Habits For A Clean House - MissLizHeart

hi everyone welcome back to another lifestyle Sunday video I hope you're all having an amazing weekend so far and today we're going to be talking about decluttering organizing and staying on top of things I'm going to share with you guys what I do around here to just make sure that things don't get too out of control I really hope you guys enjoy this video it's my first tip is something that I think everybody talks about and you've probably heard a million times and maybe you're doing it maybe you're not but if you're not maybe I can be the one to convince you and that is to make your bed every morning and it doesn't have to be the second that you wake up if you're somebody that needs to have their morning coffee first and definitely do that first but then like come back to it I cannot tell you how good it feels to come home whether you work from home or you work outside the house to come home to a neatly made bed it's just such a serene feeling and it just makes you feel like it's time to unwind and if that feeling of like having a nicely make bed isn't enough then try leaving something for yourself that you can look forward to whether it's a really good book that you look forward to reading at the end of the night or maybe some like fuzzy socks that you look forward to putting on at night or a really nice hand cream that you only use at night and leave it at the end of your bed once it's finished being made so it's almost like a reward system which I am very much about reward systems and you'll see that throughout the video my next tip is something that my husband I actually started doing pretty recently and we didn't even know we were doing it but that is taking at least a minimum of five minutes at night and then in the morning to do a little bit of tidying up so at night it could be something as little as like just making sure that the dishwasher is either loaded or unloaded and setting it off or putting dishes away or just cleaning up the living room and that way you wake up to a clean space it's all about breaking your tasks up into small time slots so that you don't have this huge long projects you guys watch my channel you know that I love to cook but I will be honest with you guys the one thing that I look forward to the least is cleaning I cannot stand dishes so what I do to help you with that is kind of doing a little bit of prep work ahead of time I make sure that the dishwasher is completely clear of dishes and the sink is completely clean that way I can clean as I cook and I'll make sure that I wipe down the sink and it's nice and clean so that way whenever I'm cooking instead of taking that dirty pan and putting it in the sink I'll put it directly in the dishwasher because it's nice and empty and it's ready to be loaded and I won't want to put anything in the sink because it'll be nice and clean after I wiped it down in all of that so that really helps me a lot another thing that helps me keep the kitchen clean while I cook is a really simple trick that I learned for my mom and that's just getting a bowl of any kind and then putting a plastic bag over and using this as your trash bag so as you're like peeling stuff or throwing stuff away you just put it all in this bowl and tie up the bag that has all of the trash in it and either throw it away or use it for compost if it's food but it just makes cleanup so so simple this next tip I think you could apply to a lot of things not just things in your house but things in your personal life and that is if something doesn't have a place then it just needs to go because at this point it's clutter so donate it get rid of it whatever you have to do and a way that I like to make sure that everything has a place is by strategically placing things throughout the house they're going to catch things that don't necessarily have a home but you actually need like your coat or your keys or your cell phone and things like that and I have a coat rack that we keep right in front of our door and this is where we put our jacket when we first come into the house and then also things like your keys your wallet your cash I keep a little bowl on this table that's like right in between our kitchen and our living room because we have to walk by there this is also going to help you if you're somebody that's always losing stuff like me I'm always losing my keys you train your brain to remember that you always put your stuff there and if you ever lose it you know where to look I do the same thing for my wedding dance I have three places throughout the house where I keep this so any time that I lose it I always look in one of those three places if you have larger items that you always take off when you get home you can always use a little tray like this so if you always like to take your sunglasses off you don't necessarily keep them in your purse or your car then you have it a dedicated tray for it that will catch it with that said in these same catch-all places you want to dedicate one day a week I would personally do it on a day that you do the grocery shopping so because you're kind of like just putting the house back together but empty out all of those places that used to catch also like your coat rack put everything back in its place the bowls put everything where it belongs if you have a jewelry holder that catches all your jewelry at night put all those things back and that way come the beginning of the week you have a fresh start to everything so this next tip is something that I'm sure you've heard me talk about on snapchat because I use it a lot with my clothes but it's the one in one out role I use that with pretty much anything when we were first furnishing our house there was an exception with that because we were just starting off and we were starting to accumulate furniture and things like that but now that our house is pretty much fully furnished if I bring something in like a throw pillow then I have to get rid of throw pillow what are the chances that I'm going to want to decorate with the same stuff the following year and on top of that it's just collecting dust I'd rather have somebody else enjoy it so whenever I bring something in I have to get rid of something I'll take a picture of it and I'll it send it off in a mass text to my mom my sister's my mother-in-law and I'll tell them hey this is up for grabs who wants it and most of the time somebody claims it and it ends up going to a better home for somebody else to enjoy it instead of just sitting there collecting dust and if there's ever something that nobody that I know claims I'll just put it in this box and I'll take it to a donation place my favorite tip which is something that I am very huge on is rewarding yourself especially if you spent like a couple of hours cleaning let's say you had to do a little bit more deep cleaning reward yourself by doing something like a pamper night you know a bubble bath or getting to watch a show that you really loved so I associate whatever it is that's stressful with something pleasurable like taking a bubble bath keeping the house clutter free and organized just really helps me stay motivated and it just it makes me happy even my husband can sense that I get in a really really bad mood whenever everything around me is a disaster so if you've been feeling kind of crummy lately maybe try some of these organization tips and see if they help you have a better day so those are all the tips that I have for you today if you like these type of videos where i share with you organization tips i have several of them and i will leave them listed down below i have pent organization bathroom organization bake up organization i'll leave all of those listed down below for you guys and if you have a subscribe to my channel make sure you do so now i upload twice a week and i would love it if you guys subscribed and I will talk to you guys next time bye

Channel: MissLizHeart

Views: 226,173

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Length: 7min 0sec (420 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 10 2016