Housework is hands down one of the most difficult things to deal with when it comes to managing your adult life. It is, after all, both ubiquitous and unending, which is why it’s so important to engage with anything you can that makes this work easier.
Fortunately for you, this article aims to highlight a handful of great tips that can help you to keep your housework under control.
Dealing with Your Laundry
One the most ubiquitous and unavoidable jobs that will continue to crop up in your housework is laundry. This is such an unavoidable job because clothes are such an unavoidable part of day-to-day life. So, what can you do to make your work with laundry as easy as possible?
One of the best things that you can do is to go ahead and create a specific laundry space where you both wash and dry the clothes that you need sorted. Not only does this allow you to set aside a specific place to deal with your clothes, but it also helps you create a space that’s properly ventilated to ensure that it doesn’t get too humid when drying clothes.
Talking of ventilation, you should also make sure that you take the necessary steps to properly vent your laundry drain so that you don’t cause yourself more problems down the road.
Engage with Automation
In today’s age of technology, there are plenty of tools that can help you to get work done that would otherwise have taken you a long time.
Things like dishwashers, Roombas, and even laundry chutes for your home, help to automate some of your most time-consuming housework and keep your home looking good for a minimal amount of effort.
Stay Consistent
As ridiculous as it sounds, one of the best things that you can do to make sure that your housework is under control and easy to deal with is to simply do it often. Or to phrase that another way, make sure that you don’t let it build up.
After all, one element of housework that people don’t often consider is the cost to willpower that comes along with these chores. Your willpower is a finite resource, and every time you start a chore that you don’t want to do, you have to spend a little bit of that precious resource to push through and get it done.
When you let your housework build up, the amount of willpower required will increase exponentially, meaning that it’s going to cost you way more willpower to do a huge amount of chores all at once. This means it’s far more sustainable to do consistent small pieces of housework than it is to let it all build up and then do a huge amount at once.
Reward Yourself
Finally, one of the most important things to remember is that you deserve a reward for the housework that you’re getting done. It’s easy to dismiss the housework that you’re doing as just the cost of being an adult, but that doesn’t make it any easier. Your efforts deserve a reward.
Of course, you shouldn’t go overboard with this, but it’s easy to create a simple reward system where you get some of your favourite candy, for example, when you finish your housework.
