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Housemaid Absent? Quick Cleaning Tips For You

As working women, we have to call in sick or ask for permission to take leave from work. However, your housemaid has no such obligation. She neither calls you to inform she is not coming nor finds it necessary to provide an explanation for being absent from work. As you do not enjoy the same privileges at office, you need some quick cleaning tips for the days on which your housemaid bunks work.

Quick cleaning tips for working women are very important. A homemaker can still have the time to manage housework if the maid comes late or does not show up at all. But working women face hell at home and in office when their maid bunks. You still have to do stuff at home after your housemaid is done cleaning but doing everything on your own is very difficult.

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That is why these quick cleaning tips will help you to manage housework on the days when your housemaid simply does not show up. This happens every often in most homes, so learn these quick cleaning tips as a survival tactic.

Mop It Up

Mop It Up

Instead of sweeping the floor and then wiping it again, you can just use a mop to clean the floors. This allows you to clean the floor in an upright position.

Wash The Utensils You Need

Wash The Utensils You Need

We all have extra plates and dishes in our house. But how many of us have extra pots and pans? So wash the utensils that you will need immediately the next day. You can keep the dirty dishes aside to teach your housemaid a lesson.

Skip The Laundry

Skip The Laundry

On the day that your housemaid doesn't show up, skip the laundry. You have clothes to wear to office the next day and you can definitely do the extra laundry in the weekend.

Dusting Is Important

Dusting Is Important

Loose dust that settles on glass shelves and the surfaces of furniture is very unhealthy. Try to do the dusting everyday so that your house is not a store house of accumulated dust.

Kitchen Cleaning Is A Priority

Kitchen Cleaning Is A Priority

You can leave your bedroom in a mess but cleaning your kitchen is a hygienic requirement. You have to clean your gas stove, the sills and the sink everyday because that is where your food gets cleaned and cooked. You can clean your kitchen at night; don't get hassled in the morning before office.

Change The Sheets But Don’t Wash The Old One

Change The Sheets But Don’t Wash The Old One

You can probably change the bed sheets every alternate day in your house. So continue with that regime. But save the dirty linen in the laundry basket for your housemaid.

Don’t Forget To Take The Garbage Out

Don’t Forget To Take The Garbage Out

If it is your housemaid who keeps the dustbins clear, then don't forget to take the garbage out when your household help does not show up.

Story first published: Thursday, April 24, 2014, 17:18 [IST]