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I hate to clean, I despise it.
But I hate being in a dirty house even more, and I know I’m not alone. So here are 10 organizational tips to help get your home or room tiny and keep it that way.
1. Declutter Your Home
The first thing you should do is declutter your space.
Clutter builds up really fast, you just keep accumulating more stuff and it gets harder to clean and keep organized.
Take a day, and go through your things to declutter. Make different piles of what you need, what you can throw away, and stuff to donate. When you don’t have a place for all the clutter, it ends up floating around your house making every room feel messy.
If you hardly use something, get rid of it. Stop saving things because you might use it and get rid of everything you don’t use anymore. This will make your home tidier and make cleaning much easier.
2. Keep Your Cleaning Supplies On Hand
If your dishwashing liquid were to stay in the living room, would you drag yourself all the way there every day to get it and wash the dishes? I wouldn’t, I would easily get distracted and make excuses each day, making the mess just pile up.
Keep your cleaning supplies where they are most needed, bathroom supplies in the bathroom, kitchen supplies in the kitchen, and so on.
This makes cleaning so much easier and narrows down the opportunities to get distracted or simply give up.
Consider getting a cleaning supply caddy to store your products in, this way you can carry around all your supplies as you make your rounds while you clean.
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3. Give Yourself Time Limits To Clean
No matter how much you hate cleaning, anyone can put up with something for ten minutes, right?
Put on a timer for ten minutes and clean your floors, once the timer is done, the floors are clean and all you had to do was spend ten minutes on it.
More often than not, you’ll be in the cleaning zone and be more enticed to continue your cleaning. By the time you’ve washed up your dishes, cleaned your counters, and fluffed all your pillows, it doesn’t matter how long you’ve done it for, your house is clean.
The point is to just begin, and that’s always the hardest part.
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4. Don’t Always Be A Perfectionist
Get your house clean, not spotless, just clean.
If you’re always a perfectionist, you’ll spend hours on one area in the house, and by the time you’ve gotten that spotless, you’re tired and feel like stopping.
Get your bigger areas clean and tidy, if you’re a perfectionist, set aside a day where you get everything spotless and perfect and just maintain that the rest of the week.
5. Have Fun With It
Cleaning doesn’t have to be a bore!
When you need to organize or clean things up, blast your favorite songs or my personal favorite, listen to a good podcast, or talk to a friend on the phone while you both clean.
6. Make Time To Clean
If you’re like me and you schedule everything you need to do each day, then you’ll benefit from this.
Schedule cleaning time into your days too, this will stop you from feeling stressed and like you hardly ever have time to clean your house.
This will also allow you to keep the mess at bay if you’re cleaning at a regular time each day.
7. Prioritize Cleaning In The Mornings
Cleaning is one of those things we easily put off. You start your days and notice that the house is slightly a mess but you’ll get it later.
You work all day, make dinner at 9 and relax and watch a movie as you enjoy dinner. Then it’s almost midnight and you’re spent and want to go to bed.
Schedule your cleaning time for earlier on in the day, even if it’s just 20 to 30 minutes a day. Just get it out of the way.
8. Give Everything A Home
Now that you’ve decluttered, it’s time to make sure all the things you’re keeping have their place in the home.
For instance, a shelf in the living room is useful for your remote and magazines, and hooks in the hall can home your purses, keys, and coats.
The more specific you can get for storage, the easier it will be to find and keep things clean. Instead of just throwing things on shelves, put boxes and bins on the shelves to make it even more organized.
Have a junk drawer for all those miscellaneous items that can’t take up an entire shelf or bin. Now Im not saying throw actual junk in there, still keep it clean and tidy as well as clutter it regularly.
9. Clean Whenever You Find A Mess
If you go grab a glass of water, and you notice there are a few dishes in the sink, take 5 minutes to wash them up.
This will make your house look much cleaner and all you had to do was spend 5 minutes tidying up.
10. Make Your Bed Every Day
One of the easiest ways to look like you’ve got your home in order is by making your bed each morning.
Bonus, it will help set the tone for the day too, making you more likely to stick to being tidy.
There you have it, 10 easy or organizational tips for all the lazy people who still want to keep their house clean.
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Great post! Thanks for sharing!
Great tips! Thanks for sharing
This is a great list! Finding solutions and systems that work for you is so important! Watching netflix while washing dishes is the way forward!
This is SUCH an excellent post on tips to keep your house clean. I agree that making my bed every morning helps significantly since it makes my room look tidier and puts me in a good mood. I also listen to music while cleaning which makes it much more fun!
Love and abide by these tips!
These are great ideas, I myself hate cleaning too. I try to do a deep clean once a month but I so dread it, haha.
Great tips! I am definitely a clutter bug. I hadn’t considered setting a 10 minute timer so as to not get overwhelmed.
I love the idea of a cleaning caddy. Totally agree. Everything needs a home. That simple step makes it easier to keep my home tidy.
Great list! I love a clean home, but I don’t love the actual cleaning of it. Decluttering is huge! It’s so much easier to clean when there’s not a ton of stuff in the way!
So happy to see that “Declutter Your Home” is the number 1 tip that you mentioned. This is so very important. If this is not done at the outset all cleaning efforts can go to waste and Hoarding can become a reality.
I’ve had some friends who work hard to be perfect but nothing is perfect. These are important to know.