Organize Your Housework With These 5 Time-saving Tips

By Author: Jesse Whitehead
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For many of us, doing housework is a necessary set of tasks that is about as unpleasant as getting teeth pulled. We want our houses clean and free of clutter but we hate the drudgery involved doing it. Other than paying a maid service to clean house, we must find some way to do it ourselves without dying of sheer boredom. This article presents a few simple tips that will help save you time and sanity in keeping your house neat and orderly.

1. A place for everything, and everything in its place. Get in the habit of putting everything in its place. Remind all of your family members to do the same. Putting everything where it belongs on a daily basis will keep things from piling up and looking like a cluttered mess. Additionally, when you put things in their place, you'll be able to find what you need easily because it is where it is supposed to be.

2. Do chores and daily tasks in small chunks of time. Doing your chores here and there as you have a chance throughout the week keeps everything from piling up into one huge workload on the weekend For instance, don't save all of your laundry to do it one time; do a load ...
... or two each day and you'll have little to do come Saturday and Sunday.

3. Use laborsaving appliances to save time. If you're preparing a meal where you need to do a lot of cutting and chopping, you may want to use your food processor to make quick work of the food preparation. However if you only need to chop a few tomatoes or onions, while it may be faster to use a food processor, in the long run it may take more time to clean it than the time it actually saves by using it.

4. Set aside some free time just for you. All work and no play is not good for your health if continued for some length of time. Even if it's just for a few hours, try to set aside some time for you to do whatever you want. Maybe it's some time out to with your friends, or some time alone to watch a movie or read a book. Spending some" me" time is a good way to recharge your physical and emotional batteries.

5. Make room for slack time. You never know what kind of interruptions, emergencies, or unexpected events may occur during the day. Also, in addition to the unexpected, it doesn't matter how well or carefully you plan your day, there may be some activities that take longer to do than you expect.
Jesse Whitehead lives in the Central Valley of California where he enjoys writing articles on a variety of different subjects. His latest interest is in Wolf Watch Winders. Come visit his latest website at AutomaticWatchWinders.org which provides more information about automatic watch winders.