Recently I’ve been wondering how I can cut down on housework especially cleaning floors can you do it do it without ruining your life because you worry about it?
If you live alone or with just one other person there are advantages to eating in the kitchen
If you have a big kitchen and everybody in the family can eat their if you have a family
If you eat in the sitting room you’re going to get crumbs on the floor at the least and unless you clean it very frequently they might get tridden into the carpet so I have discovered.
It’s partly a question of the flooring again
If it’s a wooden floor or vinyl or tiles then it’s not so difficult to clean.
If you have a dining room with carpet on the floor that is going to be more difficult to clean than the kitchen floor
So if you eaten a kitchen you would only have to clean the kitchen floor which you will be doing anyway I hope.
Because there are a lot of rodents about.
If you have mobility problem il it’s a good idea to have waste paper baskets in each room
Of course that means emptying them. So alternatively you can keep a small plastic bag in your pocket and put any bits and pieces of rubbish into that as you go
It’s the flu season so therefore the tissue season for most of us but you can’t scatter these around after you’ve blown your nose. I can leave it to your imagination what you do with them but throwing them into the waste paper basket may not be the best idea
But you can throw wrappings and non infectious things in.
Of course eating for some people involves being in bed. Nigella Lawson loves to eat pasta in bed but I recommend that you don’t eat anything in bed and ideally you don’t eat anything in the bedroom. But you can drink tea or wine or even brandy in bed or in the bedroom.
Otherwise imagine all the cleaning you have to do the bedroom……. full of crumbs or spilt milk ditto the living room or the dining room and the kitchen is possibly quite clean
So all that can be done away with and you can just clean the kitchen floor it’s not difficult if you have a lightweight vacuum cleaner or a long handled brush
Sweeping is exercise and it doesn’t use electricity so that’s what I recommend.
Returning to the bedroom my if your home is small you may need to use the bedroom for office work. So definitely need a waste paper basket. And while it’s tempting to throw use tissues about it’s a temptation that you must not succumb to
Why, you might catch an infection from yourself!
Don’t give yourself covid-19 keep your tissues in a plastic Bagvwhen you’ve used them until you can dispose of them in a lidded bin
But do not put them down the toilet because they don’t dissolve in water whereas toilet paper does
That gives me an idea why not use toilet paper to blow your nose? Certainly while you’re at home you had it unless you got a really bad cold and you think the tissue:s going to disintegrate.
It could be cheaper as well to use toilet paper.
And talk about saving efforts on housework never throw anything down the toilet such as medication that you don’t need ,bread, worn out ballpoint pens etc you will be amazed if you ever speak to people who work as plumbers or sewage experts as I once did and people do sometimes put a whole loaf of bread down the toilet now I can’t imagine the thinking behind that unless the dustbin is full. But most people in England have special small bins for disposing of food waste.
Cut down on your rubbish by using non-disposable items as much as possible such as kitchen cloths instead of kitchen paper etc
Cut down on your washing by wearing an apron. If you do anything from painting to cleaning to washing the car wear something over your clothing
My husband had a very nice denim apron although I’m not sure if he wore this outside in the street probably because he never washed the car himself
There are still some things that men don’t want to do especially wearing aprons with flowers all over
So the main thing with housework is to avoid it by avoiding spreading mess and crumbs and dirt as much as you can without becoming obsessional.
And I believe that if you have a certain kind of tiny lightweight vacuum cleaner then you may be quite happy to vacuum your entire floors every day.
That doesn’t sound very grammatical but I think you get my drift don’t you?
Cut down on washing can you can you do this ? Yes because we wash our clothes too much. Wear your things for two days instead of one and that will be a 50% reduction and will save money. Clothes wear out faster if you keep washing them alternatively you could wear a suit of armour which would not need to go in the washing machine but if it was made of silver you might need to polish yourself every day
Well it sounds like an awful lot of work so maybe the best thing is not to bother about it at all for six days and then on the seventh a day clean everything
Btw you can change your sheets less frequently if you have a shower before you go to bed so it depends on what you prefer and on whether you can afford the hot water
Alternatively when it’s raining stand outside in the rain after you’ve got undressed. Then rub yourself down with a towel but if you live in industrial city then you may be more dirtier after that when you were before
Being sensible it may be enough to wash the sweaty parts of your body before you go to bed.
If this is too much for you just change your sheets when you can manage it and don’t worry because unless you are a coal miner you’re probably not that dirty anyway
I cannot imagine letting a dog sleep on my bed I really would need to change the sheets and dove cover a lot but I’m happy to let cats sleep on the bed
In fact I’ve got a shortage of cats.
But having pets does increase the amount of cleaning you need to do. And there is often a strange odor in a home where there are a lot of animals.
Do not spray under ar deodorant into the air if your living room smells just open the windows and put some fresh flowers in there
I wonder if rosemary would grow inside in a large pot because a rosemary or lavender bush smells wonderful maybe just in the winter time you could have it inside and then put it outside in the summer… I rather fancy that
It’s been so tiring writing this that I tl can’t do any housework today
How my heart sings 