Housework tips
Staying on top of the housework when you have a full time job, a husband or wife, and kids running around can be pretty challenging. We have come up with a few simple steps that can help you stay ahead of your jobs, so you have more time to do the fun stuff!
Essential Housework Tips
- Run the dishwasher after dinner, empty it first thing, fill it as you go …
- Never let towels out of bathroom – they will be left in a soggy heap
- Bathrooms get mucky after a few days so a big weekly clean can become a waste of time. Quickly wipe round bathroom basin, top of bath, and toilet every other day if you are short on time.
- Keep a squeege in the shower so you can give the glass a wipe over everytime you are in it, to help avoiding big cleans.
- Keep bin bags upstairs so can easily empty bins without bringing them down.
- Enforce ALL dirty clothes in laundry basket before bed time stories rule
- Hang up clothes that could be worn again … cuts down laundry
- Have a laundry routine and stick to it …
- Be absolutely brutal about ironing – work & best clothes only
- Hang everything up as soon as it’s dry … iron when it’s needed
- Make it fun … but enforce 2 minute “tidy up time” of toys every day
- Have a large basket into which stuff to go upstairs can be stashed throughout the week
- Empty the basket & put things back where they belong once a week
- Making the beds only takes a minute & it will make you feel more in control …
- Get everyone to take shoes off when they come in house
- Start a basic housework routine … that actually works for you …
- 15-30 mins housework daily more effective than a big blast
- Clean against a hard deadline.
- Start cleaning from bottom of house … this is the bit visitors see
- Stock up on baking soda and vinegar … there’s not much they can’t clean
- Run baking soda & vinegar through your dish washer every 6 months
- Run vinegar through the washing machine every 6 months to keep it fresh
- Give children a spray bottle of water & a cloth so they can “help”
- Get a spring cleaning checklist & do one thing off it every week
- Always cook double quantities … and freeze one …
- However short you are on time do something … 5 mins daily better than nothing.
Good luck,
Tailored Cleaning Solutions.