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    Clean Home: A 21 Day Step-By-Step Guide To Efficiently Clean, Declutter, and Organize Your Home in Less Time
    Clean Home: A 21 Day Step-By-Step Guide To Efficiently Clean, Declutter, and Organize Your Home in Less Time
    Clean Home: A 21 Day Step-By-Step Guide To Efficiently Clean, Declutter, and Organize Your Home in Less Time
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    Clean Home: A 21 Day Step-By-Step Guide To Efficiently Clean, Declutter, and Organize Your Home in Less Time

    By Suzanne Sims

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    It’s something that we all dread, but cleaning and tidying your home can have a profoundly positive effect on your life. These days we’re all very busy with our work, family and social lives. Often we find ourselves with no spare time to spend on these important chores. This book breaks down the tasks needed to give your home an overhaul and guides you by the hand with step-by-step instructions. It also provides you with some great tips and shortcuts to clean home so that you can achieve great results with the limited free time you have. 

     

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSuzanne Sims
    Release dateMay 14, 2015
    ISBN9781513035864
    Clean Home: A 21 Day Step-By-Step Guide To Efficiently Clean, Declutter, and Organize Your Home in Less Time

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      Clean Home - Suzanne Sims

      Introduction

      Who is this book for?

      Whether you live in a city apartment or a country mansion, there is one thing all homes have in common – they need to be cleaned.

      However, our modern lifestyles often leave us without much time for daily chores. If you work long hours, have children to care for, are active in the local community, play sports, socialize with friends or enjoy spending time with a good book – cleaning your home likely falls to the bottom of the priority list. If this sounds like you, and you are struggling to keep your home the way you’d like it, then this book is for you.

      If you find that you  are constantly making excuses for tidying up, or find the prospect daunting and more than a little bit scary - then you should find a great deal of help within the chapters of this book.

      Believe it or not, very few people who have untidy homes are happy with them being that way. Most of us genuinely wish we had a beautifully clean place to live. We often just don’t seem to be able to find the time or the motivation to get going. Perhaps you dabble here and there in an attempt to get started, but find that things are back to their messy norm before the week is out.

      If you are reading this book, you’ve already reached an important milestone. You’ve realized that you need to take action. So reading this book is the perfect first step down that road.

      This book aims to break down the seemingly insurmountable challenge of cleaning your whole home. By breaking down the process into manageable chunks, you can chip away over the course of 25 days, and before you realize it your home will be spick and span/be looking brand new/unrecognizable.

      We’ll also be dispelling some myths about cleaning as well as sharing invaluable tips, tricks and techniques to ensure you do not spend any more time than you need to.

      Why do you need a clean home?

      It might sound like a silly question, but what are the real reasons that it is so important to keep your home clean? By reading through these key benefits of cleanliness, you can mentally gain a motivation to see things through. If you understand the importance of cleaning, you’ll be better poised to tackle it.

      Health

      Many people initially consider an unclean house to be a primarily a visual problem (things look messy) or a physical one (things are in the way). However, arguably, the most crucial element of cleaning is to prevent the spread of germs and other elements that are a danger to your health.

      Bacteria can easily spread around the home as a result of unsanitary kitchen and bathroom conditions. These can directly cause unnecessary illness as well as make you more susceptible to other ailments you might come across in your daily life.

      Given that germs are not visible to the human eye, cleaning needs to be done regularly, thoroughly and with the correct materials. However there are also visible elements that can contribute to the health threats within a home.

      Spilt or uncovered food can attract pests that also bring disease into your home. Even accumulated dust can pose a threat to young children and those with existing respiratory problems.

      Psychology

      Living in an untidy home can be frustrating and depressing. It can have a very literal affect on your mood and how you deal with others. Often it isn’t immediately apparent to you that the state of your house is a factor in this way. Thankfully, the reverse is also true, and the satisfaction of living in a clean and tidy environment cannot be understated especially when added to the personal victory of defeating the challenge.

      Status Quo

      Once a home is clean and free of clutter, it is infinitely easier to maintain that cleanliness. Regular maintenance cleaning can mean that a full deep-clean of the house is only required once or twice a year.

      Once you see things at their best, you will be motivated to keep the house looking that way. Equally, you’ll be determined to not let it return to the way it was and to avoid having to repeat your efforts sooner than you otherwise would.

      Bad Influence

      Children who grow up in an untidy environment are more likely to live their adult lives in an untidy manner. Instilling good practices will help to train them that cleaning is a natural and everyday occurrence, and the tidying up after yourself is to be expected.

      Similarly, if you live with your partner or room-mates, the habit of leading an untidy lifestyle can be infectious. Subconsciously, if you see one person in the household not tidying things up, you will be less motivated to be tidy yourself.

      Alternatively, if one person does have a particularly tidy nature, he or she might feel resentment toward those who don’t pull their weight.

      Productivity

      Anything you try to achieve when in your house can be made increasingly more difficult when things are scattered everywhere. Time can be wasted locating things that have been moved or mixed up with other things.

      Whether it’s working from home, spending time on a hobby, or even daily things such as cooking dinner, everything becomes more difficult.

      Also, messy surroundings can be extremely distracting. You may find yourself unable to focus on your work, or be unable to fully relax when you have visual clutter surrounding you.

      Protection

      A lack of consistent or frequent cleaning can lead to permanent damage to your home or belongings. Although some cleaning aspects simply become harder the longer you leave them, some can go beyond the point of return.

      Left untreated, causes of damp, mold, rust, rot, weeds, and pests can all cause physical damage to walls, floors, and nearby items. You may find that instead of cleaning some things, you end up repairing or replacing them.

      Pride

      A clean and tidy home is certainly something to be proud of. It makes your home look the best it can be, and worth showing off to others. If you’re entertaining guests, there’s nothing worse than being embarrassed about the state of your home. How many times have you had to say Sorry about the mess when someone has dropped in unexpectedly, or looked back at family photograph and been shocked at the mess captured in the background?

      Why do we fail to keep things clean and tidy?

      We mentioned before that most people don’t want to live in an untidy home, but many of us end up wishing our home could be tidier, we just never seem to be able to do something about it.

      There are numerous reasons why so many of us fall into this trap. Understanding what these are can help you keep an eye out and avoid them in the future.

      You keep making excuses

      It’s quite possible that you often find yourself at a loose end and briefly consider doing some cleaning or tidying. After all, you’re not a fool; you can see when it needs to be done. However, it only takes a few seconds for your brain to come up with a reason not to do it. There is always something else that you simply must do instead.

      Cleaning becomes something that will forever be done ‘next’ or ‘tomorrow’.  There is always a more suitable time for tasks like cleaning.

      Some people may add ‘Tidy the house’ to their to-do list and immediately feel the pressure is off, simply because they have planned it. However, it never is crossed off.

      You see cleaning as a single giant task

      Of course, the prospect of cleaning the entire home can be very daunting, because you need to break things down into smaller tasks. Whether it

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