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StumbleUpon- 1. Immediate cleaning. Acting sooner, rather than later, at the sight of a stain or a spill prevents small, easy-to-clean-up messes from becoming big, tough messes. Let's say that after cooking dinner, your stovetop has a few spatters of grease on it. You could leave it -- it's scarcely noticeable. But if you take a minute to wipe the stove with a sponge or cloth every time you use it, the job will take only seconds, the stove will be restored to pristine condition, and you'll be preventing what could eventually become a multilayered buildup requiring hours of remedial attention.
- Toweling off the shower stall after each use.
- Having family members remove their shoes at the door.
- Washing dishes immediately after using them.
- Spraying the shower stall with soap scum remover once a week.
- Vacuuming all the dirt that family members track inside each week.
- Making sure all dishes, glasses, and cooking gear are cleaned up each night before bedtime.
- Spending hours scrubbing away a year's worth of soap scum and mildew.
- Vacuuming whenever the neighbors make jokes about your herd of dust bunnies.
- Wasting your Sunday scrubbing hardened food from the week's dishes and pots so you have something to cook with.
In the immediate cleaning mode, you clean up messes right away. Otherwise, messes accumulate, stains and grime set in, and your family learns that a dirty house is acceptable.
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Maintenance cleaning can be organized in a written plan, or made into simple habits, like always cleaning the kitchen immediately after dinner is done.
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It is important to consider the fact that most remedial cleaning is preventable. You can avoid it by taking immediate steps or following maintenance routines. The big danger is that remedial cleaning can easily become abusive cleaning. That happens when a mild cleaner fails to budge the dirt, so stronger and more abrasive cleaners and tools are called into service. Abusive cleaning often does more damage than the original dirt did.
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