When you live a busy life, one of the first things that can take a wayward turn is your house. It’s so easy for it to get messy, with things like plates building up in the sink, the vacuuming needing doing and the dusting being forgotten. This can soon build up and clutter can be everywhere and you can find you feel miserable coming home and don’t enjoy spending time in your house. If you find it has got to this point, or if you’re worried it is heading this way, it’s time to nip it in the bud. In this article we take a look at some top tips for keeping your house clean when you live a busy life.
Ensure everything has its place
The first thing you need to do when keeping your house clean is ensure everything has a place. When you are cleaning up, you should make sure there is enough storage, so you can put things away easily and things don’t get shoved in random places. Add things like labels to show everyone where items should be put away and get rid of clutter so it’s easier than ever to keep things organized. It can be easy to accumulate items over time and just keep things that no longer serve purpose.
Do a small clean every day
While it can be difficult when you’re tired and worn out after a long day, if you try and do a small clean every day, it will be a lot less painful than leaving it to build up over the week, leading to a huge clean needed at the weekend. Just a quick half hour blitz every evening where you wipe surfaces down, run the vacuum over your floors and put things away can make a real difference and help to make your home feel a lot more manageable.
Find tools that can help keep it clean and tidy
When trying to keep your house clean, one of the best things you can do is find tools that can help you to keep it that way. For example, if you want to keep the exterior of your house clean, gutter guards can be brilliant for keeping it free of dirt and debris clogging your pipes. You could get a robotic vacuum which can automatically clean your floors, or an electric cleaning brush which can make scrubbing your bathroom or kitchen so much easier and give a lot better results than you would otherwise too!
Don’t neglect the hidden areas
One thing that can be easily missed when you are keeping your home clean are the hidden areas. These are the spots you might not go in as much, or areas you just don’t see. Remember to tidy in places such as underneath your furniture (like your sofa or sets of drawers), dust on top of units and inside your fireplace. You also need to give things like your oven, microwave and fridge a deep clean every month or so to keep them working as effectively as they are meant to and make your home feel much nicer at the same time.
Hire some help
If you find you are doing all of the above tips and more, yet still aren’t having the time to clean, or perhaps you are not having the time to enjoy your life, it could be time to look into having a cleaner. A cleaner could come in for you to do a spruce up every day, or you could hire them to come in once a month and do a big, deep clean, then you just need to do a top up each day. These don’t need to be overly expensive but can be a real help if you just don’t have the time to keep your house to the standard you want.
These are just a few things you can do that can help keep your house clean and tidy when you have a busy life. It can be difficult to keep on top of it when you have things like a job and a family, but it’s much less cumbersome to get it all done as you go, as opposed to leaving it all To build up until it is completely unmanageable. What are some top tips you have for keeping your house clean when you live a busy life? Let us know in the comments below, we’d love to hear from you.
