25 life hacks to help you clean faster and less often

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

With these tips, tidying up your home will not feel like a burden, as it will be much easier to cope with the task.

Simplify dish washing

1. If a party has died down in your house and there is no desire or energy to wash the dishes, soak it in the evening. This is especially true for glasses of wine, as well as cutlery: washing dried wine from fragile narrow glasses or dried puree from a fork is not the most pleasant thing. Well, so it will be enough to rinse them with detergent in the morning.

2. The most important life hack for a party is not to use ordinary dishes. Finding beautiful paper plates in the store has not been a problem for a long time, especially since you can pick them up under the tablecloth. You won't have to wash such dishes later, you can just throw them away.

3. Invite someone who can't sleep with a pile of dishes in the sink. Perhaps by morning the dirt itself will magically evaporate.

4. If you want to freeze leftover food in the container, wipe it with vegetable oil first. It will become easier to take out the blanks, the plastic will not be saturated with odors and will be washed much easier.

5. Be the most cunning and freeze food in bags and containers from store-bought food. You can even buy special disposable containers in reserve and use them if necessary.

Hide what gets dirty imperceptibly

6. Oil from hot pans, vapors from boiling soup and just dust imperceptibly settle on the dishes. It is better to hide even the most beautiful plates, especially if you use two or three at most on a daily basis.

7. The same can be said about the main dust collectors of any apartment - books and figurines. Place them in a glass-fronted cabinet and show off your library unobtrusively.

Find your place for everything

8. Take a day and sort out everything that is lying around in the apartment. Brushes - in a stand in the bathroom, handles - in a drawer, little things for repair - in a special box.

9. To avoid clutter in the hallway and the eternal search for keys, put a vase or bowl with wide edges on the shelf. Try to get used to putting keys, sunglasses and other little things there, which you always have to look for for half an hour before leaving the house. Even if a small mess forms in it, it will be limited by the limits of the container and will not creep into the entire hallway.

10. Do not throw away shoe boxes, especially large ones: winter boots are easier to store in their original box in summer. It will fit exactly. Plus, the boxes can be stacked on top of each other to save space.

Don't let dirty shoes stain your floors

11. Buy shoe covers and put them in the hallway. Now you do not need to take off your shoes to pick up a backpack from the room. If you don't want to waste money, just move the bag with packages closer.

12. Place any unnecessary rag near your shoe mat before guests arrive. This life hack is especially useful in winter, when a mixture of reagents and melting snow brought on shoes can stain half of the apartment. Then you can simply throw out the unnecessary rag.

13. For those who always have a lot of shoes in the hallway, a small bookcase is perfect. Her task is the same as that of a rag: to prevent dirt from falling on the floor. Well, don't let you stumble over a mountain of shoes at night.

Watch out for garbage

14. Place the newspaper at the bottom of the trash can. So there is no need to wash it, even if the bag breaks and leaks, you just need to throw out the newspaper. And to avoid the unpleasant smell, sprinkle a couple of tablespoons of baking soda on the newspaper.

15. Place a trash can in your room if you spend a lot of time there. It will not take up much space, but paper trash, packaging from chips and other small debris will definitely not lie anywhere. Better to buy a smaller bucket. Indoor buckets take longer to fill, but don't smell better.

Make it easier to wash

16. Buy a small laundry basket. The smaller the basket, the more often it overflows - you have to do your laundry. And the less laundry in the machine, the better it will wash.

17. Get a special mesh bag for washing laundry and socks. If the bag is not too tight, they can be dried directly in it. And no more missing socks!

18. If the family is large, buy a triple laundry basket and sort it into dark, light and color at once. Very comfortably.

Take a life hacking approach to cleaning

19. Conditioning wipes for drying clothes in a typewriter are not uncommon. They are used to make clothes less wrinkled, smell good and iron easier. But few people know that they are very good at wiping furniture. The napkins are impregnated with a special antistatic compound that slows down the accumulation of dust. If such wipes are not at hand, any wipes and antistatic agent for clothes will do.

20. To make it easier to keep the refrigerator clean, cut pieces of baking paper to the size of each shelf and place them under the food. If something spills or leaks, there is no need to reach and wash the shelf. Even if you didn't notice the problem right away and everything had time to dry out, just replace the sheet of paper with a clean one. Remember to do the same for the vegetable drawers.

21. Apply some shaving cream to a napkin and wipe the bathroom mirror. This way it will fog up much less and you won't need to wash it as often.

And finally

22. Try to turn on the music: it is not so boring to clean up to it.

23. Open the curtains and turn on the lights. This will not only lift your spirits, but also help you see all the dirt.

24. Start cleaning with something simple so that you can gradually get involved in the process.

25. Try to clean regularly, so cleaning will take less and less time each time. You can clean every day, but only in one room.