The average American spends a significant amount of time cleaning their home each week, and while hiring a cleaning company is one of the most effective ways to reduce that time and enjoy a hygienically clean home, for those who want to do their own cleaning – or for chores needing to be done in between professional cleaning visits – here are 7 great ways to save a little time while doing so:
- Start at the top and work your way down
This is the absolute best way to stop yourself from having to spend so long cleaning, especially re-cleaning. If you firstly clean the floors, and then clean the light fixtures and ceiling, for example, you’ll have to clean the floors again to get rid of the dust and debris that will inevitably have fallen down.
So, clean from the top of a room and work your way down, to save yourself a whole heap of wasted time and energy.
- Use an all-purpose cleaner
Having a multi-purpose cleaning solution (check whether it can be used on all surfaces in the home first) can save a lot of time when you’re cleaning each different room in the home. You can even place bottles of it in each of the main rooms, so that you’re not hunting around it for it when you need it, or having to go to a certain place each time you want to use it.
- Use microfiber cloths
Microfiber cloths are the best for picking up dust and dirt, and holding onto it. This can save you a lot of time when cleaning, as you won’t be needing to go around cleaning up what has fallen from your duster or cloth, onto the floor and other surfaces.
- Clean a little every day
Setting aside a few minutes out of your day for cleaning, every day, will help you feel like you’ve got less of a mountain to climb when it comes to the weekend, or other days and times that you might otherwise have been forced to spend time cleaning. You’d be surprised how much you can get done in less than 15 minutes if you focus and really put your mind to it.
- Become an expert at delegating
Asking for others in the household to help you keep the place clean, doesn’t have to be an excuse for you not to do it, but can certainly help when you’re pushed for time. After all, not every mess in the home is caused by you, right? So why should it be your sole responsibility to clean up after everybody else? Even small children can learn to pull their weight around the home, and if you make the experience fun for them, they’re much less likely to complain the next time you ask them to help, or when you give them chores that they must complete each day, or week.
- Clean as you go
You might not feel like cleaning up, or tidying away after yourself right away, particularly if it’s the end of what has been a long, hard day, but doing so will prove beneficial in the long run. By tackling spillages as they happen, cleaning up messes when you make them, and putting things back where they belong when you’ve finished with them, you can prevent yourself from being faced with long and arduous cleaning sessions in your spare time.
- Maintain your home regularly
Ultimately, by keeping on top of cleaning in a regular way, you can save yourself many hours of cleaning over the course of a week or month. By taking the time to clean up after yourself, and not leaving dirt and grime in situ for days on end, your free time can be used for far more pleasurable things.
For anyone who isn’t quite ready to hand over the cleaning reins to a professional company, or for those wanting to keep their home clean and tidy between visits from a cleaning service, the above tips can help you save time that can be put to much better use.
