How Do You Find The Energy To Clean An Impossibly Messy House?
• Identify the reason for the house being impossibly messy. Is it because you are the messy one or does someone else contribute to the mess. • In either case establish rules for tidiness and standards of cleanliness and stick to them, e.g. no food in certain rooms, all laundry to be kept in designated baskets and not left lying around. • Start with one drawer or cupboard at a time in, say, the kitchen and follow the steps below for each one. • If there is a room in the house which is exclusively yours, such as your bedroom, start with that. • Declutter. Move EVERYTHING out of the room (including your bed) and give the room a thorough cleaning. Wash the paintwork, hoover floor coverings and dust all surfaces. Hoover the bed! • Wash all bedclothes, including duvets and clean all clothes. • Put ONLY the essentials back in the room – the bed, clothes, toiletries. • Take a long hard look at what’s left. Ask yourself, do you really need any of it in the bedroom? If not, get rid of it. This c
