How to clean and organize the house in the XXI century

By Emanuele Marco Duchetta

The cleaning and the order of house explained through rules and advices that can be implemented in everyday life

• Language: English
• Publisher: PubMe
• Release date: Apr 13, 2018
• ISBN: 9788833660981

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PREFACE

Throughout my life I have learned to consider the housework not only as a task to be accomplished right away but from a therapeutic point of view for our mind and our body. Many scholars maintain that the cleanliness and order of the house help to have a positive influence on the environment that surrounds us and that everything makes us more happy and responsive. Through this writing, I want to share my techniques and strategies suitable for all types of family so that everyone can have an always clean and perfect home.

Emanuele Marco Duchetta

CHAPTER ONE

What to do before you go home?

The first action to take when you return back home is take off your shoes or, if you own one can not do without, it would be appropriate to try to clean your shoes on special washable mats placed at the entrance of the house. The reasons are so many but I have decided to summarize them in three points:

1: Every day our shoes come into contact with millions of bacteria and microorganisms harmful to health. Especially for those who live in a home with pets or small children, take off your shoes should be a habit as children or even animals, rubbing on the floor, coming into contact with numerous parasites and pollutants running into potential infections.

2: Shoes create dust and, if we do not clean the soles thoroughly, may remain unsightly footprints on the floor. After having taken off my shoes, I use some antibacterial wipes proceeding in this way: first step the antibacterial wipes inside the shoes, then proceed with the exterior cleaning and finally with the cleaning of the sole having care of carrying out the process according to the order just described: from the clean side to the dirtiest and using all sides of the napkin; then leave your shoes outside to take air or in a dressing-room. You can also clean the outside of the shoes with a damp chamois leather and then dry; substituted or shoelaces washed. I do not recommend to wash your shoes in the washing machine for bacteria that release and that may wear out; prefer a hand washing or dry cleaning. Also remember that, to get that perfect floor must be washed well slippers, cold washing machine or by hand with warm water and a detergent with a brush and flip flops with cool water with detergent or degreaser and exclusively by hand. Let dry both slippers flip-flops in the sun.

3: The shoes of women, especially in heels, help to scratch the floors, for example parquet or delicate flooring, and also to wear out the carpets, especially if Persian or silk, and so it would be more appropriate to wear comfortable and slippers practices or flip flops from home.

I also recommend to keep your shoes in an isolated room, never in the middle of the clothes because of the bad smells and germs and, if you have space, you can buy a second shoe to be placed at the entrance of the scale or within a garage with shoes that you use most.

Another trick that I recommend you just take it back into the house, even if you are tired or listless, is to wash and disinfect your hands thoroughly after handling external doors, grocery bags, objects that have touched many people, especially ATMs or handles of the stores, thus avoiding the proliferation of germs and bacteria in the domestic environment.

Even store as quickly as possible jackets, shoes, shop and store in the spaces provided everything that can create clutter is a 'good solution to buy time before spring cleaning and have the house always tidy. I also recommend to wear comfortable clothes at home and put to wash the dirty clothes. If the clothes you wore to exit are not particularly dirty they should still leave them on a hanger as long as necessary before storage, thus avoiding unpleasant odors and moisture inside the cabinets.

Finally advice to clean with a damp cloth or napkins, disposable eyeglasses, sunglasses, watches, mobile phones and all we have used and touched while we were out of the house; so we will have everything always clean and tidy for the next use.

After having outlined some of my basic rules before entering the house, I speak now of the organization of dividing the house the house into living and sleeping areas and highlighting the main points for a clean and tidy house. Then I'm going to talk about the specifics of the cleaning