We can become what we want to be, by being what we want to become.  Richard G. Scott

 How to Keep Your Home Clean –

II in a Series

You can keep your home neat and tidy if you follow a few basic rules.  We also have some helpful hints in the I Series of How to Keep Your Home Clean.  If you have the desire and follow these proven suggestions, house cleaning doesn't become such a big problem.  Try these ideas.

1. Teach your children to help with housecleaning tasks.  They will be more conscious when they make messes if they have to help clean it up.

2. Daily assign a child to vacuum areas, even if it is a small area that may need a touch up through high traffic areas. 

3. Daily assign another child to use glass cleaner to clean finger prints off the coffee table or whatever glass surfaces they may appear on.  Finger prints also make your home look messy, even if you just cleaned. 

4. Teach family members to take their dirty clothes to the laundry room and sort them or hang up their clothes after wearing them.  This will keep your home smelling fresher.

 5. From the time family members are young, teach them to make their bed before they leave their bedroom in the morning. Beds made up make the house look so tidy.

6. Teach family members to return dishes and glasses to the kitchen for cleaning if they wonder out of the kitchen while eating or drinking. It gives a messy look to see dirty glasses and dishes sitting around the home. 

7. Daily assign a child to empty waste baskets into the main one before taking the trash outside. 

8. Encourage everyone to only use the main waste basket for food, so there are not germs and odors in other rooms of your home. 

9. When something leaves your hand, but it in the trash, hang it up, or put it away. 

10. If you have a large family, do at least one load of wash per day.  If you do this, you won’t end up with a mountain of laundry at the end of the week.

Have family members work together as a team and you will easily achieve your goal of keeping your home clean and orderly. If everybody joins in, all of these daily maintenance tasks can be completed within 20 minutes.  You will be happy to see how well the morning flows and you will notice there is a clean and organized environment everyday.  An additional benefit to this method is the next time you thoroughly clean, it will go faster because you are not cleaning up a disaster!

Check our other article, I in a Series (found in the Archive), for additional ideas on how to keep your house clean.

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