A house should be a peaceful, tidy, cleanly place for you to come home to everyday and relax. Here’s how you keep it that way.
Setting your day up
Setting yourself up for a productive day starts with making your bed. Get into the habit of making your bed right after waking up. By doing this, you have already completed the first step in keeping your home tidy and organised.
Vacuuming
Vacuuming every week is probably your best option. Remember to use the little tube on the side to get hard to reach areas like right under cabinets. If you don’t want to spend time vacuuming, get a robot to do it for you. A few more things people tend to forget about when vacuuming are the stairs and the couches. Make sure to lift up the pillows on a couch and give it a good vacuum every once in a while.
Bathrooms
For mirrors, the counter, and toilet (not the inside of the bowl) you can use Windex and a clean cloth rag. For showers, use Comet (the type that has bleach) for the tub part. To unclog a drain: pour boiling water down the drain, pour 1/2 cup of baking soda down the drain (wait 3 minutes), pour half a cup of vinegar and 1/2 a cup of boiling water then cover the drain (wait 15 minutes), rinse with boiling water. For toilet bowls, you use toilet bowl cleaner (pretty self-explanatory) with a toilet bowl brush. Make sure with toilet bowls you get around the rim too. Try to clean your bathroom every two weeks.
Kitchen
Simple Green is a gift from the heavens when it comes to kitchen cleaning. Use it to clean all counters, stovetops, and greasy pots and pans. For any stainless steel, make sure you use stainless steel cleaner otherwise you’ll leave streaks - or worse: scratches. Remember to clean out the inside of the microwave, toaster, oven, sink, and coffee machine every once in a while too. One last thing people often forget is the drain of their dishwasher. This can get clogged very easily and stop your dishwasher from working. Reach down underneath the bottom rack of the dishwasher and there should be a mesh drain you can pull out and empty.
Trash
Fun fact about trash, if you throw something in the trash that smells bad, it still smells. Don’t dump fish, raw meat, rotting/moldy food, etc. in your indoor trashcan, take it outside or everything will smell wherever the trashcan is. Take the trash out whenever necessary, don’t let it pile up. Squishing it down to fit more in can only work for so long.
Dusting
For wood, dust with a little bit of lemon oil once in the while. It’ll make everything smell nice and oils your wood, which is good for it. But only once in a while and only a little bit of oil. It can get streaky if you don’t rub it in well enough and can collect dust if you use too much of it. For everything else, use a microfiber cloth or a duster. Make sure you lift things off of shelves to dust instead of dusting around them. Try to dust once every two weeks.
Gardening
No one’s asking you to be a botanist, but if you’re going to have a plant, make sure you know how much light and water it’s supposed to have. And remember to water it. It really isn’t that hard.
Vacuuming
Vacuuming every week is probably your best option. Remember to use the little tube on the side to get hard to reach areas like right under cabinets. If you don’t want to spend time vacuuming, get a robot to do it for you. A few more things people tend to forget about when vacuuming are the stairs and the couches. Make sure to lift up the pillows on a couch and give it a good vacuum every once in a while.
Bathrooms
For mirrors, the counter, and toilet (not the inside of the bowl) you can use Windex and a clean cloth rag. For showers, use Comet (the type that has bleach) for the tub part. To unclog a drain: pour boiling water down the drain, pour 1/2 cup of baking soda down the drain (wait 3 minutes), pour half a cup of vinegar and 1/2 a cup of boiling water then cover the drain (wait 15 minutes), rinse with boiling water. For toilet bowls, you use toilet bowl cleaner (pretty self-explanatory) with a toilet bowl brush. Make sure with toilet bowls you get around the rim too. Try to clean your bathroom every two weeks.
Kitchen
Simple Green is a gift from the heavens when it comes to kitchen cleaning. Use it to clean all counters, stovetops, and greasy pots and pans. For any stainless steel, make sure you use stainless steel cleaner otherwise you’ll leave streaks - or worse: scratches. Remember to clean out the inside of the microwave, toaster, oven, sink, and coffee machine every once in a while too. One last thing people often forget is the drain of their dishwasher. This can get clogged very easily and stop your dishwasher from working. Reach down underneath the bottom rack of the dishwasher and there should be a mesh drain you can pull out and empty.
Trash
Fun fact about trash, if you throw something in the trash that smells bad, it still smells. Don’t dump fish, raw meat, rotting/moldy food, etc. in your indoor trashcan, take it outside or everything will smell wherever the trashcan is. Take the trash out whenever necessary, don’t let it pile up. Squishing it down to fit more in can only work for so long.
Dusting
For wood, dust with a little bit of lemon oil once in the while. It’ll make everything smell nice and oils your wood, which is good for it. But only once in a while and only a little bit of oil. It can get streaky if you don’t rub it in well enough and can collect dust if you use too much of it. For everything else, use a microfiber cloth or a duster. Make sure you lift things off of shelves to dust instead of dusting around them. Try to dust once every two weeks.
Gardening
No one’s asking you to be a botanist, but if you’re going to have a plant, make sure you know how much light and water it’s supposed to have. And remember to water it. It really isn’t that hard.
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