It seems like nowadays more and more gadgets and tips are introduced each year, all promising to make cleaning your home easier and faster. However, sometimes that can end with you having a closet full of cleaning supplies that you don’t even know when to use. Sometimes less is more and simpler is better. So today we will talk about a few easy principles our grandmothers used when cleaning. 

1. Let the sheets air. Nowadays, we are told to make our bed as soon as we are out of it but maybe it’s for the best to give it some time. While sleeping dead skin and bodily fluid are released onto the sheets. In order not to trap them in and create an atmosphere perfect for bacteria, in the morning it’s best to let your sheets air out for a few minutes before making the bed.
2. Tidy up before dusting. Sometimes cleaning is made even more tedious by the small knick knack laying around. To avoid this, use a tidying basket. As the rooms of the home are tackled, pick up items that aren’t where they belong and place them in a basket. Redistribute them where they should be as you enter a new room.
3. Clean up dishes after every meal. Perhaps you found it annoying as a child when your grandmother had you clean your dishes after each meal but is there anything more annoying than a pile of dishes waiting for you at the end of the day. If you clean them as you go it only takes a few minutes after each meal, leaving you more time to relax.
4. Bring back one-a-week chores. The 50’s housewife cleaned each room every day but some tasks were only done once a week, such as disinfecting kitchen appliances or the bins. This way she could make sure her house was clean and guest ready at all times and didn’t have to scramble at the last minute or wonder where that strange smell was coming from.
5. Pour boiling water down the sink each night. At the end of the day, once all the cooking is done, the 50’s housewife would pour boiling water down each sink in her home but especially the one in the kitchen. In this way she would make sure that the pipes were clear and there was a smaller chance of clogging.

The 1950’s housewife did all this and cleaned each room in her house every day. But she only had the home to take care of. Nowadays, most people have to combine care for the home with a full time job. It sometimes seems that there aren’t enough hours in the day to take care of all your tasks. Thankfully, you don’t have to do it all by yourself either. Cleaning Service London’s professional cleaner can help keep your house so clean and tidy that any 50’s housewife would be jealous.