Fast ‘n Furious Housekeeping – How To Get Housework Done Fast!
Few of us love housework, but most of us want to live in a house where we don’t have to fear contracting a contagious disease. So let’s find out how to clean faster, so we can spend time on the things that really matter to us!
plan your meals
When you don’t know what you’re going to make for dinner ahead of time, you may end up with too many things to do, including running to the grocery store, at the last minute. And there’s no worse place to be at 5:30 pm than standing in line at a grocery store with three crying kids because you put in the spaghetti and discover you don’t have any sauce. So try to plan your meals for a week. If you want, you can get your family together and let everyone choose a meal. This often increases the chance that they will eat it too!
schedule tasks
One of the problems people often have with housework is that they focus on “visible” areas, like the living room and kitchen, while other areas rarely get cleaned. Or they mop frequently but forget to vacuum the upstairs.
And then you realize that part of your house is out of control and driving you crazy! If you only dust your bedroom every few months, even if your living room where guests are are dusted twice a week, you can start sneezing all night!
Make a list of how often you want tasks to be done. Ideally, this can be done with your family and you can ask them for help. But for those tasks that you have assigned to yourself, decide which ones should be done daily, which weekly, which every other week, and which monthly. Then make a monthly schedule where you can check things off as you do them. You can download my own graphics for that via the link at the bottom of this article!
You will find several advantages in this system. First of all, everything that needs to be done will be done. Your house will be well maintained, so your things will last longer. But you may actually end up doing less work. If you do household chores according to a schedule, you know that everything will be done on time. Once you have finished today’s tasks, there is nothing else to do. You can stop without feeling guilty about relaxing or spending time on something else.
clean faster
Of course, another way to get the cleanup done fast is to, well, get it done fast! Pick up the pace. Here are some fast and furious suggestions:
1. Clean with lively and fast music.
2. Measure the time and see if you can beat your previous time.
3. Think of cleaning as an exercise. Try to clean so fast that you literally break out in a sweat and run out of breath. That way, the cleanse will count toward one of the 20-minute exercise periods you’re supposed to do each day.
Give yourself specific goals
Has this happened to you? You decide to clean your bedroom, and in the process, you find several things that really belong in the living room. You pick them up and go downstairs, noticing that your plants need watering. When you go to the kitchen to return the shower head, you notice that the breakfast dishes are still in the sink. You do that and then you realize you’re late to pick up your kids from school. You run out, frustrated that nothing is really clean.
I do this all the time. It’s like he has no attention span when it comes to ordering. After spending an hour, I’ll have a small part of each room in the house cleaned, but nothing is really finished. I feel like I have nothing to show for all I’ve done!
When you give yourself a task, make sure you do it and only do it. If there are things that need to be moved to another room, make a pile, but don’t take them there until the task at hand is done. This way you will know that at least one room at the end of all your efforts will be tidy.
And isn’t that what we all want? We want comfortable houses, but we don’t want to spend all our time cleaning them. So let’s organize smart, clean smart, and clean fast, and you’ll have more time for the relationships that really matter!