5 Easy Tips To Clean Your House Surprisingly Fast

Do you spend your entire day off cleaning your home?  Or do you spend a couple of evenings each week frantically cleaning only to be left tired and exhausted after?  According to a recent study conducted by Arm & Hammer Clean & Simple, the average American spends 23 hours and 36 minutes per month cleaning their home.  But there are ways for you to revamp your cleaning so you can take back your days off.  

Doing some simple tweaks to your cleaning routine will help reduce the amount of time spent each month.  Here are 5 easy tips you can do to clean your house surprisingly fast.

1. A Cleaner For Every Room

Keep the cleaners in the rooms where you will use them, if possible.  For example, if you have 3 bathrooms, put a bathroom cleaner, a toilet cleaner and toilet brush in each one.  Don’t forget rags or sponges, and a set of gloves.  When it’s bathroom cleaning day, you’re more likely to get it done when you are in the bathroom and all of the supplies you need are within easy reach.  If you have to go elsewhere to retrieve your supplies, this will not only slow you down, but you may get distracted along the way and not come back to complete the task.

2. Incorporate a Chore Or Two Each Day

We all get so busy during our work week that it’s easy to let chores pile up.  Especially knowing we have the weekend coming up to get our house in order.  But who likes to spend an entire day off cleaning the house?  

A great way to take back your days off is to perform a cleaning chore each day, as opposed to doing them all on one day.  You can spend just a little bit of time every day after dinner, or maybe first thing in the morning if that’s more your style.  Get your family members involved and have them select a few chores they can do each week.

Twenty minutes here and there will work well in your favor when your day off comes around and you’ve already done all of your chores for the week.

Another great way to make this tip even more efficient is to multitask.  Especially with kitchen chores.  Give your fridge a quick clean out, or wipe down all of your small kitchen appliances, while dinner is in the oven.  Clean the bathroom sink while you’re waiting for your shower to heat up.  Which is easy to do now since you keep your bathroom cleaner, gloves, and a rags all within easy reach.  

3. Take Your Stuff With You When You Go

This is the “take it with you” rule.  When you leave a room, survey the room to see what doesn’t belong.  If there is an item that should be in the room you are going to next, grab it and take it with you.  Get all of your family members to practice this simple trick.

4. Clean The Entire House With Each Chore

This tip works great for chores that are performed in every room, like dusting and vacuuming.  For example, while you have the vacuum out to clean the family room, run it through the rest of the house.  That way you don’t have to drag the vacuum out again later.  Or, if your daily chore is to dust, then go through each room with your dusting rag in hand and knock every surface out in one quick shot. 

5. Get Your Chore List Together

If you have so much on your mental “to do” list that it becomes overwhelming and you don’t even know where to begin, then write it down.  Seeing what you need to tackle helps you to get organized and work on one task at a time.  Create a schedule that will keep you on track.  You can make up your own cleaning schedule, or you can get a free monthly cleaning planner/checklist that is full of chores assigned to each day of the week, as well as monthly and quarterly tasks.  

And, if you’re looking for alternative cleaners to you can ditch some of those harsh chemicals, you can check out 10 Things To Clean Using Baking Soda and Vinegar.

Reference:

American Parents Spend a Shocking Amount Of Time Cleaning Each Month – SWNS.