Nicki Cawood, Author at CURLY AND CANDID

If you’re looking for ways to clean your hard to clean house keep reading. Whether you’ve not kept on top of things or you find it difficult to clean, you need to ensure you’re changing things moving forward. Luckily, there are lots of ways in which you can do exactly that. From using high-quality cleaning products to hiring a cleaner to help you, the more you’re doing to keep your house clean the better. With that in mind, here are 6 top cleaning tips for hard to clean homes:

Hard to Clean House? Use High-Quality Cleaning Products

One of the best things you can do when it comes to cleaning your home is to ensure you’re buying high-quality cleaning products. Although they may be more expensive, the chances are they’re going to do a much better job when it comes to cleaning your home. Not only that, but they’ll last much longer as you won’t need to use as much. For a guide to the best cleaning products to buy for your home, you can visit this site here. Don’t always go for the top brands straight away though, sometimes there are hidden cleaning gems in the cheaper ranges.

Aim To Deep Clean At Least Twice A Week

Although it may be difficult to fit deep cleaning in around your day-to-day schedule, you need to ensure you’re cleaning at least twice a week. Whether this means cleaning for a little while on the weekends or cleaning a couple of days after work, getting yourself into a habit of deep cleaning will really help. On other days, you should be doing your daily cleaning tasks. I do power hours where I pop music on and just get on with it, It helps.

Think Of Absolutely Everything

When it comes to cleaning you need to be sure you’re thinking of absolutely everything. From the grout in your bathroom to on top of the cupboard in your kitchen, the more in-depth you’re being the better. If you’re looking for ways to effectively clean grout, you can visit this site here.

Make A List Of Daily, Weekly And Monthly Tasks

Another great way to ensure you’re keeping your hard to clean house clean is to make a list of daily, weekly and monthly tasks you need to do. From cleaning your toilet every single day to hoovering once a week, if you have a list to follow you’re much more likely to keep on top of things. If it helps print out each of your lists and laminate them, marking off when you’ve done each task. I think Flylady still helps with things like this, look her up.

Hire A Cleaner To Help You

If you really think you’re going to struggle when it comes to keeping your house clean or finding the time to clean everything, you may want to consider hiring a cleaner to help you. Not only will they be able to help you keep on top of things but they’ll also clean parts of your house that you’d never think to clean. For a guide to hiring a cleaner, you can visit this site here. One of the very best things I did was to hire a cleaner. We don’t have her anymore. I couldn’t justify it after moving to a bungalow that is so much easier to keep on top of, but still. She was amazing.

Hard To Clean House Tips: Get Everyone Involved

Another great way to ensure your house is staying clean is to get everyone involved. If you’re all mucking in every now and again it’s going to be much easier and quicker to keep everything clean.

Are you struggling to keep your home clean? What can you do to ensure you’re reaching those hard-to-clean areas? Did I miss anything off the list? Let me know your thoughts and ideas in the comments section below.

The Parent Bucket List: Do Something Creative

A lot of parents find that their hobbies fall by the wayside when they have kids. Things like writing or painting are hard to do when you have a family to look after, but you should try to find the time. You can add things like finishing a book or completing a series of paintings to your bucket list. You don’t need to set a strict time limit on it, and having it on your bucket list will encourage you to keep working at it. Doing something creative is a great way to destress yourself as a parent, so this is a great one to add to your bucket list.

Beat A Physical Goal

Physical goals are always a great addition to your parent bucket list because they encourage you to stay active and you will get a huge sense of achievement when you beat them. For example, if you like running, you could work your way up to a marathon. If you’ve always wanted to climb a mountain, how about a trek up Kilimanjaro? Setting yourself these physical challenges will give you a personal goal to work towards and encourage you to stay active, and it is something that you do for yourself, so it’s a big confidence booster.

Parent Bucket List: Visit Your Dream Destinations

When you have kids, most of your holidays are planned around them. You have to think about places that they will enjoy and find kid-friendly activities for them. This is important because travelling as a family is a great way to make memories together but parents do sometimes miss out on going to the places that they want to go because the kids won’t enjoy it. But as they start to get older, you should try to plan trips to places that you want to go as well, so you don’t feel like you are missing out.

As a parent, your kids always come first and that’s the way that it should be. Having your own parent bucket list can help you to retain your own identity as individuals rather than “just” as Mum or Dad. We make sure we set aside time just for us as a couple but need a bucket list because sometimes (often) this time can be a Netflix binge-watch and nothing else. What would be on your bucket list?