“It’s a rare person among us who looks forward to cleaning the house,” writes Leo Babauta of Zen Habits. “I certainly don’t., but a clean house is something I love perhaps too much.”
For most of us, household chores are the sort of thing we just suffer through – we don’t really want to do them, but we know they have to be done. We also waste a great deal more time on them than we have to.
Here’s a few time-saving tips that’ll help you reclaim your free time, courtesy of Clany!
1. Be More Efficient
A lack of efficiency – either through an eclectic personality, an easily-distracted mind or simple laziness – is one of the primary reasons that cleaning the house can take hours. In all but the most extreme cases, if you spend hours cleaning up a room, you probably weren’t really cleaning the whole time. Instead, you were trying to do about ten different things at once.
Clany Tip: Don’t try to take on more than one chore at a time. Focus on what you’re doing.
2. Do Away With Procrastination
As far as chores are concerned, procrastination is your worst nightmare. The longer you let a mess pile up, the more difficult it’ll become to clean. What may once have been a ten-minute weekly job can thus very easily turn into an hours-long slog through filth and trash.
Clany Tip: Don’t work in bursts – make a regular effort to keep your surroundings clean.
3. Tone Down The Clutter
Clutter is awful – and the more there is, the less happy you’re going to be with your surroundings. A cluttered room not only has a negative effect on your mental well-being, it’s also extremely rough to clean. Consider whether or not there’s any junk in your surroundings you can be rid of – then get rid of it.
Clany Tip: Don’t just keep your surroundings clean – keep them tidy, too. The less clutter you’ve got, the easier it’ll be to keep your home looking spotless.
4. Don’t Try To Do Everything On Your Own
Unless you’re living on your own, housework shouldn’t be a one-person job. Although we’d strongly advise against micromanagement (seriously. Don’t do it. Just don’t), there’s nothing wrong with asking (or encouraging) your family members or roommates to lend you a hand. After all, they have to live there same as you – you should both be making an effort to keep the place tidy.
5. Plan Things Out.
The best way to motivate yourself to keep things clean is to set up a schedule. Have a day and time on which you’ll clean the bathroom, or reorganize your clothes, or vacuum, or go pick up groceries. Don’t deviate from that time unless you absolutely have to.
Clany Tip: Your schedule doesn’t need to chart out your every waking minute. Just set aside a specific time to do your chores, and you’ll be fine.
6. Change How You Look At Cleaning
Alright, this last one is admittedly a bit of a crazy statement, but maybe you spend too much time cleaning – and too much time putting it off – because you’ve got the wrong perspective? Why not, as Babauta suggests, try turning it into a meditative exercise? You probably still won’t enjoy doing chores, but at least you’ll feel like you’re doing something else with yourself instead of just sweeping or scrubbing a toilet.
Clany Tip: Try thinking about a creative pursuit while cleaning – writing, art, or music, for example.
Regardless of how the ink ended up on the carpet, the most important thing people need to remember is when dealing with ink stains, there is need to avoid smearing it outwards but rather blot or rub in small movements to keep the stain in the already affected area and also understand the type of ink they are dealing with whether it is water based or permanent ink.
Water-based inks are usually considered temporary since they can dissolve in water. As a result, any form of soaps or detergent can be used in cleaning it off. Permanent ink is non-water based inks as they are not soluble in water. They, therefore, need to be handled with solvent-based agents, for instance, acetone and rubbing alcohol.
Various tips that can help
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There are various tips that can help in cleaning ink off a carpet depending on the type of the ink. The first tip to clean water-based inks is the use of detergent. The procedure involves three steps, and the first one is filling a bowl with warm water. Secondly, take a teaspoon the detergent you have for example Persil and mix with the warm water. Lastly, dab the area with the stain with the solution until it disappears.
To remove permanent ink from a carpet, one can use ammonia. This method involves various steps.
First, one should fill a spray bottle with water half full. Using a tablespoon, take ammonia and add to the water. Spray the part of the carpet with the stain form a distance of about 20cm to prevent damage of the pile and then blot using a damp cloth.
The Other most interesting tip is the use of homemade remedies. DIY is a product that is homemade and helps in dealing with stubborn ink stains.
In conclusion, when a carpet has an ink stain, the important things to remember include; being sure of what type of ink they are dealing with and avoiding smearing outwards but instead rub in small movements to ensure that the stain remains in the already affected area.
Preparing and maintaining a regular cleaning schedule that covers all the areas in your restaurant is the best way to avoid health code violations.
Most health code violations originate from the most unlikely places and equipment that are usually overlooked during cleaning. Health inspectors understand this and will try to make you pay dearly for your shortcomings in cleaning these spots. Maintaining these red-flagged areas and items spotless is the most effective defense you can put against dismal hygiene performance during surprise inspections. You should categorize cleaning tasks to be done on a daily, weekly and monthly basis.
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DAILY TASKS
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Many food establishments fail to meet health regulations on cleanliness due to failures in daily cleaning tasks. Tasks in this category are sensitive and failing to execute them compounds the resulting mess. Areas that come into direct contact with dirt should be cleaned on a daily basis. Some of these areas will require to be cleaned more than once in a day when they become dirty. Daily cleaning tasks include:
- Wiping down the walls to clear them of splashes
- Floors.
- Countertops
- Disinfecting food preparation areas
- Wiping the electronic appliances to remove spills from food and prevent accumulation of dirt.
- Cleaning beverage dispenser heads and bottle openers.
- Wash the crockery and utensils and leave them to dry.
- Clean rags, aprons, towels, and uniforms.
- Replenish the soap dispensers and paper towel rolls.
- Remove waste material and recycled products from the kitchen store.
- Disinfect the waste disposal area and the waste bins
A busy retail establishment can have thousands of people moving in and out on a daily basis necessitating high levels of cleaning which might be overwhelming to you.
Lack of thoroughness in cleaning can turn away customers, making you lose on revenue or make you incur litigation costs from suits. You require to hire professionals to help you accomplish the task professionally and efficiently. Professional cleaners can handle a range of your cleaning needs such as mopping, dusting, carpet cleaning, floor polishing, window cleaning, and other minor cleaning tasks arising from time to time. Hiring cleaning services for retail stores has the following benefits:
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CLEANING COMPANIES ARE PROFESSIONALS
Having your staff clean crucial parts of your retail establishment such as toilets and the carpeted area can result in substandard work since they lack the skills required to accomplish the task satisfactorily. Cleaning companies will conduct a thorough job in such sensitive areas capable of influencing a customer’s opinion about your store. The companies have the right tools and expertise to get the job done and instill confidence in your shoppers. You will have cleaning tasks done right without having to repeat. Cleaning companies do not just clean; they also offer you useful suggestions on how you can maintain the surfaces that require cleaning to ensure their quality does not deteriorate.
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RISK MITIGATION
Floor cleaning poses a danger to persons doing the job and others due to using off chemicals and wet floors on walkways. Cleaning companies’ staff are trained in safe working procedures to ensure the safety of other people in their working environment. Also, hiring cleaning services for your retail store transfers third-party liability form you to them. Cleaning companies are insured against risks that may occur in their workplaces which is a good thing to you when medical bills and compensation suits arise.
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HIGH TRAFFIC PROTECTION
Retail store premises have a lot of activities that can cause damage to the floors and walls such as pulling of loaded carts and dragging of heavy merchandise. The floor requires regular re-waxing and polishing to prevent discoloration on walkways. Do it yourself cleaning is incapable of maintaining your floor which will cost you more to repair and overhaul. Hiring the cleaning services ensures your floor is well taken care of thus saving on capital investment allocated to depreciation.
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EQUIPMENT
Cleaning companies have specialized equipment for commercial cleaning that will enable them to cover the vast area in a shorter time thus reducing business interruptions. Cleaning companies also possess expert knowledge about the various chemicals that are best suited to give you good results from their years of experience.
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CLEANING SERVICES
Time is money. Spending valuable time cleaning your retail outlet or engaging staff in cleaning makes you lose resources in the form of time, productivity, and revenues. Your staff becomes demotivated from having to perform a task they know little about and were neither hired to accomplish. Hire professionals to clean your store and support your staff to deliver on your business objective. An adequately cleaned working environment reduces the chance for your staff to contract respiratory diseases which increases absenteeism rate thus negatively impacting on productivity.
This is an aside post.
New Yorkers are standing with the flexible economy, according to a new poll commissioned by Clany. The poll, conducted by Global Strategy Group, reveals that public opinion is clear: the flexible economy is good for workers, good for consumers and good for New York.
The poll also found that New Yorkers believe that the positive contributions of flexible economy businesses should be recognized, with a majority of respondents wanting the state government to focus on growing technology jobs. An overwhelming number of voters (88%) believe the government should focus on growing and supporting New York based technology companies, like Clany.
“Not only are platforms like ours creating new ways for consumers to obtain the services they need, they’re creating new opportunities for people to supply these services and to make money,” said the Co-Founder and CEO of Clany. “It is clear the public sees the value in growing technology jobs and supporting flexible economy platforms, the government should follow this lead. Technology is not a great disruptor; it is a great creator.”
He continued, “The way people work today is different, with millions of Americans wanting the flexibility to design their own careers or job choices. Platforms like Clany are an important – and growing – part of giving workers access to the flexibility they need. This isn’t the “on-demand” economy – it’s the flexible economy.”
He concluded, “The flexible economy needs a new, flexible approach to providing workers with the benefits they need. That’s why we are calling the development of a portable benefits vehicle that would provide New York’s flexible economy workers with the opportunity to access worker protections and benefits.”
What does home mean to you?
Home matters to us all in different ways. So in February this year, we commissioned UC Berkeley researcher, to help us explore the different ways home and it’s many meanings matter to America.
We asked thousands of people from 22 states across the U.S. to tell us, in their own words, what home means to them.
This is just a snapshot of some of the fascinating things people told us.
“My home is my respite from the world. I’m very social, but I need time to myself and my apartment offers a comfortable place to relax and let my guard down.” – Allyson, Texas
“It means a place where I don’t have to keep up my walls, it does that for me. I get to fall apart. With my dog and cat.” – Emily, California
“It’s the place I’ve lived in the longest, in my adult life, so it feels the most like home to me. However, if and when I have to move, I will create home in the new place.” – Ben, New York
“It’s a place of safety and rest for our family. It’s a source of pride and the result of hard work.” – Anandh, Illinois
“At the moment, stressful because my roommates ignore me and my requests to keep things cleaner!” – Patricia, California