Are You Cleaning Your Home Often Enough?

The peepers are serenading at night, the birds are singing through the day. The grass is greener and the buds on the trees are about to burst. Even if the temperatures are a bit cooler in the mornings, spring is here. That excites the gardening crowd and those that consider the season one last hurdle before summer arrives. But others only see spring as the season for a lot of yard work and the dreaded Spring Cleaning!
I saw an article this morning talking about how bed sheets should be washed once a week and that got me thinking about how often we need to clean things in our home. Aside from the smoke detectors needing a new battery and a cleaning when we change the clocks, nobody really talks about a timeline for cleaning other things around your home. The experts have come up with a timeline in case you are curious like I was.

How Often Should I Clean My House?

Now the other thing you want to be mindful of as you work at getting your home spic and span, it’s important to do so in a healthy manner. I used to think the whole pass out while cleaning thing was a joke, until I was helping to clean out an old well that had bleach dumped in. The fumes can get strong very quickly in a small space.
Here are some tips that might help you get the job of cleaning done in a health conscious way.

12 Tips for Health-Friendly Spring Cleaning

They talked about “cleaning in an organized manner”… I don’t know about you, but I suffer from ‘Goldfish Syndrome‘ haha. I know that is not really a thing, but it is the name of a rock band in Ireland (great name!). But when I am cleaning, I can sometimes tend to jump to something that I notice needs attention before I have finished what I was working on. The fear is that something will be missed and when I am finished spring cleaning it is actually all done. Hopefully this checklist will help.