If you clean your own home, here are some ways to make your job easier. If you pay someone to clean your home, these tips will make their job easier (and thus cheaper for you).

1. Reduce Clutter Place your collectibles behind glass in display cases. Less handling will keep them safer, and save a bunch of dusting time. Leave only essential items on bedside tables, bathroom counters, and kitchen counters.

2. Use Liquid Soap Here in the Southwest we have hard water. When mixed with bar soap and dirt, the resulting scum clings like brown glue to shower and tub surfaces. Using liquid soap helps float all the dirt down the drain, leaving a lot less scrubbing to do. 3. Spider Control

Especially if you have rustic surfaces in your home, you might want to hire a pest control company to keep the spiders out of your home. When busy spiders leave their handiwork on your rough beams or brickwork, the time spent by your housekeeper will go up significantly. Removing cobwebs from smoother surfaces is less time-consuming.