How to Be a Better Housekeeper
Be a better housekeeper without wearing yourself out by using these smart strategies to keep a cleaner home.
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Make house cleaning faster and easier with the tips and tricks in these videos.
You Will Need
- Cleaning schedule
- Supply cart or caddy
- Storage systems
- Task delegation
- Relaxation of criteria
- Prioritization of tasks
- Room checklists (optional)
- Old towels (optional)
- Expectations of children (optional)
Steps
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Step 1
Schedule chores
Schedule chores, dividing tasks into daily, weekly, and monthly categories to maintain order and cleanliness, and to avoid overwhelming tasks.
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Create cleaning checklists for each room.
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Step 2
Use gravity
Use gravity to be a better housekeeper by cleaning from the top down and avoid cleaning fixtures, shelves and other surfaces more than once.
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Recycle old towels into cleaning rags.
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Step 3
Be efficient
Be efficient by keeping handy a supply cart or caddy that you can easily move from room to room, and seek out new time-saving cleaning tools and products.
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Step 4
Organize
Organize your home with storage systems for everything from food to toys and make sure each family member puts things in their place.
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Establish the expectation that children put their things away before going to bed.
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Step 5
Delegate
Delegate cleaning tasks to family members according to age and ability, making sure they understand how to complete a job.
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Step 6
Relax
Relax and avoid obsessing over perfection so that everyone in the household can pitch in without you re-cleaning what they've already cleaned.
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Step 7
Prioritize
Prioritize tasks in accordance with your time and energy, and you'll not only become a better housekeeper by addressing the essentials, you'll be a happier person with more time to spend doing what you love.
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A 2009 study showed that on an average day that same year, 85 percent of women and 67 percent of men spent time doing housework.
