How to speed clean your house for unexpected visitors

We’ve all been there either you forgot that someone was coming or you’ve just had a phone call to say that they are in your neck of the woods and are going to pop in and say hello while in the area.

Ahhhhhh! My house isn’t visitor ready you cry.

No need to panic, I’ve got you. Below are my top tips to trick people into believing your house is clean and tidy and it only takes a few minutes. I can fake clean my whole house in 15mins.

A tidy house always looks clean even if it isn’t. Whereas an untidy house always looks dirty even if it isn’t.

First on the list has to be clearing the surfaces.

Hopefully from my earlier cleaning/tidying posts you have now found a home for all of the belongings in your house and have implemented the one touch rule where as soon as you have finished with the item it is returned to its home to avoid big clean ups.

No?

Not to worry, although I would recommend you do this to make your life easier day to day.

In this instance get a black bag and scoop everything into it. Go and hide said bag in a cupboard, shed, wardrobe. Where ever you can, just get it out of sight.

Right now that is taken care of your home already looks much cleaner. Well done.

If you want to trick people into believing your home is cleaner than it is then quickly run a duster around the areas you can reach/ are in your eye line. Don’t bother moving anything just do the bits you can get to. The smell of polish in the air instantly makes people think that you have spent a long time cleaning.

Running the hoover around in the middle patch of the floors again only in the spots that people can see picks up any big bits and if you have carpets the lines left behind by the hoover will again make people think that you have just hoovered and therefore probably cleaned the whole house.

Give your kitchen floor a quick look over and if you don’t have time to wash the kitchen floor at least use a baby wipe to remove any marks. A baby wipe can also be used to gather any crumbs from surfaces and remove sticky finger marks from cupboard doors etc.

In fact you can pretty much ‘clean’ your whole house with a baby wipe.

Make sure you check your toilet especially if your little people are toilet trained or in the process of toilet training. Squirt some toilet cleaner around the pan and use a bathroom cleaning wipe to rub over the toilet.

Don’t do washing on the day people are coming or the afternoon before they are coming unless you have a tumble drier. Nothing worse than loads of airers cluttering up your rooms and giving the impression you have just started your own laundry business. Instead save your washing until after they have left.

Once they have left you MUST go and get the black bag back and return all of the items to their real homes.

This post is part of a mini series of cleaning posts. If you want to read my other cleaning posts click here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

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