Cooking, cleaning, washing, ironing, dusting, tidying, the household chores never seem to end. Here’s five tips on how to plow through the house work quickly and make it fun at the same time.
Make a Cleaning Soundtrack
Throw a bunch of short, fast, energetic tunes together in a playlist. The shorter and louder the tunes, the better the result.
Now give yourself just one tune to complete each task, tidy the lounge to ‘Kung-Fu’ by Ash (2:16), wash the dishes to ‘Timebomb’ by Kylie (2:57) mop the laundry floor to ‘James’ by Ex-Cops (2:46) and take out the rubbish while you give Dolly Parton’s ‘Baby I’m Burning’ (2;37) a spin.
Pleasure and Pain
Got three weeks of ironing to complete, team it up with a box set of Glee DVDs or watch a season of ‘Game of Thrones’. Instead of laying on the couch, get some cleaning done while you enjoy catching up on TV shows. You won’t even notice you’re doing the ironing.
Challenge Your Housemates
Make it a competition, assign a room to each housemate, whoever makes their space the tidiest wins a prize, it could something fun like a box of chocolates or shouting one person dinner. Tap into your friends competitive nature.
Think of it as a Workout
It’s going to involve heavy lifting, stretching, running around, get down on your knees and getting up again, and a fair amount of elbow grease. Hell, this is the same activity you joined a gym for. Skip your workout today and consider cleaning the house exercise.
Make it Fun For Kids
Whether you’ve got kids of your own, or nieces and nephews or have just offered to do some babysitting, don;t let kids sit watching ‘Dora the Explorer’ which you clean the house. Ever task can be an adventure. It’s not washing the dishes, it’s removing the cyber-scum from the scientific equipment so Dr Who can same the planet. It’s not picking up toys from the Lounge room floor, it’s collecting moon rocks and categorising them for NASA. Of course you don’t actually need to have any children present to go on this flight of fantasy.
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