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This month I have started the process of “resetting” each room in my house, once per week. This is done by dedicating 1–2 hours to cleaning your entire space and refreshing it for the next week to come. It is a simple concept but ultimately makes any tidying throughout the week easier. An article I published recently, ‘4 Simple Daily Tasks to Have a Tidier and More Organized Home’ couples well with this concept of a weekly household reset.
My weekly reset takes place on Friday. After work, my partner and I dedicate 2 hours to the task of working through each room in our house. We have a specific image of what our space will look like and therefore know when the cleaning/ tidying is complete. When this happens, we have a sense of freshness and renewal — a clean slate for the next morning.
Reset in one shot:
- Tidying expert, Marie Kondo swears by the act of tidying all at once, seeing the progress you’ve made and allowing it to change your mindset. Rather than building a habit of cleaning a little at a time, get the entire task done in one fell swoop, once per week.
“The ultimate secret of success is this: If you tidy up in one shot, rather than little by little, you…
