Spring Cleaning Tips For Men
Posted on 07 September 2011
Spring is here, and after a couple of months holed up on the house, its starting to look like, well, that you’ve been holed up in the house for a couple of months!
Time to spring clean! That sounds like fun. Or not…
In fact, it sounds incredibly daunting and you’d rather just move house than tackle that task. But, for blokes, it’s not as overwhelming as it first appears.
Here are our top ten spring cleaning tips for blokes:
1. Your starting point is clearing the clutter. Take a look around the room and pick up the “stuff”, the magazines and TV guides lying around, cups, plates and cutlery on various surfaces, the socks on the floor and undies on the ceiling fan! Delegate a place for each item…that’s where it lives from now on!
2. Break the job up so it’s less overwhelming. Work one room at a time, starting at one point and working your way clockwise around the room, or break the room into quadrants and focus on one at a time.
3. First rule of cleaning: start at the top. Clean above your head first, perhaps the cobwebs on the cornices, then work your way down. When you dust and wipe, the debris lands on the floor. You DON’T want to have to be vacuuming more than you have to.
4. Take your cleaning supplies, sprays, cloths, dustpan and broom, rubbish bin and “I’ll deal with that later” box and anything else with you as you move from room to room. Its frustrating and time consuming to have to find where you left the stuff you need when you move on.
5. Use good, preferably brand name, cleaning products. Inferior products don’t do the job as well, and often require you to repeat the job the same day, let alone a week later.
6. Be patient! Let the products to their thing. Spray the shower, then wipe down mirrors, basins and the toilet. Now you can hit the shower and de-mould it. It’ll be easier if you give the product time to work.
7. Make the job more enjoyable but putting your favourite music on, really loud, or use the iPod to motivate you much like Mrs Doubtfire and her vacuuming to Aerosmith.
8. We all know blokes like a good challenge, so make it one. Set a timer and play Beat the Clock in each room.
9. Put away as you go. This seems a bit odd at this point, as you’re tidying up the mess. However now you have designated spots for stuff, next year’s spring cleaning is a breeze.
10. If you really need incentive to get the spring cleaning happening, invite a couple of friends over for a BBQ. There’s nothing like having the fear of judgement to get you off your bum.
Now … get to it!
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