When you’re off at work for sometimes 8 to 10 or even 12 hours a day, it’s hard to dedicate any time in your week to cleaning up little things around the house. While at first these things are fine and it only gets a little messy, things can really begin to add up over time, producing a stress-inducing level of mess that can affect your mood for the worse anytime you come home from work. At that point, it’s seemingly a day’s worth of work to clean everything, which you don’t have available to you with your workload already. But, if you’ve got kids in the ages of 10 to 18 at home, you’ve just found a way to maintain your stressful workload. Sure, you may have to give them an allowance or some sort of reward for doing chores for you, but it beats the heck out of you using your time off to clean when that’s the last thing you want to do. Clean out any light-colored basins in the bathroom This is quite an easy task for anyone, yet it makes a world of difference on how your bathroom ends up looking. If lighter colored things in your bathrooms are dirty, it shows more than anything (especially sinks and toilet bowls). Have your kids do a quick scrub of the sinks and shower and use the toilet wand to clean the bowl. It’s not much work, but it does a world of difference for the cleanliness (perceived and actual) of your bathroom. Clean the windows Another task that takes no time at all is washing the windows. While some may be too high to clean from the outside, your screen doors, french doors, and bay windows could all use some wiping down to rid any handprints or smudges that may be on them. Believe me, getting your windows completely transparent is a way to show that you’re on top of the cleaning at your house. Your kids won’t even complain, either, considering how simple and quick it is to do a great job at cleaning windows. They’ll be vying over who gets to tackle that chore when you write down the chores each day. Sweep and then mop the floors Your floor will look absolutely stunning once it’s swept and mopped. While this is a little more time consuming, it’s probably the one that makes the biggest difference in your house out of this list. Being able to see the sun glint off a freshly cleaned floor can really make your house just feel clean more than look clean, because your feet won’t be picking up any pet hair, dirt, or other particles that collect over time on the floor.
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