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Celebration and Cleaning

Submitted by reahnnas on Thu, 12/08/2005 - 18:56.
I struggle with keeping my house cleaned up in between all the baking, wrapping, shopping and entertaining. Does anyone have any tricks to share?
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Cleaning and Christmas baking

Submitted by Krisann Blair on Fri, 12/09/2005 - 20:46.

The one thing that I do when baking/cooking is to start with an EMPTY dishwasher.  then as I am doing baking or cooking I put things directly into the dishwasher - and of course start it up when I am finished - it has made all the difference in the world for me this year!

As for general cleaning I try to keep things up on a daily basis - take 15 each morning or night (or both if necessary) and walk through your house with a clothes basket and collect all the things that are out of place and redeposit them where they belong.   Spray the shower/bath down when you get out  and also take a quick minute to spay the sink and toliet. 

If you have clutter  you need to not see during the holidays take boxes and pack it away to the attic or garage BUT you must promise to go through one box everyother day - do this as a gift to yourself and your family!  I am still working on doing that from my closets and in my downstairs office but I did this for the upstairs and it is much easier to take care and it makes me want to keep things straighter.

Hope that helps!  If not give me some more details - like if you have kids at home - married - etc. and I will see if I can give you some more pointers.

Krisann
the Christmas Coach