Stop. Before moving on, gather your Christmas cleaning products and supplies.
Right Supplies you can find in Casa shop
A cleaning caddy. This will allow you to keep all your other cleaning products together in one place. Instead of running back and forth from one end of the house to the other to grab supplies that you need, you can have everything with you (without having your hands full).
Microfiber cloths. Some people love them, some people couldn’t care less about them. I like to use my microfiber cloths because they make my life easier because when you dust with microfiber, you don’t have to dust as often since the cloths don’t leave behind any dust-attracting residue like other cloths and rags do.
Magic eraser. If you have marks on the walls, cabinets, baseboards, granite/quartz countertops, that you thought you had to live with, the magic eraser will (most likely) be able to get rid of them. I love my white quartz countertop, but it can be prone to stains… so I’ve had to use my magic eraser on it a time or two to get rid of pesky stains.
Paper towels. I personally LOVE these paper towels. They’re soft, big rolls, and the sayings on the package add some humor to my day. I always like to have a handful of paper towels easily accessible while I clean in case I come across a gross mess that I just don’t want to put my nice cleaning rags through.
Disinfecting wipes. I used to use a disinfecting cleaner to clean every single surface in my bathroom, but what I’m starting to lean more towards now is using disinfecting wipes to clean the toilet (then I don’t need to worry about washing gross toilet rags – I can just toss them), and my all-purpose cleaner to clean the other surfaces.
Holiday Cleaning Tips
…to get your house guest-ready FAST. Here’s how to clean your house for the holidays, even if it’s a mess right now.
1. Prioritize the rooms
This step is mainly for people who are in a hurry and don’t have time to clean their entire house. If your guests are showing up sooner than you’re ready for, you’ll need to do this.
If you’re pressed for time, you’re going to have to prioritize the rooms of your house and decide which ones are most important to be cleaned.
You can decide this by thinking of what rooms your guests will be in. If you just have people dropping by for a quick visit, you would only have to worry about the entryway, kitchen, living room & bathroom.
If you have guests staying for the night, you’d want to clean all the previously mentioned rooms plus the guest room.
First, the clutter
Clutter makes your house look messy, crowded, and claustrophobic, which is exactly what you want to avoid if you’re going to be hosting a lot of people over the holidays (or any time of the year).
It also makes cleaning your house a much more difficult task than it needs to be.
If you have time, use the free resource below to blow through your clutter (for good).
Clean the entryway
Regardless of which rooms will be used the most over the holidays, the entryway is likely the most important room, because that is the one room in your house that anyone who drops by will see.
You’ve already decluttered the entryway, so now it’s just a matter of cleaning and tidying it up, which shouldn’t take too long.
Empty the closet
Take all your family’s coats, mitts, shoes, and other belongings out of the entryway closet, and put them somewhere in a back room (if you have a mudroom, now’s the time to utilize it).
This way your guests can easily hang up their coats without having to fight with 50 other winter coats jumping out at them the second they open the closet door.
Shake out floor mats & deal with the floor
Next, you’re going to want to shake out the floor mat (do this outside) and vacuum the floor. Then you’ll want to mop the floor to get rid of paw prints, mud, and other visible marks on the floor (the entryway is such a high-traffic area that simply vacuuming won’t do the trick to clean floors here).
Provide a place for shoes
Put the floor mat back in place and put a shoe rack somewhere near the door. This way your guests won’t have to pile their shoes on top of one another to get them out of the way, and it will also keep your floors cleaner since you can keep the rack on your floor mat and keep dirt, mud, and snow from falling on your freshly-mopped floors.
You don’t want anything too big and bulky, or it’ll make your entryway feel crowded and small. But, you don’t want something too small, because if you’re hosting big groups of people, you want everyone to be able to fit their shoes on the rack.
4. Clean the kitchen
If the entryway is the highest-traffic area of your house, the kitchen is the runner-up. Everyone stops in to grab their favorite snack, make a hot drink, and dump their dishes.
The kitchen is also very highly used during the holidays, whether you’re baking hundreds of Christmas cookies or you’re making tea for your guests, the kitchen gets used often and left uncleaned even more.
Clean the stovetop
If you want your kitchen to not only be clean, but also look clean (you can spend hours cleaning your kitchen, but if you forget about the stovetop it’s useless), you need to pay extra attention to the stovetop.
Clean out the microwave
Microwaves slowly become dirtier and dirtier over time if not wiped cleaned regularly, but it can often seem like they become an enormous mess overnight.
Clean the living areas
For the living and dining rooms, you’ll want to gather all your decorative throw pillows and blankets and clean them – the blankets should be able to go straight into the washing machine (check labels first), and if the pillows have cases, take the cases off and wash them. If the cases aren’t removable, read the labels.
. Clean the bathrooms
Now it’s time to move on to the bathrooms.
Focus first on the bathroom that your guests will be using, then move on to the other bathroom(s) in the house.
Usually, you would start cleaning the bathroom by spraying everything with your bathroom cleaner and then wiping everything down. But, since this is a bit more of a thorough clean, you’re going to want to clean the bathroom in a different order than usual.
Guest room cleaning
Here are my top 4 tips to stay organized during the holidays:
Use a small basket
For Christmas cards. Place this basket on the kitchen counter, in the entryway, or in the living room. Somewhere that you can still see the cards, but they aren’t cluttering up your home. This is especially important if your family tends to get a lot of cards at Christmas. This way you can keep them all out, but they aren’t getting knocked off of surfaces or lost.
Stock up
Before guests arrive, stock the bathrooms with toilet paper, shampoo, conditioner, and hand soap. Grab yourself an extra dish soap to store under the sink, and make sure you have enough all-purpose cleaner to last you through the holidays.
Pull out seasonal dishes
All those adorable dishes you’ve been so eager to use all year can FINALLY be pulled out and used… just make sure you give them a quick rinse before doing so.
Cook in advance
If you want to keep your house clean over the holidays so that surprise visitors don’t walk into a baking-war-room, try doing most of your holiday baking and meal prep in advance, then store everything in the freezer to keep it fresh until it’s needed.
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