What are some ways to make cleaning the house (or any place) more fun?
Question:Most people dont enjoy cleaning, so what are some ways to make it more fun?
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5 Ways to Get Yourself Motivated to Clean
1. Invite Someone Over To Your Home
How It Helps
Inviting someone to come over to your home, can be a great motivator to get things clean. Knowing that someone will be showing up at your home can give you a deadline to get things done. Suddenly you begin to look at your home as a guest might, and the undone tasks stand out waiting to be accomplished.
How It Might Backfire
If you invite someone to come over and don't give yourself enough time to accomplish the things you need to do, you can end up with an embarrassing situation. Make sure your deadline for yourself is realistic.
2. Try a New Cleaning Product
How It Helps
Trying a new product or cleaning gadget can be a lot of fun. Instead of looking at a chore as work, it can seem like an opportunity to discover a new tool that lightens your load.
The next time you've got a job you are procrastinating, search for a new product that might help you get it done.
How It Might Backfire
Although cleaning gadgets are fun and interesting, make sure you get rid of products or gadgets that don't perform the way you want them to. A cleaning pantry can quickly be filled with unwanted items that create clutter and prevent the useful tools from being easily accessed.
3. Try a New Scent
How It Helps
If you don't want to try an entirely new product, try a new scent. Scent makes a big difference in our mood and attitude. Try a new one and you may find yourself more excited and motivated to accomplish your chores.
How It Might Backfire
Watch out that you don't combine too many different scents. Scents can sometimes trigger irritation from guests and family members. Combining too many different kinds increases the chances that someone may react badly to one, or the combination of several in your home. Change scents slowly to find the right one for your family.
4. Clean Out Some Clutter
How it Helps
Even if you find only a small space or area to rid of clutter, the feeling of watching unwanted items being removed from your home is invigorating and freeing. Even cleaning out a small area can help you get motivated to tackle bigger projects. Use the 4 container method for projects large and small.
How It Could Backfire
Make sure that you limit yourself to a contained area or section of your home at one time. Trying to clear clutter from your entire home in one sitting is liable to be a big job and leave your home messier than when you began. Start in one room, or section of a room and get it clutter free and put back together before you begin a new project. Your motivation will keep you going, and it will be easier to leave off in the middle of a project and pick it back up later.
5. Rearrange a Room
How It Helps
Rearranging a room is a great way to create a fresh perspective and motivate yourself to clean and organize. Do a 15 Minute Cleanup in the room before you begin. Rearrange the furniture, rugs, artwork, and decorative items. Changing up a room often gives you more motivation to keep it clean and uncluttered. Seeing the results can often let your cleanliness spill over into other rooms of your home.
How It Can Backfire
Don't be fooled. To really get a fresh perspective by rearranging items, you'll need to do some cleaning. You'll be surprised what moving furniture around can lead you to find. If rearranging seems like too big a job, consider switching out just a few components of the room. You'll be surprised what just a small amount of changes can motivate you to do.
Put some loud music on!! That's what I do..
Sing as you do it.
I turn on some good old rock 'n roll after I've turned the vacuum off, but other than that, I don't know of anything that could make house cleaning more enjoyable. Re-arranging furniture as I clean, sometimes makes it more interesting, but still not much fun.
Blast music that makes you want to get up and move. Also if its a big project get friends to come over and help.
Turn up the music as loud as possible, set up the web cam, and get into your French Maid outfit. This way you can dance, clean AND make money all at the same time. What could be more fun than that?
I don't know if this will work for you. But when my mom and I were helping my sister with some deep cleaning, we had pizza delivered and had a pizza party afterwards. Also, my mom likes to put on some music when she's working. She usually prefers 70s rock.
www.flylady.com
This site is the best thing I have ever seen. She turns cleaning into a positive experience. My favorite thing to do is dust. (lol, I used to hate it) I bought a huge ostrich feather duster (don't listen to the swiffer commercials, they do pick up the dust, flylady has a whole section on her page about dusters) Its so fluffy & pretty. I just put on some music & dust. Since I don't have to move the knick-knacks it only takes about 6 minutes to do the whole house. Flylady also has a radio show that you can listen to on the computer & I find that when I listen to that I get more done. http://www.modavox.com/wtrstudioa/hostmo...
You will automaticall be listening to whatever show is on but if you click the dates below the player it should start one of thier previosly recorded shows. Happy cleaning.
Play some music you like. It helps for me. Also start early in the morning so it wouldn't seem as it took you all day. About 7:00 a.m.
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