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Top 8 Ways To Clean Your House Without Actually Cleaning Your House
According to a new survey, the average person uses five shortcuts to avoid housekeeping. You can join them by following anything on today's list.
Remember when you were a kid, and your trick for cleaning your room fast was just shoving everything under your bed? Apparently, that carries over into adulthood.
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The average American admits to using five different "cleaning shortcuts." The most common one is air freshener. 40% of people say they'll just spray it, rather than cleaning the root cause of the smell. 37% will light a candle to mask all the bad odors.
Other "shortcuts" include: Making the bed but leaving the room a mess and packing clutter into a closet or cupboard. Not surprisingly, young adults use the most shortcuts. 72% of all people say their cleaning routine has improved as they've gotten older. And 60% have adopted new cleaning habits since the start of the pandemic.
Top 8 Ways To Clean Your House Without Actually Cleaning Your House:
- Paint the rest of the shower black so it matches the mold.
- Adopt a dog with a long tongue and then squirt syrup all over your fixtures.
- Cover your shelves with so many knick-knacks that the dust has nowhere to fall and just kind of floats in the air. You know, like at grandma's!
- Before you set the Roomba loose, give it a bump of cocaine.
- Hand your kid a broom, threaten to take their phone away, then sit back and watch the little turd sweep.
- Tape a Swiffer to the cat and then bounce a laser pointer up-and-down the hallway.
- Just throw all your clutter on the mattress and cover it with the comforter. It will be the most action your bed's seen in years!
- Admittedly, this should be your last resort, but you can't go wrong with arson!
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