Do it systematically start from the walls and sweep into the center and after you swept everything to the center, grab your dustpan and sweep the floor crumbs into it and pour it into the trash.

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I'd recommend a Roomba if you can. I have a cleaning crew that comes in twice a week to help me out.


You can also vaccuum your floor instead! It's much easier.

This is how I learned to do it at one of the independence training centers in the United States.
Always try to work toward a wall or something solid. I always do the wall because it’s a permanent fixture.
Prop your dustpan up against that wall. Start from a ways back, and, using your body as the centerpoint, use your broom and sweep from out to your left back towards your feet. Do the same on your right side, bringing the broom as far as you can to the right, and then sweeping it back towards your feet. I sweep mine directly in front of my feet.
Then, when that is done, and you’ve gone over it maybe another time for accuracy, put the broom between your toes and the pile, and move it forward a few inches.
Rinse, repeat.
Editing because I forgot to add the last step. Once you reach the wall, move the dustpan all the way over to one side, and then all you have to do is sweep directly along the wall until all the stuff is in the dustpan.

Hope this helps!

Use a Swifer that catches a lot of the dirt and sweep in a systematic pattern or grid, once going across the room and again going up and down it. Make sure to get under counters , tables, and furniture. Also do it barefoot and wipe off your feet every now and then so you can still feel where the dirt is. If you can do it weekly, that will make it easier, but monthly will do if that's all the time you have. Mopping is the same, just try not to walk back over the wet parts and you only have to do one go across the room in a grid instead of two.

It depends on how confident you are with a broom. For me, before I had someone to show me how to do it properly I used a hand brush and just crawled around on my hands and knees. Sounds tedious, but if you move in a grid pattern it’s pretty easy to tell if you miss things. Just sweep all of the dirt you can find into a pile, and have a dust pan ready to collect it when you’re done. Cut your room into quadrants and clean one quadrant at a time. This next tip is a bit more expensive but works really well. Again it involves being on your hands and knees if you’re not confident with a broom, but putting a dry swiffer pad on your hand is a very good way of cleaning the floor.

I generally don't, but if I did, I would sweep from back to front and then open the door and sweep it out. I use a swiffer instead. There are the wet pads and the dry ones. The dry ones are supposed to get dirt and stuff up because it bonds to the pad with static charge or something. The wet pads you use to get it clean. I move the garbage can to the exit of the kitchen, then go to the other side and swiffer from there back to the garbage can so I don't end up walking in the stuff. I throw the pad away, put the swiffer there beside it and wait until the floor dries then move everything back where it belongs.

I totally feel this though. Everyone is always like “you missed a spot!” and I’m like “I don’t see anything! Where!?” So I’m screwed when I live alone... I refuse to use a vacuum. They kind of scare me

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I'd recommend you vacuum the floor rather than sweep it. Its just simpler. Also, if you're wanting to mop, a steam mop would be what I'd suggest, as you're not contending with a mop bucket and messy squeezy mop.