Keeping your house tidy day after day is not that complicated with a few simple gestures. In fact, it is more than necessary to keep it in perfect condition and make weekly cleaning much more bearable. The ideal is to create a series of routines and habits that help you maintain order without going crazy. Review this list daily and you will see how, in a few days, you have internalized it and it is much easier for you to keep your house tidier and for longer.
1. Make Your Bed As You Get Up
It is one of the basics of order. Making your bed when you get up has many benefits: from boosting your selfesteem to reducing stress. But the best thing is that, when you return from work, the feeling of order will invade you and you will feel that your room is much more welcoming and invites you to rest. Furthermore, sleeping with an unmade bed has a negative impact on your rest, causing torticollis or back contractures.
2. Wash The Dishes After Each Meal
If you do it after every meal and every dinner, you will prevent dirt from becoming embedded in the dishes, but you will also prevent bad odors from accumulating in your kitchen. Plus, that way you won’t have to deal with them the next morning, when we’re always in a hurry, or when you use the kitchen again. Banish laziness and, as you finish eating, pick up the dishes and wash them or put them in the dishwasher.
3. Put Things Away After Each Use
It is the number one rule of order. If you use something, put it back when you’re done using it. It can be a bit tedious when we are busy at work, but it is a routine that will help you keep your house tidy at all times and, best of all, free of out-of-place objects.
4. Give The Bathroom A Once-over After A Shower
It is not about cleaning it like when you do general cleaning, but take the opportunity to place the towels, remove possible toothpaste stains from the sink or wipe the screen quickly with a cloth to remove limescale.
The heat of the shower water softens the dirt, so it will be much easier (and faster) to do it. Plus, this way you won’t have to ‘kill yourself’ when you clean the toilet thoroughly.
5. Pick Up The Clothes You Take Off When You Get Home
Yes, we know that you are tired after a long day away from home, but it is not worth leaving the clothes you take off lying on top of an armchair anyway. Ideally, you should put those clothes that need to be washed in the dirty clothes bucket, while you should put away jeans, jackets or sweaters that can be used several more times before going through the laundry.
