Get Helpers
You already volunteered to be host, don’t let everyone else flake out on helping with clean up. Assign a few jobs at the beginning of the festivities so that folks know they have a job to do before they can leave or take a nap. Good jobs to assign to others would be trash duty, and dish collection. Dishes seem to creep all over the entire house during the holidays.
Tackle the Monster
The kitchen usually gets the brunt of the holiday festivities. Everyone is cooking, everyone is eating, but no one wants to help with the dishes. Cleaning as you go while preparing your holiday meals will go a long way toward alleviating some of the post-holiday kitchen trauma. However, once the guests have gone home tackle the kitchen first. This will help you get a sense of accomplishment that will power you on through the rest of the house.
Clean Bathrooms
If you have had a house full of guests for several hours, then you bathroom has seen an above average amount of activity. Chances are you scrubbed and sanitized your bathroom right before your guests arrived, but it will need it again as soon as they leave. Scrub down toilets with germ killing cleaners, refill the toilet tissue, sweep up the floor again and light a holiday candle to remind yourself that even though it’s hard work, you love the holidays.
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