How to Clean a House Quick -- in 30 Minutes

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-c8J4wCuxQEo/U4mcpSblohI/AAAAAAAAAj0/o7SxPOJSMzo/s1600/How-to-Clean-a-House-Quick.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="How to Clean a House Quick" border="0" height="225" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-c8J4wCuxQEo/U4mcpSblohI/AAAAAAAAAj0/o7SxPOJSMzo/s1600/How-to-Clean-a-House-Quick.jpg" title="How to Clean a House Quick" width="400" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Cleaning a house in a hurry takes a little sense of humor and a willingness to sweat. Some people need the deadline of a guest coming to visit or a husband saying, "I'm on my way home," to motivate them to pull out the broom and mop.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The key to cleaning a house quick - in less than 30 minutes -- is a simple game plan. You may also need a few basic cleaning supplies and a lot of caffeine.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Before getting started, get hyped up on caffeine and possibly sugar.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Place an empty plastic grocery bag around your wrist so that you can throw away miscellaneous little pieces of trash as you go room to room on various cleaning missions. Put a bunch of empty small garbage bags in your pocket to replace in trash cans later.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> You may also want to get out your various cleaning supplies and place on table for easy access. For quick cleaning, I recommend disposable Windex and Lysol cleaning wipes (especially the kind with a rough surface on one side) and leather furniture wipes.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><i>Here are the five easy steps to tidying up a house in a hurry:</i></b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>No. 1</b>: The first thing to tackle the dishes. Dishes are sometimes scattered throughout the house - especially if you have children or teenagers. Quickly - and I mean quickly - go from room to room picking up all dishes in sight. You may pick up any little trash items along the way. Rinse all dishes and put in dishwasher and start dishwasher. This step should take three minutes.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>No. 2</b>: Tackle the clothing. In a perfect world, the dirty clothing will be waiting for you in the laundry baskets in each bedroom. But in reality you probably have children or husbands who leave their boxers in the bathroom or socks under the bed. Again, very quickly sweep through the house with a laundry basket under your arm. Gather any and all dirty clothing. Hang up clean clothes quickly. Either leave the dirty clothing in the basket in the laundry room or begin the loads if you have time. Pick up hats etc and put in closet or where they belong. This step should take about four minutes.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>No. 3</b>: While your dishes and clothes are in the machines, shift to floors. Sweep and vaccuum. With my wood floors I sweep and then use the no-purfume wood spray with a dry mop that can be put in the washer once dirty and re-used. You may also use this time to pick up dirty rugs in the bathroom and add those to the dirty laundry piles. (But that is usually reserved for a deeper cleaning day when you are not in a hurry). This step should take 8 minutes.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>No. 4</b>: Get out the dusting spray and disposable dusting clothes and wipe down obvious items. Use the disposable wipes for leather on any leather furniture and the disinfecting wipes for counters in kitchen and bathroom as well as the toilet, showers. Quickly squirt the bathroom bowl cleaner into the bowls and continue on to other tasks. Use glass wipes on mirrors and other noticeable windows. During this step, pick up trash (including your dirty cleaning wipes) from all the trash cans in the house and replace with fresh bags. This step should take 8 minutes.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>No. 5</b>: Straighten up books, papers. Throw away obvious trash clutter such as old receipts or coupons. If you aren't sure if someone else in the family needs a certain paper, add it to a large plastic zip lock bag with their name on it for later. Throw children's toys in the bins or toy chests. This step should take 7 minutes.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Once you are finished you should not see any clothing, dishes, toys or trash items laying around. You should see clean and swept floors. The bathrooms should be clean and fresh smelling.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> As a final last touch, you may want to light a pleasant smelling candle. This entire five step quick cleaning process should only take 30 minutes. If it takes you longer, you aren't picking up the pace and should double the caffeine in the future.</div>

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5 Ways To Declutter A Bedroom Fast

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Oj1iS-9wX0k/U3yEyON8KII/AAAAAAAAAjg/Er1qg0cyQeM/s1600/5-Ways-To-Declutter-A-Bedroom-Fast.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="5 Ways To Declutter A Bedroom Fast" border="0" height="266" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Oj1iS-9wX0k/U3yEyON8KII/AAAAAAAAAjg/Er1qg0cyQeM/s1600/5-Ways-To-Declutter-A-Bedroom-Fast.jpg" title="5 Ways To Declutter A Bedroom Fast" width="400" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> You're expecting company, and if you're like most people you'll be running around to make sure everything is perfect. You then realise that your bedroom is a right mess, but with no time to clear it up you just close the door. Right? By closing the door you're just creating a barrier between yourself and the truth. You know your bedroom needs clearingup but you just don't know where to start. This article willshow you how to get rid of that barrier and give you tips on how to declutter fast.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> You need to start by getting rid of everything that does not belong in your bedroom, for some people that stride alone willhave a huge difference and you'll be half way to declutteringyour bedroom.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> To make sure you don't get side tracked have a basket or a largeempty bag where you can put everything that is out of place.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Next you need to open all your drawers and closets and examine your bedroom and check to see if you have too many belongings orthings without precise places.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> A solution for things without places can be storage boxes that willfit under your bed, or even ones that can be stacked on top of one another.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> To declutter your bedroom you need to clear all the horizontal surfaces,anything from your floor to your chairs. Make sure any clothes just lying around are either hung up on hangers, or folded and put away in appropriate storage places. Piling up pairs of shoes is something you should really avoid especially in your closet or in the corners of your bedroom. A useful tip here would be to use a squat plastic tub with a lid, which will also fit quite nicelyunderneath your bed.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> A good thing to do if you have a bedside table is to look and see if youactually use the stuff. Anything broken or anything you no longer need canbe thrown away. If your bedside table is stacked with magazines, jewelleryor make up you need to get rid of it all. Throw away any old magazines (if you would prefer to keep them then find a place for them), buy a make upbag for your make up and you can buy a similar thing for your jewellery.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Once your bedroom is decluttered you need to make sure it stays that way,you don't want it messy again two days later. So, create routines that suityou and your lifestyles and stick by them, these will help you to stay organizedand keep your bedroom decluttered.</div>

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The Obsessive-Compulsive Person's Guide to House Cleaning

<div style="text-align: justify;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8724719535134237809" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="" /></a></div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-w-M9bj5rcm4/U3dtUwX4mcI/AAAAAAAAAjM/snXB6d0P7z8/s1600/Guide-to-House-Cleaning.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Guide to House Cleaning" border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-w-M9bj5rcm4/U3dtUwX4mcI/AAAAAAAAAjM/snXB6d0P7z8/s1600/Guide-to-House-Cleaning.jpg" title="Guide to House Cleaning" width="320" /></a></div> Obsessive-compulsive disorder has a strange affect on those diagnosed when it comes to house cleaning. While this certainly doesn't apply to all of those struggling with OCD, many find themselves turning into "dirty" perfectionists. In other words, when they view their home they don't see simple routine cleaning tasks. Instead they see mounds of work that, even when completed, will only lead to more tasks that absolutely must be done before the home can truly be called clean. While friends and family may enter the obsessive-compulsive person's home and simply see a carpet that needs a quick vacuuming, the homeowner sees a task that involves sweeping up debri, moving furniture around, getting into corners, pre-treating and shampooing. They see a task that would take hours to complete, and therefore leave the</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> untouched out of sheer surrender. It's not that they are lazy or unclean, but rather they are so inclined to perfection that anything less just doesn't seem plausible. If that sounds like you, you're certainly not alone. However, to keep the debris from piling up in your home, take a glance at the following obsessive-compulsive person's guide to house cleaning.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>Tip #1</b>: Daily upkeep is key. The obsessive-compulsive person looks at a generally clean home and sees hours of work. Of course, seeing a real mess evokes images of a life spent scrubbing on hands and knees. As such, it is sometimes easier for the obsessive-compulsive person to simply keep a day to day cleaning schedule rather than giving the home a good once-over a couple of times a week. Keeping your home from getting disastrous will encourage you to keep it in a liveable state every day. Even if one day is missed, it isn't likely that you'll give up completely. Keeping the home just short of perfectly clean is a must, and doing so means creating a daily commitment to chores. Cleaning once or twice a week becomes self-defeating and is rarely effective for persons with OCD.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>Tip #2</b>: Use an egg timer. Going back to that "lifetime spent scrubbing floors" theory, obsessive-compulsive individuals tend to do just that when it comes to good housecleaning. One task is left unfinished as another one is taken on until a long list of half-completed chores has been accomplished. The result is a feeling of general anxiety and failure every time house cleaning is done, regardless of a tremendous time commitment. Dishes washed but not dried, laundry folded but not put away, floors swept but not mopped....it's a common problem. End the cycle by allocating a certain amount of time each day to every room in the house, and then be done with it. You'll likely find that just five minutes is enough time to at least straighten up each room. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> When the egg timer goes off, move on immediately. The point is to finish a task before leaving the room.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>Tip #3</b>: Create a weekly "larger task" list. While keeping the home up daily is a must for the obsessive compulsive person, only so much can be accomplished when five minutes or so are allocated to each room. Chores like cooking dinner, doing laundry, dusting, vacuuming, etc, require hours. As such, post a weekly list of what large chores are to be accomplished on each day. Some chores, such as cooking, will have to be done every day, but chances are that mopping and dusting once a week will be more than you accomplish at this point. Be realistic and have a pre-set list of daily goals. You can add a task to the next day if it doesn't get accomplished, but if you find yourself often getting behind it may be time to re-evaluate your daily chore list and make it more reasonable.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>Tip #4</b>: Learn to ask for help, even if only from imperfect mortals. Those with obsessive-compulsive disorder who are afflicted with perfectionism often refuse help not because they don't want it, but because they can't imagine anyone doing the job as well as them. Even if those helping you don't fold the towels in your preferred manner or find hospital corners a necessary component of a properly made bed, consider giving someone else a shot. Even if you find yourself going back behind them, you'll at least be able to concentrate on more of the tasks you prefer to do rather than constantly battling a building mess.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>Tip #5</b>: Make the "lived-in" look your goal. A home that is well lived in has a few great books strewn about, perhaps a few children's toys lying on the floor, and maybe even, God forbid, a dish or two in the sink. If your home is in a museum state at all times, it isn't likely that it's very comfortable for anyone living in it, other than you. The same truth applies to visitors. Instead, focus on a level of reasonable cleanliness that can be updated quickly should an unexpected guest stop by. If you can make your home appear ready for overnight guests within thirty minutes to an hour, chances are it's perfectly ready for any impromptu visits. Leave it in a comfortable state of healthy but not perfect cleanliness the rest of the time.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>Tip #6</b>: Recognize the benefits of a "better" house. If you truly have a great deal of difficulty even lifting a finger to make a difference, it's likely because you feel that any efforts will be in vain. Many obsessive-compulsive individuals find housekeeping to be a monumental chore and wonder in awe at those who manage to keep clean homes. This is a direct result of focusing on perfection. Instead, write down the benefits of keeping a "more" clean home than the one you have now. If washing two loads of laundry a week constitutes an improvement, then do it. You don't have to go from domestic dummy to Martha Stewart overnight (or even at all). Just work on making your home better than it usually is, and then continue to improve upon it with time.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>Tip #7</b>: Try focusing on the home as a whole, not just one area. This tip flies in the face of what most house cleaning magazines and books advise, but most authors of house cleaning publications don't need to be told that it isn't necessary to use duct tape to remove dust particles from carpets. Because the obsessive-compulsive individual tends to spend the bulk of their efforts in one area in an attempt to kill every living microorganism that might lurk in it, they often end up with one perfectly clean area or room in the midst of what is otherwise a pile of rubble. Rather than perfecting one area, give the entire home a daily once-over that will improve it all in some manner.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>Tip #8</b>: Use those perfectionist tendencies to go on an organizing spree. There's nothing worse for the obsessive-compulsive person when it comes to housekeeping than disorganization. If there isn't a file for every scrap of paperwork, it will end up in a pile on a desk until it's thrown away. Use cubbies, drawer dividers, canisters, baskets, and whatever is at your disposal to make use of every inch of organizational space in your home. Another quick tip: the easier a storage component is to access and manage, the more likely it is to be used. If the cute piggy bank you use to keep spare change in is in your office upstairs, it's likely to be used much less often than a catch-all kept by the front door. Make your organizational choices about practicality, as well.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> For the obsessive-compulsive person, house cleaning can be a tremendous source of stress. Organize your home for future cleaning purposes, and be willing to make changes that will allow you to adapt to routines that better suit your specific needs.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div>

Cleaning Clutter The Obsessive-Compulsive Person's Guide to House Cleaning

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