Every holiday we get may be weekends, national holidays or just bunk no matter what my husband starts cleaning all the house saying its all cluttered.Things should be placed this way, best part is next holiday he again manages to call his last holiday work clutter.
Basically we all want things to be in place but fail to do so. Why ? We all are taught by our mothers to clean the house, but how to clean is all in all a different study.
Everybody has their own concept of cleanliness. For some It's limited to house,they manage to clean, dust their house everyday, for some it limited to themselves,they like to clean their desk, cupboards, or just themselves we call it hygiene.
We have some standards like clothes are kept in cupboards,books in bookshelf utensils in kitchen trolleys.
Understanding it better let us go deeper, how are we suppose to keep clothes in cupboard, hanging, folding, wrapping or dumping.
A friend of mine once shared her experience.It was couple of years back when she was single and working as an Manager in an MNC. She was very busy and couldn't organise her house and wardrobe for a week or more. Similar was case with her 1RK flat. One Sunday morning Nun (sister from Church) visited her place to see her. While she was having bath, Sister was sitting in her room. Her room was all cluttered with all the bags, documents, magazines, clothes fallen around.
It took 45 mins or so for her to come out. When she came out her room was clean. All books, newspapers, bags, bed all was clean to her surprise.
Sister was sitting on a chair smiling at her.My friend felt very nervous and was ashamed for sister had to clean everything for her. But the sister quietly and calmly smiled and said if you cannot organise your house how will you organise your life.
She opened her wardrobe and saw her clothes were all ironed and kept in different compartment as per their size and use. That day onwards when ever I visit her I see her wardrobe is just so aligned.
I tried doing this couple of times but then finally chalked down the way of cleaning house. Let me share some tips.
This applies to kitchen utensils wardrobe, bookshelf,toys or most of the things around.
First sort things as per their duration of use, like frequent, daily, once in six months or so.
*Things we need frequently or dialy should be kept handy,others can be kept bit away from dialy functions.
* Keep things in order, like the things that you need dialy can be sorted in order as per their needs.
To do above mentioned activities we need to follow basic rules.
- Define places for everything at home.
- Everyperson must make an effort to identify his comfortable place for his belongings.
- Everyone should keep things back in identified place.
- Make some standards,use small boxes, compartments and drawers etc
- Define the way or methods of compiling things. Like every loose paper should filed in a particular file. All jackets or coats should hanged with help of hanger.
- Study books and novels should be kept at different places or different shelf. We can further bifurcate them based on language or class divisions.
- Waste should also be placed based on their further use. many times we reuse clothes as dusters after we stop wearing them.
- Remove unwanted stuff. Most difficult task,identify unwanted stuff and keep it at some. Place. Observe for next six months or defined duration. If you did not need them it's actually unwanted.
- Make list of things you need once or twice in a year.Once you know them identify a place away from daily functions.Keep the list for reference.
- Make a time table,define a day or check list for all the changes made. Supervise it, duration can be decided - frequently in the beginning like weekly ,later make it twice month and then monthly.
Hope these simple tips help you to understand the art of cleaning.