4 Ways to Keep Your House Clean Without Really Trying

Keeping your home clean can often seem like a huge task, but it doesn’t have to be. With these tips in mind you can stay on top of housework, making maintaining a clean and tidy home a breeze.

Get help from the rest of your family

 Trying to keep an entire house clean alone is too big a job for any one person, so get the whole family involved. With the help of your family you can delegate tasks and share chores, helping your family learn important skills like accountability and responsibility while keeping your house clean. Getting family members to help while you clean around the house is a fun way to get housework done, while incorporating it into a family activity.

Another simple way to keep your home tidy with the help of your family is to set weekly housework chores for everyone and keep track of these using a chore chart or a star chart. If necessary you can design rewards for when chores are completed properly. If you have children who are too young to do chores by themselves, they can still join in by helping you out, or assisting under the supervision of another family member. It’s great to get everyone involved.  By enlisting the help of others, and setting a good example for children by giving them responsibility, you can keep your house effortlessly clean with less stress for you.

Get the best tools you can possibly afford

Investing value in the right places really makes a difference, and this definitely applies when it comes to choosing the best tools to get housework done quickly and effectively. One of the most useful tools you can have when it comes to getting work done around the house is a powerful and versatile vacuum cleaner, that is effective on both hard and carpeted floors, and includes attachments for dusting and getting into tight corners in your home. A good vacuum cleaner can take care of dirt, hair and mites in your carpet, clean away crumbs and food remnants on your hard floors, and remove dust and residue from your shelves and hard to reach areas.

Another great resource to have in your home cleaning kit is natural, biodegradable cleaning products that are gentle on your family and the environment. When used in combination with good quality cleaning cloths and scrubbing crushes, these conserve cleaning products while more effectively collecting dirt and dust, making the cleaning you do more efficient and easier. These are some of the best tools you can have to get a tidy home with less time and effort.

Make sure you have good storage in your house

 Good storage in your home means everything has a proper place and there’s no opportunity for clutter to collect around the house. This means that it’s simpler and easier to keep the house clean, without having to put in a lot of work. With good storage you can safely put away those items you only use rarely such as dinner party settings, special occasion decorations and sports equipment, and have readily available those items you need on a daily basis, without having to sort through mess.

Using storage properly assists with creating a streamlined and minimalistic environment which is also perfect for young children, limiting the risk or breakages or losing important items. It also amounts to less dusting and cleaning at the end of the week – saving you time and energy when it comes to keeping housework in check.

Only do little bits of cleaning – but do them often

There’s no need to take a whole day out of your schedule to devote to cleaning.  Big chunks of cleaning time can quickly become boring and frustrating, leaving you stressed with a house that isn’t even as clean as it could be. Putting cleaning off to ‘the end of the week’ or ‘leaving it until the weekend’ can mean cleaning gets put off indefinitely, and leaving you with a messy, unclean home in the meantime. A better way to take care of cleaning chores is to break them up into easy to manage chunks and deal with 10-15 minutes of cleaning each day.

Everyone in the household can help out with a small daily chore that only takes 5 minutes, meaning the unpleasant task can be done with quickly, and the load lightened by being shared among everyone in the family. Keep track of these daily mini chores on a chart your whole family has access to, so you can see what’s been done and what you might be falling behind on. This way you will always have a fresh and tidy house without having to dread a huge day of cleaning.