A clutter-less home makes up for a clutter-less mind. However, with trying to balance a modern work lifestyle, personal and fitness routines, home mai...
A clutter-less home makes up for a clutter-less mind. However, with trying to balance a modern work lifestyle, personal and fitness routines, home maintenance often gets pushed down the list and ignored. But the same busy modern lifestyle has birthed some smart and efficient technology, developing home-cleaning appliances that have made it a little easier on us. Here are further 10 home cleaning tips to help you maintain your houses’ image as you intend it to:
Laundry
Honestly, most of us fear laundry day, after all, it's not easy work. And like every large chore, it is easier to do when you divide it into smaller chores. Do your laundry every day, instead of having it pile into a mountain of clothes. This will not only make sure you have clean clothes to wear every day but also keep your house free of stray socks, t-shirts, and more. Keep an organized laundry basket, get your favorite fabric cleaner, and pop your clothes into your washing machine before you go to work. Make sure to fold back every day's laundry and restore them before you sleep.
Clean As You Go
Similarly, like laundry day, don’t push off your complete house cleaning to the weekend or one day. It is way more time-effective and efficient to micro-clean on a daily basis. That is when you wake up, before leaving your bedroom, dispose of any of yesterday’s wrappers, make your bed and then leave the room. After having breakfast, leave the utensils to be cleaned in your dishwasher, stack up the ingredients that you took out for cooking, and so on. This will help you keep your entire house clean throughout the week, increase your physical activity, and even reduce the pent-up workload.
Pick Your Bits of Paper up
Too many sheets of ‘I might need this later’ pile up into a massive pile of unnecessary and important mail and flyers that you procrastinate tending to. Sort your mail on a daily basis. Leave the papers you don’t need for recycling, Separate your urgent mails and paperwork that you need to deal with in a limited time. Maintain a sturdy file for your important papers and documents. Deal with every loose paper lying around your house. This way you don’t have to lose your mind the next time you cannot remember where you last left them.
A Cleaning Routine
The best way to build a habit and get work done is to maintain a routine. If you have a busy schedule, you can try and add a minimum of 15 minutes of light cleaning work at night before you go to bed. Wake up with a less-cluttered surrounding and a refreshed body and mind. For people with minimal physical activity during the day, even a time-limited heavy cleaning routine can do wonders.
Keeping Areas Clean, that are More Prone to Getting Dirty
Your kitchen or storeroom will not see as much traffic as your living room or dining room. Assess the high traffic areas of your house. Keep doormats for every room. If you have pets, keep a cloth at the entrance areas to wipe their paws down before they enter the house. Make sure all your house members leave their shoes at a certain point of the house, to avoid getting dirt farther. Even if you tend to vacuum your low-traffic areas once in three days, make sure to set aside some time from your daily routine to clean these areas.
Cleaning Greasy Kitchen Cabinets and Walls
A clean organized kitchen with greased-up walls and cabinets will bum you out. You can easily tend to the stubborn grease build. Heat a damp cloth, spray a quality cleaner on the grease and get wiping. Once you have tackled the grease, you can use orange oil or other supplements to retain the shine of the wooden cabinets.
Dealing with Your Pet’s Furry Problems
We love our little dog and feline friends but their constant leaving of fur on your furniture and clothes can be tough to deal with. You will find many utilities online that provide easy-effective solutions for our furry friends. You can also make a homemade solution where you wrap a paint roller roll with duct tape and then roll it around your sofa, cushions, and clothes and clear the fur off.
Stack up Your Home Cleaning Supplies
You don’t have to necessarily invest in too many home cleaning supplies. You do not have to keep your house maintained and clean every day like that of one in a magazine cover. Although a more effective measure is to keep a small stack of simple cleaning supplies in every room. So in case, there is some spillage, your mirror or glass table cover gets dirty, and for any other immediate problem, you can easily tend to them right at the moment. This may prevent you from procrastinating the task.
Distributing Work
Your entire house cleaning shouldn’t be your sole task. If you live alone, hiring help may be wise when you feel that home maintenance is becoming too much work. If you live with your partner, other family members, or roommates, make sure to distribute the cleaning work equally. You can assign everyone a particular cleaning work and for the younger members of the family, incentivizing the work will help. While cleaning your house alone may seem like a burden, cleaning it together may turn out to be quite fun.
Eliminate Rust
Invest in some quality rust cleaning solutions that are effective in removing rust from your utensils as well as bathroom and other commodities. Try to keep a protective sheet over the house appliances you can and are more prone to catch rust. Otherwise, there are plenty of rust cleaning solutions that can help you dissolve rust in a matter of mere minutes.
Keep these 10 tips in mind to have a cleaner home by the end of the day. Try out different house cleaning ways, routines, and habits and see what suits you the best. Declutter and organize your house and as a result, also tend to your mental wellness. Sleeping on clean sheets and a clean room will not only give you a fulfilling night of sleep but also help you deal with anxiety, stress, and other issues.
