Quotes About Cleanliness

When buyers see the pride of ownership - when they come in, and they're impressed by how clean the place is - they can picture their kids playing on the floor. They can picture the family sitting around the table. When they can picture their own family in that space, instantly you grab them, and they'll pay more money, too.

Always bring a pack of baby wipes with you.

Put all the menus and TV guides and magazines and local info papers in the drawers. I hate clutter!

I am very particular about cleansing.

Clean dish towels can be as pleasurable as clean sheets.

Every kitchen, to some extent, is an operating room, whether conscious of the responsibility or not.

Leave the kitchen bright, fresh, and ready for the next meal—as if it was new, and you had not been there.

Keeping flat surfaces clear is perhaps the single most important thing to keep in mind for your kitchen—as it is for any room in the house. A clear countertop makes any kitchen look more organized. Once the flat surfaces start to disappear under clutter, you lose your motivation to keep the area organized and you open the area to attracting more dust and dirt, further compounding the clutter problem. Consider flat surfaces your preparation area—not your storage area!

Clean shoes are no indication of clean feet, especially if worn on the head.

I am so organized that it's dysfunctional. Everything has a place. I am a very visual person, so my environment is important to me. If my environment is messy, I can't think clearly. I don't like clutter. A clean desk is a clean mind for me.

I know how to separate my own laundry.

My dad always told me that shoes should be clean and shiny, so I'm really particular about it.

I won't leave the house without having a shower and, as much as it makes me a terrible anti-conservationist, I often have two a day.

I can take five showers in one day.

When you walk into anybody's house with footwear, you tend to bring in germs and bacteria.

It's not a bargain if it has bedbugs.

I take a bath three times a day.

I never go bed without taking my makeup off.

Never been a washcloth user, no.

An empty desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer.

There was a powerful and effulgent smell of industrial disinfectant. It's a smell that never reassures you about cleanliness; rather, it makes you doubly squeamish of lurking vileness. Soap smells clean, disinfectant smells dirty. Funny that.

Washing, this modern behind the ears nonsense.

And Desormie dragged the back of his hand back and forth across his mouth twice. And Brodsky coughed fakely to mask his laughter. And there was no more paste in the mouth-corners of Desormie. And Brodsky would not have to stare at paste while they talked in his office. That was nice of me. I went to the gym.

Cleanliness, whether moral or of another kind, had its own peculiar meaning for these people. That they were water-shy was obvious on looking at them and, unfortunately, very often also when not looking at them at all. The odor of those people in caftans often used to make me feel ill. Beyond that there were the unkempt clothes and the ignoble exterior.