Household Hints and Tips

Household Hints and Tips...Homemaking is a very real game of juggling people, activities, and clutter. Finding an easier way to cope and still find time for the grace notes is perhaps the major goal. How we do it depends on following some of the rules some of the time and making up some of your own as we go.



A Fact Of Life

You have to decide at the outset that housekeeping is a fact of life. You don't have to like it-but you do have to face it. And since we do have to do it, we might as well go about it in an organized fashion. For with out question, keeping a family and home running smoothly, to say nothing of fulfilling our own needs, is the toughest management problem that exists.

If we can learn to view housekeeping in its proper perspective, we'll soon find out that about 50 percent of the work disappears. Suddenly "coping" becomes merely a matter of "doing."

As for the mechanics of approaching it properly, here are the four steps regarded as musts.

• Put yourself in a positive frame of mind.

• Analyze your housekeeping needs.

• Organize the tasks into a meaningful sequence according to priorities

• Schedule your priorities into a workable routine.

Now make up your mind that:

• Housekeeping is never done. It only solves temporary goals-making the beds until you sleep in them again, washing the dishes until the next meal.

• It must be faced daily. Accept it as a matter of fact.

• Resolve to do the work as quickly and easily as possible.

• Develop respect for the job.

• Remember that the results you obtain from following any directions will depend largely upon your personal judgment and technique. Think before you act, whether it is following the instructions on a package label, in a use and care manual, or here on these pages.

Most of us want to live in well organized and reasonably clean surroundings. The problem is: How do we achieve this with a minimum of time and effort.

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