In 3 steps we put things in order in the apartment, where there are a lot of things

The apartment, which has just been furnished with furniture, looks like from the pages of magazines on interior design: all the elements are geometrically correct, the room itself simply shines with cleanliness, and small details perfectly emphasize. But then a month or two passes, and the question of how to clean up the apartment can be a very serious problem, especially if you do not belong to the category of cleanrooms and suffer from Plyushkina syndrome. A tangled lump of clothes in the closet and a little more on the back of the chair, a table littered with candy wrappers, utensils, papers and traces of your favorite hobby, the bed that you last made up at the arrival of the guests - at one point there will simply be nowhere to fold things, and here begins our path to perfect cleanliness.

Step 1: Eliminate Garbage

It is impossible to call a room clean if there is garbage in it: even a small paper wrapper on a table can significantly spoil the view, and you, admit, have accumulated a lot of such “goodness”. All this unnecessary trash most of all creates a sense of untidiness, therefore, we will get rid of it in the first place. Finish the task quickly does not work, and this process is quite time-consuming, so be patient, turn on peppy music - and let's go!

• Explicit trash.

We’ll send everything that should be 100% in the bin to the first bag, and we’re betting there are a lot of such things: crumpled pieces of paper, cut-off tags from clothes, candy wrappers, used tubes of cosmetics, remnants of materials after the handmade, non-writing pens and felt-tip pens, spoiled products, “spam” from the box accumulated in the corridor, and checks from the supermarket. With these items you will part quickly and without regret, and the room will already become a little cleaner.

• Hidden trash.

If you do not reduce the number of things littering the room, then returning the mess will not keep you waiting, so now you will have a more difficult task: carefully go through all the drawers and shelves in search of things that do not serve you or the room in any way. At first it will seem to you that these are very necessary things that should not be sent to a landfill, but do not forget to ask yourself how often you use this item and whether you need this thing at all.

The box from the TV that you bought 5 years ago, with a maintenance ticket, is in the trash, because the warranty has long expired. An expired cream is also there. A glossy magazine, bought on a trip, will also keep them company, unless, of course, you have accumulated so much that you can turn it into waste paper.

By the way, if your work involves a large amount of accumulating paper, like teachers or students, waste paper is a good way out, which will also be beneficial for the environment. At this point, sort the sheets that you no longer need, and which cannot be driven through the printer from the other side, and take them to the collection point when there are a lot of them.

• Trash is good for others.

There are things that just don’t raise a hand: this moth-eaten carpet from the USSR will lie behind a sofa in a huge dust-collecting roll, and an old TV is the same equipment that at one time cost crazy money! We hasten to upset you - all this has long passed into the category of trash, and even in post-apocalyptic chaos, in the event of which you, apparently, are preserving all this, the benefit of these things for you will tend to zero.

Nevertheless, there are people who will be glad that they will never serve you again: give the carpet to the animal shelter, where they will be insulated with booths, and the TV will probably come in handy in a nursing home forgotten by God. It will be much easier to part with an unnecessary thing if you know that it will do a good deed by warming or gladdening someone who is less fortunate than you.

It is very important at this stage to sort the clothes and get rid of what you definitely will not wear. Organizations that help orphans, the elderly, the disabled, or the homeless will happily accept things you don’t want.

Step 2: sort the right one

Now, when only the necessary things are left in the room, you have to sort them. Here we will again act in 3 stages, which will allow us to cope with the task quite quickly, in just half an hour.

• Put in place.

Now your apartment is a large container with things mixed up, where on one square meter there are mugs, a sock, an air freshener and fish food. To get started, take things to where they should be: plates from the table - to the kitchen, a sweater from the back of the chair - to the cupboard, a bath towel - to the bathroom. It’s not necessary to immediately establish order, for now we are preparing the material for the main work, dividing the space into zones, or locations.

• Wash the dirty.

Now in every location we clean up dirty things, because they are in second place after the garbage in their ability to create a musty atmosphere in the room: washing dishes, washing things, removing dust from old hair spray ... So, wait a second. When was the last time you used it, that he managed to get so dusty? It seems that someone was not attentive enough at the stage of "cleaning" the room from trash. Carry a trash bag quickly - the varnish goes to candy wrappers and a box from the TV.

• Organize locations.

Well, now in each location you need to put everything in order: hang clothes on hangers, beautifully place the bottles in the bathroom, neatly fold books and papers on the table. In order to organize space efficiently and correctly, there is one important secret: little things and paper should not be randomly scattered, since it is with them that large-scale clutter usually begins. Buy simple cardboard or plastic boxes or organizers for correspondence, in which you could put all sorts of printouts, paper clips, skeins of thread, jewelry or a collection of lipsticks, otherwise very soon they will be scattered all over the room again.

Step 3: Bring Gloss

Things have diminished, and the rest are neatly placed where they belong and the room is already a little easier to breathe. But this air is still filled with particles of dust and dirt, which means that the time has come for traditional wet cleaning. In order to clean up the house, wipe the dust, vacuum and wash the floors, for a better effect, change the bedding, make the bed after that, wash the curtains and wash the window.

Look at your apartment now. Isn’t it wonderful to live in such a perfectly clean, bright and spacious place? We understand that it will not be easy for everyone to maintain rooms in this form on an ongoing basis, so here are a few ways to organize and motivate yourself to facilitate future cleaning.

• Remember, we shared an apartment on a location? It can be a dressing table, kitchen cabinet, wardrobe or desk. Make a list of locations and clean up one of them every day. The volume of such work will not be absolutely frightening, which means that the chance that you will postpone this lesson is quite reduced.
• If someone else lives in your apartment besides you, you can arrange cleaning competitions - who will clean a certain area in the highest quality or fastest? True, this will work if this person is also not the cleanest neighbor in the world. If your neighbor is very kind to order, on the basis of which you may even have quarrels, then give him cleaning certificates.So you will be forced to clean so as not to offend a dear person, and he, in turn, will serve as a kind of indicator that it is definitely time to do this.
• If there is housework that you simply cannot stand, it is best not to put it off until the last. Start with this lesson, even if it violates the procedure in our article a little, otherwise the task runs the risk of not being completed.
• Invite your friends to visit! It is advisable to those with whom you do not communicate very often: colleagues or old school friends whom you have not seen for a long time are best. You will most likely want to impress these people, especially if this is their first visit. Not only will this event serve as a timer, so the motivation is better than not banging your face in front of unfamiliar people, you are unlikely to find!
• Your apartment is just shining now! Take a photo of it in this form, print and hang it in a conspicuous place. For many girls, photos of models or themselves in the best of times are motivated to lose weight and eat right - it is likely that this technique will help you.

Of course, this method cannot be called the express method of trash analysis, but with so many things you can hardly clean really quickly without picking up trash under the carpet and not throwing things without looking in the closet. But, sorting things out according to the tips above, you really free up space, get rid of unnecessary trash and can more easily maintain the perfect order in the future. Audit things at least once every six months, and your room is less likely to turn into a multi-functional warehouse. Remember that nothing contributes to a cozy atmosphere like cleanliness and lack of trash, but now you know how to deal with already accumulated reserves.