PEOPLE ARE SHARING THEIR BEST TIPS FOR DEEP CLEANING YOUR HOUSE, AND I WISH I'D LEARNED THESE SOONER

Recently, Redditor u/totsatot0 asked, "What’s the best hack when deep cleaning your house?"

Here are 17 of the top responses:

1."I read something in passing that said to spend ten minutes a day putting ten things away. It's helped me so much with the clutter."

2."Asking someone to help you. You can do both the hard cleaning in a short time period and be efficient."

3."Clean wearing a head torch — if it looks good under such good light, it'll look [very good] under normal lighting."

4."Top down. One room at a time. Pace yourself."

5."If you haven't used it in a year, you probably won't ever use it. Get rid of it."

6."Bowl of water and squeezed lemon. Microwave for three minutes. Wipe. Done and smells nice."

7."Take a laundry basket into the room with you. While you're cleaning, anything in the room that belongs in another room goes into the laundry basket. When you go to the next room, the first thing you do is look in the laundry basket for anything that belongs in that room."

8."Lots of Hefty bags, and don't be precious — throw it all away/donate it."

9."Set a timer. Work nonstop until the timer goes off."

10."Energizing music."

11."Don't hold on to junk that you never use because you don't want to create waste by throwing it out. It's already waste; it just lives in your house instead of in a landfill."

12."Organize based on how you use things rather than their type or category, and make it as easy as possible to put things back where they go, even if it isn’t the most efficient or elegant solution."

13."Tidy first, and don't leave any one spot in the house empty-handed."

14."Wet Swiffer to clean the shower, especially if the ceiling needs a cleaning. Same for a dry Swiffer on non-tile surfaces."

15."135L contractor bags."

16."Maybe not a hack, but something that's always worked for me: just haul everything out of the room you're cleaning (don't worry about the ensuing chaos). Strip it down; clean the surfaces. Then as you start putting everything back, you'll find yourself naturally cleaning all the nitty gritty things as you go — as well as tossing out the dead weight and reorganizing in a sensible manner."

17.And finally: "Declutter, declutter, declutter."

What's your best hack for deep cleaning (or just regular cleaning)? Let us know in the comments!

Note: Some responses have been edited for length/clarity.