Keeping your home spick and span when you lead a busy life and have a hectic schedule can be tough, and some folks prefer to leave it all for a spring clean. However, even if your home is small, a spring clean can take up a lot of time and energy, and you may not be able to get it all done in a day. Breaking your spring cleaning tasks down into more manageable ones is a great idea, and while you won’t get your entire home clean in one day, you should be able to achieve good results over a few days, and certainly less than a week.
So here are a few tips for making the spring cleaning process quicker and easier for busy folks:
- Write a check list:
You can begin with a main list of every area of your home that you would like to clean and try to break it down into separate sections that are easier to tackle over smaller periods of time. For instance, you might want to tackle your oven one day, and your kitchen cupboards another day. It will of course depend entirely on how much time you have, and if you can get the whole kitchen done in an afternoon, so much the better.
- Use your diary or daily planner:
It may sound simple but noting down each cleaning task that you want to get finished on a certain day, will help motivate you and you’ll doubtless feel guilty if you spot that a task has been missed! It will also help remind you of what exactly it is that you want to achieve.
- Get other members of the household involved:
Whether you have family members sharing your home, or friends, it makes sense to have them take some responsibility for keeping the home clean, and even the laziest or busiest of people can manage to complete a few cleaning tasks in their spare time.
- Give yourself an incentive!
Tell yourself that once the days tasks are done and dusted (literally!), you can allow yourself some time to do something that you enjoy, whether it be visiting a good friend for a chat over a glass of wine or indulging in a tasty treat in front of your favourite television program, whatever gets you motivated and will encourage you to get tings clean, quicker!
- Get everything done in a day:
For some, the only way to get their home truly clean and as quickly as possible, is to blitz it from top to bottom and get it done in a day. This may mean that one day a month is spent cleaning, but depending on your schedule this may work better, and means that less time needs to be spent on cleaning when you’re at your busiest or least motivated.
One spring cleaning tip would be to let someone else do it for you, then your schedule can continue to be as jam-packed as you need it to be! Cleaning companies will work around you, your schedule and your lifestyle, and will come in and clean your home while you’re at work if you wish.