Five smart home cleanliness tips
By: Vandana Aswal
Tags: Home Decor, Home Improvement, Home Maintenance, Tips, Cleaning

Home cleanliness

“Home isn’t a place; it’s a feeling,” they say and how true. A home is a place with a feeling of togetherness. We touch and be touched, and there’s a feeling of ownness — be it with people or things, and like many other things, even cleanliness begins at home. Cleaning and maintaining your house can be challenging, time-consuming, and difficult, but that doesn’t give us a reason not to do it. So, here are five nifty home cleanliness tips that might work wonders for you.

1. Maintain your cleaning supplies — Your cleaning brushes, scrubbers, mop, dusters should be cleaned and dried after every use. If not, they might make the place more smelly with the foul damp smell and even filled with bacteria. We often don’t pay attention to these particulars, but they matter a lot.

While using the Vacuum cleaner, do empty the bag of dirt, clean the filter, and the rotating brush after each use and wipe it clean regularly. Your cleaning supplies are your companion here; they make the whole cleaning process less difficult for you, so take good care of them.

2. Be organized at all times — It will be beneficial for you if you and other people in the house make it a point to keep things from where they take it. This way, your corners of the house won’t get messy, and any time you have to clean, at least one of the many chores is covered.

Also, be organized with your tools. Keep them always handy in a basket or a box. Keep a microfiber cloth, scrub brush, all-purpose cleaner, wood cleaner, glass cleaner, latex gloves, and a small scrub brush or toothbrush. These are always required.

3. In the Kitchen, Clean as You Cook — Especially for a woman, Kitchen chores tale most of their day time regularly. So for that, be it a habit to always clean as you cook. Throw away unwanted things like vegetable peels, fruit peels, wrappers, etc., do the dishes that are used in the preparation of the meal, wipe down the countertops, keep everything in their places. These little things add up to a lot, you’ll realize.

Usually, we keep these work for later, after giving everyone to eat and eating ourselves. I feel clumsy after eating, and I’d rather sit and relax after. So, you do the same, and you’ll explore how you are also saving yourself a lot of time.

4. Practice Prevention — I mean it, if you make it a habit to clean your place even with just a little effort, it can prevent bigger messes that can add up to make things feel cluttered and hectic. Give your floor a gentle sweep throughout the week and get rid of all the dust. Place a doormat outside your front door and wipe your shoes every time you enter the house. After you brush your teeth, clean the bathroom sink to avoid toothpaste drying in place or other stains. Little habits like these add up, make your life simpler, and remember, the more of them, the better. These simple tricks, if kept in mind, can ease the pain of deep cleaning.

5. Go hacking while cleaning — The last point to keep in mind is always to try to make cleaning easier with hacks, which sums up quick cleaning: less effort but more results. So, below are few life-saving hacks for all of us -

Try cleaning windows with old newspapers using soapy water. Just wash the window with soapy water and then buff with scrunched-up paper. It will make your windows squeaky clean.

Instead of spending money on dry cleaning your carpets, use vinegar with baking soda for it. These two ingredients are great kitchen cleaners. All you’ve got to do is sprinkle baking soda on the carpet and then spray vinegar over it. Let it sit for at least an hour and then vacuum it. That’s it! It saves you time and money.

Our young members of the family tend to leave their marks of creativity on the walls. But that shouldn’t be a problem for us anymore. Remove those pencils and crayon marks by just wiping the walls clean with a magic eraser. Alternatively, you can also use borax to clean the stain. Mix 1 spoon of borax with a cup of warm water and pour it on the affected dirty area and wipe it clean with a microfiber cloth. Tada!

Quick Note: Before using it on the marks, make sure that the paint doesn’t come off by testing it on some portion of the wall.

For Cleaner Laundry, add 4–5 tbsp of borax to your laundry, and you have cleaner, stain-free, and better-smelling clothes than ever. Borax doesn’t clean your clothes but your washing machine as well. Isn’t that great?

Remove Hard Water Rust Stains from taps, buckets, tiles using borax.

Clean your silver jewellery using vinegar. 1 tbsp of water, 1 tbsp vinegar, and 2–3 drops of dish soap and let your jewellery sit in this mixture for around 15–30 minutes. Then with a brush, gently remove all the dirt.

You can easily clean greasy areas in the kitchen with a thick paste of baking soda and water. Then, spray vinegar all over it. Let it sit for 10 mins. Wipe it off with a sponge — squeaky clean.

These were some of the many ways to make your life simpler when it comes to cleaning your house. It’s a never-ending task. I hope these points help!.