Unfortunately kitchens have to be cleaned fairly regularly if want to keep your room looking good and stay hygienic. The atmosphere in a kitchen, especially if you cook a lot, has a way of depositing a sticky dusty residue on anything not cleaned every week or so. In some ways, it is like a never ending Herculean task to keep your kitchen clean. But here are three basic approaches you can take to kitchen clean up to get the job done without too much pain:
1. Use Speed
If you speed clean your kitchen you can decide what has to be done, do it at lightening speed and then get onto more interesting activities as quickly as possible. Open the windows, put on some lively music, set the kitchen timer in 10 minute bursts and get as much as you possibly can get done in that time. See it as a challenge to beat the timer. If you clean for three of these 10 minute bursts every week you should be able to keep the dirt very much at bay especially if you clean as you go on a daily basis, wiping the stove top after use, washing the dishes after every meal and sweeping the floor daily. Save your weekly session for kitchen cabinet cleaning, taking down and washing kitchen curtains, cleaning on top of the fridge and cooker hood – the type of thing which gets forgotten about daily.
2. Use a Zen Approach
Decide that you will enjoy the pleasure of a kitchen which is well maintained and clean and approach cleaning calmly and with a smile on your face, knowing that you are helping to achieve a harmonious atmosphere in your home. With this approach you don’t let dirt bother you, you just calmly remove it! For example, you don’t grumble about the chores, you simply admire the white lace kitchen curtains that you have chosen without thinking about how impractical they were and enjoy putting them back clean and pressed. This approach is not for everyone needless to say, but it works for some.
3. Use a Cleaner
If you know you will never keep up cleaning your kitchen, admit it and employ someone else to do it. That way you can enjoy the benefits of a clean kitchen floor, counters, sinks, and stove, without having to do the work!
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