How to keep your home always tidy? It’s a million-dollar question!
Keeping a tidy house is a goal many of us share, but it’s often easier said than done. Days get hectic, stuff piles up, and suddenly your rooms look more like a flea market than the pages of an interior design magazine.
But keeping things in order isn’t some impossible mission reserved for those with personal assistants or magical powers. It just takes a few practical rules, a bit of consistency, and why not a sense of ease. Because tidiness isn’t about perfection, it’s about well-being: visual, mental, and everyday comfort.
So here are 5 golden rules for keeping your home always in order (without going crazy in the process).
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Follow these rules every day and you’ll discover the secret to a constantly tidy home.
1. A Place for Everything (and Everything in Its Place)
It might sound basic, but this rule is fundamental. Every item in your home should have a “home” of its own. A drawer, a box, a container. When you don’t know where to put something, that’s when clutter starts.
To keep your house tidy, start by eliminating “neutral zones” where things tend to pile up like the entryway table, the couch, or the bedroom chair. The trick is simple: once you’re done using something, put it back in its place immediately.
2. The 5-Minute Rule
Time is tight, but often it’s just a matter of perception. It takes only five minutes to tidy up a room, fold the clothes left on a chair, or unload the dishwasher. The so-called “5-minute rule” teaches that if a task takes less than five minutes, do it right away. Postponing small chores is the fastest way to turn them into overwhelming mountains.
This rule also helps you break tasks down into mini-tasks you can fit in between a coffee break and a phone call.
3. Constant Decluttering
Fewer items, less mess. Decluttering doesn’t mean living like a minimalist monk. It means learning to surround yourself only with what you truly need or love. Clutter is the enemy of order, and we often realize we own duplicates or unused items that haven’t seen the light of day in years.
A handy tip? Every month, choose one category (clothes, books, kitchen tools) and spend 30 minutes deciding what to keep and what to donate or toss. Fewer items around means fewer things to clean up.
4. Daily and Weekly Cleaning Routines
Creating a cleaning and tidying schedule helps you stay on top of things. A light daily routine making the beds, emptying the trash bins, clearing the surfaces keeps the basic order. Then you can add weekly tasks like mopping floors, cleaning the bathroom, or organizing the closet.
Spreading tasks out through the week avoids arriving at the weekend with a disaster to fix. And yes, it’s much easier to stick to routines if everyone in the household plays a part. The secret to a tidy home? Teamwork.
5. Leave Every Room Better Than You Found It
This habit is as simple as it is transformative. Every time you leave a room, do one small thing to improve it: turn off a light, pick up a sock, fluff a cushion on the couch. These are tiny actions, almost unnoticeable, but they add up to a huge impact.
It’s a way of living in your home with mindfulness and care—keeping order almost effortlessly.
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This article first appeared on Grazia.it
