12 Home Maintenance Tasks You Should Be Doing

Making repairs around your home — as opposed to hopping on the phone and calling someone else up to come through your home to see to it that everything doesn't dissolve into shambles — not only saves you loads of money in the long run, but it's a nice and necessary pat of validation for one's ever desirous ego. 

This AskReddit thread is all about spotlighting the key home maintenance tasks that you can do all by yourself around the home. For instance, emptying that dryer filter of all of its lint isn't rocket science, and it could literally save your home. 

So, apparently you really can't sleep on those baseboards. 

We are always going to fully support something that could not only keep you and any loved ones that you might live with safe, but could also (absolute worst-case scenario) quite literally spare you from having to drop a massive bag of gold coins on a new home. 

With autumn having made its grand arrival comes plenty of rain for plenty of us. That rain can really creep up on you with water leakage and whatnot. 

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A very simple yet highly, highly effective way to keep your home in good standing. 

There's almost something meditative about giving those clogged up gutters a proper cleaning. 

There seems to be a mounting pattern with some of these very low-effort home maintenance tasks only needing doing but once a year. 

Can't put a price on the value of making sure that your home isn't proactively, silently poisoning you. 

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Perhaps one of the best parts about clean filters is that they also promote smoother operation in the appliances that you have that use them. 

And your washing machine will thank you extensively for it. 

Hopefully your ice maker works in the first place. 

That is quite the wise and highly accurate statement about life never quite being the same once you've committed to ensuring that your home is rocking nothing short of supreme air quality. 

Don't let the termites win. Just don't.