Clean, tidy, with no crumbs or sticky spots...
This will be a no-brainer for some people, but it took me until about five years ago to figure this out.
To keep your kitchen (or any other area) clean, you don't have to take a whole day, or week, to do it. That's hard to schedule anyway, and usually overwhelming. Yet there are some deeper cleaning things that need done- like cleaning out kitchen (or bathroom) drawers, wiping the tops of the cabinet doors, or cleaning the nooks and crannies in them. Here's what I do now:
Every now and then, when I open a drawer, I notice there are crumbs in the corner. Or in one of the organizing baskets. Or maybe there's some sticky line where a child spilled their juice down the front of the cabinet. If it's a two-minute job or less, I clean it right then. Most of these things are. If it's done then, it doesn't have to be added to my already-huge "To Do" list in the back of my head. That takes a load off me. Dumping out the whole drawer, wiping it out, and putting everything back will take only a couple minutes more. If I happen to have extra time, I may go on to the next drawer. If I'm wiping a cabinet, I usually finish wiping all the cabinets on that side of the kitchen.
It doesn't all have to be done at once. Just clean little bits as you notice them. 2-5 minutes a day gets the job done in a hurry, without leaving you frazzled!
To keep your kitchen (or any other area) clean, you don't have to take a whole day, or week, to do it. That's hard to schedule anyway, and usually overwhelming. Yet there are some deeper cleaning things that need done- like cleaning out kitchen (or bathroom) drawers, wiping the tops of the cabinet doors, or cleaning the nooks and crannies in them. Here's what I do now:
Every now and then, when I open a drawer, I notice there are crumbs in the corner. Or in one of the organizing baskets. Or maybe there's some sticky line where a child spilled their juice down the front of the cabinet. If it's a two-minute job or less, I clean it right then. Most of these things are. If it's done then, it doesn't have to be added to my already-huge "To Do" list in the back of my head. That takes a load off me. Dumping out the whole drawer, wiping it out, and putting everything back will take only a couple minutes more. If I happen to have extra time, I may go on to the next drawer. If I'm wiping a cabinet, I usually finish wiping all the cabinets on that side of the kitchen.
It doesn't all have to be done at once. Just clean little bits as you notice them. 2-5 minutes a day gets the job done in a hurry, without leaving you frazzled!
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