Too Much Stuff to Clean - Where Do You Start?


Have you ever gone to clean a customers house and when you get there the place is cluttered?
Stuff everywhere and it's going to take forever before to tidy up before you can even start the maintenance clean?
A little part of you is happy for the job, and a big part of you wants to turn and run.
What do you do?

Today on #AskaHouseCleaner we discuss this very issue.
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