Housework Heart-to-Heart: Make it Less Work and More Fun

Housework – you say, and you suddenly feel motivated to go and watch TV? Well, don’t worry, because most of us are like that.

We all like to have a clean house, but the majority of us can’t stand cleaning it regularly. There are many ways to motivate you to do chores, and here are some of them:

Play Your Favorite Beat

It’s always easier to clean the house while your favorite music is playing in the background. The sound will motivate you to move, to do something, so the cleaning suddenly won’t be that boring.

Schedule an Event in Your House

Once you invite some friends in your house you will basically make yourself clean the place. It is embarrassing to bring the guests to the dirty, dusty room, so there won’t be a way for you to run away from doing the housework this time.

Inspire Yourself Online

There are so many great websites with amazing interior ideas, and ideas for decoration, and it is a pity not to use them for inspiring yourself, and motivating yourself to do housework. You might even get some new ideas and new perspectives, and you might even fall in love with cleaning and decorating your house.

Bring Your Friends or Family to Help

If you have some help with you, your housework will become fun. Some people really love cleaning the house and they will be glad to help you. You can offer them a great meal, or chocolate cookies afterwards, as a way to say thanks for their help.

Forget About Work

This may sound surprising, but doing housework can actually help you to relax once you get used to it. It can help you run away from daily stress of the working hours. Cleaning will make you feel more useful around the house, and you will feel better about yourself as a result.

Make a New Look of Your Place

Every now and then we get bored of the mundane routine and the look of our apartments. No matter how big they are, they can become very dull. You can prevent this from happening by changing things around the house every time you are cleaning. Small differences will do you good.

Lose Some Weight

Maybe you haven’t thought of this earlier, but doing housework can really help you to lose those extra pounds. You can burn a lot of calories while cleaning around your place.

Calories Burned per Half-hour of Doing Housework

• Doing laundry
  73
• Making the bed
  68
• Cooking
  85
• Washing the dishes
  78
• Ironing
  78
• Dusting
  85
• Sweeping
  112
• Vacuuming
  119
• Scrubbing the floors
  129
• Rearranging furniture
  204
• Yard work
  170
• Washing windows
  102
• Washing the car
  102
• Gardening
  136
• Mowing the lawn
  187
• Raking
  146
• Shoveling snow
  204

Of course, the number of calories you burn may vary depending on how much effort you put into the activity. If you dislike going to the gym, this can be a great substitute. You’ll kill two birds with one stone!

Read more on how to get the most out of doing housework in 6 Ways to Make Housework Super Fun!

Let us know what worked for you and what helped you get yourself to do housework! Chime in!