Perfectly Organized homes can become a reality with a little planning, consistent effort and proper execution. Once your basic plans falls in place it takes hardly one hour everyday to run all the functions smoothly.
Basic plan preparation takes some extensive thought process, which may require 6-7 days of yours, but the outcome is productive and is going to make your life so hassle free that putting in these many efforts is quite worth. Basic plan has to be customized (as one plan can’t fit for all) to be effective, and only your involvement at every level can make it successful. This article will be navigating you through basic guidelines and you can make changes as per your requirements
First of all you have to decide in which category your dwelling place fits in. is it
a) An apartment,
b) A standalone kind of house /row house
Apartment style of living doesn’t require outdoors to be taken care of in general, which is not the case with row houses, accordingly time and days will be assigned to management of outdoors also.
First we will take up organizing an apartment; we are assuming that it’s a two bedroom-hall-kitchen flat, with four family members.
Now we can divide all the cleaning & organizing activities in following sections
a) Which are needed to be done daily
b) Which are needed to be done weekly
c) Which are needed to be done fortnightly
d) Which are needed to be done monthly
e) Which are needed to be done bimonthly
f) Which are needed to be done six monthly
g) Which are needed to be done yearly
a) Daily cleaning & organizing activities include placing each and every object at its assigned place, dusting of major visible areas, brooming and wet cleaning of floors with clean waters & cloth.
Before proceeding towards daily cleaning, most crucial step is assigning place to every small item in the house; if we consider one category i.e. children’s belongings there can be numerous things attached to that; children’s toys, indoor and outdoor game equipments are to be assigned different places and containers, their books ( books can also be segregated into school notes, home notes, reading books, encyclopedias) bags(schoolbag, bags for different classes) ,umbrella,raincoats,general clothes, special clothes, school uniforms, clothes to be washed, clothes to be ironed, gym wears, party wear shoes, casual footwears,sports footwear’s, school lunchbox, water bottles, vehicles.
………Likewise you will prepare the lists of all the categories and minutest items to be included in that list, you may add or delete items as per your requirement in that list.
After preparing the list for all broad categories which occupy floor, wall or air space in your house you have to assign a particular place for a particular article in the house. It will be convenient and will appear aesthetically nice if you collect similar kind of things together
As a result of this exercise your daily cleaning and organizing chore will become very systematic & hassle free.
Now, we come to weekly cleaning, we should focus on one area, in one room which requires immediate attention. Suppose on Monday you take up fridge cleaning & wall tiles cleaning in the kitchen, Tuesday you take up master bedroom’s furniture cleaning-bed sheet change-bedside table sorting, Wednesday you take up second bedroom’s furniture cleaning-bed sheet change-bedside table sorting. Thursday take hall’s furniture cleaning-sorting, arranging. Friday can be given to two bathroom’s extensive cleaning. Saturdays, doors, switch boards, and dirty patches on walls can be taken up. Sundays can be assigned to cleaning of webs and dust on the walls of whole house, fans and tube lights. Take care that when you are dealing with the weekly cleaning of a specific area daily cleaning of whole house has been performed as per the schedule.
Fortnightly cleaning, includes wet cleanings of windows and doors , extensive cleaning of kitchen shelves, any other shelf or storage area in bedrooms other than clothes almirah.
Monthly cleanings requires removal of heavy furniture and proper cleaning, bed box storage etc. areas which are out of sight, contain necessary items, which should not be out of mind.
Cleaning in two or six months can be of loft areas.
Yearly cleaning includes whitewash, or wet cleaning of walls, almirah and other areas.
In nutshell, basic & daily cleaning requires most meticulous planning & execution and all the other things will easily fall in place
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