1. Take Cleaning Positively
You spend a large part of your life cleaning, not to torture yourself, but for your own well-being. Living in a clean house where everything is in its place is good for good mood, productivity and overall health.
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Try not to perceive cleanliness as hard labor. Consider it an investment in a pleasant holiday.
2. Give yourself a reward
Everything is simple to the point of banal: if it is too difficult to start cleaning, figure out how to please yourself after you do it. Promise yourself a delicious dessert or another episode of your favorite series.
3. Clean up when no one is home
Surely most people find it easier to clean up when they are at home alone. Even if it makes it impossible to attract household members to a useful activity.
Don't try to clean up when you might be interrupted. Apart from unpleasant emotions like irritation, this will bring little.
It's terribly infuriating when someone immediately makes a mess of everything that you recently neatly tidied up. Or prevents you from mopping the floors, running from one room to another.
4. Do not take on all the rooms at once
You do not have to understand by cleaning the total liberation from the mess of all parts of your apartment. Waiting for a general cleaning of all rooms along with washing floors and windows is exhausting even before it starts. Wash the kitchen today, clean the bath tomorrow - the general appearance of the apartment will not suffer from this.
5. Schedule
Think about how you find it easier to clean: once or twice a week for a couple of hours or every day for 20-30 minutes. If you are not sure, at least try the second method. So the front of work will stop scaring you, and putting things in order will become something ordinary.
For example:
Monday: sort clothes in the closet.
Tuesday: dust off, put things on the shelves.
Wednesday: mop the floor in the entire apartment.
Thursday: clean the bathroom.
Friday: wash the stove.
Saturday: sort out old things on the balcony.
Sunday: change bed linen, send laundry.
As a result, every day you will not have so much to do around the house. And it will take no more than half an hour to complete them.
6. Treat cleaning like a sport
An hour of mopping burns about 200 calories. And if you do a thorough cleaning of carpets, the same result can be achieved in half an hour. The same number of calories you can burn for a full yoga session.
7. Turn on active music
Calm and melancholic songs will not work. Turn on the music to which you just want to start moving. She will set the rhythm and cheer you up, and time will fly by faster with her - you will be surprised that mopping takes only four or five tracks.
8. Shut down social media
Cleaning may end at the previous point - when you sat down at the computer to select music, and so you didn’t get up because of it. Or you decide to turn on the radio on your phone and see a new message. Close all chats and disable notifications.
9. Start with the hardest
Find the most annoying thing about cleaning and do it first. A visual result and the feeling that the most difficult thing has been done motivates you to move on.
If you are going to clean the bathroom, start by cleaning the toilet bowl. When you need to change bed linen, first deal with the duvet cover. The rest will take care of itself.
10. Get rid of unnecessary things
Stop endlessly shifting, wiping, laying out things that you don’t need at all. When you make space, you immediately want to clean it up, arrange it neatly and keep it clean.
Take out all the old and unnecessary things and immediately put them in bags. The main thing is not to hide it on the balcony or in the pantry, but try to immediately take it out of the apartment so that there is no temptation to return everything back. Yes, and extra blockages to you to anything.
11. Add something new to the interior
Buy a bright vase or lamp, arrange decorative candles, or hang new curtains. Bring any little thing that will decorate your home. And if you have a mess in your apartment, you will feel that wherever you put a new little thing, nothing can decorate your house like cleanliness.
12. Clean up small messes right away.
Start washing dishes immediately after eating. This will take a maximum of five minutes. If there is no time at all, for example in the morning, pour the dishes with warm water - it will be much easier to wash them after.
Always put your books away, put away your make-up, make your bed - take a minute of your time. From such trifles, order is born, which is so pleasant to maintain that no motivation is needed.
How many times a week should you dust?
In addition to daily dusting, it is recommended to clean with disinfectants once a week. It is not necessary to do this every day, since excessive contact with chemicals can weaken the protective functions of the body.