If you prefer your home to look and smell clean, but absolutely abhor household chores, here are some steps you can take to keep your home in good condition with the minimal amount of effort.

Use a dry cleaning delivery service

Owning a lot of 'dry-clean only' clothes when you detest (and therefore, often postpone) taking them to and from the dry cleaners can be problematic as it often results in worn, whiffy garments being left to fester on the floor, or on the backs of chairs, for weeks on end. This can not only result in you having far fewer clothes to choose from when selecting your outfit each day, but can also make your home smell quite bad, even during periods when you manage to stay on top of your other household chores.

If this is an issue that you often find yourself struggling with, you might want to consider using a dry cleaner that offers a dry cleaning delivery service. This type of service will spare you the hassle of collecting your clothing a week or so later. Instead, you can simply drop off your dirty clothes and then, in just a few days, your freshly-laundered garments will be delivered straight to your door.

Knowing that you only have to make one trip to the dry-cleaners, rather than two, should help to lessen the unpleasantness of this particular task and in doing so, encourage you to perform it more regularly. This, in turn, should help to ensure that your home does not become malodorous as a result of the presence of too many unwashed clothes.

Dispose of surface clutter

If when surveying the rooms of your home, you can see piles of clutter on every available surface, then it might be worth disposing of these items (if they are not essential).

The reason for this is as follows; if you're a person who hates housework, knowing that you will have to first remove dozens of items from a table, a desk or a countertop before you can actually clean that surface, it's likely to deter you from carrying out that cleaning task.

By disposing of the items that are obstructing your access to the surfaces of your home, it will be that much easier for you to keep these areas clean. You won't, for example, have to spend ten minutes carefully removing a variety of magazines, trinkets, gadgets and books from a tabletop before you can dust and sanitise it.