high school, so I think it’s about time they learn the fine art of deep cleaning 🙂