After you’ve finished entertaining guests, such as at a major family function at your house, you could be staring at an incredible mess left behind. It’s more than just dishes that are left piled in the sink belching out over the countertops. It’s also footprints, napkins, and other items that have been left all throughout the living room, family room, kitchen, dining room, and anywhere else people had congregated.
Getting ready for a major family function could take you a significant amount of time, especially if you had to clean the entire house from top to bottom.
Approaching clean up after the major function can have a direct impact on its effectiveness and how well you manage with the days following everyone leaving to go home.
Here are a few tips that can help you start the cleanup process and not feel overwhelmed by it.
Focus on the kitchen first. The kitchen will likely be the biggest area of concern. All those dirty dishes, pots, pans, and silverware will pile up quickly when a number of people are in your house. You can certainly rely on assistance from any other family members who were there who volunteer. Take advantage of that. Get the kitchen in order first, clean all the dishes, put them in the dishwasher, clean up the countertops, and make it look as presentable as it did first thing in the morning.
Next, focus on the family room where you and the rest of your family members spend the most time. This could be a den, TV room, or the living room. No matter what room it is, make this your second stop. Once you get this clean, you’ll feel much more comfortable and relaxed at the end of the day, even if the other rooms aren’t yet clean to your liking.
Call on help from your family. If you have a spouse and children who live with you, put them to work helping to clean up. After all, this was a family function and cleanup should involve your immediate family as well.
These tips should help you clean up after the major function has come to an end.
