Pre-Party
Help Make Your House Noticeably Clean
1. Act like a guest.
Grab a notepad and a pen. Stand at the front door and trace the steps your guests might take through your house. Write down which rooms you encounter. This will give you an idea of exactly what areas you need to focus on.
“Your guests will have unlimited time to look around in your bathrooms," says Linda Cobb, Queen of Clean®, best-selling author and television personality. "Walk in, sit down, look up, look down and around … and then clean! Be sure you have extra toilet paper and disposable hand towels during cold and flu season.”
2. Declutter.
Look through your house at a high level. Are there disorderly corners in your family room? Stacks of papers in your kitchen? Go through these items and either put things in their proper place or throw them out.
Cobb recommends carrying a laundry basket throughout the house to collect things that are out of place. “Then, walk through your house and put them back where they belong. You’ll be amazed at how fast and easy this is, and how neat the house will appear,” she says.
3. Get nitpicky.
It’s time to get down to business. Go through your house and pay specific attention to your wood furniture, bathroom floors and any other surfaces that need to be swept, mopped or dusted. Swiffer® offers solutions for a deep clean virtually everywhere in your home.
4. Focus on the scent.
After your house is clean, add touches of freshness by hiding Gain® dryer sheets all over your house. Try placing them between the couch cushions, behind bookshelves and in drawers.
5. Shine some light.
Before guests arrive, turn on a lot of lights. Cobb says, “A bright house looks cleaner.”
Post-Party
A Successful Party Deserves a Successful Cleanup Routine
1. Help your dishes sparkle like new.
Gather all of the dirty dishes. Run full loads in the dishwasher with Cascade® All-in-1 ActionPacs™. They break down, dissolve and rinse away tough food particles without the need to pre-wash.
2. Clean the high-traffic areas.
Just like you did before your party, walk through your house and figure out what areas need your attention now. Use Swiffer to touch up those places.
3. Freshen up.
You’re almost done! Now that you’ve cleaned your house and hosted a successful party, treat yourself to a lasting, fresh scent. Refresh all of the rooms in your house by spraying Febreze® Air Effects®. It sweeps away stifling odours from the air, leaving only a clean scent. You quickly can spray away tough bathroom odour, cooking odour and more.
Congratulations on a successful party and a new cleaning routine. Happy holidays!
