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one Picking out seasonal clothes

Life hack: when decluttering, proceed from your lifestyle

On long weekends, many people clean up winter clothes, take out spring and summer clothes. Combine this process with decluttering. So you free the closet and solve the common problem: «there is nothing to wear and nowhere to hang.»

To make decluttering your wardrobe more productive, take into account your lifestyle and daily activities: going to work, studying or working remotely, meeting friends or daily walks with a child, playing sports. Get out of the closet everything that is in it, and arm yourself with hangers. Break your clothes into capsules and hang nearby those things that are used for one of your daily activities.

All items that have remained lying outside the closet and have not been worn for more than a year are the main candidates for sale or disposal.

2 washing windows

Life hack: take a glass scraper

One of the most unpleasant moments of cleaning during the May holidays is washing windows. It will take less time if you arm yourself with the right tools and equipment.

• Spray cleaner for windows.
• Microfiber cloths.
• Scraper for windows or showers.

First, wash off the main dust and dirt with damp microfiber cloths. You can replace them with linen rags, but not cotton ones, because the latter leave lint on the glass. Remove excess water with a scraper and apply detergent. Leave it on for a few minutes while you rinse and wipe the scraper dry. Now remove the detergent with it, so there will be no stains on the window.

3 Washing the surface

Life hack: leave the detergent to work and do other things

If you leave a special cleaner on the tiles in the bathroom and kitchen before you go to clean up another room, then it will work on its own. As a result, you don’t have to rub anything. This technique also works with the toilet, bathtub, sink, hood and oven. It is only important to choose the right tool for each surface so as not to spoil it.

four We clean the curtains

Life hack: do not wash, but vacuum

Unfortunately, you can’t do without washing curtains at all, sooner or later you will have to do this. But if during these May holidays you don’t want to spend time removing, washing, ironing and hanging curtains at all, at least vacuum them. Just put a gentle cloth attachment on the vacuum cleaner. If you carry out this procedure at least once a month or two, you will noticeably improve the air quality in the room.

Another small life hack: if you still washed the curtains from a fabric that does not wrinkle much, hang them damp on the ledge, they will straighten out under their weight. And if the fabric is badly wrinkled, use a garment steamer.

5 Making the process more enjoyable

Life hack: divide cleaning into stages

Many people think that it is better to spend the whole day cleaning, but not to stretch it for a long time. But when you are busy with an unpleasant business for several hours in a row, fatigue accumulates, and the eye stops noticing various trifles. At the end of the day, I really want to cheat and wash the last somehow, just to finish.

Try this weekend to break the cleaning into small fragments that will take no more than a couple of hours a day. The effect of such a “subbotnik” will last longer.

Life hack: ventilate more often

For several hours of cleaning, we move more actively than usual. This means that the level of carbon dioxide in the apartment is growing faster. Vapors from detergents and dust in the air, which will rise during the cleaning process, also do not improve the air. To avoid feeling tired and headache, ventilate every two hours.