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A Practical Guide That Will Help You Clean Up the House in 5 Minutes

An 8-step guide.

By Talia BradyPublished 2 years ago 3 min read
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A Practical Guide That Will Help You Clean Up the House in 5 Minutes
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Sounds too good to be true, doesn't it? To clean the house in just 5 minutes seems like a broken scenario from SF movies, in which you press a few buttons and the house is miraculously cleaned without you moving a finger. What we propose to you is not fiction, however. It all depends on how well you learn to organize.

We offer you, further, some simple tricks through which you will be able to achieve the performance of cleaning in a few minutes!

Tricks that help you to clean up in 5 minutes

1. Time yourself and you will move much faster. Set your timer on your phone for 5 minutes, then try to do as much work as possible during that time. You would be amazed at how much time you earn just because of this psychological trick.

2. Put the music at a fast pace in the background. Anything that moves your blood is suitable for cleaning. If you choose slow and sad parts, the tendency will be to work slower.

3. Do not wipe the dust with a cloth, but with a microfiber dust brush. Thus, you can clean not only the furniture but also every object on it, without wasting much time.

4. Put anything in the dishwasher, not just dishes. You can quickly wash plastic toys, brushes, and other household items.

5. To get rid of animal hair quickly, all you need is a slightly dampened rubber glove to pass over the surfaces you want to clean.

6. Do you have a lot of small objects that fill your room, but you can't bear to throw them away? It would be best to buy a decorative box and put in it all the little things that you stumble upon at every step. This way, they won't collect any dust, and your whole room will be easier to clean without so many "obstacles".

7. If you can, invest in a robot vacuum cleaner, which you can program to clean your room yourself, without having to move it. Thus, while the vacuum cleaner "works" intensely, you can quickly wipe off dust and put things in order, thus saving a lot of time.

8. The best solution to not spending an entire day cleaning is to maintain the house every day. Take advantage of TV commercial breaks and dust off your room.

Choose a room to dress up in every day, because overall you will not only live in a cleaner environment, but you will not feel like you are wasting your time cleaning. As for the clothes, if you are a more messy person, they are probably thrown on the armchairs or even on the floor until the day of cleaning.

In order not to bother with them every week, try to put them on hangers. When you pack them and put them on top of each other, you will make a mess much faster. Thus, you only have to learn to put a blouse on the hanger as soon as you take it off (or in the basket with dirty laundry, as the case may be).

Either you resort to momentary tricks to help you clean up in 5 minutes, or you choose to do something small every day to maintain the house, you will only gain if you become at least a little more organized and you will probably not spend more cleaning all day on Saturday, and then lying down on the couch.

There is no magic trick, actually. If you use the proper tools and electronics and develop good habits, you will be able to clean up the house very fast. It's that simple!

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