3 Secrets of People with Flawlessly Clean Houses
3 Secrets of People with Flawlessly Clean Houses by
Apartment Therapy.com
You know the type. It doesn't matter
if you're at their home for an event or just dropping by for an unannounced
visit — their homes are always impeccably clean (and seemingly effortlessly).
What do they know that you don't? We share three secrets of the impeccably
clean.
1.
It's easier to keep it clean continuously, than try to clean something that's
gone off the rails
What sounds more overwhelming:
Giving your counter tops a quick swipe after just cooking a meal, or trying to
clean a kitchen that hasn't been cleaned for a week's worth of cooked meals?
Though in the moment — the lazy, tempting moment — it might feel like no big
deal to leave those dishes/dirt/pile for tomorrow. But too many until-laters
and you find yourself with a house that feels too stressful to tackle. But
doing the small things throughout the day and week — putting things back up
when you're done with them, cleaning up as you go — takes up less time overall
and feels much more manageable. Doing this — plus keeping to a regular cleaning
schedule — will leave you with a company-ready clean home that you can
enjoy more often.
2.
They know more stuff means more to clean
In the very literal sense, more
stuff in your home means more things to clean. More things cluttering your
kitchen counter tops, the more things collecting dust and greasy kitchen grime.
The more knickknacks on your tabletops, the more things you've got to move just
to swipe. Even the more furniture you have means the more shoving, pushing and
moving out of the way you've got to do to get a thorough cleaning job done. You
don't have to live in an empty home to keep it flawlessly clean all the time,
but if you're having trouble keeping a specific room or a certain area clean
regularly, you might want to examine what you can live without and whether
there's anything you can remove to make cleaning regularly easier.
3.
They know how to fake it better than you do
They know that even the best of us
have weeks (sometimes months) where it's difficult to deep clean everything,
every time. But folks who have homes that always seem clean pull off the
appearance of cleanliness sometimes by simply knowing the best places to give
their limited time and energy to so the whole home feels cleaner (even if not
every square inch has recently been scrubbed).
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