But cleaning is a massive chore. It takes up your valuable free time, and sometimes things can go undone. In this post, we’re going to look at some of the reasons that are a bad idea. Here’s what happens when you don’t have a regular cleaning schedule.
Vermin Moves In
Rats, cockroaches, and termites love it when you fail to clean your property. It provides them with a source of food, making it easy for them to move in. They are safe from predators, and they get all the food they need handed to them on a plate - often literally.
Mold Starts To Grow
Cleaning is vital for another reason - it stops mold from growing in your home, particularly the bathrooms.
Mold will grow wherever it can. As a fungus, it hardly requires any light. Instead, it can grow on substrates, like caulk, meaning that it can quickly build up in the shower.
If you fail to clean the bathroom at least weekly, you’ll start seeing black streaks in areas exposed to moisture. Mold can worsen allergies and lead to respiratory problems, depending on the species.
Sorting it out takes a bit of elbow grease, but it is well worth it. You’ll feel so much better after.
You Feel Stressed All The Time
Living in a messy environment is also bad for your levels of stress. While a few people can exist in a dirty environment without feeling overload, many can’t.
Stress and lack of time are two big reasons why people so often use cleaning services. Instead of using up their valuable free time to clean their homes, they simply get somebody else to do it and use their time more productively. Economically speaking, doing the cleaning yourself doesn’t usually make a lot of sense.
Your Friends Judge You
People from all sorts of associations between people and their homes. So if yours is on the messy side, your friends can judge you - and you don’t want that!
Start by creating a plan for how you want to use each room. Then buy a bunch of bin bags and throw out all the stuff you no longer need. You should find that you wind up with much more space with which to work. Once that’s done, you can either do cleaning yourself or hire professionals to do it for you. Some homeowners take a hybrid approach. They clean small things themselves and then get pros to do the hard jobs, like the bathroom or the oven. Most services are pretty flexible, so you can specify what you want them to do.
You Don’t Enjoy Your Home
You Don’t Enjoy Your Home
Ultimately, cleaning is something that allows you to enjoy your home more. If you live in a tidy environment, you can explore more interior decor options and enjoy the fruits of your labor. You can’t if there’s a mess everywhere.
