If you are lucky enough to become a homeowner, you should be aware of what you are getting into. Own home and home care is not only happiness, but also a bunch of related problems in the form of cleaning the house, cleaning around the house, improving the land, garden and vegetable garden ... But if you take care of everything wisely, then this is for you it will not be a problem, but sheer pleasure. For “smart” housekeeping, you need to draw up the “House Care Rules” and follow them.
House cleaning for pleasure
Keeping your home clean will help you with your home care equipment. They can be purchased in the required quantity for all types of surfaces. Some means for cleanliness can be done independently with a minimum of costs (more on this at the end of the article). So, what do you need in the fight for cleanliness:
- sponges;
- rags (for floors, for windows, for facades, for dust) - the more the better;
- a mop for hard to reach places;
- a brush for cleaning carpets and furniture;
- buckets, basins;
- rubber gloves - the more, the better;
- detergents;
- garbage bags of different volumes;
- basket for all inventory to know exactly where to look. If you have all this, you can start cleaning the house.
House cleaning. Housewife tips
For cleaning to be a joy, the most important thing is mood and patience. Housewives recommend approaching cleaning as a creative task "to paint a picture." In this case, the picture is called "Clean House". Start by preparing the canvas - collecting garbage throughout the territory, sparing nothing, not missing a centimeter. Garbage - away from home. Be sure to open the curtains and turn on the light in all rooms. This will cheer you up and also help you see all the dirt.
Further, the center of the picture is the living room: we remove everything dusty and dirty and send it to the washing machine. While washing, we sweep away the dust, wash the window, clean the furniture and the floor. Carpets are best knocked out on the street, after sprinkling with water, so that the dust is heavy and does not sit back. The washing is completed: we hang the laundry and go to another corner of the picture. We clean the rooms in the same order.
Next in line is the kitchen - here the algorithm is slightly different. Cleaning the kitchen begins with a headset and countertops: the freer the surface, the cleaner the view. We wash the stove and refrigerator, wipe the cabinets, and then the window. Wash the floor thoroughly, with a disinfectant, and leave for the bathroom.
We fill the plumbing with detergents, forget and go to iron and hang the covers with curtains. We spread, hang and remember about the bathroom. Using brushes and sponges we rub enamel and ceramics, rinse thoroughly, wipe dry and wash the floor. By the way, there is an excellent recipe for an air freshener for a toilet: we mix half a glass of soda with your favorite essential oil, add a little water to get a dough consistency. We give shape to a fragrant bomb and put it in a hard-to-reach place. One such aromatic thing is enough for at least a week. As the saying goes, "cheap and cheerful."
So, you have a corridor in your way and - victory! If all this was done to the music, singing and following the tips for home care, then you should not be sad and tired.
Oh, garden
How beautiful the flowers bloom! How delicious berries and apples are in your garden! And how hard it is to take care of all this for novice gardeners. You have a house, trees, and caring for them requires skill. For productivity, start with the problems: what problems can you encounter in the garden? Well, of course, first of all, weeds. How to deal with them? Ways of darkness - choose the one that suits you.
- Around the territory, weeds will either have to be trimmed with a trimmer or watered with a "herbicide". It is advisable to generally remove weeds with a digging and plant a lawn. It has an aesthetic appearance and is easy to care for.
- Between garden trees, it is also advisable to plant a lawn and cut it regularly.
- The beds require regular weeding, and the paths between them can be covered with wet newspapers and sprinkled with sawdust or sand: wet newspapers will not allow grass to sprout through the sawdust.
- Berry bushes must be protected so that the branches do not break and the berries do not touch the ground, thereby preserving purity and freshness. The fence can be made of slats or polypropylene pipes - convenient and beautiful.
- At the edge of the plot, a compost hole is simply necessary. We take out the foundation pit of the right size (enough to a meter deep) and store garbage there from the garden and garden: fine grass, fallen leaves, spoiled fruits. It is very useful for future compost to add sleeping tea. Do not forget to cover the pit with film or any other material. By spring, your compost will be ready to eat.
- Trim your bushes and trees regularly, maintaining a neat appearance, making access to fruits easier, and protecting from pests. Trimming branches is necessary in early spring, until the buds are swollen. The place of cut is treated with a solution that can be purchased in special stores.
- The area around the house and the garden can be decorated with unusual sculptures or decor. It all depends on your imagination. Under the fruit tree, a gypsum figurine of a gnome with a basket or a hedgehog with long needles will organically look. Near the flower garden you can make a butterfly or dragonfly from pebbles. They can be painted with bright colors or leave a natural color. Stones are very well fastened together with tile adhesive or cement mortar.
- The issue of watering is also easy to solve: stretch the hoses or polypropylene pipes along the perimeter of the site with taps and sprayers where they are needed. When watering, you just have to turn the desired tap.
Gardening Equipment
To effectively care for your territory, you need inventory. On the site you can not do without a shovel - dig the earth under the beds, dig out large weeds (burdock, thorns), load compost into buckets. Without a hoe (chopper), also nowhere - weeding weeds, spud potatoes, loosening holes, making a furrow and much more will help to make a chopper. Universal tool - just change the angle or turn to the side.
You also need a rake, preferably of two types: for foliage - in the form of a fan and for large debris - in the form of a comb. It is very convenient for them to comb the lawn, to loosen the earth in the beds before planting, and, of course, to collect garbage. A wheelbarrow is also a great helper for homeowners with a large territory: they loaded and drove. Watering cans, buckets and gloves are the first helpers in the garden, choose them of good quality so that you do not have to update several times during the season. Caring for your home will be a joy if it’s not a burden for you.
Cleaning the house. Useful Tips
- Never put off all affairs for one day - you simply will not have time to do everything. It’s better to take an hour to a class. Today you will be ironing the hour, tomorrow you will devote an hour to sorting things out in the closet, etc. You yourself will feel that such a routine is not burdensome.
- Bring your relatives to the household chores. It’s easy for children to clean up their rooms every night before bed. It’s easy for her husband to put his socks in a certain place.
- Do not buy anything without first throwing something else out. There must be balance in everything, otherwise you risk turning the house into a museum, in which it will be very difficult to restore and maintain order.
- The more free space, the cleaner the house seems: do not litter sofas with ten pillows, do not hang clothes on chairs, try to put everything in place immediately.
- Always treat matters not as a burden, but as an adventure, because you never know what the result will be - clean or very clean.
If you belong to the category of people who do not trust chemicals for cleaning the house, then we offer you recipes for the preparation of these products at home. Which ones might you need? For cleaning the refrigerator, microwave, stove, windows, mirrors, polished surfaces, enamel, ceramics. As well as funds from rust, limescale, carpets and upholstered furniture.
To clean the refrigerator
0.5 tbsp. tablespoons of hydrogen peroxide + 0.5 tbsp. tablespoons of soda + 1 glass of water - mix, apply on a sponge and wipe the refrigerator inside and out. Rinse with warm water, wipe dry. This product does not contain odor, which is very important for the refrigerator. By the way, to make it easier to keep clean in the refrigerator, put pieces of baking paper under the size of shelves under the food. If something leaks, you will not need to get out and wash the entire shelf. It will be enough just to replace dirty paper with fresh one. In the flashbox and vegetable boxes do not forget to also lay.
For cleaning glass and mirrors
0.5 cups of vinegar + 0.5 cups of water + 1/6 cup of lemon juice + essential oil (optional) - mix, pour into a spray bottle and use with pleasure. To make the pleasure even more complete, set aside the washing of mirrors and windows until cloudy weather and wipe with nylon tights or a crumpled newspaper - this will protect your glass and mirrors from stains.
For the bathroom
We clean the toilet like this: 1 cup of vinegar + 0.5 cups of soda - pour the toilet from the inside with vinegar and sprinkle soda on top. Close the lid, after 15 minutes we arrive, clean and rinse off.
A bathtub and a tile will be perfectly washed off by 0.5 cups of soda + 0.5 cups of peroxide + 1 tbsp. spoon of your favorite dishwashing detergent - mix, apply for 5 minutes, then rinse with a sponge in warm water. Chic, shine is provided!
For mopping
A universal remedy for any floor covering: 30 milliliters of baby shampoo + a pinch of soda + a bucket of water. We clean the floor and wipe it dry so that it does not turn into a skating rink. You can add a few drops of your favorite essential oil to this composition - the aroma will last a couple of days without any freshener.
Summarize
Being the mistress of the house, and even with the personal plot is very responsible, painstaking, but quite interesting. If you follow the rules of care, plan, distribute the work correctly, then this will turn into a pleasure. You will feel not a burden on your shoulders, but joy and satisfaction from contemplating the results of your work.