Keep your home mess-free with these New Year’s resolutions for creating better home cleaning habits.

These five simple commitments are easy to implement into yourdaily, weekly, and monthly routines.

Personalize Your Cleaning Schedule

Just as no two homes are the same, yourcleaning routinesshouldn’t be, either.

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Commit to usinghomemade cleanersto keep your home dirt-free and safe.

Tobanish household odors, create natural room scents, carpet powders, reed diffusers, and plug-in refills.

Finally Get Your Houseplants to Thrive

Regularlycleaning your houseplantshelps keep dust and insects from settling into your home.

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Regularlyremove dead or yellowing leavesto keep plants healthy.

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Slowly running a vacuum over the mattress gives it time to suck up dust and dust mites.

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Shrink Your Bills (and Go Green!)

Who wants to save money this year?

Start bylowering your utility bill.

Simple home adaptations, likeboosting energy conservationorinstalling smart plugs, canslash your energy bill.