Cleaning Tips

This week the topic is Cleaning Tips.

If you have been reading my blog for a while, you will know that I love to clean. I think the end result drives me to clean a lot!! Here are some rules that I live by!

1. With it being just Kevin and I, it makes it so easy to want your house perfect all the time. With no kids to mess it up, I really get used to it staying clean. But it does get dirty, I usually do a thorough cleaning every two weeks, which includes dusting, sweeping and cleaning the bathroom and kitchen really well. In between my thorough cleanings I will pick up every day. Usually on my work mornings I do not get the whole house picked up. I have noticed the better my house looks before I go to bed, the better my morning goes! It is so refreshing to have a clean/organized home. It makes like so much sweeter!

2. I always wash my sheets in hot water once a week. That is the best night to crawl into bed!

3. I am big on keeping my home organized. Everything in your house has a home. Basically every item in your house should have a designated place, so that when you go through your clean up routine each day it will be very easy. Otherwise, you will not know where to put some items then they will end up staying on "that pile!"I always keep all my counters empty of "odds n ends" that do not belong there! Sometimes on my busy days I do not get my clean up done, but then I will always get to it the next day. Never let it go more than a week without getting your home back into order. I think once it goes on for that long, it is so much harder to get it back into order.

4. I think that if things are picked up and everything has been freshly swept, it really looks so clean. So if you do not have much time, I think those two things make the biggest difference!!!

5. I love cleaner's with bleach, it makes things so much cleaner!

6. I go through and clean out my fridge at least once every 2 weeks, it helps to keep it manageable!

7. When I have one drawer that is bothering me and it needs to be organized, I try to get to it that week. If not they can get out of hand, and it's not as bad to do one at a time than to do them all at once! A little each day makes a world of a difference at the end of a month!!

10 Things I love about cleaning!

1. Freshly washed bathroom rugs laid on a freshly cleaned floor!

2. The smell.

3. How shiny a window looks after its been cleaned.

4. The feeling I get when I walk into that clean room.

5. It is very rewarding.

6. It is a stress reliever for me.

7. Trying new cleaning products.

8. Hearing my hubby say "Wow, the house smells clean."

9. When it gets old, take a break.

10. Getting cleaning tips!

Happy Cleaning!