Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Getty Images / d3sign Should you clean before your house cleaner arrives? This question sparks debate in households everywhere.

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Jeff Somers is a freelancer who has been writing about writing, books, personal finance, and home maintenance since 2012. When not writing, Jeff spends his free time fixing up his old house. He has ...

Cleaning used to be an all-or-nothing proposition for me. I would tackle the whole house at once, for hours at a time until it was done. Everything looked glorious—well, at least for a few days, ...

You know how cleaning is on your to-do list, oh, every day of the week and somehow never manages to be checked off? Before you know it, it’s not just cleaning the soap scum off of your glass shower ...

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If you're anything like me, cleaning the house takes you so long that you kind of just… don't do it at all, and then, you spend three entire days deep cleaning every month or so when you finally ...