5 Tips To Make Your Post-Holiday Cleaning Easier

Here's some help to get you up to speed with all the areas or items in your home you might forget to clean after the holidays

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The Holiday season comes with lots of guests, presents, and overall feelings of joy. But once the holidays have passed and your family home gets back to its usual pace, you’ll want to do some tidying up here and there.

No doubt the holidays will take a toll on your home. With so many guests, there’s bound to be a few accidents (it’s not a holiday unless someone spills some wine) and some additional wear and tear on your home.

Apart from the usual cleaning tasks like vacuuming or washing the dishes, there are some other areas in your home you should pay special attention to, as advised by professional cleaners like Castle Keepers Atlanta.

Clean Out the Fridge

You don’t realize how big your fridge is until the holidays come knocking. During the year, it’s not too hard to keep things organized, but storing the food in the fridge during the holiday season becomes a Tetris game.

But after the holidays have passed, you have to check the fridge and make sure nothing slipped past you. Rotten food in the refrigerator can be hazardous in many ways: it can affect the fresh food, or worse, someone might eat it.

That’s why you need to take everything out of the fridge. Then check if anything is past its expiration date. Throw away food that has gone bad and plan your meals this week, so you eat all of the holiday leftovers. While you’re at it, don’t forget to clean the fridge while it’s empty.

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Freshen The Carpets

The carpets are most likely taking the worst out of the holiday cheer. Between the food and wine stains, guests are rude enough not to take their shoes off, and everything in between, carpet cleaning can be an absolute nightmare.

Fortunately, you can use DIY solutions to get even the most hardcore stains out of the carpet. For example, using a mix of water, dish soap, and hydrogen peroxide, you can get out a lot of different stains and refresh your carpet.

Upholstery & Furniture

Just like the carpets, the holidays take a heavy toll on your furniture and upholstery. The sooner you clean any stains, the easier it will be to get the furniture back to its pre-holiday state. Remember those common tricks like getting red wine stains out with white wine, and you’ll be fine.

Clean Out The Vacuum

The vacuum is one of the items we frequently use but rarely clean. Still, given how you’ll be using it extensively to get rid of the post-holiday mess, it deserves a little attention too. Ensure the filter is not clogged or dirty and that the bag inside is not full. A clean vacuum is much more efficient and will make your job easier.

Take Care Of The Oven

After all the delicious meals you’ve prepared, your oven deserves a little attention as well. Cleaning the oven with the steam cleaner is by far the easiest way to do it, but if you don’t have one, you can try removing the stains with vinegar and baking soda. Just make sure not to damage the heaters and not use too much baking soda. Otherwise, you might spend quite a lot of time rinsing the oven.