Benefits of a Clean Home
Benefits of a Clean Home
Growing up our parents (our Mom to be exact!) have taught us to always clean our room and help out around the house. Why is that? In private places where we relax and spend time leisurely, most of these places are clean and organized. Why is that?
It’s because of the psychology of cleanliness and its benefits that whether we are aware of it or not, has tremendous effect to all of us.
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Benefits of a clean home:
- Reduce allergens – when you clean your home as often as you can, dusts are kept at bay. Especially on areas where you have upholsteries and carpet.
- Less stress, more mindful living – as we all know, visual clutter leads to mind clutter. The outside world is chaotic enough so why would you want to replicate that chaos in your home? But when you have a clean home, you step into your home, close the door and leave the noise, confusion, and chaos outside. Even Chi and Reiki practitioner would recommend an organized and clean area to allow the energy flow well hence, making you feel relaxed and mindful. You should not bring chaos inside, where it doesn’t belong.
- Healthier family – Cleaning on a regular basis is a must if you want to keep your family healthy most of the time. Vacuuming and dusting is not enough either. Think about cleaning your home surfaces and crannies as well. The more stuff you have, the harder it is to dust and sanitize. It’s best to tackle the dirtiest part of your home first and make your way to the rest.
- You’re more active– because you’re relaxed and your mind is clear, you have enough energy to be active, to exercise and to spend time with your kids.
- Give you a sense of accomplishment– when you have a clean and orderly home whether it’s you who cleaned it or asked someone else to clean it, you’ll feel a sense of accomplishment and it’s something to tick off your to do list.
Those droplets and circular stains that you are mentioning are called “Hard Water Stains”, and are caused by the tap water that comes out of our faucet. Unfortunately, all our water supply provider delivers hard water through our pipelines. Hard water contains small amounts of metals and minerals, which when they accumulate and dry up, would cause those hard to remove stains. Simply put, regardless of what commercial cleaning solution you use, as long as you rinse using hard water, those marks will always appear. An immediate solution to this would be cleaning with the same cleaning solutions, soak it for 15 minutes, but rinsing with distilled water. On your next 
The kitchen sink and the counter tops or kitchen tables- that’s where it all starts. These are the usual areas we place our raw meats, vegetables and all other ingredients for thawing, cutting and other primary food processing. And no matter how clean you might think your source is, these raw food products have contaminants, like bacteria and viruses, that are too small to see and too few to be harmful.
Another area which puts the cleaner in a difficult position, hence, hardly cleaned. Because of the weight of the refrigerator, the back is hardly cleaned, which makes dust accumulate, or pushed over dirt hide. But we are not just pointing out the space in between the “back” of the refrigerator and the wall it is leaning to, we are also pertaining to the section near the refrigerator motor. This area is a blank space where water can accumulate because of condensation, and where some bits of food can go to. This would be a problem area after a couple of years if you are using the regular type of refrigerators, not the no-frost or induction type. If you still have odor problems despite cleaning the inside of your ref, or despite placing blocks of charcoal or boxes of deodorizers, it would mean that the back of your refrigerator is really dirty.
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The floor is the most overlooked surface in the house when it comes to home improvement, but is as significant as placing a chandelier on your ceiling.