Secrets to clean your closet in just 20 minutes: preparing to clean your closet

There are few people who like to do cleaning, all the more so to spend their day off on it. Most often, sparing time and energy, being in a constant hurry, we restore order in haste.

We recall the closet only in a few cases - when it’s +15 degrees outside, and the wardrobe still reigns “winter”, if you don’t find anything in it or there is no room even for a handkerchief. In such cases, it becomes necessary to “reload” the contents of the cabinet.

Preparing to clean the cabinet

There are many systems and techniques that facilitate housekeeping and do not allow “Drown” in an endless maelstrom of household chores - Sandra Felton, Con Marie, Fly Lady and many more others. They are very different from each other, but they have one common principle - "throw all the trash overboard."

This primarily applies to the wardrobe and wardrobe. After all, the clothes that we wear every day, perform not only the function of protection from the cold, rain or sunlight. She also carries an aesthetic and emotional burden.

Our mood and self-confidence depend on clothes. Waking up every day, the first thing we do is go to the closet and think: “What to wear today?”

The mess and chaos reigning in the "bowels" of the closet do not add a major note to the morning blues. In this "magic land" things are constantly lost. “Something needs to be done with this,” a sound thought comes to mind.

So, you have decided to restore the perfect order in your wardrobe. Where to begin? We will say right away that there are no strictly defined cabinet cleaning rules. How many housewives, so many techniques.

Preparation for cleaning will take very little time.

You will need:

• favorite music to create an emotional background;
• surface for "unloaded" things;
• brush or vacuum cleaner;
• soft rags;
• solution with the addition of detergent or liquid soap - for highly contaminated places;
• antistatic agent, glass cleaner, polish, if necessary, rub the cabinet on the outside and erase fingerprints;
• large luggage or trash bags;
• shoe boxes, storage containers, vacuum bags - it's all up to you.

Attention! Consider in advance what you may need to clean the cabinet, so as not to waste time going to the store for bags or detergent.

That's the whole preparation. Getting to the fun part.

Sequence of order in the cabinet

Having prepared everything you need for cleaning in the closet, turning on your favorite music, we proceed to the next stage.

Pulling things out

It should be noted right away that the most convenient surface for folding things is a bed or a sofa with armchairs. If you choose the floor, you have to constantly bend over. Although it is very useful for the waist.

It is necessary to get all the things from the closet and put them on the bed or sofa, after having first covered them with a sheet or a bedspread. This is to ensure that dust, debris and dirt from the cabinet do not stain bedding or sheathing.

Attention! It is advisable to immediately pile clothes - trousers to trousers, dresses to dresses, t-shirts to t-shirts, etc.

We clean the cabinet

The sequence of cleaning shelves and other surfaces of the cabinet:

• remove rubbish and dust from the cabinet and drawers with a brush or vacuum cleaner with the appropriate nozzle;
• wipe the entire inner surface with a damp cloth;
• wash particularly contaminated places with the addition of detergent;
• clean mirror, glass or plastic parts of the cabinet using a special glass cleaner;
• the inner surface can be sprinkled with an antistatic for clothes so that dust does not “attract” there;
• to process external wooden details and drawers with a polish.

Attention! Do not load clothes in a wet cabinet so that they and the clothes do not get the smell of dampness and mold.

We plan the internal space

While the cabinet is being cleaned and washed, you can think about the layout of the internal space. It should be visualized how you want to see the internal content of this type of furniture, figure out where and what will be stored, how to use the space more productively.

Before the next stage, experts in the "organization of cabinet space" advise you to seriously think about what lifestyle you plan to keep what interests you in the near future, what clothes will be in demand more often, what needs to be removed for seasonal storage.

Sort things

This is the most important stage, on the implementation of which the final result depends - this element of furniture will turn into a "dream cabinet" or again it will become a dump of unnecessary things.

1. The process of "cluttering" is recommended to accompany the question: "Do I need this thing? What emotions does it cause? Is it comfortable in it? ” If at least one answer is negative, feel free to put the “rag” in a large bag.
2. Another sign of the “unnecessaryness” of a thing is its lack of demand for a year. You can be sure - it will lie for a long time. Feel free to send in the same package.
3. In each cabinet there are things that wait until they are repaired, change the zipper, come up or remove the stain. If among them there are the ones you need, then put them in another package.
4. You should also do with straps, gloves, scarves, handbags, shoes, folding the unnecessary in separate bags.

After sorting, half the wardrobe, or even a third, will remain on the bed. Do not worry that few things remain. In fact, only what you love and always wear with pleasure is left. In addition, you have freed up space for something new.

The items left on the bed should be categorized, for example:

• what needs to be hung on a coat hanger, to maintain shape - jackets, suits, jackets;
• separately postpone dresses;
• T-shirts, shirts, blouses, sweaters, sweatshirts - what is worn on the body;
• trousers, shorts, skirts - that "covers" the legs;
• Underwear;
• socks, tights;
• haberdashery - belts, gloves, scarves and hats, scarves;
• swimwear, pareos and other things that do not fit into the category of things;
• footwear.

Attention! If your daughter is growing up, then you can afford to make a bunch of clothes called "vintage". But it should contain those things that will be of interest in many years.

We bring perfect order and beauty

The process of filling the cabinet is as follows:

1. Hang suits, jackets, jackets, dresses on the shoulders and place them in a special compartment of the cabinet. Experts recommend hanging darker and longer clothes on the left, gradually moving to light and short ones on the right.
2. T-shirts, sweaters, etc. place on shelves with the usual piles of clothing. How to stack things every housewife knows. Many people prefer to store them vertically, which can significantly save space and does not crumple and “get lost” under the stack. The choice is yours.
3. Scarves, hats, kerchiefs, underwear and other things are rolled up into tubes and placed in shoe boxes or special containers vertically. Each category has its own box.
4. Bags can be stored "matryoshka", folding them one into one.

Non-seasonal items should be removed higher and away. Down jackets and jackets are conveniently stored in vacuum bags.

The most commonly used items are best stored closer to the door. Rarely used - at the back wall.

Attention! It is recommended to store only clean things in the closet so that an unpleasant smell does not “wound up”. It must be regularly ventilated, and also remember to use moth suppressants.

Say goodbye to unnecessary things and enjoy the result

Packages with unnecessary things should be taken out and resolutely disposed of. Old and torn things should be thrown in the trash. Good things should be given to the poor.

Your clothes can be useful to friends, for which they will be very grateful. For example, a sports swimsuit bought several years ago is useful to a friend whose daughter is engaged in swimming. A wide free sundress - to a pregnant relative. Carnival costume - a friend who plays in an amateur theater. Give things a second chance to be helpful.

Attention! Get used to putting things strictly in the places reserved for them, then you will not have to look for anything.

With a certain mood and desire, cleaning the cabinet will take no more than 20-30 minutes, and by doing it regularly, this time can be reduced to a minimum.

Having collected all the recommendations, practical tips and life hacks on putting things in order in the closet, you can easily develop your own methodology that will be effective, fast and suitable for your case.