How your apartment clean weekend

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Spring cleaning is a concept that seems to have taken the path of the belt. It sure helps and improves the appearance, but women spend less and less of their mental energy, the best furniture polish and professional activities, it is just something that fell out of favor.

Unfortunately, the area behind your refrigerator always dust lady modern shops do not have to take care of your home. Consulting many traditional interview guide is a bit overwhelming. For a practical decision Jolie spoke with Kerr, author of the ancient column Make a clean person fork now Jezebel , and the book My friend threw in my bag ... and other things I do not ask Martha .

"You have one life, and you do not want to spend all that time cleaning taken very seriously," postulated Kerr. "If you want to do things fast enough and do not want to spring cleaning you give your whole life, you start by. A list of what needs to be done"

A basic list of tasks that must be done every year in an apartment or a small house, includes the following elements:

• Dust hard to reach areas such as ceiling fans, the top of the cabinets and shelves with books or electronics. (Remove to be dust and elements of the platform and there.)
• Wash curtains and blinds clean.
• Clean upholstery and vacuum under the cushions.
• Refrigerator and freezer clean. If you are ambitious, dust refrigerator coils.
• Flip your mattress and bedding blankets and mattresses, pillows and blankets clean clean.
• Carpet shampoo.
• If you rent, please call the owner of the list of repairs that you have been granted.
• Take this list as a guide and add what you hope to achieve.

"The list is much more complete than it actually is, it must be because the next part is to sit and think about how long you think each of these things to take care of. budget a little more than you think " Kerr said. oh my god "When you have once seen," I stared down the barrel of 50 hours out of the house and I did not want to do that, "you say," What I really have and I? "

The above list should be possible in a small house in 15-20 hours, you would budget for two full days of work. Of course there are more hours in the day, but if you exhausted your first day, a late start of the second day you will get.

That sounds like procrastination, but a playlist of upbeat songs. You will be more productive and motivated at all times. Use your list of things that need with a shopping list of all cleaning products are used. Search all the tasks that you need to plan tutorials on the weekend before you get your cleaning done. Also save the whole week. It may be tempting to give up everything for the big cleanup of the stack, but from the store congestion and helps you get straight to it.

"As a rule, to want to work from top to bottom. Tell one of your articles is to clean the top of the kitchen cabinets, they are probably dirty," Kerry said. "If you clean your kitchen floor, then got up to clean the top of the housing., You have to go back and clean it again because everything is going to land on the ground."

The aim is to wherever possible and double "about the order in which things happen to think." "Like, if you're lucky, your own washer and dryer are have, throw a load of laundry and go to another job. Dissemination tasks to maximize your time is a very good thing to do."

Spring cleaning is not something you think, especially if we have a big house. But everyone has tasks that accumulate.

"One reason why spring cleaning is important is that it tends to be the time when we are cleaning tasks that are not ordinary things that we do," said Kerr. "Good example curtains or heavy bleached linen as mattresses and pillows rugs, things on our list of weekly or monthly task, but it should not do for us."

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