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6 tricks you can use to make your home look better and feel cleaner in 20 minutes or less (/AUTHOR_ARTICLES_ALL.CMS?QUERY=%22%22&AUTHOR=-)SEP 2, 2017, 11.02 PM Slideshow (/6-tricks-you-can-use-to-make-your-home-look-better-and-feel-cleaner-in-20-minutes-or-less/Abandonperfection/slideshow/60341974.cms)
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Take before and after photos
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'Gamify' the tasks
Hoffman's book features several "challenges" that make cleaning more like a game than a chore. For example: "Look around. Find ten things that aren't where they belong. Put them away." Or: "Take ten minutes and reset as much as you can back to clean. Put items away, throw trash out, and hang up or put away your clothes until the timer goes off." Consider it the Mary Poppins version of being a responsible adult. Share Slide
Use 20/10s
This strategy is simple: You clean for 20 minutes and then take a 10-minute break. Hoffman says you can tweak the exact times, so you clean for 45 minutes and take a 15-minute break, for example. That's enough time to put away a clean load of laundry or take the level of grossness down a notch in your bathroom. The idea is to avoid what Hoffman calls "marathon cleaning" — i.e., you let your home get messier and messier (and messier) until it reaches the point where you can barely breathe. Then you spend a few days "cleaning like a maniac until it's livable again." By using your version of 20/10s, you'll see cleaning as a more manageable project — as Hoffman writes, "a series of smaller chunks of time that each has a definite beginning and a definite end." Share Slide
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