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Housework it's one of those things that seems to take up so much of your time and yet never gets finished! With many of us having busy, hectic lives, we often find our household tasks are left until the weekend giving us little time to relax and have much needed "me" time.
To spend less time on housework and more time on yourself, try these five top tips.
Get a cleaning box there is nothing worse than spending half of your time trying to locate the furniture polish, bleach and bathroom cleaner! Keep everything you need to tackle your chores in one place. This way, you know exactly where everything is and you can also check when particular items need to be purchased or replaced.
Draw up a schedule if you are one of those people who tries to clean their entire house from top to bottom in a matter of hours, yet often end up with your home looking even worse than when you started a cleaning schedule is for you.
Make a list of all the routine cleaning tasks that need to be done in your home. Go through the list and separate the tasks into ones that need to be done on a daily, weekly and monthly basis. By drawing up a schedule, you are effectively planning your household chores, spreading the tasks evenly over a period of time and ensuring that nothing gets missed. Following a schedule can also help you stop feeling overwhelmed by thinking that everything needs to be done at the same time.
Take 10 just 10 minutes in each room, each day will help you to keep on top of the clutter. To help transform a room within a matter of minutes, always focus upon the largest item of the room to tidy up first. For example, if you have a large coffee table in your living room, tidying away the coffee cups and magazines and wiping it over with a cloth will make the room appear a lot tidier. The eye is drawn to the largest focal point in the room and by keeping this area tidy, the whole room looks neater too!
If you have a matter of minutes to make your space smart, focus on the three "B's" bedrooms, bathrooms and bins. Make the beds, wipe over the bath and basins and empty the bins these small tasks change a room from chaos to calm in moments.
Everything in its place one of the best tips to minimise your housework time is to give every item its own home. Pens and paper to be stored in your desk, magazines in a rack, pots and pans under the kitchen sink....When everything has its own place, it reduces the build up of mess in your home.
Get everyone involved do you find that you are the only one who does the housework? It's time to get other people involved in tackling the task! Age appropriate tasks can be given to children and adults can each take specific rooms or tasks from your cleaning schedule to be responsible for. When working together as a team, you not only diminish your to-do list, the job gets done quicker too. A reward when the job is done also acts as a great incentive!
By using these five tips you will be able to keep the clutter at bay, minimise your time on housework and reclaim your "me" time, to do the things you actually want to do!
