Life hacks for the hostess: what to do if there is a cleaning from 3 minutes to an hour
'09.06.2020'
Source: Womanhit
In the scientific journal Personality and Social Psychology, a study was published based on a linguistic analysis of women's statements about their home. Each of the 60 participants in the experiment described their home, and then received an assessment by a psychologist. As it turned out, those whose housewives rated it cluttered and dirty were more prone to depression and fatigue than women who described the cleanliness of their own home and the organization of space, writes Womanhit.
The researchers also found that women whose home was in a mess turned out to have higher levels of cortisol, the stress hormone. Even if you have 5 minutes left, you can find something to do:
Three minutes
Enter the rule of one song in the house: find a composition that charges you with energy and makes you move more actively. Most often, it will be Latin or songs in Turkish, to the melodies of which your legs themselves begin to move. On average, a song lasts three minutes - during this time, children will be able to collect toys, and you will wash the dishes after a family dinner. In general, we advise you to get out to the music - so time passes many times faster. Turn it on with headphones at full volume and wipe the mirrors with a rag, vacuum the floor - and do not be shy about your dancing skills.
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Five minutes
During this time, you can manage to make out the garbage in the hallway that you put on the shelves after arriving home: old checks, newspapers, advertising leaflets, unread letters, sticks and leaves from a child’s walk, a trifle, and more. Put a jar of coins, where you will dump all the little things from your pockets, and then hand it in to a specialized machine in a shopping center. For keys, install a key keeper: hang on it the keys to the house and the car so that later you do not have to look for them in all the bags. Do the same with documents and bank cards - put them on a shelf so you don’t forget when you leave home.
Ten minutes
Buy a melamine sponge in the household goods store - you can remove traces of children's creativity on the walls and wallpaper, wash stains from furniture and tiles, and clean the switches from dirty hands. In just ten minutes, you can eliminate such trifles that are striking when guests come to your house. It would be nice for the guests to check how clean your toilet, sink, table and fresh towels are hanging. Replace an old bar of soap or renew a dispenser with liquid soap.
Half an hour
Disassemble the refrigerator: expose all the food, review the expiration dates on sauces and check the cans with pickles. Throw away the weathered and sprouted vegetables - it is unsafe to eat them, it is better to buy fresh products. Rinse the refrigerator with cleaning agent, review the storage system - it is possible that you need to change the position of the shelves, put organizers for vegetables and fruits, and more. Unnecessary shelves can be removed - because of them, your refrigerator is often difficult to close.
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If you use an oven and microwave, at least once a month they should be washed to remove drops of fat, food debris and an unpleasant odor. This work will take at least an hour, so be patient. Mistresses advise scrubbing burnt food from the grates with a lump of crumpled foil, and in difficult cases with sandpaper. Be careful with baking sheets: pour the cleaning agent on the dishes to wash the stove, pour it with a small amount of boiling water and leave it for 10-15 minutes so that the stains get wet and can easily separate from the surface. Rinse the oven with a soft sponge with a cleaning agent, and then leave it open for a while so that the water evaporates. If there is an unpleasant odor, put in the oven and start the bowl with dry soda or salt - when heated, it absorbs odors faster.
