How to Add Hygge to Your House Cleaning Routine

Take a photo of the room before you start cleaning, and then take a picture of the room after you finish. Feel good about your accomplishment and keep it as a reminder of how you would like the room to stay.

Photographing sections of your room will also give you a different perspective on what your house looks like naturally. Does the picture show a clean yet cluttered room? Pare down your things until you achieve the right balance in every area of your home.

Start with your living room, kitchen, main bedroom, and other high-traffic areas. You can ask your friends or family members their opinion of how to make your rooms look better. Sharing the photo with decorating groups on Facebook will also help give you ideas on new ideas.

4. Reward Yourself After You Tidy Up

Give yourself little rewards along the way. After cleaning out the refrigerator, eat that truffle you’ve been saving. Finish all the dishes? Ten minutes to surf the internet is in order.

Decide in advance how to divide up the zones in your house. Have your rewards already picked out for accomplishing each weekly cleaning task.

Leave your favorite treat for last when you finish the entire project.

5. Pair Up with a Friend

Someone I know has a friend that also hates to clean their home. Every two weeks, they get together and tackle deep cleaning projects at each other’s houses.

Time goes by so much faster as they catch up on each other’s lives. They end up having a great time together, and both feel a sense of pride when their to-do lists are completed.

5. The Roof Over Our Head is a Blessing

Realizing that not everyone is as blessed as you are is a great way to change your thoughts about an organized home.

Give thanks that you have dishes to wash because that means you have food to eat. Be grateful you have laundry to clean because that means you have a family to care for that you love. Clean those windows with the knowledge that you have a roof over your head that keeps you warm and cozy.

Gratefulness can change everyone’s lives when they make it a primary focus, and your attitude will change for the better within a couple of weeks.

6. Music Makes Cleaning More Fun

Your home is your stage. Now is the time when you test out those dance moves and sing at the top of your lungs.

Is your favorite music from the 1980s? Make cleaning a time where you get to get in touch with your inner rock star and let loose. Get your older kids in on this fun way of looking at being tidy. Even small children can use a duster to help.

Nobody ever said you can’t add physical activity to your cleaning schedule: two birds, one stone.

You might even look forward to your daily cleaning schedule if you make it more interesting!

7. A Lifetime of Memories

While doing your weekly tasks and touching all the items in your home, why not go down memory lane and remember the special moments in your life when and where that object came into it?

As you put away your platter, does it bring up memories of your grandmother serving you Sunday supper on it? After dusting your crystal vase, does it remind you of how special your wedding day was and all the family and friends there to support you?

Your home is filled with treasured memories. Warm your heart with the past as you clean those items.

8. Donate to Others in Need

Use your cleaning routine as an opportunity to give to others. As you clean out your closets, look for things you can donate to those less fortunate than you and feel good about having the means to do so.

Most of us have way too much stuff that we don’t need. Think about the good you can put out in the world with a giving heart at total capacity.

9. Plan a Gathering in a Clean House

Send out an invitation to your friends for a fun gathering at your home, complete with board games and a potluck menu.

There’s nothing like the threat of company that will motivate you to make your home in tip-top condition. The reward is entertaining your friends and family members and making happy memories.

10. Timed Event Cleaning

A timer will let you do small segments of a cleaning routine at once, so you never get overwhelmed. You’ll get through cleaning in less time because of the concentrated effort in the short period.

Cleaning a whole house doesn’t sound like much fun. But cleaning for 10 minutes? That’s doable.

Set a timer for a certain amount of time and get started. You can start with simple tasks like quickly scrubbing your kitchen sink or bathroom tub. Other ideas are to throw a load of dirty laundry in the washer, clean mirrors, clear off your coffee table, or do a quick vacuum.

11. Less = More

You’ll have a much easier cleaning routine if you have less to clean. Perfect logic, right? Sorting through mountains of stuff daily isn’t very hygge. Get your whole family involved in paring down your things.

Strive to have higher quality items in your home that you always use. A handmade serving bowl that an artist poured their soul into, rather than a bowl made in a factory, would be one example.

If you spend your money on a higher-value item, make sure you get the most of it by hosting small gatherings at your home and creating memories with each piece.

Here are some products to make your household chores much more enjoyable:

1) Load your Cleaning Caddy with Ms. Meyers 

I either make my cleaners with essential oils, or I use Ms. Meyers. The company has a variety of scents for its products; Peony, Lilac, Mint, Basil, Lavender, Lemon Verbena, Geranium, Rosemary, Blueberry, and Honeysuckle.

Whether you buy an all-purpose cleaner or glass cleaner for clean windows, these scents will make your cleaning routine fly by every day of the week.