Friday – The Master Bedroom
I read somewhere that you spend a third of your life asleep, so why would you spend half your life in a filth pit. Bedrooms easily become dumping grounds as they are private spaces. I am very guilty of sticking EVERYTHING I don’t want guests to see in our bedroom and shutting the door.
To ensure you bedroom stays tidy, you need to work out your bedtime routine. Do you always dump your clothes in a pile on your side of the bed (cough…P…I am looking at you), do you always take a glass of water to bed and never bring down the glass, or do you take off your make-up with a wipe and then dump it on your floor till morning? We eat breakfast in bed most mornings (it is the only way I can prise P from his pillow) so I take that into consideration when I clean.
Each morning I air my bed by pulling the duvet right down. I don’t know if it works, but my granny did it, so I do it too. I also flip the pillows to ensure they wear evenly….again…I may just be crazy…
Set your timer! And then tornado!
Dust everything
Pull everything out from beneath your bed and hoover the dust bunnies from under there
Antibacterial your bedside table
Put any earrings, hair ties, grips and other rubbish you remove from your person back in their proper place
Take down your curtains and put them through the wash
Hoover your bed and headboard
Flip your mattress
Sort out your knicker drawer…chuck out anything that was white (and is now yellow/pink/grey) or with holes.
Dust your lampshade
Scrub your skirting boards
Tidy the bottom of your wardrobe
Sew any loose buttons back on clothes
Ahhhhhh….and then tomorrow is the weekend….. but never fear….15 minute tornado is here all weekend!
Psssssst…. missed Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and yesterday? Pull your finger out!
Or…
Dust all visible surfaces
(this includes bedside table thus negating this point)
Pile up the misc earrings that have lost a partner somewhere, mental note to buy more hair elastics etc as you can’t find any
Hoover the headboard…. no comment.
Purchase a foam mattress that does not require flipping
Only own enough underwear to get you though the week, with a few spare. Mass replace every few months
Don’t own a lamp
Paint skirting boards the same colour of your walls – they just blend in
Have wardrobes in another room… clothes and ‘floor-drobe’ problem solved
Mentally note you may need a new cardigan/dress/ coat etc because you have finally lost too many buttons to be presentable
Ahhh… and then tomorrow is the weekend… but never fear, lazy guide to cleaning can be carried out any time you figure the kitchen is just one cleaning job too much and require a distraction….!
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