Article: Clean up small messes before they become big messes

It's important to clean up a small mess before it has time to grow into a bigger mess.

I won't go into detail about how I learned this lesson, except to say it involved peanut butter, honey and ants.

Often it's the little things that count most, especially in cleaning.

Keeping a home clean and tidy means paying attention to little things. By maintaining a daily schedule of little chores, you make your regular, more thorough cleaning easier, and you enjoy the pleasures of living in an orderly house, where you can find the things you want without turning the house upside down, and where things are clean and in good repair.

At our house, I've learned that if I pick up regularly - take a few ...

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