Your home should be the place where you can relax from all the hustle and bustle of life. After all, this is the place that greets you when you wake up in the morning. It is also the one that greets you after a hard day’s work.
With all that said, it is thus important for your overall mental and physical well-being that you try to maintain the tidiness of your home as much as possible.
There are many steps both big and small that you can try to do that will have a significant effect on how long your home remains clean and neat. Below are some tips to help guide you on what you can do to keep a clean home for a long while.
1. Make Your Bed Every Day
Some people think that making their bed every day is a waste of time. They will ask you what’s the point of making a bed when you will mess it up at night of anyway.
What you don’t know is that having a made bed or even the act of making it can boost up your day.
When you wake up to start the day, making your bed should be the first thing you do for two reasons.
One, it gets you into the right mindset to tackle the rest of the day. Starting your day with small tasks like making the bed can help you be more productive throughout the day.
Two, coming back home to a made bed is much more satisfying than coming home to a messy one. The satisfaction of jumping into a clean and a made bed after a long day is much more delightful than crawling back into a messy one.
2. Dispose Your Garbage Regularly
When your garbage bin is full, it can make a place appear messier than it actually is. Plus, the garbage will just pile up one black bag over the other.
If you don’t dispose of your garbage regularly, you can create a home for unwanted critters to rifle through and nestle themselves in. Plus, it’s not hygienic and can be a breeding ground for germs and bacteria.
The act of proper garbage disposal should be a habit in your household so that the leaning tower of garbage doesn’t have to happen.
3. Clean Up Your Countertops
When you’re messing about or doing some cooking in the kitchen, we tend to abuse our countertops plenty of times. The countertops are especially messy when people are cooking in the kitchen.
What a lot of people do is that they leave the mess they made as they were cooking on the countertops. They tend to wait for until they’re done cooking and eating before they decide to clean the countertops.
The better practice is that you clean the counters as you cook so that you don’t have to deal with cleaning up the counter when you have dishes to deal with after you’re done eating. It’s a simple principle that can help reduce the mess you deal with.
4. Wash the Dishes and Clean the Sink
Speaking of having to deal with the dishes, another thing that a lot of homeowners do is that they leave their dishes in the sink or the dishwasher after they eat. Although they leave it there, they don’t do any sort of cleaning whatsoever, leaving it for the next day.
Once you’re done eating, it’s all a matter of loading the dishes in the dishwasher and turning it on to clean. For those without dishwashers, don’t leave the dishes in a tub to soak when you can clean it right then and there.
Studies have shown that washing dishes can be a bit of a stress reliever so that’s one perk aside from cleanliness to reap from washing dishes.
Don’t forget to clean and scrub the sink as well when you’re done washing the dishes.
5. Do Your Laundry Daily
Plenty of people do their laundry on a weekly basis, so a lot of us tend to have to deal with a mountain of laundry during the weekends.
Doing your laundry isn’t how you should spend the only days you have to relax so you might want to switch to doing your laundry daily. You might think that doing your laundry daily means you’d have to be doing a lot more laundry than you’d want, but you might actually be doing less than you’d think.
The rule is that you only start a load that you are able to wash, dry, and fold on the same day. If you can’t do that with the load, then you may need to have a smaller load.
Don’t be afraid to do this. When you switch to doing your laundry daily, you’ll find that you don’t spend a chunk of your rest days scrubbing away at your dirty clothes.
6. Vacuum Once a Week
As you might observe, when you keep practicing small cleaning habits on a more frequent basis, you will find that your home’s cleanliness stays for a longer period of time. Plus, you don’t have to exert more hours and time into doing a deep clean.
With that said, one tiny cleaning habit to add to your cleaning spree is vacuuming once a week. This rule of thumb is for average household that doesn’t have members of the family suffering from dust allergies.
If there are particularly high-traffic areas, then these should be vacuumed twice a week if possible, especially if there are people with dust allergies in the home.
7. Clean Your Fridge Regularly
Even though the refrigerator is where we keep our food items, a lot of people still manage to neglect the fridge. The reason why a lot of people do this may be because not a lot of people know how often to clean a fridge.
You should wipe your fridge down daily for any spills. Every week, you should toss away unwanted or expired food. Lastly, you should have it deep cleaned occasionally.
8. Store Your Shoes Properly
Another simple way to make your home tidier is through proper storage of shoes. Leaving them lying around right by the door can make the entrance look shoddy and unclean so you should have a shoe holder in place right by the door.
Aside from that, keeping shoe holders in bedrooms is also recommended. Properly storing your shoes will make them last longer. Plus, they make the house look spiffier than when they’re just left lying around.
9. Declutter and Organize Your Stuff
Even if you don’t wipe away dirt or don’t have time to clean your home, a solid decluttering and organizing session can go a long way into making your home much neater than it was before.
Rearranging your home and putting things back where they belong can have significant effects on the overall tidiness of your home.
Getting into the habit of putting things back where they belong right after you use them is an important habit that helps maintain your home’s cleanliness.
Small actions can have large effects on our lives without us knowing. Just by doing these small tips listed above, you may find that your home stays clean for longer than it would have before. Start doing them today so that you can reap the benefits of a clean home sooner.
