Do you like to clean? You may be surprised to learn, that as someone who loves decluttering, I don’t like cleaning. Obviously, I just can’t skip cleaning altogether, so instead, I have found ways to simplify it. Check out the 5 tips below to see how you can spend less time cleaning but still keep your house clean.
Clean as You Go
Instead of keeping a cleaning schedule, clean as you go. The clean as you go strategy is self-explanatory.
- After taking a shower, close the shower curtain and hang up your towel.
- After brushing your teeth, put away your toothbrush and toothpaste and wipe up the counter.
- After eating breakfast, wash your dishes or put them in the dishwasher.
- After working on a hobby, put your supplies away.
- After tracking dirt into the house, sweep it up.
You get the idea. If you let these small things pile up, your house can turn into a mess quickly and you’ll end up spending at least a half of a day cleaning to get everything back in order. Rather, if you clean up your messes as they happen, it will just take a minute or two.
Avoid Specialized Cleaners
Instead of searching through a variety of cleaners and reading to see what surfaces they work on, keep it simple. A rag with some dish soap and water will clean up most messes.
Declutter
Less stuff means less to clean. Check out 4 Tips to Help You Start Removing Clutter for some advice on getting started.
Find “Perfect for You”
Don’t strive to have the perfect house. If cleaning a certain area feels like a never-ending battle, change your idea of perfect.
Reset
At the end of the day make it part of your routine to do a quick walkthrough of your house and reset. This might consist of straightening up the chairs in your living room, folding a blanket, or putting shoes away. This 5 to 10-minute reset will help you to catch anything you might have missed throughout the day. It will also help to make the next day run more smoothly.
Great tips! I like the idea of washing your dishes right after eating. That saves a lot of time, especially since I don’t have a dishwasher.
It does save a ton of time! It is amazing how fast food can harden and get stuck on dishes if we let them sit.
I like the idea of “perfect for you”! I have let a lot of things go over the years when it comes to cleaning. Does anyone even notice?
I don’t think they do!
Ugh, I really need to do the ‘cleaning as you go’ thing, instead of the ‘trying to ignore things until they become huge problems and I get overwhelmed just looking at the mess’ thing, lol.
Thanks for this post!
Haha! I find it to be way better! Try it out in one room, and you’ll notice the difference. 😀
Great tips Suzanne. I love and I implement the first one Clean as you go and it works for me always.
Yay, that is good to hear! It beats spending a whole day playing catch up, doesn’t it?
Absolutely 🙂
I do this already. Thanks for making my day a success 😁😁
Yay!!!😁
Great tips, Suzanne, and I love the idea that less stuff = less to clean! A win-win! 🌞
Yes, it is!