How to Get Ahead of Household Chores

Everyone loves a clean home, but it’s always important to love one’s life and spend time

pursuing the fun and meaningful activities that give one joy. Unfortunately, it often is the case

that as people devote themselves to their passions, their loved ones, or their careers, they find

themselves increasingly, with even less time to clean up and take care of their basic living

situation.

This can be a serious problem: weeks and weeks of untended chores truly do add up to create

a ferocious, messy monster. And if one is already averse to doing chores, the last thing in the

world to help you get started on them is a buildup of messiness, mandating long work hours

and a difficult, uphill battle against grime.

The best thing to do in these situations is compromise. That’s right: it is possible to spend hours

gaming, going out, or pursuing that passion without having to do any chores. The trick is to

clean up as you go.

Prepare Yourself

The very best way to ensure that cleaning will happen on and off without a period of time set

aside to actually start and finish chores is to maintain a steady supply of cleaning tools and

instruments. It’s easy to shirk a duty when one feels like they don’t have the know-how or tools

to tackle it. Instead, guarantee that there’s no excuse. Have window cleaner, general

disinfectant, paper towels and sponges at the ready, in easy-to-access places, such as the

bathroom and the kitchen.

Whenever messiness becomes noticeable, take a quick moment to clean it up. Part of the trick

here is to be honest and proactive. If these behaviors don’t come naturally, don’t worry: simply

having cleaning instruments around that are convenient to find and easy to use takes away a

large part of personal resistance to keeping clean. Also keep in mind that this way, one will not

be spending hours cleaning – it’s just a quick clean here and there to keep things looking good.

Tips on Process

There are many ways to incorporate the concept of ‘cleaning-as-you-go’ into cleaning processes

all around the house. Cleaning dishes is perhaps the very most obvious example. While making

food, it’s not too difficult to clean dirty dishes while current food is cooking. Cleaning up right

after a pot is dirty can dramatically reduce the amount of dishes in the sink once dinner is over

and dish duty begins.

For laundry, if space allows, one pro-tip is to keep several different dirty clothes baskets

available. Each basket can be dedicated to a load of laundry, one for colors, and one for

delicates, and so on. When the basket gets full, simply empty the whole thing into the washing

machine. In this example, the sorting is already complete!

Enlist Support

Another strategy involves enlisting the support of other residents. Whether you have

roommates or family, it can be helpful to divvy up tasks. This lessens the load for each person

while also creating accountability to get things done. As explained in the last paragraph, each

person can have a domain or area of the house that they are responsible for. Chores are not

needed necessarily, but if an area gets too messy, they will be held responsible for picking up

the slack and cleaning up after the mess.

Remember, though, that when roommates are involved, it is always important to respect one

another’s process as well as their space. Before mandating a new system of chores or a

regimen of cleanliness, take a moment, or even uses a series of ongoing discussions, to ensure

that everyone’s voice is heard clearly, and everyone’s feelings are understood and respected.

The ultimate course of action that’s agreed upon must be ratified wholeheartedly by every

member of the house, or it likely will not stand a chance of working successfully over the long

term.

If one lives with roommates, there’s also another key option. With multiple roommates, it may

be easier to afford a Austin maid service. If nobody likes cleaning, then surely everyone can

pitch in a bit of money along with rent to support purchasing a professional cleaning service to

come in every now and then and clean up a bit.

Consider the Investments

Companies love to pitch the “next best thing” to put on the market to sell. For this reason,

there are many products that can expedite the cleaning process. However, buying something

that looks good, but doesn’t actually suit the reality of your personal needs will in fact detract

from your desire to clean. Advertisers and product developers are in the business of selling:

they want things to look useful, and helpful – like the best thing since sliced bread. However,

one has to like bread in the first place in order to find it a miracle of genius.

Therefore, before investing in an expensive consumer product, and even before one invests in

random, inexpensive cleaning gadgetry, take a moment to analyze your own personal process

for maintaining a clean home. Evaluate what you like don’t like. If you use sponges all the time,

but you really hate them because they always seem a bit grimy, don’t buy another sponge

again. If you love the idea of “Swiffers” but in the back of your head, you don’t trust that they

provide a deep clean, don’t buy one – even if they are on sale. Buying things that are not

intrinsically catering to your needs will make cleaning seem like a thankless chore.

There is no limit to the things that sound good for cleaning, and are available for purchase. But

there are only a few products that will serve you well over time because they fit your

preferences.

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