Vacuum the sofa
Vacuuming a sofa gives almost no visible reward. The crumbs sit down in the seams, and when everything is done the sofa looks much as it did before. The pictures below make the work measurable even when the result does not show.
♀Vacuum the sofa
A person kneels on a blue sofa vacuuming the seat with a handheld vacuum.
♀Vacuum the sofa
A person vacuums a blue sofa with a handheld vacuum.
♀Vacuum up the crumbs
A person vacuums crumbs from a beige sofa with a handheld vacuum.
About this visual support
Motivation rests on seeing the effect of what you do, and the sofa is a poor example of that. A sink gets empty, a floor gets clean, but a sofa looks the same before and after, however carefully the work was done. That makes the task hard to finish with a sense of success, and easy to postpone because nobody notices if it is skipped.
Visual support replaces the visible result with a visible process. Pictures of the cushions, the seams and the underside let the work be ticked off part by part, and what is finished shows even when the sofa has not changed.
A concrete tip is to lift the cushions off first and put them on the floor. The work then becomes concrete, and what turns up underneath is usually motivation enough. In Routined the sofa can sit as a step in the weekly cleaning, and the app can be tried for fourteen days at no cost.
Use this image in a schedule
Build your own visual schedule with this image and download it as a print-ready PDF. Completely free.
More similar visual supports
Chores
Close view of a girl who is hanging up washing, rinsing a sponge in the sink and...
Clean the sofa
A smiling person in a yellow t-shirt sprays a blue three-seater sofa with a gree...
Dust baseboards
A person dusts a baseboard with a duster.
Dust furniture
A girl in a blue shirt dusts a wooden nightstand with a yellow feather duster.
Mop the floor clean
A smiling child mops the floor with a mop and a yellow bucket beside them.
Take out the trash
A smiling child lifts the lid of a trash can and drops a black trash bag inside.
Throw away trash
A woman drops a crumpled ball of paper into a grey bin with an open lid.
Clean cage
A woman with brown hair, wearing a blue t-shirt and green gloves, cleans a hamst...
Take the visual supports with you
In Routined you build schedules from these pictures, add timers and voice instructions, and your child follows the day on their own.
* 14-day free trial included for new users.