When you visit my house and then you come to my room, you will think you are in a two different worlds. For some reasons that I do not know, there’s always some dismantling going on in the house. Blame those guys who happen to have the same parents as me. I mean I understand their field of work but I just think it’s too much and very annoying. It’s more annoying when they still call me in the end to clean their mess even though I still get tipped. Hehe
Let’s just forget the part where I get tipped and focus on what is ahead. I’m the one who cleans the house at the moment and it took a long while before understanding that cleaning comes comes with strategies. You can just clean but if you want a tidy space then you can’t “just clean”. You understand? No? Okay come with me.
First of all, cleaning has to be a habit. When I say a habit, it doesn’t necessarily mean you should always be scrubbing and all that. No, no. I clean as I go. I have made it a habit to clean the little mess that I see at home. I don’t wait till I see that the house isn’t in order before I start turning the house upside down to clean.
The one thing my mom used to say that I will always remember is that always cleaning doesn’t mean you’re a neat person. I used to think how can I even be a neat person and not always clean and then I realized it can be achieved with clean as you go.
I don’t know for others but this clean as you go really works well for me and it’s probably because I’m the one that cleans the house.
I don’t pass by the kitchen sink without washing any bowls I see in it. I don’t pass by the living room without arranging the throw pillows. I don’t pass by the washroom without mopping the floor if there’s spilled water.You’ll barely see me doing a deep cleaning at home because that’s too much work for me. It happens once in a month or two but the house is always tidy even after all the commotions and dismantling my brothers do every day.
This might sound funny, but if you’re the one who cleans the house, then a secret cleaning strategy is being an example yourself. I’ve realized they don’t do what I don’t do. I don’t bring my outdoor shoes inside and they also don’t. They know doing anything that will land them a serious bombastic side eye.
My mom is always happy when I come home because she knows as long as I am home, the house is going to be very tidy. I mean, they don’t call me “Miss” at home for nothing. One thing I have realized is that it’s very easy to make a dirty place more dirtier than to make a clean place dirty. For this reason, I make sure to do what I have said above and it’s been working.
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