Most people make New Year resolutions involving diets, fitness routines, and other lifestyle habits, but not many choose to make New Year resolutions about cleaning their homes. As the calendar flips to 2025, now is the time to take the necessary steps to make sure you have a bug-free year! Creating good habits that keep your house clean can be used as preventive measures against bug infestations and other unwanted creatures. In this blog, we’re going to discuss some good cleaning habits that you can put into practice to keep your home clean and pest-free.
Declutter Your Living Spaces
Pests love to hang out in dusty, hard-to-clean living spaces, such as stacks of newspapers, dirty clothes, and forgotten items piled up in corners. Decluttering can be a useful tool in making sure they don’t have places to hide and will give your home an overall cleaner and more organized look.
Seal Your Gaps
Tiny cracks around windows, doors, and floorboards give pests the perfect opportunity to enter and exit your home unannounced. To seal these gaps, consider using caulk or weatherstripping, or look into more permanent solutions such as new door frames or window frames.
Commit to Daily Cleaning
No one likes to take hours out of their weekend to deep clean their home! This is why it’s important to just spend ten minutes a day cleaning and reorganizing your house so that bugs won’t be able to accumulate under furniture.
Control Moisture
Since bugs love damp areas, now is the time to make sure you don’t have water leaks that could lead to a wet basement or a humid shower. Consider using dehumidifiers in rooms where humidity tends to be, as well as ensuring your bathroom has good ventilation. As the saying goes, the “drier” the house, the fewer bugs that are in it!
Store Your Food Properly
With Christmas and the New Year just leaving, you’re more likely to have a ton of leftover foods from hosting parties with family and friends. To make sure this leftover food doesn't attract bugs, use airtight containers in the fridge and the pantry to reduce the likelihood of unwanted creatures getting into it. Also, make sure you don’t store any unsealed food on the floor as bugs could crawl into it!
Call Professional Help
If you’re still struggling with pest infestations after following these steps, then now is the time to call us at Country Boy Pest Control. Our professional experts know how to stop unwanted visitors from entering and taking control of your house, giving you peace of mind and a bug-free home!
Starting the year with a pest-free home might not be the first thing that comes to mind when you’re making resolutions, but it’s worth a consideration! These habits are easy to stick to and make your space cleaner, healthier, and way more enjoyable.
Here’s to a bug-free 2025!