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Christmas and New Years’ are right around the corner! Is your home ready for the holidays?
Despite the COVID-19 restrictions, most will continue with their usual holiday festivities for their family. If that is you, we encourage you to have fun, create memories, and be safe by following the guidelines set forth by the CDC.
With that said, let’s discuss how to prepare your home for the upcoming holidays!
Declutter and Organize
Before you can clean the home, you should consider doing some quick decluttering and organizing. Now there’s no need to go on a frenzy and get yourself overwhelmed with organizing every nook and cranny of your home, but at least start with the areas that need the most attention.
Choose one room and spend some time each day decluttering and organizing before you move to the next. Consider what you can donate, toss in the trash, or sell for a little extra cash.
Once you are done decluttering and organizing, it’s time to clean, disinfect, and sanitize!
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Clean, Disinfect, and Sanitize
It goes without saying that cleaning your home is a must, especially before you host family gatherings. Now more than ever, it is important to clean, disinfect, and sanitize areas of your home.
Tackle the home’s high touch point areas first, then move to areas where your guests will spend the most time during the holidays – Kitchen, Dining room, Living room, Bathroom, etc.
Don’t want to do it yourself? Contact Maid for You! We’ll cheerfully clean your home top to bottom so that it is ready for the holidays. Get a F-R-E-E quote!
Decorate the Home
Now that your home is decluttered, organized, and cleaned top to bottom, it’s time to pull out your favorite holiday decorations and deck the halls!
As with the other two, work from room to room to avoid feeling overwhelmed and take your time as you place your decorations in the perfect place. Consider the decoration and the guests you’ll have in your home for the holidays. Place fragile items up and out of reach of children or pets, use double-sided tape or command strips to hang items on the walls without holes, and be mindful about anything that can get hot or has a flame to avoid overheating or accidental fires.
Don’t forget your festive tree either – Those twinkling lights are sure to keep your Christmas spirits high!
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Purchase Gifts
With your home being spotless and fully decked out, you’re likely in the shopping mood, so now is the perfect time to create your Christmas shopping list and consider all of the amazing people in your life that you want to purchase something special for this Christmas season.
Due to COVID-19, small businesses have been hit hard; we encourage you to shop local and support as many small business owners as you can in your area. Many are offering gift certificates or gift cards where you can save now and use later!
In fact, Maid For You also has gift cards available through our website, and we have a special promotion right now that you don’t want to miss!
Through 12/25/2020, for every $100.00, you get a $20.00 BONUS added to your gift card!
Consider giving the gift of a clean home – purchase a gift card!
Additionally, Maid For You also has a limited-time Christmas Special!
From now until 12/24/20, you can get our Maid Service for a year! That’s 12 months of cleaning For $1,850. This package must be paid in full and is nonrefundable.
Your first cleaning, in January, is a six-hour initial cleaning, with a gift of flowers, then monthly, not every four weeks.
If the home is more than 2,500 sq ft it is a three-hour custom cleaning, which you customize by giving a priority list to our cleaners. Then you are gifted free oven or free refrigerator cleaning to be used anytime after the 1st cleaning by giving notice.
Contact us today for this exclusive cleaning package!
And, of course, once you purchase or receive the gifts you have ordered online, it’s time to wrap them up and place them under your tree. As a bonus – they can now be part of your Christmas decorations too!
Lastly, the holidays don’t have to be stressful. The key element is to plan, set aside time to do what is needed, and enjoy the process. The important thing is the memories you’ll create with your loved ones, so please don’t stress about everything needing to be perfect and focus on the time you’ll spend together this season.
Share in the comments: What is one thing you do to prepare your home for the holidays?