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Step 1: Dispose of the debris
The apartment, just furnished, looks like from the pages of interior design magazines: all elements are geometrically correct, the room itself is shining with cleanliness, and small parts perfectly place accents. But a month or two passes, and the question of how to put things in order in an apartment can be a very serious problem, especially if you do not belong to the category of cleanliness and suffer from Plyushkin's syndrome. A confused clod of clothes in the closet and a little more on the back of the chair, a table littered with candy wrappers, dishes, papers and tracks from your favorite hobby, the bed that you last tucked in for the arrival of guests - at one point there will be nowhere to put things together, and it's exactlyhere begins our path to perfect purity.
Step 1: Eliminate garbage
It's impossible to call a room clean if it has garbage: even a small paper wrapper on the table can significantly spoil the look, but you, admit, have a lot of such "good".All this unnecessary trash creates a feeling of untidiness most of all, that's why we will get rid of it first of all. Complete the task quickly does not work, and this process is quite laborious, so be patient, turn on the cheerful music - and go!
- Blunt rubbish.
Everything that should be in a bin for 100% is sent to the first package, and such things are ready to be argued, there are a lot: crumpled pieces of paper, cut labels from clothes, candy wrappers, used cosmetics tubes, remnants of materials after handmade,and felt-tip pens, spoiled products, accumulated in the corridor "spam" from the box and checks from the supermarket. With these objects, you part quickly and without regret, and the room will already become a little cleaner.
- Hidden garbage.
If you do not reduce the amount of things that clutter the room, then the return of the mess will not keep you waiting, so now you have a more difficult task: go through all the drawers and shelves in the search for things that do not serve you or the room in any way. At first it will seem to you that these are very necessary things that should not be sent to the dump, but do not forget to ask yourself how often you use this item and whether you need this thing at all.
The box from the TV that you bought 5 years ago, with a coupon for maintenance - in the garbage, because the warranty period has expired long ago. Cream with expired shelf life - there too. A glossy magazine bought on a trip will also make them a company, unless, of course, you have accumulated so much that you can take it to waste paper.
By the way, if your work involves a large amount of accumulating paper, like teachers or students, waste paper is a good way out, which will also be useful for the environment. At this stage, sort the sheets that you no longer need, and which you can not drive through the printer on the other side, and take them to the reception point when they accumulate a lot.
- Garbage for you is good for others.
There are things that can not be thrown out: this moth-eaten carpet of the times of the USSR will lie on the sofa in a huge dust-collecting roll, and the old TV is the same technique that once cost insane money! We are sorry to upset you - all this has long since become a trash, and even in the post-apocalyptic chaos, in case of occurrence of which you are apparently storing all this, the benefits of these things for you will tend to zero.
Nevertheless, there are people who will be glad that they will never serve you again: give the carpet to the animal shelter, where they are warmed by the booths, and the TV is surely useful in the God-forgotten home for the elderly. Parting with an unnecessary thing will be much easier if you know that it will go for a good cause, warming up or pleased someone who is less fortunate than you.
It is very important at this stage to sort your clothes and get rid of what you definitely will not wear. Unnecessary things to you with joy will accept organizations that help orphans, old people, disabled or homeless.
Step 2: Sort the right
Now that the only things left in the room are you need to sort them. Here we will again operate in 3 stages, which will allow us to cope with the task fairly quickly, literally in half an hour.
- Put it back in place.
Now your apartment is a large container with things interspersed, where on one square meter there are a mug, a sock, an air freshener and a fish feed. First, take things to where they should be: plates from the table - into the kitchen, a jacket from the back of the chair - into the closet, a bath towel - into the bathroom. We do not need to set the order immediately, for now we are preparing material for the main job, breaking the space into zones, or locations.
- Wash the dirty.
Now in each location we put in order the dirty things, after all they are in second place after the garbage by the ability to create a musty atmosphere in the room: washing dishes, washing things, we remove the dust from the old hairspray. .. So, a second. When was the last time you used it, that he managed to get so dusty? It seems that someone was not attentive enough at the stage of "cleaning" the premises from the rubbish. Quickly carry the garbage bag - the varnish is sent to the candy wrappers and the box from the TV.
- Organize locations.
Well, now in every location you need to put in order: hang clothes on hangers, nicely arrange bottles in the bathroom, carefully fold books and papers on the table. In order to organize space efficiently and correctly, there is one important secret: small items and papers should not be randomly scattered, since it is with them usually begins a large clutter. Buy simple cardboard or plastic boxes or organizers for correspondence into which you could put all sorts of prints, clips, skeins of thread, jewelry or a collection of lipsticks, otherwise very soon they will be scattered all over the room.
Step 3: Set the gloss
Things are diminished, and the remaining ones are neatly placed where they belong and the room is a little easier to breathe. But this air is still filled with particles of dust and dirt, which means it's time for traditional wet cleaning. In order to clean up the house, wipe the dust, vacuum and wash the floors, for a better effect, change the bed linen, after filling the bed, wash the curtains and wash the window.
Look at your apartment now. Is not it wonderful to live in such an ideally clean, bright and spacious place? We understand that it will not be easy for everyone to maintain rooms in this kind on an ongoing basis, so here are a few ways to organize and motivate yourself to facilitate cleaning in the future.
- Remember, we divided the apartment into locations? It can be a dressing table, a kitchen cupboard, a wardrobe or a desk. Make a list of locations and every day, put things in order in one of them. The volume of such work will not be absolutely frightening, which means that the chance that you will postpone this activity is significantly reduced.
- If you have someone else living in your apartment, you can arrange a harvesting competition - who will clean a certain area the most qualitatively or quickly? True, it will work, if this person is also not the cleanest neighbor in the world. If your neighbor is very careful about the order, on the basis of what you may even have quarrels, then give him certificates for cleaning. So you will be forced to get out so as not to offend an expensive person, and he, in turn, will serve as a kind of indicator of what to do it, definitely, it's time.
- If there is work on the house that you just can not stand, then it's better not to postpone it until the last. Begin with this lesson, even if it slightly disrupts the order of actions in our article, otherwise the task runs the risk of not being fulfilled.
- Invite friends to visit! It is desirable those with whom you do not communicate very often: colleagues or old school friends that you have not seen for a long time will be the best. These people you most likely want to impress, especially if it's their first visit. Not only that this event will serve as a timer, so the motivation is better than not to hit the dirt in front of unfamiliar people, you are unlikely to find!
- Your apartment is now just shining! Take a picture of it in this form, print it out and hang it in a prominent place. Many girls photos of models or themselves in the best of times motivate to lose weight and eat right - it is likely that this method will help you too.
Of course, this method can not be called an express method of trash analysis, but with so many things it is unlikely that you can get away really quickly without scooping up the garbage under the carpet and throwing things away without looking into the closet. But, by sorting things according to the tips above, you really free space, get rid of unnecessary trash and can more easily maintain the ideal order in the future. Do an audit of things at least once every six months, and your room will less likely become a multi-functional warehouse. Remember that nothing contributes to the atmosphere of coziness, such as cleanliness and lack of trash, but how to deal with the accumulated reserves, you now know.