January Cleaning Checklist: How to Restore Order to Your Home After the Holidays

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I scheduled the tasks for when I felt it would reduce my overall workload. Rather than assign you a specific task for each day this is set up so that you can schedule these tasks throughout the month to make them convenient for your own schedule. Learn more

How to Restore Order to Your Home After the Holidays?

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Remove the Christmas Tree and either arrange for it to be picked up if it was real or put it up if it was fake. Move all the furniture in the living room (or wherever you have your tree set up ) and sweep or vacuum up those thousands of pine needles that are dropped by fresh and fake trees.

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Don’t just pack up your Christmas decorations. Take a little time to fix or toss broken ones. Also, evaluate whether you really use all the decorations you have. If not, set the ones you don’t in a cardboard box to donate.

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Wash, dry, and fold your holiday linens. Treat any stains before you pack the holiday linens away.

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