Sunday Reset Checklist
Six blocks and twenty-three lines that put the house back together before the week starts — rooms, kitchen, laundry and bedding, floors, plan the week, and one extra you pick. Tick as you go, pause the timer whenever you like, and a fresh copy is waiting next Sunday. A week counts towards the streak at 80 per cent ticked.
Your reset list
Everything below is a suggestion. Edit a line, delete what doesn't apply to your house, add the two things only you would think of. It's your list after the first change.
Most households land between an hour and a half and two hours. The first run always takes longer — that's the backlog, not you.
Doing it on a Tuesday? Start it anyway. It files under this week either way.
0 of 0 ticked
Finish whenever you've had enough. A part-done reset still counts — whatever's left simply waits for next week.
How the reset runs
The list opens with six blocks and twenty-three lines — reset the rooms, kitchen, laundry and bedding, floors, plan the week, and one extra you choose. Every line can be edited, deleted or added to, and the list you end up with is the one that comes back next week; the blocks are a starting point rather than a standard. There is no scoring and nothing is timed against a target. The timer counts the minutes you are actually working and stops when you pause it, so the figure it reports is your time rather than an estimate of ours.
The week is keyed to the Sunday it belongs to. Whatever day you open the page, the tool works back to the most recent Sunday and files everything under that date, which is why a reset run on a Saturday morning and one run on the Tuesday after both count for the same week. When a new week arrives your ticks clear on their own and the week you just finished is archived — if you got anything done. A week nobody touched leaves no row behind, because the history strip is a record of the resets that happened rather than a ledger of the ones that did not.
The streak counts back from the current week, or from last week if this one is not logged yet, and a week only counts if you ticked at least 80 per cent of your own list. That threshold is ours, and it is set below a hundred deliberately: a reset where you skipped the mopping is a reset, and a streak that breaks over one line is a streak nobody keeps. The last twelve weeks are kept and older ones are dropped. All of it lives in this browser's local storage, so the page reopens where you left it, and clearing your browser data clears the history. There is no account.
Every figure above was read out of the code that runs on this page. Where a number is our own judgement rather than a published one, the note says so and cites nothing. Method last checked 21 August 2026.
Why the Sunday reset works
The Sunday reset works for a reason that has very little to do with cleaning harder. It is a closed list on a fixed day — and both halves matter. Closed means the list ends: when the last line is ticked you are finished, even if the windows could do with a wash. Fixed day means you never have to decide when, so the decision that usually eats the whole weekend never gets made.
That is the real saving. Deciding what to clean, in what order, and whether now is the right moment costs more energy than the wiping does. A reset removes all three questions at once. You are not cleaning the house; you are working through twenty-odd lines someone already thought about, and one of those people was you, last Sunday.
It also stops the week from compounding. Most household stress is not one big mess — it is a hundred small unfinished things arriving at Monday together: the laundry basket, the fridge nobody looked in, the permission slip. Clearing them on a fixed day keeps them from stacking, which is why the reset gets easier the more Sundays you run it.
An honest caveat about the numbers: the hour-and-a-half-to-two-hours figure assumes a home that is broadly maintained. If it has been a hard few months, your first run will take three hours or more, and that is the backlog rather than a judgement on you. Trim the list, do the blocks that matter most, and finish anyway — a part-done reset still leaves the house better than it found it, and next Sunday starts from there.
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