29/06/2020
Whenever you set aside a few hours to clean your house, you probably immediately tackle the usual suspects: you start vacuuming and dusting, scrubbing the bathroom, tidying up the kitchen, and reorganizing the refrigerator. But you're likely forgetting about some pretty filthy things in your house - in fact, you may have never even cleaned them before. Here are some surprising things in your home you've probably neglected to clean:
👉𝐖𝐀𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐌𝐀𝐂𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐄: You probably don't think about cleaning your washing machine that often. It literally exists to clean other things so it has to be pretty neat, right? Wrong. Washing machines can easily become home to a build-up of mold, bacteria, and mildew because they're damp all the time.
👉𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐎𝐓𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐓𝐑𝐎𝐋𝐒: Think about how often remote controls are touched by everyone in your house. No one is washing their hands before grabbing them, and they're probably often touching them after or while eating something. Remotes can be full of germs and bacteria that you definitely don't want hanging around.
👉𝐁𝐀𝐓𝐇𝐑𝐎𝐎𝐌 𝐀𝐂𝐂𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐒: When you clean your bathroom, you probably go straight for the toilet, shower, and sink. But if you're not also paying attention to the various decor and accessories in the room, you're not really cleaning. Those can easily get scummy and mildewy, especially anything near the sink. Paintings or photos on the wall also need to be cleaned. Basically everything in there can harbor bacteria.
👉𝐄𝐋𝐄𝐂𝐓𝐑𝐎𝐍𝐈𝐂 𝐒𝐂𝐑𝐄𝐄𝐍𝐒: It's easy to forget to clean television screens, computer screens, and even tablets, but they all accumulate dust... and if fingers are touching them, they're probably full of some pretty gross germs as well.
👉𝐁𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐃𝐒: One minute your blinds are brand new and the next they're discolored and looking worse for wear. Fortunately, it's mostly dust.