How to spend less time on household chores?

Here are some tips

It is difficult to call cleaning an exciting process: in life there are always more interesting things (only the series are worth it!). But household chores, alas, will not wait. The longer you put them aside, the more you have to do it later. In order to intelligently integrate cleaning into a daily routine, it is enough to start a few useful habits. Choose those that are suitable for you. Together with Bosch , we tell how to do it.

Divide all things into categories and get rid of unnecessary

Let's start with things that you rarely use or do not use at all. As a rule, they are stored on the balcony or occupy the upper shelves of cabinets. What to do with them was invented by the most famous specialist in the world of cleaning Marie Condo from Japan-the author of the bestseller “Magic cleaning” (the book was published in 30 countries with a circulation of more than two million copies) and leading his own reality show on Netflix. According to the Condo method, it is necessary to divide all things into categories (clothes, toys, gadgets, papers and so on) and get rid of everything that does not bring joy. How much time will it take, depends on the area of ​​the apartment: not a very neglected odnushka can be disassembled over the weekend.

If you are not ready to sacrifice a whole weekend for this, make it a rule to disassemble things for an hour a week (for example, on Sunday). The main thing here is regularity and sequence. Do not leave things “just in case”, and those that are well preserved are better to give to charity .

After a great slaughter, cleaning will almost certainly be required: dust is sprinkled from things, and from the old clothes there are also threads. And, of course, it will be necessary to get out in the freed corners: for sure for many years, animals dropped and wag nests of spiders! The Bosch Unlimited vacuum cleaner with a clicking nozzle for corners will help to cope with this.

Get out for 10 minutes every day

There is no time for full cleaning: after all, no one canceled the work, cottage and other no less important affairs. In such cases, you can try the method of Marla Silly - the author of the Flyledi system (it is designed to clean and conduct household chores more effective), you have exactly seen its echoes in American series about housewives. According to Silly, you should not clean the house at a time: it is too laborious. In addition, the sink in the kitchen, bedside table and cat tray are polluted at different speeds. So she advises a little bit, but every day. Cleaning time can vary from 5 to 30 minutes.

In addition, in every house there are places where mountains of things traditionally accumulate. Most often these are chairs in the corner of the room, shelves in the hallway, coffee tables, a working surface in the kitchen. Determine such places - and follow them well. For example, the chair can be moved away, and if it clutches too quickly, then it is completely removed. Then there will be no temptation to throw clothes at him! To get out in “hot spots” is the fastest way to make an apartment much more carefully. You can do this in ten minutes, and the effect will be noticeable immediately.

“Hot spots” are places that you usually do not want to do. So much so that during cleaning you can forget about them at all! If you remembered about them when the vacuum cleaner battery is already discharged, it doesn’t matter: the Bosch Unlimited has a shy. And if suddenly it is discharged, it is enough to put the device for charging, and for yourself - a remark. In just an hour, it will be ready again.

Turn the cleaning into a game (it can really be fun!)

No matter how old you are - restoring order can be turned into a game. Put the timer for ten minutes and imagine that you are undergoing a test in Fort Boyard. It is highly likely that for a while you will wash the plates faster, and simultaneously, also throw clothes into the washing machine, which for months accumulated in a chair.

An important point: it is important to win in the game, and therefore, get a reward! So do not forget to pamper yourself with something if you successfully pass the test.

Make a checklist for cleaning and transfer the morning affairs for the evening

In the world of cleaning, the “morning of the evening of the evening” does not work. In the morning it is difficult to fight a mess, especially if you still need to go to the shower, take a walk with the dog, wash the children and prepare breakfast. Therefore, try to do everything in the evening in your power: wash the accumulated dishes, load the washing machine, clean the shoes, etc.

You can also make a checklist for each room and break it into micro: wipe the dust from the lampshade, wash the mirror, change the garbage bag and so on. Many love to put ticks! And if you score the list in the to-do-application (for example, in Microsoft to Do , Todoist , Things 3 ) and make a reminder, then in the evening you will know exactly what to take on.

Get down from top to bottom and delegate more

The rule “from top to bottom” will protect you from double work - the dust from the wiped chandelier will not fall on the freshly washed plate, and bread crumbs from the table will not appear on the floor that you have just sprinkled. To certainly avoid unnecessary trouble, do cleaning more technological and use modern devices: you hardly have to redo something for them. The dishwasher will take on dirty plates (and this is an average of five free hours a week!), A washing machine with drying will save time on hanging underwear, and a vacuum cleaner (especially if it is light and wireless) will help get rid of dust in all corners.

With the nozzles that are included in the Bosch Unlimited Bosch vacuum cleaner, you can clean a variety of surfaces: tiles, parquet, carpet, ceiling. Even the salon of the car! And all this with one device. The nozzles are easy to change and can be stored in one place-at the dock, and the brushes will not be lying in the corners.

Organize a home file cabinet and store things in transparent boxes

They live in Chinese megacities almost the same as in Russia, so the tips of the Chinese woman Lu Way, who is developing the design of small typical apartments, will probably be useful to you. The book “House for Life” has many specific numbers and calculations, how and what to store in standard odnushki and kopecks. Vei believes that it is open storage that is clutching the apartment, so 80% of things should be stored in closed systems and only 20% of the most necessary can be left in sight. Vey even calculated the minimum storage area - at least 12% of the area of ​​the apartment. Another of her advice is to store everything in transparent boxes with stickers “Documents”, “Shoes”, “Christmas tree” and so on. Firstly, it is immediately clear that inside, secondly, there is no temptation to put something outsider there. At the same time, do not fill the containers by more than 90%, otherwise they will turn into chests, from which you can’t really get anything.

Another way to organize things is on the principle of a library cardboard. So it will be more convenient to sort out. The system is a few cabinets with drawers, where you can vertically arrange books, put a towel rolled into a tube or bedding. Of course, this will not work with a conventional wardrobe. However, it still needs to be disassembled for a start!

And now briefly the main recommendations:

1. Take a deal with things that do not bring joy. Best of all, give them to charity.
2. Get out every day for 10 minutes (do it in the evening, when do not rush anywhere).
3. Start cleaning with the analysis of places where most things accumulate.
4. Create a checklist for each room: this will help to understand the front of the work.
5. Keep things in transparent containers. At the same time, do not fill them with more than 90%.
6. Put a timer when you get out: this is how you will be distracted less and more often and deal with all business as soon as possible.
7. Get down from top to bottom and use modern equipment: it saves time great.
8. Things must be stored so that they do not take up a lot of space, but they would be easy to find. In the cabinets, it is worth using a vertical system, and towers and bedding are folded into tubes.
9. Do not chase perfection and do not reproach yourself if you cannot maintain the perfect order. The main thing is that you and your loved ones be comfortable.

When you buy things, pay attention to how much space they will take in standby mode. For example, the Bosch Unlimited wireless vacuum cleaner is not only stored vertically, it is also equipped with a universal battery, which is suitable for Bosch power tools for home and garden. They took the drill, drilled the hole, changed the battery and quickly drank everything - construction dust did not have time to fly around the apartment. By the way, Bosch Unlimited has a RotationClean cleaning system, which allows you to easily clean the dust filter (and do not stain your hands!). And as the manufacturer writes, thanks to the Pure Air system, even the air becomes cleaner at the output.