Clean up your house with Dr Max


How to live without the mess

If there always is mess on all of your cupboards, tabletops and in your drawers, your house must be quite a source of stress for you. If you feel overwhelmed by the piles of paper everywhere, are fed up with looking for things that are somehow lost and also have enough of picking up clothes from piling up heaps, you should definitely read this article. You will find here a few simple ways to reduce the ubiquitous mess.

  1. If you are not sure if something is useful – throw it away. This rule is always advisable when taking into consideration the leftovers in a fridge, but practically, it may be applied to every object in your house. There are many people that load up their houses with things that “might be useful” and that will probably never be used. If you can’t find any application of a particular item – hand it over to someone that would really use it. Or just throw it away.

  2. Open up and sort your mail right away – just after taking it out of a mailbox. Put away all the bills and letters that should be answered to a proper, fixed place. Throw away all the flyers that do not arouse your interest. If you like to go through catalogues, keep only those that you consider interesting, but throw them away if you don’t open them within 3 days. Give yourself a week for looking through a magazine. Not opening it within 7 days means that you will sooner receive the next one before you do it.

  3. Contact the companies, from which you don’t want to receive any more correspondence (or flyers), why should it fill up your house. If it is a regular case that you didn’t read a particular magazine, call off the subscription.

  4. Try to put away things right away to a proper place; you’ll avoid putting them twice.

  5. While cooking, make use of the moment when you are waiting for something to be fried or cooked and wash the dishes that you had just used.

  6. Prepare a fixed schedule of payments. After paying your bills, place the receipts to separate file binders prepared for each media and institution. Throw away the records of payments older than 7 years.

  7. Get rid or hand over clothes that you didn’t wear for a year. Looking through your clothes ask yourself if you still like it, if it fits, if you feel comfortable in it and if it was at least once taken out of the closet during a proper season. Also dispose of the clothes that your children have grown out of. You surely know families with children, on which these clothes would fit; if not – throw them without a sentiment.

  8. Teach your children to pass the toys that they have grown out of or the games that they no longer play. There are many institutions that would give them to other children.