Cleaning the House
Some helpful products to make housework a little easier.
Everyone likes a clean house, but nobody likes to clean it.
Housework can be a difficult and laborious chore anyway. But if you have a disability, housekeeping can be especially difficult. Here are some hints that might help you keep your home spotless.
Let’s start with the bathroom. It is, after all, the most popular and used room in the house. It’s also the room that everyone leaves for last to clean. If you take some simple steps when you clean your bathroom, you will cut your cleaning time in half the next time you clean.
Use Kaboom’s "Never Scrub Toilet Cleaning System". It offers a powerful cleaning with each flush. The system cleans, disinfects and prevents hard water stains for up to five months.
To save time and effort cleaning the shower, try the "Scrubbing Bubbles Automatic Shower Cleaner". After each shower, just touch a button and let the Scrubbing Bubbles go to work. The powerful jets spray 360 degrees to clean the shower and tub.
These two wonderful inventions will save you time and effort cleaning the two areas of the bathroom that need the most attention. No one article can suggest helpful cleaning tips for every type of disability, so to clean counters, sinks and floors, get creative and come up with some shortcuts that work best for you. Use your reacher to clean mirrors, the Snappy Dresser to help you reach into corners with sponges, etc.
Now, let’s move to the kitchen. The biggest help in this room, as anyone can tell you, is a dishwasher. To save the time, effort and hassle involved in using a floor mop or a regular broom, use a Swiffer Sweeper or a Swiffer WetJet. These will both allow you to do daily or weekly cleanings of your kitchen’s tile or linoleum floors and you can ask your PCA to do a thorough mopping once a month.
Moving on to the living room, consider using a Pledge Duster or a Swiffer Duster to clean your end tables, television, etc. These products both have extendable handles with the bottle of cleaning solution locked into the handle, making it easier to use than a traditional dust cloth.
When it comes to vacuuming, another Swiffer product, the SweeperVac, is a compact, lightweight “vacuum” that will allow you to pick up crumbs, pet hair, etc., between regular cleanings. For those who can afford it, another option is the Roomba. The Roomba is a robotic vacuum cleaner that you can run by remote control or program to run itself.
Cleaning the house isn’t anyone’s favorite thing to do. But with these helpful products, cleaning the house when you have a disability just got a little bit easier.
