8 Tips to Clean Up After Christmas Dinner from Professional Cleaners

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The Christmas reunion dinners, family and friends' gatherings, drinks and hosting are now in session! Unfortunately, this year, there is only a month between Christmas and Chinese New Year.

Just FYI, Chinese New Year 2024 falls on 10 to 11 February 2024.

If you need to welcome family and relatives to your place once again for the upcoming CNY, you need to get to cleaning up the post-Christmas mess as soon as possible.

From sorting and packing up Christmas decorations, stowing them away in storage, removing candle wax, to cleaning the oven, here are six professional cleaning tips that we got from Helpling.

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How to Clean Up After Christmas: Decorations

1. Remove stains from artificial snow

If you got yourself some professional snow makers or spray-on aerosol snow cans, good luck! These artificial snow contains different types of fat, leaving very stubborn stains on all types of surfaces.

Wrote a massive "Merry X'mas" on your living room's glass windows? Clean the glass the same way as you do with your hob!

Use a ceramic scraper to remove the sticky layer on your window efficiently. For greasy stains underneath the artificial snow, remove them by mixing alcohol or vinegar with warm water. Then, wipe the window with this solution.

Make a note for the future: If you do really need to use artificial snow again, leave a post-it note in your Christmas decor box, reminding yourself to first layer a transparent film over the glass windows before spraying on artificial snow. The sticky residue of cello tape is not nearly as persistent as the artificial snow and can be easily removed with alcohol or vinegar.

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2. Scrape candle wax

Don’t panic! With a scraper, you can first remove the hardened wax in the direction of wood grain, on tables. Blotting paper comes in useful here too: place it on the stain - apply the hair dryer until the wax is completely absorbed. In the end, there will be just a dark imprint recognizable on the paper.

If you got candle wax all over your parquet floors, let it be a lesson! Always place your candles into a glass or a tea light holder. The wax will be dripping into the glass instead on the table. Don’t blow them out to vigorously either and to resist the temptation of sticking your finger into them.

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3. Pack up or dispose Christmas tree

When cleaning up post-Christmas, do not bump your drying-up Christmas tree against any walls or furniture, otherwise the needles will fly and spread wildly through the entire living room and you will still be cleaning them up in February!

This simple trick (really, really simple trick) will save you time in the future - before you put your Christmas tree up, stick a sheet down underneath where it would go, making sure it’s larger than the diameter of the tree.

After the holidays, lay the tree down on it - of course, remove the ornaments first - and proceed to remove the tree from the house! The sheet will collect the needles for you.

For easier cleaning, always get a good Christmas tree (or a high quality artificial Christmas tree). Yes, they cost a little more, however getting a nice tree will actually save you a lot of effort post-Christmas.

They won’t shed its needles that quickly, however, trees such as firs, love cooler temperatures: Place your Christmas tree away from the heating and remember to water it daily.

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4. Sort and pack Christmas gifts

There are are always a few unwanted and distasteful presents hanging around the house after Christmas. There are hundreds of charitable organizations that will be more than happy to collect these from you, instead of you having to throw them away!

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How to Clean Up After Christmas: Dinner

1. Remove roast and cooking odour

A perfect remedy would be to use smell-neutralizing vinegar! Fill shallow bowls with vinegar and hot water and distribute them throughout the place and leave them there overnight. Don't worry, vinegar is not a second source of odour. The aroma dissipates quickly and takes more unpleasant odours with it at the same time.

Ventilate regularly with full open windows, when cooking, so the smell of food does not get any chance to cling to the curtains or walls.

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2. Clean your ovens and microwave ovens

From top to bottom, it is full of dough, grease and residue. The solution: table salt! This absorbs the grease, thus helping to loosen the dirt. Sprinkle the areas most affected generously, with salt, and heat the oven to 50 degrees Celsius. Wipe off the crust with a damp cloth and watch the dirt disappear!

Before baking your CNY cookies, cover the bottom of the oven with aluminum foil. This way, the drops and splashes of grease can simply be taken off after it’s all over - making your post-CNY cleaning way easier.

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