It’s Just a Baby Cleaning Tracker: Idea For Your Bullet Journal

Daily Bullet Journal Ideas—Cleaning Tracker: Embrace imperfection: just get started.

“In fact, I do not think laziness exists. You know what does exist? Executive dysfunction, procrastination, feeling overwhelmed, perfectionism, trauma, amotivation, chronic pain, energy fatigue, depression, lack of skills, lack of support, and differing priorities.”
― K.C. Davis, How to Keep House While Drowning

You may notice a few things about this bullet journal cleaning tracker. It has only 23 days, because I didn’t start on December 1. It has some missing spaces. I changed my mind about how to draw the habit tracker portion. And I made the habit tracker only after I realized I was writing mostly the same things every day.

And you may also notice that it doesn’t include my whole house.

However, my bathroom and kitchen are cleaner.

“It’s stressful to try to summon up 100% motivation sitting on the couch. Let yourself use 5% motivation to do 5% of the task. Maybe you keep going. Maybe you don’t. That’s ok. Anything worth doing is worth doing partially.”
― K.C. Davis, How to Keep House While Drowning: 31 Days of Compassionate Help

You can see I’m doing a little better at the habit portion than I am at the extras.

I think I’ll clean my bathroom floor after the third grade holiday party today.

You may also notice that the cleaning tracker evolves as the days progress.

The premise behind this cleaning tracker is that if you start with baby steps, you may be able to find more places of peace and calm inside your life and home. I’ve long wanted to have a cleaner home, at least like I did before I became a Mom, and this tracker is helping my sense of accomplishment, habit-building, and progress-tracking.

“No one ever shamed themselves into better mental health.”
― K.C. Davis, How to Keep House While Drowning

In my favorite book about care tasks, these things stuck with me:

• Care tasks are amoral
• Anything worth doing is worth doing partially.
• You clean because you deserve a clean, restful space, not because you are required to by any moral law.

You can make this cleaning tracker on any grid of dot journal. The one in these images is my own Planner Journal, the perfect combination of structure and wildness, and it’s drawn on the blank spread between the months.

If you want to get more clean tracker bullet journal ideas, ranging from simple to fancy, check out this post from Crazy Laura’s blog.

“quit beating yourself up for having a skill deficit when what you really have is a support deficit. Self-care was never meant to be a replacement for community care.9 Striving to “be better” will exhaust the little energy you have, and it’s probably time better spent letting yourself cry and sleep and finding small pockets of joy to keep you going.”
― K.C. Davis, How to Keep House While Drowning