7 of 30: Cleanliness Is Next To Diseaselessness

I live in a house off of campus. I live with dudes. 7 dudes. 8 including me. The place gets a little untidy at times, as you can imagine. This blog is not about tidiness. I am by far not tidy. This blog is about being clean, like smelly-free clean and rotting trashlessness. It is gross and unhealthy to live in grossness. The bathrooms get filthy and trashcans pile up at my house. It starts to smell and it gets pretty grody. I am going to give a break down on how I think houses/apartments should be taken care of without actually having to do much manual labor. This will in turn keep your home stench free.

LIVING ROOM/LOUNGE AREA:

• If you are eating food, throw uneaten food into the trash can. This will keep the old food from sitting out on the couches and tables for days at a time, and it won't smell like Chinese food for weeks!
• Throw your trash away! Most areas that have a lot of traffic will have a waste bin near. If not, you should get one. Very helpful! It doesn't take but a second to toss away some garbage and it helps to keep the room look clean for guests. And paper cups start to leak after awhile and cause a big mess.
  
• Trashcans should be emptied regularly. The food in there will go bad and smell terrible after a few weeks, so take it out when it is relatively full instead of falling onto the floor.
  

KITCHEN:

• Clean the food of your dishes into the trash can. You know you won't be doing dishes anytime soon, so this saves your sink from smell like poo.
• If you microwave something and it pops and some of it gets on the walls of the microwave, just grab a paper towel and wipe it up. It will be fresh and you won't have to scrap it off a month later.
• DO YOUR DISHES. 'Nuff said.

BATHROOM:

• If you pee on the seat, wipe it up. We all do it, so just grab some paper and wipe it. This also goes for peeing on the floor. And yes, that does happen. Way too much.
  
• If you clog the toilet, get a plunger and plunge the shit out of it. Haha, that pun made me laugh. If the problem is taken care of promptly, other stinky issues will be avoided.
  
• Throw away your empty toilet paper rolls. They look dumb. Unless you draw faces on them all like I did one semester. That is funny.
• Clean the sink off every once and awhile. The tooth paste film and the soap film are grody, so get yourself some cleaning wipes and give it a rub down. It won't hurt anything.
• Clean the shower every so ofter. Grim gets at the bottom and it is not pretty. So all you gotta do it get your bleach and go to town. It will smell bad, so watch out.

BEDROOM:

• Pick up your dirty clothes. I have a problem with this. Keeping the dirty clothes of the floor is kind of one of those real lazy things I do. I just put them wherever. But every time I think about it, I put them all in the basket or a pile. It makes things look nice!
• Don't let trash build up. It is nasty.
• Change your bed and pillow sheets every so often. New linens are comfy!

So there you go, my simple steps on keeping your home tidy and stench, trash, and disease free!

PS: This blog is not written towards anyone in particular, but it was written with a certain 8 maned house in mind.


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