It is enough to change your approach to cleaning and household chores a little to free up a lot of time. The following eight secrets will help you succeed. And if you have your own secrets of lazy cleanliness in the house, be sure to share them in the comments!
Soak the shower head overnight
The shower head is one of the most capricious things to clean. It is not as easy to clean it from limescale as we would like. It may seem that attempts to get rid of dirt are futile, if you have not heard of the following life hack: make a solution of vinegar or citric acid in a small container and leave the shower head in it overnight. The acid dissolves limescale and makes it soft. You can also use a special detergent.
Avoid hard soap
After using bar soap, you may feel an invisible residue on your hands, as if it was not completely washed off. It also remains on the surfaces of the bathroom, although it becomes visible over time. And how! Once you switch to liquid soap and shower gel, you will forget what it is like to scrub the bathtub from nasty residue. For cleanliness, it will be enough to spray the detergent and rinse it off after a while.
It’s easier to cover than to wash
This universal advice is applicable everywhere, whether before frying or before a self-pedicure: before potentially “dirty” household chores, take care to protect the surfaces with something unnecessary — newspapers, magazines, old bags. This will significantly simplify further cleaning. You won’t have to wash anything. The main thing is not to forget about safety: do not lay out paper too close to the stove to avoid a fire.
Read the instructions
Most oven and stove cleaners need to be applied and forgotten. More precisely, left for a long time – manufacturers write about this in the instructions, but many desperate housewives prefer to skip this step. And in vain! Cleaning will be much easier and more enjoyable if you do not rush to wash off the detergent.
Make the technology work
A robot vacuum cleaner in the house is no longer surprising. But the standard cleaning included in the program is objectively insufficient, and vacuum cleaners with a washing function often leave behind lumps of wet dust – it turns out not cleaning, but one frustration. Do not rush to take on the washing of floors! It is better to make the equipment work again. After two standard dust cleanings, move on to washing – the vacuum cleaner will wipe the already clean floor, and you will only have to take care of hard-to-reach corners.
Straighten the laundry after washing
Ironing bed linen takes a lot of time, and you don’t want to sleep on wrinkled ones? It’s better to devote some time to the linen immediately after washing: hang it as evenly as possible – if there is not enough space, it is better to fold the sheet and duvet cover two or three times than to dry it with sagging “frills”. Then take both ends of the fabric and pull it a little. Start from the edge and go along the entire length – linen dried in this form will be as smooth as possible, and neatly folded in the closet will be completely smoothed out.
Wash dishes immediately
The mere sight of a mountain of dirty dishes discourages any desire to wash them. And in an overflowing sink the process is slower than usual – not only because food particles have dried and grease has hardened, but rinsing cutlery in such a situation is inconvenient: you have to be careful not to splash water all over the kitchen, and carefully sort through the mess so as not to break anything. Try washing every plate, mug or cutlery at once, and you will notice that there are no dirty dishes in your house.
Close the blinds
You don’t have to be lazy to hate cleaning blinds: going over each slat separately is a real pleasure. To quickly get rid of dust all at once, close the blinds one by one in different directions and gently wipe the resulting canvas on both sides. For best results, use a microfiber cloth with an antistatic effect – this way the slats will attract dust a little less.