good house keeping

Perfectly Organized homes can become a reality with a little planning, consistent effort and proper execution. Once your basic plans falls in place it takes hardly one hour everyday to run all the functions smoothly.

Basic plan preparation takes some extensive thought process, which may require 6-7 days of yours, but the outcome is productive and is going to make your life so hassle free that putting in these many efforts is quite worth. Basic plan has to be customized (as one plan can’t fit for all) to be effective, and only your involvement at every level can make it appear to be tailor-made. This article will be navigating you through basic guidelines and you can make changes as per your requirements
First of all you have to decide in which category your dwelling place fits in. is it

a) An apartment, or
b) A standalone kind of house /row house

Apartment style of living doesn’t require outdoors to be taken care of in general, which is not the case with row houses, accordingly time and days will be assigned to management of outdoors also.

First we will take up organizing an apartment style of dwelling place; we are assuming that it’s a two bedroom-hall-kitchen flat, with four family members.

Now we can divide all the cleaning & organizing activities in following sections

a) Which are needed to be done daily
b) Which are needed to be done weekly
c) Which are needed to be done fortnightly
d) Which are needed to be done monthly
e) Which are needed to be done bimonthly
f) Which are needed to be done six monthly
g) Which are needed to be done yearly



a) Daily cleaning & organizing activities include placing each and every object at its assigned place, dusting of major visible areas, brooming and wet cleaning of floors with clean waters & cloth.

Before proceeding towards daily cleaning, most crucial step is assigning place to every small item in the house; if we consider one category i.e. children’s belongings there can be numerous things attached to that; children’s toys, indoor and outdoor game equipments are to be assigned different places and containers, their books ( books can also be segregated into school notes, home notes, reading books, encyclopedias) bags(schoolbag, bags for different classes) ,umbrella,raincoats,general clothes, special clothes, school uniforms, clothes to be washed, clothes to be ironed, gym wears, party wear shoes, casual footwears,sports footwear’s, school lunchbox, water bottles,vehicles.you may add or delete items as per your requirement in that list.

After preparing the list for all broad categories which occupy floor, wall or air space in your house you have to assign a particular place for a particular article in the house. It will be convenient and will appear aesthetically nice if you collect similar kind of things together…. To be continued

I am taking off for the day but will continue with the same topic tomorrow………