2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
Often the spring general harvest is postponed only because it is difficult to immediately navigate: where to start? A few useful and practical tips will help you coordinate your activities and get away with ease
Winter is long over, and the time has come to settle the spring-summer mood in the house. For this, it is important to carry out a general cleaning and hide the annoying winter things away. This is a great opportunity not only to transform your home, but also to tune in to everything new, positive and successful. But the first difficulty before such an event is the eternal question: where to start? How to correctly identify and keep your nerves?
1. Distribute things
The easiest way to start general cleaning is by disassembling wardrobes and a dressing room. Surely over the winter (and more than one) things have accumulated there, uselessly taking up space and asking for scrap. To make things easier, it's worth splitting things up into several heaps. Their purpose can be different, for example:
1) popular clothing, 2) things in need of repair or alteration (suitable for hand-made), 3) clothes in good condition, but which have not been worn for more than a year (they can be donated to charities, donated or sold), 4) outdated, but sturdy clothing (it can be used as a work uniform in the garden or garage).
5) completely worn-out things that cannot be restored (they should definitely be thrown away or put on rags).
The most dangerous thing is to show excessive mercy on old clothes, leaving their position unchanged. For such cases, there is a simple rule - if the item has not been in demand for a year or a maximum of two, then it is hardly worth keeping it in the closet. It is recommended not to delay the analysis of the wardrobe for a long time - it is important to devote no more than one day to this event.
2. Prepare tools and cleaning supplies
Some housewives have a bad habit of putting cleaning supplies and cleaning items around the house. This complicates their search and is a serious inhibiting factor. A few days before cleaning, it is advisable to collect all the necessary tools and tools in one basket or box so that everything is at hand. If possible, you need to take into account the necessary stock of those items that can quickly run out. For example, rags. They can be put in more or made from unnecessary old things.
3. Set clear goals
The easiest way to avoid getting bogged down in a massive general harvest is to set clear goals before you start. Even if you manage to do only part of the work at a time, a clear plan will always help you focus and keep everything under control.
The plan should be step by step with the necessary explanations. To begin with, it is worth determining the sequence of rooms to be cleaned, and the main scope of work. Each room can have its own nuances: wash soft toys in the nursery, and knock out pillows in the bedroom, etc.
Do not forget about cleaning the washing machine, dishwasher, tumble dryer. Some professional cleaners advise cleaning each room in a circle, while others suggest working from top to bottom. In any case, the plan will help you move from task to task easily without much hesitation.
4. Be mindful of hard-to-reach areas
They are the ones who spoil the mood for cleaning the most. There is a great temptation to leave them intact, but the task cannot be considered completely completed. Each time, pollution in hard-to-reach places will begin to increase, which will not have the best effect on the general atmosphere of the house and the health of residents. General cleaning differs from the usual one in that it allows you to completely get rid of dust and dirt in all possible areas in the house, including hard-to-reach ones.
Here are just a few places that are often overlooked:
The back of the refrigerator, Ventilation grilles and ceiling fans, The area inside the washing machine, The inner part of the plafonds, Space between window frames, The area along the door fastening, Indirect lighting fixtures, Place behind the toilet and under the bathroom.
5. Maintain a positive attitude
In order for the general harvest to be successful and fun, it is important not to lose your positive attitude. This will help vigorous music and a pleasant surprise-reward, which you can make yourself after finishing work: for example, watch a long-awaited movie, take a bath or taste your favorite dessert. It will be more fun and faster if all family members and even children are involved in cleaning. To keep everyone interested, you can come up with a quest game with age-appropriate tasks.
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