5 ways to restore order at home and maintain it

1. Flayledi

This is perhaps the most well-known guidance system order. And it includes not only cleaning, but also time management. system "Flayledi"I come upFlylady 1999 American Marla Scilly. The name can be translated into Russian as "fluttering Housewives", and that's the essence of the method: bringing order can bring joy and lightness. To do this, you need to get rid of many hours of exhausting general cleaning on weekends and share all household chores into small daily steps.

The basic techniques

• Flayledi day begins with a morning ritual and ends with the evening routine. Immediately after lift you need to freshen up, make up, dress up pretty, but practical - it was convenient to put things in order. "The flying housewife" necessarily wear shoes at home laces - to not be tempted to throw it as slippers and fell on the sofa ahead of time. The ritual also includes tasks such as "water flowers", "unload the dishwasher and the washing machine", "drink a glass of water," "read the affirmations", "to shine polish the kitchen sink."

• Speaking of the sink. This is the corner stone flayledi system, a kind of symbol of cleanliness and order. As planned by Marla Scilly, daily cleaning Shell is helping to bring to automatism cleaning and maintaining motivation hostess.
• House or apartment is divided into zones. Typically, the area - this one room or kitchen. Small spaces like the hall, the bathroom and the toilet can be combined into a common area.
• Restore order should be given 15 minutes a day. And in a week you work only in one zone and systematically put in order, for example, the kitchen or the living room. Next week, go to the next area and so the circle.
• The house has a number of so-called hotspots, or hotspots. These are places that literally accumulate clutter. The back of the chair with the ever heaped on her clothes, sofa, which dropped their books, toys and T-shirts, a shelf in the hallway, where the growing mountain of paperwork, checks and small things, extracted from the pockets. First you need to write down all the hotspots that are in your home. And every day to give them time - several times in five minutes.
• Once a week, on the weekend, held a short (no longer than an hour) general cleaning, which is "flying housewife" is called "blessing the house." At the time it only needs to dust, vacuum and clean the floor. Because if you are a responsible attitude to the previous steps flayledi system, all things are already in their places, and the house is order.
• Zonal cleaning "house blessing" and "extinguishing" hot spots conducted by a timer. It is necessary not to freeze at a certain site and not spend half a day instead of 15 minutes.
• The system focuses on flayledi raskhlamleniyuOr as it is called here, razmusorivaniyu. To do this, Marla recommends the technique of "boogie-woogie 27": you have 15 minutes to run around the house and collect 27 things on output. Make it worth at least once in 1-1,5 months. Also, the "flying housewife" adhere to the principle "Bring a new - throw out the old!".
• To keep all the household and personal affairs in order to record routine tasks and hotspots, plan the menu and follow the schedule of cleaning, it is necessary to have a diary. Or as it is called flayledi "audit trail."
• In communities flayledi, for example, the official website Marla Scilly or Russian language group in "Vkontakte", regularly laid out tips on cleaning and so-called flayspoty - additional tasks for the day.

2. magic cleaning

The method invented Japanese writer Mari Kondo. At first, she published several children's books, but the world popularity and expert title to restore order Marie brought it "magic cleaning». guidance about the philosophy of Marie Kondo - to the house was filled with things that bring joy. This system not only teaches us to restore order, but also allows you to become a minimalist, develop the awareness and reasonable attitude to things.

The basic techniques

• All the things that you have in the house, divided into five categories: clothes, books, documents, sentimental things (gifts, souvenirs) and Caumont (everything else). Objects of the same category are stored together and not spread throughout the house. Each of them - his well-defined and unchanging place.
• Once a month, you need to spend 1.5-2 raskhlamlenie. Because if the house is littered with things as shelves and drawers filled with cleaning turns into a Sisyphean task - no matter how hard you try, after a couple of hours will again be a mess.
• Raskhlamlenie carried out not through the rooms and categories. You should start with clothes: collect all the things that there are in the house to fall down in the same room on the floor, to select only the most necessary, and the rest is discarded. Then go to the books, records and so on.
• To understand what kind of thing to keep and which to get rid of Marie Condo offers to the subject in hand and listen to yourself: Do you feel the "spark of joy"? If yes, what is the thing you useful and brings positive emotions - you leave it. If not - throw out without regret. There are no "what if someday come in handy." Once this thing long gathering dust in a closet or brings heavy memories, it is necessary to say goodbye. Marie Kondo believes that it is better then to buy new than to store years old. And yet it is against the idea of ​​giving unwanted items to friends and acquaintances - because as we just dump your trash on someone else's shoulders.
• how folding clothes. This is probably the most famous part of the methodology, its business card. Firstly, drawers or shelves can not be filled to capacity - all things must be seen. Secondly, Marie advocate strongly "vertical folding". That is, clothing is not stored in stacks, as we used to, and rectangles or rolls. They need to be "put" on the shelf or in a drawer vertical - so that not one thing has not disappeared from our view. In addition, thanks to this technique in cabinets manage to maintain order: things do not crawl, do not get confused and do not turn into a huge ball.

• Clothing that is easily wrinkled or take up much space, it is better to hang on a hanger. It must be done in the following order: first outerwear, then - dresses, jackets, trousers, skirts and blouses.
• In addition, according to Mari Kondo home be sure to wear a beautiful and neat clothes - so you would not be ashamed if you suddenly come to visit. More Marie proposes to create in the room his "place of power" - a comfortable area with your favorite things that will feed you with energy.

3. anonymous lazy

In 1982, American Sandra Felton could not find the house his master's thesis. Then she realized that she had a home there is complete bedlam and need something to do. As a result, Sandra came up systemHOW TO Organize for the Messie PersonWho called Messies Anonymous or "Anonymous lazy." The methodology, as in the previous two cases, is getting rid of the junk and "the art of small steps."

The basic techniques

By cleaning is necessary to involve the whole family. Let everyone do what he afford - so the mess will subdue much faster and more efficiently. In addition, the family approach develops the household responsibility: once live and garbage together, hence the need to work together to clean up.

• In each thing its place. Popolzovavshis - once put in place, and nothing else.
• Cleaning Sandra Felton recommends the method of "Mount Vermont" - he is so named because of the same name of the hotel employees. To restore order need three cartons size of about 30 × 45 cm. In the first box sent the things that go on release of the second - the ones that you need to give or sell to a third - those that can be abandoned. Clean start from the front door, and move along the wall, systematically collecting scattered and stacked into place items in boxes. Do not try to clean the entire apartment at once - a little work, as much as you see fit. If today with the cleaning is finished, you leave the box against the wall and you go about your business. To spread out the things you can spare time from the third box, and those that are in the first two, and throw out sell without hesitation. Trash can not be organized - it can only be thrown away.
• Those who have not cleaned at all and launched a house, offer anonymous lazy try "method of Vesuvius." Here, too, will have to stock up on a few boxes or bags - for each category of items. Sign them - for example, "toy", "clothes", "throw", and did not hesitate to fold the items scattered on the apartment. When they will be in boxes, get rid of what you do not need. The rest of the things will be easy to fall into place, because you already have divided them into categories.
• Use the rule of 30 seconds. If a certain task takes less than half a minute (to wash the plate, wipe the table), do not postpone it for later. Make and forget.
• Anonymous lentyaek also have morning rituals - they are very similar to the "routine" flayledi. Freshen up after waking up, make the bed, ventilate the room, collect litter and so on. You can add to this list of everything that you see fit.

4. sparkling house

This German systemSasablitzblanca harvesting based on the familiar principles: every thing - his own place, and to the purity necessary to move in small steps. And yet there are many unexpected "zoological" metaphors.

The basic techniques

• The first rule of a sparkling home - dispose of the evidence. That is put things in place as soon as the use of them.
• The day begins with a "mini-routine": ventilate the room, make the bed, spread things out, water the flowers.
• Every morning, assign a "day room" and point the order there for 15-30 minutes. The next day, work in another room.
• Additional daily tasks like wash, Wiping dust are called "sheep". They need to "catch" on a regular basis to the end of the week is not accumulated a whole "herd".
• Without raskhlamleniya this system also can not do. Every day you need to catch the "ducks" - that is to do small tasks that help rid the house of unnecessary things. For example, the dismantling of one shelf in the closet.
• Children also recommended to attach to cleaning. Simple children's assignments are called "worms." Years with three kids may well collect toys, spread their clothes after washing, or wipe the dust.
• Checklists. cleaning plan for the day, shopping list, menu for a week.

5. Home for Life

It is rather a system of organization of the space, but it also helps to maintain order. Methodology established Chinese Lu Wei, blogger and interior designer. In his book she talks about the right design houses, furniture arrangement and zoning space, the secrets of proper storage. Most Tips Lou Wei useful to those who buy an apartment or going to do repairs.

The basic techniques

• The storage area should occupy 12-40% of the total living area. The smaller house or apartment, the more space you need to allocate to storage.
• Built-in closet better separate cabinets.
• If you want the things was the order, buy the same rectangular containers made of transparent plastic. Each sign - that there was no temptation to put things in their place.
• Use principle 80:20. On view are only 80% of things, the rest are stored so that they are not visible. By the way, this idea contradicts the principles Marie Kondo.
• Memorabilia - small presents, souvenirs, postcards - you need to put in the so-called time capsule. That is, send them into plastic containers, one for each year.
• Use to store all the free space, do not leave an empty space under the ceiling.

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