Friday, August 31
how to's
A guide for cleaning your room - especially for teenagers.
Steps
1. Create a calming atmosphere. Turn off all electronic devices. Music may help when you are just 'straightening up' but when you listen to music when you're really trying to clean, you sometimes tend to repeat poor cleaning choices.
2. Open a window for fresh air during the summer, and use natural light rather than overhead, energy consuming ones. If your room smells bad, you might want to spray some air-freshener to get rid of odors.
3. Eat before cleaning. Hunger and thirst really distract you from cleaning effectively. But try not to clean after eating a huge meal.
4. Make your bed properly and neatly. Making a bed can be more complex than you think, so try studying other's bed making patterns or reading a wikihow on how.
5. For cleaning, take everything that has been put away improperly (aka in the wrong place, or has been put away sloppily) and put it in a big pile in the middle of your room.
6. Go through the pile, finding any trash that you can. Put it into a heavy duty trash bag.
7. Go through the pile again, this time, taking out any articles of clothing and putting them into a separate pile. Go through them, putting away the clean clothes, and putting the dirty clothes either in a laundry basket or put them into a neat pile on your closet floor.
8. Go through the rest of the stuff, putting it neatly where it belongs.
9. If you have stuff in your room that belongs elsewhere (dirty dishes, food, that shirt that belongs to your sister, etc.) then put it in a pile to take away later. Going back and forth putting stuff away wastes time and tires you.
10. If you find items that you don't have a place for or you don't want, put them in a box to give away later.
11. After everything is put away and dusted, sweep/vacuum/mop your floor. A clean floor can do so much for a room.
12. Take the trash bag out to the trash and the laundry to the laundry room.
13. Look at the items in the box. If you decide that you don't want them, you can donate them or throw them away. If you do want them, find places to keep them or purchase more storage items to keep them in.
Tips
* Take a 10 minute breather every 45 minutes (this is the average person's attention span).
* Don't listen to music.
* Have everything you'll need out before you start.
* The messy-room syndrome is mostly caused by having too much stuff. If there's anything in your room that you don't want or need, send it to Good Will or give some of it to that little sibling who would like that trinket you never use.
* Do not shove anything anywhere, put everything away neatly. If you feel yourself getting restless, or you don't feel in the cleaning mood, and you're angry or whatever, try taking a ten minute break. Drink some water, sit down, relax and refresh yourself.
* Do your best to clean everything thoroughly. Remember the quote ,"If your going to do something, best to do it right,"
Warnings
* Turn off your phones, computers and T.V's so that you won't be tempted.
* Take your time and don't rush. A thorough cleaning might take all day, but it will help cut down on the daily work you have to do to it.
* Be careful moving heavy objects!!
* Turn off the music!
Things You'll Need
* A box
* A bag or basket for laundry
* Trash bag
hehe. My room is a mess so I'm put this random thing up. LOL!
Steps
1. Create a calming atmosphere. Turn off all electronic devices. Music may help when you are just 'straightening up' but when you listen to music when you're really trying to clean, you sometimes tend to repeat poor cleaning choices.
2. Open a window for fresh air during the summer, and use natural light rather than overhead, energy consuming ones. If your room smells bad, you might want to spray some air-freshener to get rid of odors.
3. Eat before cleaning. Hunger and thirst really distract you from cleaning effectively. But try not to clean after eating a huge meal.
4. Make your bed properly and neatly. Making a bed can be more complex than you think, so try studying other's bed making patterns or reading a wikihow on how.
5. For cleaning, take everything that has been put away improperly (aka in the wrong place, or has been put away sloppily) and put it in a big pile in the middle of your room.
6. Go through the pile, finding any trash that you can. Put it into a heavy duty trash bag.
7. Go through the pile again, this time, taking out any articles of clothing and putting them into a separate pile. Go through them, putting away the clean clothes, and putting the dirty clothes either in a laundry basket or put them into a neat pile on your closet floor.
8. Go through the rest of the stuff, putting it neatly where it belongs.
9. If you have stuff in your room that belongs elsewhere (dirty dishes, food, that shirt that belongs to your sister, etc.) then put it in a pile to take away later. Going back and forth putting stuff away wastes time and tires you.
10. If you find items that you don't have a place for or you don't want, put them in a box to give away later.
11. After everything is put away and dusted, sweep/vacuum/mop your floor. A clean floor can do so much for a room.
12. Take the trash bag out to the trash and the laundry to the laundry room.
13. Look at the items in the box. If you decide that you don't want them, you can donate them or throw them away. If you do want them, find places to keep them or purchase more storage items to keep them in.
Tips
* Take a 10 minute breather every 45 minutes (this is the average person's attention span).
* Don't listen to music.
* Have everything you'll need out before you start.
* The messy-room syndrome is mostly caused by having too much stuff. If there's anything in your room that you don't want or need, send it to Good Will or give some of it to that little sibling who would like that trinket you never use.
* Do not shove anything anywhere, put everything away neatly. If you feel yourself getting restless, or you don't feel in the cleaning mood, and you're angry or whatever, try taking a ten minute break. Drink some water, sit down, relax and refresh yourself.
* Do your best to clean everything thoroughly. Remember the quote ,"If your going to do something, best to do it right,"
Warnings
* Turn off your phones, computers and T.V's so that you won't be tempted.
* Take your time and don't rush. A thorough cleaning might take all day, but it will help cut down on the daily work you have to do to it.
* Be careful moving heavy objects!!
* Turn off the music!
Things You'll Need
* A box
* A bag or basket for laundry
* Trash bag
hehe. My room is a mess so I'm put this random thing up. LOL!
our love lingers at 5:58:00 PM
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