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Five tips on how to love cleaning

Five tips on how to love cleaning

Sometimes the cleaning of one’s house turns into a real torture.

Every woman, especially one who has children, sometimes feels like a lone warrior fighting against whole hordes of enemies: dirty dishes, toys, dust, washing, ironing and so on. That is a vicious circle for every housewife. Let us share some tips that will help females to feel a little bit sympathy for this integral part of our lives.

1. Beautiful equipment

An old broom and a mop, as well as shabby rags will utterly deprive us of the desire to clean. Buy a handy mop, new cleaning wipes, and if you save some money for a steam cleaner, you will surely enjoy cleaning your house all the time.

2. Clean and learn

It is boring to clean both in silence and when one’s children cry. It is much more interesting to wash the floors and wipe the dust while listening to an audiobook, lectures, or turning on an interesting series and watching it with one eye while cleaning the house.

3. Renew the interior

If the carpet in the kitchen is constantly getting dirty and the synthetic bedspread on the sofa is gathering dust or it is hard to remove stains from the tablecloth, all you need to do is to replace all possible interior details that give a messy look to your home.

4. Choose cleaning products

We have a huge choice of household chemicals nowadays. Most of them can make our life much easier. For example, we apply some washing agent to the faucet or stove in the kitchen, wait a couple of minutes and then rinse it. Minimum effort gives maximum cleanliness.

5. Delegate responsibilities

One should teach children about cleanliness from an early age. Start with something small: making one’s bed, collecting one’s toys and washing one’s own dishes. Of course, at first, the result will be worse than expected but over time they will learn to fulfill their duties fully. This will make your cleaning less time-consuming and help to teach your children about self-care and demonstrate the importance of housework.

Safiya Fokina

As-salam newspaper and Islam.ru website correspondent

2026-06-01 (Dhul-Hijjah 1447) №6.


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