Clean a little now, so I don't have to scrape a lot later

Post date: 2018-07-19 12:53:16

What little, relatively easy cleaning jobs can I do on a regular basis that would be A LOT harder to clean if I let them go?

I recently moved out of an apartment and was faced with two cleaning jobs that were a pain in the butt, but would have been a lot easier if I'd done them regularly:

- Baseboards: I feel like these are the platonic ideal of what I'm talking about. You can dust them weekly (ok, monthly is probably more realistic for me) with a duster OR you can wait months until the dust has turned into a sticky residue that requires scrubbing on one's hands and knees.

- Hard water build-up in the toilet. The apartment I moved out of was the first I'd ever lived in with hard water, and the toilet got a pretty significant buildup of limescale. I was eventually able to chip the scale away with a special tool, but my neighbors (in the same building, with the same toilets/pipes/water) who were less lazy/procrastinatory, and who cleaned their toilets at the very first signs of stains, did not have to do this.

So in my new apartment, I'm determined to dust the baseboards and scrub the toilet on a regular basis. What else should I do, on top of the standard wipe down surfaces/sweep/vacuum that I do on a regular basis?

Please note: I'm specifically looking for things that are easy to do on a regular basis and which will pre-empt really gross/difficult/unpleasant cleaning jobs later. Obviously, most cleaning jobs are more labor-intensive the longer you go, just because there's more dirt to clean, but I'm talking about the things where the dirt/mess changes form the longer you wait and becomes significantly different/more difficult to clean because you waited.

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