Keeping the house clean during Christmas Day

Christmas is a brilliant time of year to get the family together, but it can also be a messy time of year. There are many presents to open, much food to be served and a lot of drink to consume. You want Christmas to be a stress free as possible, so how can you keep the house looking tidy and clean effortlessly?

Christmas Presents

If you have a large family and they are all congregating around yours for the day, there will be a lot of presents to unwrap. Make sure all present giving is in one room and have a few refuse sacks stashed away in a corner.

Once all the presents have been unwrapped and everyone has showed their gratitude you can simply reach for a couple of sacks and quickly pick up all the rubbish, leaving the living room spotless. 

Christmas Dinner

If you like to have different stations in the kitchen for different parts of the meal make sure to have a black refuse sack at every station. Having a bin in reach whilst preparing the meal will keep people motivated to throw the rubbish away and keep the kitchen looking presentable.

Use Biodegradable refuse sacks for recyclable products. Having different coloured sacks will help keep non-recyclable products separate from what is not. Once the meal is in the oven, give the countertops a quick wipe down and put all refuse sacks in the appropriate bin.

After the meal

Get everyone to join in with the washing up. Put on some Christmas songs and have a little sing-a-long whilst cleaning. Designate jobs for everyone, some retrieving the empty plates and glasses, someone washing up and a team drying and putting away.

If you have a dishwasher have someone bringing in the plates, someone filling the dishwasher and someone giving the dining room table a quick wipe with some multipurpose spray.

When everyone comes together, such a big job will be done is half the time and half the effort is required.

Christmas drinks

Organise three separate bins outside the house; one for glass, one for recyclable products and the last one for non-recyclable.  Creating order from the beginning of the day, will keep the house looking clean and tidy throughout it and doesn’t require any time or effort.

This is a great way to organise what can go to the bottle bank and what can go in the brown or black bins after the Christmas holiday has finished. 

Doing all these tasks throughout the day will allow you to finish the evening putting your feet up with a cup of tea, and look back at the day’s activities without having to think about cleaning.