Making Your Home Look Sparkling in 10 Minutes Every Day

by: Dave Roth

Naturally, everyone wants a clean home, but who has the time anymore? Gone are the days where everyone remained married, men worked, and women cleaned, cooked, and took care of children all day long. There are still some homes like this, and that is perfectly fine. However, more and more homes are not like this, because demographics are changing. There are many homes where both spouses work, whether or not they have children, and there are many single-parent homes, sometimes with more than one or two children. These kinds of homes are often busy places where there is not that much time for cleaning and picking up. However, there are ways to make a home look great, even if a person only has a few minutes each day.

First, picking up things and putting them away when one is done using them is one of the best ways to keep a home clean. When going from room to room and doing other things, take things that need to go into another room, and put them back where they belong. Avoiding clutter is a very good way to make a home look cleaner. In addition, not having so much clutter around means less to move around when a person is cleaning and also means fewer things to clean. Most people like knickknacks and sentimental objects, but the more of them a person has, the more that there is to clean. Keeping a home a little more sparse, or keeping small objects in a cabinet where glass or another material protects them from dust also makes everything easier to clean, and keeps cleaning chores from taking as long.

Second, cleaning one room each day ensures that a person does not spend hours trying to clean his or her house in one day, and it also means that a home stays cleaner, because dirt and grime do not have the chance to build up between cleanings. By following a schedule and sticking to it, and by taking some simple steps that are easy to follow, cleaning as one goes becomes a habit which makes keeping a home sparkling in only 10 minutes each day much easier.