by The British Library

With relatives visiting for the holidays and your home becoming a warm entertainment space, what better time than now to do some holiday cleaning? Although the holidays tend to bring families together, your house needs to be as ready as you are! Whether you are trying to make space in the guest room’s dresser doors or have a more functional space for your family, it is time to get some holiday housekeeping services done. Roll up your sleeves and prepare to have the clean home you want!

But are you the one who will be doing the cleaning or would you go to hire maids. Intelligent decision would be to hire maids to do housekeeping services rather than indulging your precious in this auspicious holiday season. Rather than spending time cleaning upholstery, kitchen, bath or even backyard spend the time doing shopping for your dear ones. Holidays are for enjoying the time with your family and not doing all the cleaning your home needs.

Maids are there who are professionally trained to do the house cleaning using latest cleaning equipment. You just need to leave your keys in the box outside your home and these maids will come in your absence to clean your home. But be sure the maids you hire are insured, bonded and verified. This is required to avoid expenses you might end up paying to maids while doing housekeeping services if they meet with any accident.

Another reason to hire verified maids is to make your home valuables safe in your absence. Nobody would like to be present while cleaning is done. But also no one would like that their valuables are stolen.

To avoid this check with the cleaning company if the maids coming at your home have gone through proper verification process.

Once you finalize the maids the best way to go about housekeeping services is to have a strategy. You should know what you are going to tackle and what you are going to do with the items you find that you can do without. If you find that you do not use an item in your day to day life and that you have not found in useful within the past 3-6 months, consider putting it in the toss/done pile.

Be sure to keep sentimental items in one area so that nothing is accidentally misplaced in the sorting and housekeeping services process. Once you have sorted through all the items and have established what you no longer need, consider donating the items to help the less fortunate during the holiday times. If you are looking to make some extra cash to spoil your loved ones, consider selling some items online or taking clothing to a used clothing store that will pay you for your gently worn items. What is one man’s junk is another man’s treasure!