During Dashain, guests or relatives show up at your home unexpectedly. Which is why, it is all the more important to keep your home clean and festival-ready. While you can’t change the way your guests are, you can certainly be prepared for their arrival by keeping your home festival ready. These house cleaning tips will get your home in shape for any and every festival possible.

1. Get Rid of Clutter

Dashain is a time of celebration and renewed hope. Which is why, in the spirit of the festivities, clutter needs to go. Starting with clothes, you can donate good clothes that you haven’t worn in a while and you can use clothes in bad condition as wipe cloths. Next, clean your kitchen. Check cabinets for ancient jars, expired stuff as well as ingredients that you hoarded and never used. Throw out the useless items and donate the good yet unused ones. Voila, you have successfully uncluttered your home.

2. Lists Are Good

It is important to list all that you think needs to be done to get your home festival-ready. Then start striking those tasks off your list first. This has two real advantages; one is, even if you run out of time, for whatever reason, you will take care of all the essential cleaning. Secondly, by being organized you will get things done faster, leaving you with more time for secondary cleaning tasks. This is one of the most useful home cleaning tips around.

3. Try Using Cleaning Products

Whether it is cleaning dirty floors with the latest floor cleaning agent or a high-tech vacuum that can help you clean cabinets and shelves better, it is always a good idea to invest in products that can simplify the cleaning process.

4. Divide and Rule

Target one area of your home at a time; that’s how to clean home sweet home the right way. This will make the cleaning process more effective because you will clean each area thoroughly instead of rushing through the process. What’s more, it will make you more productive because you won’t be as drained. To illustrate, focus on the kitchen on one day, then move on to bathrooms the next day, do the bedrooms the next day and leave the windows and fans for the day after.

5. Embellish and Decorate

Make a mental note to purchase items like lanterns, new bed sheets and curtains during end-of-season sales. This will ensure that you have everything you need when the festival is nigh. Last minute purchases during festivals are an expensive affair; do so only if urgent. Now that you know how to clean your home in no time, you can do it in time for any festival.

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