Cleaning and Organizing Tips

May 6, 2018 by Suzana Abazi

Effective Ways to Cut Down the Time for Cleaning and Organizing Your Home

If your house is getting dirtier because you simply do not feel like cleaning it for hours every now and then, seems like you need help! Cleaning and organizing your home doesn’t have to be such a struggle if you do it right. Its hygiene depends on multiple factors and if you learn certain techniques, you could always maintain it clean!

This article will teach you how to effectively clean and organize your home while saving your time.

Consider Cleaning and Organizing Your Home as another Job

Cleaning the windows

Although it is your own home and you are not forced to do anything specific, you should definitely disciple yourself if you want to live in a clean and healthy environment. Take cleaning and organizing your home as a job that you must complete at the exact day and time you’ve set previously.

Make a cleaning plan depending on your responsibilities and possibilities. If you schedule Wednesday from 5 to 7 pm for cleaning, take it seriously and do not make any other plans for that time.

Of course, it shouldn’t only be one day a week. Look for the most convenient times and mark them as cleaning hours.

Utilize Adequate Tools

Items for house cleaning

The tools you use for cleaning and organizing your home could either help you finish faster than you planned or make the task way longer than you thought it would be; it depends on the items you choose.

For cleaning, these tools could include a detergent, gloves, an extension dusting kit, sponge, microfiber cloths, spray bottles, scrub brush, etc.

As for organizing, the useful tools could be a cord control, matching hangers, tool organizer, a key organizer, cookware storage, broom holder, etc.

The quality of these items will have a major impact on cleaning and organizing your home. Look for the most convenient products and see the effect they have on your house. If a certain detergent turns out as very powerful, stick to it; the same applies to all the other tools.

Categorize your Items

Organized clothes in a closet

The organization is crucial for a proper home maintenance. Do not let anything more than one drawer become a space for “random items”. Only that one drawer could collect all the things you don’t know where else to put. Make space for all the object categories. Books, papers, pencils and drawing material go together; wrench, nails, screwdrivers and similar go together; the same applies to all the other categories.

Remove the Trash

A cluttered room

If you start storming through the house to clean every single corner, you should know how to do it properly. Some people make major mistakes by not following the right cleaning order and they get lost in between.

When you decide to begin, go through the whole house and pick up all the bigger pieces of trash that you cannot wipe off or vacuum. Put the gloves on your hands and go from one room to another! Do not leave any dirty plate, empty glass, soda can, paper or other leftovers stay around.

After you complete that part, proceed to the vacuuming, brushing and cleaning the flooring. You won’t have any bigger pieces of trash to deal with and the process will be much faster!

Divide the Tasks by Their Type

Cleaning the dust

If you are cleaning and organizing your home completely, then you should separate the jobs by groups. Therefore, first start picking up the trash (as mentioned above), pick up the dirty clothes and just anything that needs washing, put all the things back to their places, clean the dust and windows vacuum the whole house, clean the flooring and in the end – do whatever you think you skipped.

If you do the entire cleaning room by room, you will lose plenty of time. For example, you will finish the floor cleaning in one room and close the door, thinking that room is completed. When you move all the items to the next room, you will make an additional mess that you will need to clean. Also, you will most likely forget something in the previous room and need to return to get it; stepping on the wet floor, you will need to clean again and lose more time.

How much time did you cut down after cleaning and organizing your home by these tips?

Expert Cleaning Tips for Homes with Kids and Pets

Kids and pets do a great job at making you happy but also do a good job of messing up the hygiene of your house. In order to still maintain a clean and healthy environment, you need some expert cleaning tips!

This article contains a list of the best tips that will help you keep your home clean and fresh.

Expert Cleaning Tips

Purchase High-Quality Cleaning Tools

Microfiber cloth

Considering you are cleaning your house for both, your kid and your pet, you should have amazing assisting tools. These items could be so-called brushing gloves that you can use to remove the shedding hair of your dog; organic detergents, soaps, microfiber cloths, high-quality brooms and of course, an outstanding vacuum cleaner!

You should buy a vacuum cleaner with specific features intended to clean dog’s hair and eliminate odors. It should be a very powerful device with a great filter and brush.

Clean your Pets Regularly

Dog Trimming

When your pets go out for a walk, they come back with a bunch of dirt all over their bodies. To prevent all that dirt ending up on the house floor, keep your pets clean. Once in a while, you should give it a bath with a pet shampoo but since it shouldn’t be too often, the plain water would do just fine in removing the dirt quickly and keeping your pet fresh.

If it is a dog or a cat, depending on the breed, it might need regular trimming and/or de-shedding. Although you could learn how to do it alone, it is very convenient to utilize a professional dog groomer for this task.

Do Not Postpone

A kid playing with toys

Consider the toys of your children the same way you would consider dishes without a dishing machine. If you let your kid play with one toy then another and then another throughout the day, in the end, you are going to have a whole mess to deal with. Now, if you remove the toys as soon as he/she stops playing with it and takes another toy, it is going to be much easier.

These cleaning tips are related to both, kids and pets playing with different types of toys.

Select one Place for Your Dog’s Treatment

Dog Bathing

It is important to set one place at your home that will serve as a cleaning station for your pet. It will prevent the rest of the house getting dirty and you will have a smaller area to clean after giving your pet a cleaning treatment.

This could be a laundry room or an entranceway; it should have all the necessary equipment and make it easy for you to complete the task. Therefore, follow these cleaning tips and divide one space for your dog, put heavy duty doormat, wipes, pet towels and water spray bottles that will clean its paws. You can also put some treats there and award your dog for a good behavior.

Organize

Well-organized shelves

Every house has some place where different things end up because they just don’t belong anywhere specifically. This could be the inevitable “chair with clothes” or a box with everything and anything inside. However, it could also become a bad habit of the house members. They could start putting different items together all the time; making those objects difficult to find afterward and making your house harder to clean.

Good organization is one of the crucial cleaning tips. You should organize well and determine places for each item category. That will prevent them all ending up together on a kitchen counter.

If your kids see you doing that, they will follow your steps; making a daily mess by never returning things to the place they are supposed to stay at. Therefore, discipline yourself by creating specific places for all the categories of the items. Moreover, proceed by giving your kids a good example. Every time you take something from some of those places, return it. Your kids will see you and do the same, which will be a great improvement for the hygiene of your home!

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