If you always wonder how your girlfriend, colleague or mother manage to work, have fun and maintain an ideal order, it's time to reveal their secrets.
Down with the trash!
Any cleaning begins with an audit. At this stage it is important to assess impartially which items in your house are needed and useful, and which are for the look and for future use. Mercilessly get rid of clothes that you have not worn for more than a year, from books that you will never read, from old magazines, from things that you have been given and that are still in boxes.
Do not feel sorry for souvenirs that you do not like and trifles that can come in handy when you get married, give birth to a child or retire. Now they do not need you, so their place is outside the house.
Especially valuable things do not necessarily throw away. They can be donated or given to someone, taken to a shelter or even to an orphanage. So you will do two good things: help yourself and others.
As soon as you get rid of all the rubbish that clogged the cabinets, pantry, corners and windowsills, you will immediately notice that it became easier to breathe, and the work has decreased significantly.
Arrange the furniture correctly!
Of course, maybe it is your lamp that should stand in the middle of the room, and the vases are staggered along the corridor. Perhaps beautiful mountains from books or decorative gizmos and decorate the interior, but how will you clean the dust and wash the floor?
Of course, to move it all every time, and then to place in places you do not want anyone. So free up space. The more you have free space, the more empty surfaces, the easier and faster you will do the cleaning. Therefore, it is better to store many things in cabinets, not on shelves.
Do not try to do everything at once!
The main thing that scares the cleaning is the amount of work. Understand, you are not a robot and you can not clean the plumbing in one day, wash the windows and cut the floors. Nobody demands this from you. Just divide the work into several stages, alternating complex with simple. For example, after washing the windows, disassemble the photos, and after cleaning the bathroom, clean the table.
But do not delay cleaning. A few days are enough to slowly remove the usual apartment, if the cleaning is delayed for a month, there will be no sense from it.
Bring it to the end!
Never leave behind a mirror or floor. If you get down to business, get the result, otherwise the work will seem impossible.
In order to work at home does not seem hard labor, you have to see where your efforts lead. And what can be the satisfaction, if everything glitters in one corner, but in another pogrom?
Use modern cleaning products and even help, but make sure that your apartment gradually acquires the kind you wanted before you took on a mop and a rag.
Keep order!
This is an obligatory condition, otherwise you will spend all the weekend only for cleaning, but by the middle of the week your house will look like you were not cleaned at all. It is important to wash the dishes immediately after you have used it, wipe the dust several times a week, wash the floor as necessary and do not be lazy, clean the plumbing at least once every 2 days.
Prevention is needed not only for health. If you give at least 30 minutes a day to ordinary household chores, dirt and confusion in your home will never be. It is enough to put all things in place and clean up the dirt as soon as it appears, not postponing the work for later and not accumulating a large amount of contamination.
Thus, in just a few minutes a day, you will achieve the same result as after the first spring cleaning.
Encourage yourself!
I just do not want to do anything. And laziness is very difficult to win. Design for yourself a system of bonuses that will help overcome fear of work and laziness. For example, after each week spent in clean, you can give yourself a book or a disc with a movie, and at the end of the month, go to a club or a new blouse in excess of those that were planned.
In addition, you will like to live in purity and have an organized space around yourself. You will feel the benefits of a new way of life. Now you do not need to search for anything, you always know what and where lies. You do not need to feverishly shovel garbage under the couch, if visitors come unexpectedly. You can proudly invite even the groom's mother to dinner. Your cleaning takes minutes, not hours, and the result is stunning. You became objects of envy, not ridicule, as it was before. Well, finally, you have become an independent person who coped with the chaos and therefore is able to cope with even greater difficulties.
There is an expression: "There is no order in the house, there will not be in the head either." It's really true. Remember how you do not want to return to a house where the situation depresses you, where you feel guilty for not doing a job, where it's difficult to find even the most necessary things and where exactly you will not make a statement with a man. Now, in return for a small effort, you will get at least one part of your life that will be ideal.