Having your house on the market is no fun for anyone. At any minute, you
can get that text notification that there’s a showing in an hour —
which means you’ve got about 40 minutes to make your home “show
ready” while simultaneously ushering everyone out the front door.
Determined to make those 40 minutes a little easier on myself, I aimed to keep our house 90% show-ready at all times. That way, when the text message came through, I just had to run through a short check-list of touch-ups to make sure our house shined.
The experience of selling our house actually
taught me a lot about what it takes to keep my home “show-ready clean” under
normal circumstances, too.
Granted, some of the efforts won’t be replicated in
“real life” because, let’s face it, we’re human. But there are at
least 3 clean-home hacks that we should be maintaining.
3 Tips to Make Your Home Show
Ready-Clean — & Keep It That Way
#1. Make the bed everyday.
It seems like most people can be divided into one of
two categories: Those who make their beds. And those who don’t.
Until a month ago, we were firmly in the “don’t” category.
Oh, I wanted to be a bed maker; but I couldn’t seem to pull it off
consistently. And my kids’ beds? Forget about it.
But with showings-at-any-minute as a motivator, I
tasked each member of our family with making their bed when
they got out of it — first thing in the morning. And you know what?
It has made a huge difference!
I discovered that my room looks so much neater
just with the simple change of making the bed. Plus, I’ve come to see
that a made bed is one of those gateways to a clean bedroom.
#2. Get rid of one-third of
your stuff.
This is probably the real key to keeping a home show-ready
clean, since even the smallest of spaces looks bigger and
brighter when it’s clutter-free.
I’m a fan of DE- Cluttering anyway — I get visually overwhelmed when there’s too
much going on in my house.
Go thru every cabinet and closet. clear
every storage space and flat surface — and then boxed up.
If you haven’t used it recently, or if it wasn’t worth it to
pay to move it, I put it into the garage sale pile.
A totally decluttered home doesn’t
just look more spacious, it is also far easier to keep
clean..
#3. Don’t wear shoes in the
house.
The main level of my house is wood floors; only the upstairs
bedrooms have carpets. Before I banned shoes in the house, my constant
refrain was: “I sweep every day. How is there always so much dirt on the
floor?!”
Over the past shoe-free month, You'll noticed a huge decrease
in the size of dirt piles. You may be able to even get away with skipping a day or two of
sweeping.
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