Lawnmower. Do an intense scrub of the entire floor or whatever. Just assume the whole thing is dirty. This takes longer, but is cognitively easier as you're not trying to figure out or guess what's dirty. Put on an audiobook and put some elbow grease into the whole thing. Sounds like you have some pretty decent vision (by my standards), so you can use that to inspect and touch up when you're done. There's always like one spot that gets missed and sighted people get bent out of shape over it.

My mom has always been meticulous about having stuff clean. She's been 100% blind for over 40 years and has never had help, even worse when I was a child still living there! Sure she misses crumbs in the kitchen or a hair in the bathroom. But it's nothing different than any other house I would walk into. Don't be so hard on yourself--if you just clean the best you can and don't worry about it being perfect. She recently got one of the robot vacuums and she loves it.

I would just back up everything Amonwilde said. It's all about being thorough. Come up with a schedule for how often things should be clean and do a total clean of them on that schedule. If a sighted person looks down at their toilet and says, o that's dirty, I should clean it, they are not doing it right. With the toilet the idea is to clean it often enough and well enough so that it does not get to that point.

This is at least the ideal. It takes a little more work for us to keep things clean, but with that little bit of extra time a blind person’s home can be just as clean as anyone else’s home.



Good luck,

I kinda wish I could get a slightly wider broom/mop, just to increase the overlap between sweeps. But even without, just covering everything should do it. If you aren't doing it this way already, it's better to sweep/mop in something resembling rows, so you have a line of dirt in front of you that you're pulling toward the other side of the room, then sweep that into the corner where the dustpan or exit is. A common thing people do is to sweep everything toward some arbitrary spot, possibly leaving a phone or radio there so they can hear it, but IME, you're less likely to miss anything if you do it in rows toward a corner or other straightforward divider. In practice, I usually aim for the exit of the room. In rooms where this is more complicated (say, there's a large rug and you don't move it for some reason), this is harder, but it's fine for kitchens, bathrooms, hallways, etc, in my experience.

For the toilet, I use those little things you drop in the back of the tank and that keeps it clean enough. Rarely, I'll do scrubbing bubbles or something on the toilet, sink, and tub, but that's a LOT rarer.

For mopping, it's easiest with a swiffer or something similar, and you use it like you would if you were sweeping. Go in a little grid, left to right, then move down the width of the swiffer, then left to right again, repeating, then I turn and go front to back, swapping out the cloth in between.

You can also sweep like that, to get all the dirt in one area. Then, when it's done, dump the dustpan and run a swiffer or clorox wipe over the floor to pick up anything you missed.