Article: Housework? Don't knock yourself out

Eliminate the clutter and wipe up as you go, and you shouldn't have to spend long, hard days cleaning your house, says Don Aslett, the author of 28 books on cleaning, including Is There Life After Housework?

"Too many people are doing "warrior cleaning" - spending entire Saturdays on their houses. "People hate cleaning because they wait too long," he says, "and it becomes work."

The biggest secret is "do it now," says Aslett, nicknamed "the dean of clean" and "the king of clean." "You'd have almost zero cleaning if you wiped out the shower after you took one and if you wiped off the stove when you spilled something."

On Saturdays you might have to change the sheets on the bed and dump the ...

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