Why You Should Hire a Cleaner When Going on Holiday

Guest Post

Holidays are meant to be relaxing, and, generally speaking, they are. But when you’re focusing on getting ready for your trip, the last thing you want to think about is cleaning the house.

This is why it can make sense to hire a cleaning service when you’re going on holiday. It might seem counterintuitive, but it can be a massive help for keeping your stress levels to a minimum. Let’s look at why.

1. Allows You to Focus on Packing

Hiring a cleaner when going on holiday doesn’t just have to cover the period you’re actually away. Starting the week before you go means you can focus on packing and organising the family, as well as travel documents and everything else you need.

Plus, having the cleaner come while you’re at home means you can talk them through routines and show them where everything is. Once this is done, you can get back to sorting your stuff!

2. You Don’t Have to Do the Cleaning

This should be fairly obvious, but hiring a cleaner means you’ve got one less thing to worry about. While it might not apply to everyone, plenty of us like coming home to a clean house, which typically means having to clean before we leave.

However, hiring a cleaner means you can tick this off your list. It’s the best of both worlds, then, as you can have a clean house without you being the one who cleans it! What’s more, you can ask them to take care of “extra” jobs, such as doing the ironing, putting your bins out, and more.

3. You Can Forget About Sorting the Fridge

Again, this is probably one of the less important jobs and something many of us will probably ignore in the run-up to a holiday. But sorting out the fridge, fruit bowl and so on means you can at least come home to a house that’s free from mouldy food.

Getting a cleaner to sort this for you means it can be done when needed, in turn meaning you don’t have to throw away food that might actually be okay when you get home from holiday.

4. Returning to a Clean Home is Great

Those of us who do clean before going on holiday know how nice it is to return to a clean home. However, dust will still gather while you’re away, so it’s never going to be as spotless as when you left.

Having a cleaner in while you’re on holiday means your home will be truly spotless when you get back. Better yet, you can ask the cleaner to take care of jobs like changing your bedsheets (which is always a great feeling) and deep-cleaning jobs too. Imagine returning home to clean sheets, a tidy bathroom, and a sparkling kitchen. Bliss!

5. Helps to Relieve a Bit of Stress

Returning from holiday comes with its own range of emotions, including a bit of blues and possibly quite a bit of stress. After all, you’ve finished your holiday and will have to think about returning to work at some point.

When you’ve got plenty of jobs on your list after holiday, including getting kids sorted for school and dealing with all your holiday laundry, throwing house cleaning into the mix isn’t ideal. Having a cleaner help out will at least remove this from your to-do list, giving you one less thing to worry about.

6. Keeps Your House in Check

Most of us will inevitably have a bit of anxiety about leaving our homes unattended for a week or two. Whether we worry about a leaky tap, leaving plugs turned on, or even just posting building up, it can be difficult to keep our minds off our homes.

Having a cleaner pop in while you’re away, even just once, can help you keep a lid on these things. Even if it’s as simple as sorting out your post (or making sure your house is still standing), a cleaner can happily add these minor jobs to their standard list to give you peace of mind.

Final Thoughts

Hiring a cleaner for when you’re on holiday just gives you one less thing to stress over, allowing you to focus on the upcoming relaxation. Whether you just want a bit of hoovering and dusting, or think it’s a good opportunity for a deep clean, getting a cleaner involved can be a massive benefit.