Can you tidy up

I've made this mission fall during the week of the Declutter missions when we're focused on creating a house cleaning schedule you can stick with in your home, because tidying is obviously part of keeping your house clean. In fact, this tidying up routine is one of the activities I call the "Core 5" of the daily cleaning checklist , a series of cleaning tasks I suggest need to be done daily. Further, this routine is also one of my essential household chores that I don't think you should skip even when you're in suurvival mode, because life is very crazy or busy.

That's why I've added the task of creating this routine for tidying as its own day within the Declutter calendar , because it is one of the most important routines you can adopt that will keep your home clean and clutter free from now on.

To help you understand why tidying up your home daily and consistently is such an important habit, it will help for you to understand what I mean by the term, and how it differs from decluttering.

When I ask you to "declutter" an area of your home what I'm asking you to do is to look at the objects in that area, such as a drawer, and remove from that space, such as the drawer, any items that don't belong in your home, at all, and physically remove them from your home completely by donating, selling, or trashing or recycling them.

On the other hand, the term "tidy up" means to put the item back, into its designated spot, or to put it away. That means, for example, if you find something in the drawer that you do want to keep, and its not clutter, but it belongs on a shelf instead of in that drawer, you'd tidy up the drawer by removing that object and putting it back where it actually belongs in your home. Therefore, the key distinction between decluttering and tidying is that when you declutter an object it is removed from your home, and if you tidy up an object you put it back into its designated spot, keeping it in your home for use again later.

When used in tandem, decluttering and tidying up work together to give you the home you desire, because decluttering clears away the junk and tidying keeps it from getting re-cluttered and turning into disarray again. One of the first Declutter missions on the calendar each year is to declutter your kitchen counters.

Each year, when I run that mission in January , I inevitably hear from someone who says, "I can't clear off my kitchen counters once a year and expect them to stay that way! My response is, "of course you can't! I agree! No, it would be a disaster. Instead, you've got to get in the habit, once you've cleared off the clutter from your counters, to make a regular and continuous practice of re-clearing those counters off from now on, so it never returns to that extremely cluttered state, and that each time you clear it off it doesn't take nearly as long as that first time did.

As you re-clear off the kitchen counters day by day, most of the time the stuff that lands on them does have a real home. As soon as they're about 2 years old and walking, we've encouraged them to walk their plates to the kitchen. Of course, this does end in a LOT of plates on the floor. But at least they've made an effort to contribute to the tidying of the meal or snack. Including your child in tidying is a very important part in their development. What tasks does your child complete each day?

Click here to book emergency back-up care Close. For example, researchers at the University of Navarra found volunteers made more mistakes inputting data in a messy environment , than in a neat one. Stiff believes one advantage of the KonMari method is that it includes detailed instructions but still provides a fair amount of latitude for how to interpret it, making you more likely to succeed in achieving your goal.

There is even evidence that finishing a task thanks to hints rather than specific instructions feels more rewarding. Marie Kondo's approach to organisation, such as discarding books and placing smaller boxes inside drawers, has been met with horror by some householders Credit: Netflix.

Scott believes this provides a double boost for our reward system, the first from decluttering and the second from buying things. She warns, however, that while a good clean out can make us happy, it will only improve our mood if we set ourselves manageable goals. Some belongings have such sentimental value that we cannot part with them and they can still bring us happiness after decades locked in a box Credit: Getty Images.

But should we eschew our worldly possessions altogether in pursuit of happier lives? Many religious figures have sought to live simple lives in the belief that they are not overburdened with possessions and feel free. But we should perhaps be cautious about shedding items we have a deep sentimental connection to. An artist named Michael Landy from London took this concept to its extreme. In , he destroyed every one of his 7, possessions in public for an artwork called Break Down, including clothes, love letters, his car and his father's sheepskin coat.

We didn't like to go to school. This song is about cleaning your house. You must clean the rubbish, clean your school bag and most importantly, do hard day work. It is a good deed for you to clean the room. And as people say this word, they say never give up! So you should never give up.

So here are the important things you should do, Get up early morning, brush your teeth, rinse with cool water and clean up! Hope you followed this rule!