Cleaning: Pay in order

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

If you are categorically against the housekeeper, then you are faced with the problem of cleaning every minute … when you are at home.

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You can try to divide the types of cleaning into groups, types and subspecies, but they will all boil down to three main categories: daily (or preventive) cleaning, general cleaning and forced cleaning (breakdown of a washing machine, a defrosted refrigerator and other delights of life … for example, an unexpected visit guests).

In practice, daily cleaning can be weekly, or every two to three days.

General - at least once every six months and not more often than once a month due to the lack of moral and physical strength for too frequent repetition of this feat. Forced - depending on your "luck".

Program executors

The frequency of cleaning directly depends on the number of people living in your apartment. True, sometimes a single husband manages to blame him as if he was secretly cloned, but this is rather the exception than the rule. But the decision to share the delights of cleaning with family members is quite wise and reasonable. At first, it often seems that it will be faster to clean up on her own than waiting for her husband to wash the dishes or vacuum. But experience, as you know, comes with time. And, moreover, it is worth teaching children to order. They must learn to scrub spilled paint off the table, rip off crushed plasticine from the carpet and, of course, put toys and books back in place.

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If you want to subject household chores to strict division, pay attention to the real abilities of the household. With all the desire, a man will not be able to see the dust in all places where it lies (it looks like this is a physiological feature of the male). Take some of this work (wiping the shelves, equipment, vases) on yourself. But knocking out carpets and curtains, plus a loyal ally, a vacuum cleaner, is quite within his power.

However, the most correct tactic will still be to change the field of activity - even if sometimes, albeit for a short time, but you need to accustom your husband to the idea that he is able to iron the linen, wipe the shades on the chandelier and remove the stain from the sofa. But you can safely go on a business trip without fear of seeing the "last day of Pompeii" upon your return.

There is another tricky option - ask your friends to help you clean. At the end of the not very pleasant part of the program - a bachelorette party.

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But be prepared for the fact that next time you will be asked about the same, and, almost according to Murphy's law, the most inappropriate day will be chosen. And you can't refuse!

Performance program

Let's start with the general cleaning, because it is for this that the program should be scheduled in advance and it is advisable to give out the score to each performer. If not in writing, then at least orally.

It is very important to determine the cleaning sequence. At first glance, the question is ridiculous - don't you really know what exactly needs to be cleaned in your apartment! However, it often happens that not so self-evident points of the program remain behind the scenes, and you remember them at the last moment. This happens to any of us: for example, vacuuming the carpet and remembering that you forgot to remove the curtains (or at least the linen from the bed); feel the need to wash the trash can exactly after the end of the plumbing and washing work … Therefore - especially if you divided the scope of work into several people - agree on what follows!

Some people prefer to clean the premises in order: first - one room, but completely, then another, then the kitchen, bathroom, corridor …

: the result is obvious! Nice to see the work of their own hands.

: if, God forbid, in the next room there are several things from the previous one, write horrible. Rearrange everything again, hang it on a hanger, shove it into the closet, put in order with such difficulty!

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Alternative method: this or that action applies to the entire territory.

indeed, it is easier to wash the floor all at once throughout the apartment than to alternate it with washing dishes and hands.

not suitable for wiping dust, as it is inextricably linked with the arrangement of things in their proper places.

Things that are difficult to care for (the same carpets and curtains) should be dry-cleaned. The accumulated laundry goes to the laundry: it is much more pleasant to get a neat stack than a pile of clean, but not ironed things!

Improvised means

Unless you are a fan of grandma's recipes (although they are, of course, very useful!), Then stock up on all the tools you need for cleaning, which are abundantly presented in stores today. Spraying on the glass with a spray and then wiping it with a rag is still much more pleasant than sniffing ammonia … Potato peelings are certainly a very economical way to clean the carpet, but they must be done first! And the carpet shampoo is ready!

You can clean the oven with baking soda until the second or even third coming, or you can buy a special paste that removes carbon deposits in a few minutes. The choice is yours. The only thing that would be nice to do is to explain to the household how and where to use this or that chemical. There are plenty of men who think that "Mister Muscle" is able to clean the toilet.

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It would also be nice to have different containers for diluting various liquids and cute little things like a mop with a rag and a brush. Technological progress, of course, is the greatest achievement of mankind, but getting a huge washing vacuum cleaner out of the closet due to the fact that you spilled juice on the floor is, in general, inappropriate.

How to keep what has been achieved

In general, sorry for the banality, only one thing: the constant maintenance of order. It is not at all necessary to turn every day into “heroic everyday life”. But judge for yourself - you do the dishes every day, don't you? In the same way, during the day, or in the evening, you can take a look around the apartment and return things that have somehow disappeared from them. To wipe off the dust, in general, is also easy. And the next day, vacuum the carpets. And, what is great, you can do it in turn - day you, day - husband. Try!

… After all, all the same, let's face it: the wise proverb “they are greeted by their clothes, but escorted by their minds” is right here only in the first part. No matter how well people treat you, they are unlikely to want to come to uncomfortable, neglected territory again - you will meet in neutral. Do you need it?