I always dust first and then I vacuume. If I can help my dusting by vacuuming, I do, or if I can take a wet cloth to what I’m dusting so it doesn’t end up flying in the air, I do that. Washing the floors is always last. I do room by room. My kitchen/dining/living room is all one small room that I manage like I mention. My bathroom is done by me taking everything and then the floor last. My kitchen (nook… small galley space) is taken daily or every other day depending on my routine, but that sink has to be washed out or it stinks. The bathroom one… not so much and can be taking weekly with the bathroom cleaning. I think it really is a room to room battle for me. I have doors that separate the hall, bedrooms and bathroom from the Living-dining-kitchen area. Basically, I live in what many of you would think of as a small motel unit. I live in a 785 square foot place. And, believe it or not, it is worth over 100,000USD. It isn’t the smallest place I’ve lived, but it is the smallest place I’ve tried to live in with a child, and it’s isn’t going well.
The garbage has to be taken out every night or the entire place stinks. In fact, I’m having smell problems from the garbage drawer because I haven’t been able to organise it because of my knee injury. We get very little sunlight in the house because it is on the north-side of a hill facing a fjord. I try to placate myself by mumbling… we’re hobbits….. but it doesn’t work. Especially when I can get my laundry to dry. I bought a dehumidifier this past winter and it has been a life changer. Still doesn’t change the fact that I live burrowed in to the side of a hill in a tiny little matchbox. I’ve given up using my bedroom as a place to sleep and use it just as storage now, and sleep on the sofa.