This book is going to help me be tidy forever and then I wonвЂ™t have to think about it anymore.вЂќ Maybe put on some music and make the whole thing a little more playful, so your kids will have a bit of fun with it as well.When Marie KondoвЂ™s book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up came into my possession, I felt like I held the key to success. Right from the start, try to include your kid(s) in the process of tidying up and teach them that itвЂ™s important to put things back where they belong and to keep things tidy.

You wonвЂ™t have to spend hours sprucing up the flat if you can get it done with just a couple of moves. YouвЂ™ll have a much easier time tidying up if you have a certain basic order at home. But perfect order isnвЂ™t actually necessary. Keeping everything in perfect order is not that easy if youвЂ™ve got kids, a job, and loads of other things to do. Sorting things out isnвЂ™t always that easy because our little monkey loves to collect everything, but with a little bit of endurance and practice, it works like a charm. To stay on top of things, itвЂ™s crucial to not only tidy up, but regularly sort things out. DonвЂ™t Just Tidy Up, Sort OutД®specially with kids, all sorts of miscellaneous odds and ends accumulate at home. The whole thing is done much faster and is way less frustrating in the process. This way, I wonвЂ™t spend hours behind the ironing board and instead have smaller loads of laundry to iron. ThatвЂ™s why IвЂ™ve made it a habit to iron a load of laundry immediately when itвЂ™s dry. Because with the rising amount of laundry yet to be ironed, my motivation to actually do so shrinks.

Of course, the more laundry accumulates, the worse it gets. This means that mountains of laundry sometimes accumulate in our laundry. What I really donвЂ™t like, however, is the ironing afterwards. Sort by colors, put it in the laundry machine, choose the right program and thatвЂ™s it. Doing the laundry itself doesnвЂ™t take too long usually. What can I say, I donвЂ™t exactly love doing laundry. As soon as weвЂ™re done playing with something, weвЂ™ll put it back before starting something new. We tried teaching this to our daughter right from the start. In our family, the most important rule for tidying up is that everything has its own place and thatвЂ™s where it has to be put when youвЂ™re done using it. SomeoneвЂ™s playing a game over here, someoneвЂ™s using Play-Doh over there, someoneвЂ™s completing a puzzle. ItвЂ™s a much more relaxed start to the day to walk into an already clean kitchen, being able to make a nice breakfast right away. It stresses me out to walk into a messy kitchen in the morning, knowing IвЂ™ll have to clean it up first thing after a good nightвЂ™s rest. Cleaning the Kitchen Before Going to BedД®ven if itвЂ™s hard some nights, I always try to clean up the kitchen before going to bed. YouвЂ™ll be tidying every room on the side and it wonвЂ™t feel like some huge clean up! 3. Use your walking to and fro between rooms and take something with you every time you go to a different room, so that you can put it where it belongs. A great tip to get more order is the full-hands-principle. YouвЂ™re probably familiar with this if you have a child or multiple children at home, no matter if youвЂ™re in a flat or a house, it feels like your walking from one room to the next a hundred times a day. You can offer these to your guests when itвЂ™s a little colder. Lots of small shops carry guest slippers in multiple sizes that only cost a few bucks. This way, you can avoid getting more dirt into the flat and save yourself some vacuum cleaning and wiping the floors. Make a habit out of taking your shoes off, either as you enter your flat or beforehand. In this post, IвЂ™ll tell you about a few of my tidying tips that help me to get a certain basic order into the flat, so that instead of tidying up for hours I only have to do a couple of small moves.

Who doesnвЂ™t dream of some magical little fairy cleaning and tidying up the flat overnight or while youвЂ™re at work? I know I sure do.

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