With no domestic help around, these tips can help organise your WFH life. One of the most underrated and underpaid job is that of cleaning and keeping a home. With the lockdowns, most of us have now realised the true value of having domestic help. When your friendly ‘Didi’ returns make sure you express your gratitude for her hard work. Until then, here are a few hacks to help you organise your WFH life.
Mountain of Dishes
Though doing the dishes sounds like an impossible task a lot of us find that it is extremely therapeutic. You fall into a soothing rhythmic trance of scrubbing and rinsing. It is a satisfying task that leaves you feeling accomplished and ready to take on the world. One way to make your WFH life easier is to rinse the utensils immediately after use or perhaps even washing them as soon as you’re done using.
Sweeping & Mopping
Most of us have finally indulged in long overdue exercise regimens under lockdown. Sweeping and mopping is a great exercise but can be quite a tiresome task. Try sweeping every other day and mopping only as required. Choose high traffic spots you and your family frequent to clean often. Use assigned footwear for bathrooms; this will vastly help maintain clean floors.
Chore Time
Depending on how your work day goes, choose the right window to finish your chores. If you feel too tired in the evenings, finish your chores before you start working. If you’re a late riser who prefers evenings for productive work, schedule your chores accordingly. You can also squeeze in chores between work hours to take effective breaks and keep work monotony at bay. This will also help you move around. Without an office environment it is easy to stay seated all day without realising you haven’t moved much at all.
Divide & Conquer
Share the load with all family members. Assign tasks and responsibilities among family members and rotate tasks every few days. The responsibility of making and keeping a home are not the burden of the women in the household to shoulder alone. Apart from being a fair practise, sharing the load can also help us be more thoughtful and become well rounded adults. It hones our survivor skills and independence. It adds more to our lives than we care to admit. Give the kids tasks too. A family that cooks and cleans together grows together.
Put it away
Engage in the habit of immediately putting things away in the right place. Make your bed just after you wake up, fold and cupboard as soon as the laundry dries; put away spices and condiments immediately after use, basically put everything away as soon as you’re done using it. It will save you a lot of cleaning up later. A great way to go about keeping a neat house is how you maintain it on an everyday basis. Try and try until you succeed.
In the end it’s your attitude towards chores that helps you the most. If you’re annoyed and overwhelmed by all the things you need to do, you’re just going to be unhappy. These are tasks that have to be done, so put on a smile, play some music and go about it with a positive ‘can-do’ attitude. Live it, love it.
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