Keeping a tidy house is an essential aspect of adult life, although it can be quite the undertaking, especially when you have a busy work schedule already. That being said, housekeeping doesn’t need to be the major chore that it so often becomes. This article aims to highlight some wonderful tips to make housekeeping with a busy work life somewhat more manageable.
Make a Routine
The first thing you need to do when it comes to maintaining proper housework alongside your career is shift your mentality when it comes to housework. So many people see housework as a marathon task, rather than something to be done little and often. A great way to go about making this shift is to work a little housework into your daily routine.
Create Checklists for What Needs Doing. Break the different jobs that you need done around the house each week into twenty minute tasks that you can add to an overall checklist. Then, use that checklist to dictate what to do when you reach the housekeeping section of your routine. Do two or three tasks every day and you will be startled at how quickly your home seems to fly into order, all with a relatively low time investment.
Still Do What is Important. The important thing to remember with this is that you still need to do the sudden important jobs when they come up. If you drop a bowl or knock over a vase, you’ll still have to clean up the mess. However, those will probably be your only major messes if you’re consistent with your other cleaning.
Declutter What You Can
A great addition to this method is to declutter your home. By doing so, you remove a lot of the random messy items that can make your house more difficult to clean, and overall make the work of housekeeping less than it would be otherwise.
Sort Through Your Rooms. The best way to start decluttering your home is to go through your entire home, room by room, and separate out the belongings that your rarely or never use. These are the items that you don’t need and if you are good about this process, you’ll probably find you have more than you would have guessed.
Store What You Must. The idea is to get rid of all the items you separated, but if there are any that you simply cannot bring yourself to part with. Then you should consider renting a Storage Area from your local self storage facility so that you can keep them out of your home at the very least. In doing so, you can separate the mess out of your home while still keeping the items you care about.
Be Consistent
Finally, the main concern that you should be most focused on when it comes to housework alongside your career is that you need to be consistent. Housework is much less of a burden when you do a little every day, especially if you can keep with it long enough to develop a habit.