How is your morning going? Do you jump up half an hour after the 25th ringing of the alarm clock, turn on the kettle with your eyes closed and frantically wake up a child who needs to be in the garden in less than an hour? 5 minutes after collective washing, you simultaneously have breakfast, feed the baby and try to put on the first clothes you come across?
Obviously, you can't live like that. Therefore, the morning of a difficult day must begin...
On a hard day's evening
Remember your highchair by your bed, where your mother taught you to put everything you need in the morning? Take advantage of this pedagogical know-how. Prepare your baby's clothes in the evening, and he himself will pack a backpack with toys for kindergarten "for tomorrow. Get yourself such a "chair" too - so as not to look in the morning, like Bridget Jones, for intact tights and a blouse without a stain on the chest. Pack your bag in the evening, so that in the morning you can just take it and go. If you constantly lose your keys, organize a cute hook or shelf especially for them in a prominent place in the hallway. And if your husband’s signature morning phrase is not “I love you, my precious,” but “where the hell take my tie?”, then there is a strong feeling that the whole family needs their own “bedside chairs”.
Good morning
If everything is ready in the evening, then you no longer need to include a certain number of minutes in your schedule for the morning bustle and hassle. Divide the free time in half - for yourself and for cleaning. It might seem like a small thing, but if you spend about 10-15 minutes every morning, the house will always be clean. After all, you can wipe off dust with a cosmetic mask on your face. Now calmly wake up the heir - it’s time to wash up and go to kindergarten. Start an hourglass in the bathroom - while colored dust flows down in a thin stream, the child brushes her teeth, and you prepare breakfast. Before leaving the house, remember that you have to cook dinner in the evening. Transfer the necessary products from the freezer to the refrigerator - while you are away, they will have time to defrost on their own.
Hitrim: each time put things in order in different places, then gradually all areas of the apartment will receive your attention and shine. Dirty dishes in the sink can multiply. Therefore, it is better to rinse cups from your morning coffee and a bowl of baby porridge right away!
Good evening
Everything is prepared for the morning, now spend 15 minutes cleaning where necessary. Immediately place dirty clothes in the laundry basket (the highest economic aerobatics is to store light and colored clothes separately). If enough things have accumulated, you can start washing without waiting for the next day. And finally, the final “household” chord - wipe all surfaces in the kitchen, including the stove and sink, and splash a little disinfectant liquid into the toilet - everything will clean itself overnight. So, the house is clean, the children are sleeping, the well-fed spouse is peacefully watching TV - it’s time to give yourself a fragrant bubble bath.
Hitrim: If you “on the fly” go through the plumbing and the stove at least once every two days, they do not require any serious effort at all.
Weekend
Children love the circus. And also a zoo, cinema, museums and feeding ducks in the park. And of course, it’s better to spend Saturday and Sunday with your child, and not with mops, rags and vacuum cleaners. Small steps throughout the week - and now on the weekend there is no such devastation that you need to spend a lot of time cleaning up. And if cleaning cannot be avoided, involve the child in it to the best of his ability - a 5-year-old person is quite capable of laying out toys, dusting and vacuuming his room. Is your husband shirking? Remember: big boys play serious games. Let him load the dishwasher (honey, I'm afraid of this thing!) and solve the complex problem of optimizing the purchase of the entire list of necessary products, so that there is only enough left for drinks labeled “for adults.” The result is that it will take you no more than two hours to do household chores, the rest of the time can be devoted entirely to the family.
Clothes and toys - cleaning
How much time do you spend on:
- neatly arrange children's things in the closet that the child has already outgrown?
- collect toys that have long been no longer relevant for the baby in a drawer?
It seems that in five minutes you are unlikely to be able to cope with these tasks. The solution is simple - you need to quickly get rid of the junk: less things - less problems. Sort through your children's clothing, wash everything that is out of season, and pack it in special boxes. Get rid of what has become small: if you don’t dare throw it away, distribute things to friends whose children are younger than yours, advertise on forums and communities like “I’ll give it away for free.” Ask your nearest church parish if they take clothing to distribute to those who need it. Try selling what is still marketable via the Internet. If your subconscious bombards you with arguments like “maybe we’ll give birth to another one” or “what if in five years my sister has a child?”, the things, of course, can be left, but in any case they must be removed from the shelves of the “current” nursery clothes.
Hitrim: Clothes packed in vacuum bags take up much less space!
As for toys, if right now you distribute among your friends everything that the child is already tired of, throw out what has long been broken, and hide half of the rest away, the nursery will become much freer! In a month or two, you will give your offspring “long-forgotten old things” and send those cars and baby dolls that are in circulation now to a well-deserved rest... There is nothing more gratifying for a mother than a child who dived for a couple of hours into a box of toys that he has long ago did not see! And what savings!
We need to get rid of the junk quickly. Fewer things mean fewer problems.
Hitrim: large baskets for toys are extremely inconvenient - in order to find some little thing at the bottom, the child will inevitably dump all the contents on the floor. Shallow (ideally with transparent walls) boxes are much more practical. Beautiful stickers on each of them will help the child figure out where to put the dolls, where the animals are, and where only the parts of the construction set or the railway. “Go and collect your toys” is too global and boring a task for a preschooler. Break it down into small, manageable components like: “Put all the soldiers in this box/park all the big cars under the bed.”
Once you've gotten rid of clutter in your nursery, the most important thing is not to accumulate it again. Every time, trying to bless the heir with a gift, ask yourself whether he really needs this thing. One simple rule saves you from excessive clutter: as much as it comes, so much goes out. Have you brought a new toy into the house? Put one of the old ones away!
Washing children's clothes
Some parents claim that in nature there are children who never get stains on their clothes, fall into puddles, or tear their pants on tree branches. They talk a lot about such children, but no one has ever seen them. If you regularly deal with stains from paints, markers, fruit and soup, congratulations - you are the mother of a normal, living child! Therefore, if your child brought a “gift” from kindergarten, pour stain remover on this place immediately, and not a week later during washing.
Hitrim: Don’t skimp on children’s art supplies! The strokes of Chinese felt-tip pens wash off from children's clothes worse than marks from branded water-soluble ones. Cheap plasticine causes more trouble in cleaning and leaves nasty greasy stains on clothes, floors and furniture. Gouache washes off very poorly, so before dispensing paints, it’s worth taking off the young artist’s branded T-shirt.
Ironing
You have no problem with this item if you like ironing. And if not? Just stop doing it - most things hardly need an iron.
Can’t look at your five-year-old daughter in wrinkled jeans and suffer from insomnia on an unironed sheet? Try ironing every day for literally 15 minutes while you watch TV, then the process will seem less hopeless and exhausting.
Hitrim: Modern washing machines spin clothes so hard that they become too wrinkled. Use the "no crease" mode or set the spin power to a lower level. After this, the clothes need to be carefully straightened in the dryer so that you don’t have to iron them at all. If you dry things in the machine, take them out a little damp - it is better to iron shirts in this condition.
Remove the freshly ironed item before the children have time to jump on it, scatter it, or pour juice on it.
Cooking
If you really don't get anything done, cleaning, washing and ironing can be put off, you can sleep in the morning, and in the evening you can’t wipe the surfaces in the kitchen. You may even go hungry if you live alone. Men can be kept for some time on ready-made dumplings, although this makes them wither, dry out and uncontrollably rush “to the left.” But if you have a child in the house, you need to feed him fresh food regularly, even if you work 58 hours a day. In nature, there are mothers who preach the principle “a glass of juice replaces a bowl of soup,” but we are not on the same path with them.
How can you squeeze cooking delicious, healthy food into your busy schedule?
- Make a sample menu for the week and send your husband to buy groceries on the weekend - this saves time and money: men buy strictly according to the list and will never covet “that vase at a discount.” You can even buy bread seven days in advance - put the loaves in the freezer and take them out as needed.
- Immediately cut meat, poultry, fish into portions and freeze separately - this is for soup, this is for goulash, this is for frying. If you plan to make cutlets, you can immediately make minced meat, shape it, and then freeze it.
- Cereal porridge cooks very quickly, and sometimes does not require cooking at all: just pour boiling water or milk over everything and let it sit for a while. Breakfast is ready in literally three minutes - and the children are full and time is saved.
- Ideal mothers prepare multi-colored food in the shape of animals for their children and artistically decorate mashed potatoes with carrots. Buy colorful pasta and don’t worry about not having time to make edible bunnies three times a day. There is a simple way out even if you still crave achievement and exclusive food for your baby: one weekend, together with your husband and child, make small dumplings (spinach or a little beet juice will color the dough). Multi-colored dumplings made with your own hands are a wonderful dinner.
- The longest part of cooking soup is making the broth. To save time, a large pot of good broth can be poured into several containers and frozen for future use, and then only season the soup at a time for a week.
- There is a practice of freezing ready-made dishes in separate containers - mashed potatoes with cutlets, soup, meatballs with buckwheat. Try it, maybe sometimes these blanks will help you out.
Hitrim: Only frozen foods are placed in the freezer in tightly closed containers. Defrosting such food is easy - just put the desired boxes in the refrigerator overnight (quick “thawing” in the microwave can change their taste).
The age of domestic ladies is over. However, the image of the office queen has faded greatly in recent years. Today it is fashionable to combine different facets of female talent. What is more here - desire or necessity - is a purely individual question. However, most women prefer to combine work and housekeeping. But how successful it is depends on your ability to organize and plan everything.
Laundry, cleaning, cooking, children... What do you need to know to successfully run a home without interrupting your career growth? To begin with, create a calendar of household chores, in which it is very convenient to note everything that will be discussed below.
Cleaning
First of all, clearly separate one type of cleaning from another and set a cleaning schedule. So, GENERAL CLEANING, depending on the temperament of the owner and the level of dirtiness of the house, is usually carried out once every 1-2 months. It is expected that during this operation, cabinets will be pulled back, curtains will be washed, doors, windows and even the floor under the carpet will be washed. So mark on your calendar the dates when it would be most convenient for your family to generalize.
Accordingly, WEEKLY CLEANING starts once a week. However, if the density of living in your apartment is high enough, you may even have to vacuum and wash floors, wipe dust and flowers, and clean the toilet and sinks even a couple of times a week. Then certainly no random visit will take you by surprise. And this can also be planned in your calendar in advance, taking into account the weekends and work schedule of each family member. And if you not only have an apartment, but also, say, land in the Moscow region with a cozy country house and a picturesque garden, there will be plenty of work.
However, any housewife knows: the house is always full of small worries, and DAILY CLEANING is as necessary an element in the life of every family as, say, three healthy meals a day for a child. Wash the dishes, make the bed, sort out the mess on the table and nightstands, take out the trash, carefully put things in their places, sweep the hallway or throw out the excess from the mailbox - all this will have to be done daily. And it’s better to estimate in advance approximately how much time you will need for this. Of course, no one will stand behind you with a stopwatch. And yet, try not to go beyond the planned time frame. Unless, of course, you plan to die from overwork right in the middle of the kitchen?
Cooking
In this matter, more than in any other, it is important to foresee everything in advance in order to avoid force majeure. Dirty clothes or dusty carpets can be survived in the end. But whether your family members will be able to forgive the forced hunger is a big question. Therefore, mark a specific day on your calendar when you plan to replenish your bins. Non-perishable products are traditionally purchased once a month, so sacrificing half a day to the refrigerator is probably still possible. Well, in order to clearly know which supplies need to be regularly replenished, make a list of what must be in your home, dividing all goods into food and non-food groups. For some, these sets will include, respectively, 30 and 10 items, for others they will be limited to a ratio of 15 to 5.
Next, take the time to make a list of what needs to be replenished weekly and, again, decide on what day of the week it would be more convenient to do this. If you write everything down in detail, someone at home will always be able to insure you. This kind of work can be easily completed by, say, your husband and child, while you calmly work your magic over the stove.
By the way, about witchcraft. I'll have to arm myself with a pen again and make another list. This time, simply list all the meals you plan to cook during the week. And don’t exhaust yourself with culinary delights when you crawl home from work tired. Leave the Napoleons and pies for the weekend. And on weekdays, stock up on a set of dishes that can be prepared quite easily and quickly. (Especially if your kitchen has all sorts of improvised devices and mechanisms.) If only the list of dishes was large enough and varied. And you can choose what is best to cook from it tomorrow, and what products you will need for this, quickly enough. Somewhere between a bedtime story and reading your favorite novel.
Allies
But, nevertheless, the main thing in successful housekeeping is the organization of the process and the distribution of responsibilities between all (I emphasize, ALL!) family members. No, well, if your husband is the president of the country, or, at worst, some kind of diamond king, maybe he should be freed from taking out the trash or running around the shops. But in this case, I think there are enough servants in your house who will do all the housework not only for your spouse, but also for you. Then reading this article for you is just one of the quirks of the rich.
Otherwise, negotiate the terms. If there are children in the house, they must be involved in helping. Yes, at first, perhaps, their efforts will be more of a hindrance, but if you don’t get nervous and constantly turn to your children on household issues, everything will gradually improve. The matter of skill is afraid.
And it’s better to agree with your significant other on the distribution of responsibilities “on the shore,” that is, in advance. With a man, by the way, it is better to describe all events in as much detail as possible. The stronger sex respects specifics. And a solid portion of household chores will allow a man to experience a sense of responsibility for the family, even in conditions of notorious equality. Make another list of assigned responsibilities and break it down by urgency, importance, and based on your family's needs. And if such a survey has already taken place, never replace a man with yourself, do not do for him what was originally his responsibility. Even if it’s just about screwing in a light bulb or taking out the trash. Otherwise, he will never appreciate your work and, most importantly, if something happens (and you, after all, are not a tin lumberjack), he will not even be able to replace you with housework.
Little nothings of life
There are a few more directions that you need to keep in mind all the time so as not to stray from the master’s rhythm.
1. For example, washing. In modern conditions, in principle, it does not deserve a separate chapter, since washing units simplify the process, literally down to laying out the laundry and hanging it up. And here you only need to decide whether to accept this minimum or, in general, give preference to dry cleaning. However, it is necessary to include time in your weekly schedule for small laundry.
2. Every day in the evening, make a plan of what you will wear tomorrow, prepare and what you are going to remind your loved ones about.
3. If possible, take inventory of your home. You yourself know how many unnecessary or boring things accumulate in just a couple of months! All those cracked frames, expired medications, long-read magazines, used batteries and outdated clothing models... Free yourself from this “dead” weight, and you will literally breathe a sigh of relief.
4. Determine where the pain points are in your home. Usually these are: toilet, stove and refrigerator. Try to once again ask how things are going with them, even outside the drawn-up schedule. A centimeter layer of fat on the stove and the stench from the refrigerator speaks louder than any words about the abilities of the housewife.
5. Let you have a special hiding place in your house where you can put things that are good, but not suitable for you personally. Then your guests will certainly not be left without a surprise. And you won’t have to rack your brains over a gift for a friend who unexpectedly invited you to visit today.
6. And remember, this is your reliable and cozy fortress. You can adjust the proposed plan as you wish. Or throw it away altogether and make up your own, completely new version. The main thing is that in the end your home becomes a place where people not only do household chores, but also know how to enjoy each other.
If you are wondering how to manage everything around the house, then you probably have a lot of things to do and you cannot distribute your time in such a way as to complete them all, while you also want to have your favorite time left for yourself. Or maybe you should try to try on the habit of the well-known Julius Caesar of doing several things at the same time? Do you think it's difficult? Not at all, and we will prove it!
Women are built differently
Do you know that we women are able to do several things at the same time, and this feature is inherent in us at the genetic level. A woman can concentrate on several things at once, while most men can only do one thing. Try an experiment: ask your boyfriend something while he is busy doing something, for example, preparing dinner or something else. Most likely, he will get distracted and stop to answer you, while a woman can answer many questions at the same time and continue to go about her business.
3 simple rules for getting everything done
How to properly distribute your time and redo all your household chores? Try our tips.
Rule No. 1. Put lost things in their places
It doesn’t take much effort to put all things in their places without wasting time. Just make it a rule not to go empty-handed. For example, when going from point A (let it be at least the living room) to point B (for example, the kitchen), take with you a tea cup forgotten on the table. Using the same method, you can arrange children's toys scattered around the house by your baby, lay out things, etc. You will soon notice that you start doing this automatically, and there is much less clutter in your home.
Rule No. 2. A good figure without time investment
Do you always say that you don’t have time to play sports? But there is a way out! When you brush your teeth, wash dishes, or chop vegetables, you can rise and fall on your toes, thereby training your calf muscles. Do you watch TV? Great! At this time, you can raise your body 45 degrees and train your abs. Vacuuming your house? Try to stand in one place and reach for the brush as far as possible, bending over. Makes for a great workout!
Rule #3: While your hands are busy, keep your ears busy.
You are constantly planning to learn a foreign language, but there is no time. And we haven’t chatted with my mother or friend for a long time. A headset with headphones will help you. Since your hands are busy with household chores, keep your ears busy too. While cooking, washing, cleaning, ironing, you can also:
- listen to your favorite music;
- learn a foreign language using an audio course;
- listen to some useful audio training;
- chatting with a friend.
1 hour in the kitchen - a lot of things done!
Do you know how much you can accomplish in just 1 hour spent in the kitchen? For example, during this time you may well:
- Wash things (if there is a washing machine there)
- Prepare a delicious lunch
- Talk to a friend using a headset or learn a dozen new foreign words
- Feed your pet if you have one
- In between stirring food, wipe the dust and floor
- Train your legs (just 50 daily raises and lowers on your toes will tone your calf muscles and make your legs slimmer).
- Remove limescale from the kettle. To do this, just boil water in it with the addition of citric acid.
- Add products you need to buy to your shopping list
- Dance along to the music. You are guaranteed a good mood, and time will fly by faster!
- After finishing cooking, wipe down the tables
- To wash the dishes. And while you wash the dishes, you can also soften the skin of your hands. To do this, apply any and put on cotton gloves on top, and rubber gloves on top of them. This way you won’t ruin your manicure when washing dishes and will nourish the skin of your hands.
And all these tasks can be completed in just 60 minutes! Imagine how much time you would have to spend if you did everything sequentially, one after the other. And this way you saved time and put your house in order. Therefore, if you are already tired of spending all your personal time on household chores and don’t know how to manage everything around the house, then try doing several things at the same time. You will see how you can save valuable time and at the same time be an excellent housewife!
One of the most effective methods of housekeeping, without spending a lot of time and effort, is a method of dividing an apartment into zones. Today we will tell you about it. After all, the topic of saving time on cleaning is very relevant, since modern housewives sometimes do not have even a couple of hours left for household chores. Women work, often even have their own businesses, raise children, and in their free time they just want to spend an extra hour on a social network.
The method we'll talk about today involves separating separate areas of the apartment (kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, living room, hallway, etc.) and cleaning each of them daily for one week. Such a system is suitable for those people who are ready to change their apartment for the better gradually, without trying to restore perfect order everywhere in one day of housework.
Dividing the apartment into zones for quick cleaning
I think no one will have any questions about how to divide the apartment into zones. Usually one room is one zone. Therefore, it seems important to talk in more detail about separation each zones into small “subzones”» - places where cleaning will be carried out on each specific day.
The complexity of this method lies in the fact that we simply forget about many places in the room: we don’t pay attention to the top shelves filled with various items, we don’t look behind cabinets and chests of drawers, we turn a blind eye to drawers overflowing with junk, etc.
This happens because of our constant rush. We usually strive to clean all the visible space of the apartment at one time, and there is simply no time left for hard-to-reach and not very noticeable places. Therefore, we constantly put off cleaning in such places until later, but in the end we simply forget about it.
In order to effectively divide each zone into "subzones", I recommend take a walk By each separate zone apartments with notepad.
Inspect each area carefully. Then write down in a notebook the name of the inspected area and each “subzone,” including those in which the owner, for one reason or another, forgets to clean. Then you need to highlight those “blind” places and put a reminder on your phone (or mark it in your calendar) on which specific days of this week the housewife will clean there.Creating a house cleaning schedule
Having completed dividing the apartment into zones, and the zones into “subzones”, proceed to the next stage - creating a cleaning schedule. A mobile phone or a large wall calendar is suitable for this, where you need to mark which zone you will clean every week and which “subzones” you will pay attention to on each specific day.
Weekends should be left blank, as the zoning method involves freeing up days for your rest.
For records reminders I recommend choosing the big one wall calendar or mobile telephone, and not a notepad or a small pocket calendar. After all, getting caught up in our daily routine, we can easily forget what we wrote down in a notebook or noted on a calendar lost in our bag.
The mobile phone will remind us of the necessary tasks with a sound signal, and the notes on the wall calendar will constantly catch our eye.
Smart home cleaning
Once you've created a work schedule for each specific area, start cleaning your home intelligently. To do this you should take timer And expose On him 15 minutes. After the countdown starts, you can start cleaning in one (only one!) “subzone”, work in which is planned for today.Let’s look at the process of housework in the “subzone” in more detail. Let's say our task for today is to clean up the cluttered top shelf in the kitchen. It won't be enough to just brush the dust off with a duster.
Pay attention to the things that occupy our “subzone”. Unnecessary items should be mercilessly thrown away, and that which, due to some misunderstanding, has settled on the shelf, although it should not be there, should be put in its place.
Wipe the shelf itself, preferably using a cleaning product. And only then put the remaining things (necessary and appropriate, of course) back. As soon as the timer sounds, you should finish your work, even if you didn’t finish everything.
Time management for housewives
Chances are, seeing how clean and shiny the “subzone” is after cleaning, you’ll want to immediately bring the entire room up to par. This is where you will need to use all your willpower in order not to start cleaning out the remaining “subzones” right now.
Remember: your home task at the initial stage - enter into a habit daily 15 —minute cleaning, and not to create perfect order in one sitting!
And in general, why are housewives worse than businessmen who manage to run 5-7 different types of businesses at the same time? Let housewives begin to use some time management techniques, then they will have time for fitness, and for their husband, and for relaxation.
Actually, according to this principle, you should continue cleaning in other “subzones” of the selected room throughout the week. If you didn’t have time to clean up the entire area in one week, don’t worry. Next week, just start cleaning another room.
After some time, you will still return to the original zone and will be able to pay attention to the “subzones” that you did not have time to thoroughly clean the first time. Graduality and consistency, as in business and self-development, will do their job.
House cleaning quickly and with a smile
The main advantage of this revolutionary method housekeeping, and the secret of how modern wise ladies manage to do all their housework quickly and with a smile is thorough cleaning in all, even hard-to-reach places in your apartment, without taking up all your time and energy.
After all, you are prohibited from cleaning for more than 15 minutes a day, and during this time you will not have time to get tired of cleaning, and every time you will do it with love and passion, and not with a sour face embark on hours-long activities, like ordinary lagging behind modern housewife technologies.
In addition, you will gradually get rid of unnecessary junk that has settled in “blind” spots or “pretended” to be something necessary, therefore, a lot of space will be freed up for the things you need and love. You will no longer be ashamed to pull out a drawer, open a closet or pantry in front of your friends or mother-in-law.
Plus, you will always be ready to receive guests, and before they arrive you won’t have to drop everything and urgently put the apartment in at least relative order.
Follow the method of dividing your apartment into zones, using time management for “advanced” housewives, then in a month or two you will see for yourself how clean, shiny and cozy your home has become.
And after a thorough cleaning has been carried out in each area of your apartment, you will only have to, we will look at in the next article, in addition,
Are you torn between office work, household chores and childcare? Try to relieve yourself of some of your worries by reorganizing your life in one of the ways that suits you:
Wash
Washing clothes and bed linen takes a lot of time. If small items can be easily washed in a machine, then coats, jackets, which also require careful ironing, are better to be dry cleaned. On average, you will have to pay 400-700 rubles for one item (cleaning winter outerwear can be more expensive). But do not forget that when buying clothes, you should not cut off the tags from them, otherwise you will need to sign a waiver. Try to take things to the cleaners as soon as you have time after the end of the season. On the eve of the cold weather, you will probably have no time.
Bed linen can be sent to the laundry, because at home it is difficult to starch and iron huge sheets and duvet covers well. Washing a kilogram of standard laundry costs approximately 80-150 rubles. It is worth having at least three sets of linen: one you sleep on, the second one to wash, the third one clean, for a change.
Some laundries and dry cleaners offer courier services, but this will greatly increase the cost of the service. You can take your laundry to the cleaners on your way to work.
"Minuses"
You will have to spend time finding a laundry or dry cleaning service whose quality of work you are satisfied with. There is always a chance that your clothes will be damaged or poorly cleaned. It will take time and nerves to sort things out.
Not everyone likes the fragrances used in the laundry; sometimes they can even cause allergies.
House cleaning
Don't waste your valuable time dusting and mopping your floors. Hire a cleaner - it's not that expensive. It is not at all necessary to invite her every day. To keep your home clean and tidy, it is enough to thoroughly clean it once a week. A visiting housekeeper will provide you with this service for 600-1000 rubles per call. It’s better to spend the freed-up hours on vacation or communicating with loved ones.
"Minuses"
Every housewife is sure that she knows better than anyone how to clean. If you are too demanding and picky, you will have a hard time finding a suitable au pair.
Not everyone is ready to allow a stranger into their home and allow him to touch personal belongings. The presence of a housekeeper can cause psychological discomfort.
It is always worth remembering about security: the housekeeper will always be aware of all your affairs, and at the same time she may inadvertently find out where you keep your money and other valuables.
Shopping trip
Think about how many hours it takes to drive through traffic jams to the store, choose groceries or clothes, stand in line at the checkout and return home. Most products these days can be purchased online. On sites where clothes are sold, not only the size is taken into account, but also other parameters, so that things can be selected quite accurately. In addition, the choice in the virtual space is much wider than in a regular store. Even taking into account delivery, prices may be lower: companies do not spend money on renting stores and salaries for salespeople.
In the same way, you can order groceries: juices, water, groceries, cleaning products. Today, this service is provided by several companies (the most popular is "Utkonos", for orders you will need to issue a loyalty card) and some retail chains (for example, "The Seventh Continent" or "ABC of Taste"). This is especially convenient for women who do not have a car - they do not have to carry heavy bags. The cost of delivery varies among companies, for example, for Utkonos it is 149 rubles both in Moscow and in the Moscow region (cheaper at night - 49 rubles), The Seventh Continent does not charge for delivery within the Moscow Ring Road for orders over 1,499 rubles (for a smaller order, payment is 300 rubles).
If you constantly use the services of the same supplier (for example, buy drinking water from the same company), then the employees themselves will call you and remind you that it’s time to place a new order.
"Minuses"
You will certainly want heavy products to be delivered to your home rather than your office. Unfortunately, couriers' working hours do not always coincide with your free time.
If the item you ordered doesn't fit, in most cases you will still have to pay shipping.
You should not order vegetables and fruits over the Internet (their quality most likely will not suit you), frozen foods (delivery vehicles are rarely equipped with refrigerators), perishable foods (expired goods are unlikely to be delivered to you, but those whose expiration date has already expired) tomorrow - very likely).
If you live outside the Moscow Ring Road, then delivery is either impossible or more expensive.
On “peak dates” (before holidays, on rainy days) there is a high probability that the courier will be late, or you will not be able to place an order at all.
Payment of bills
Many working people either completely entrust utility payments to banks, or transfer money virtually, through various payment systems. Having concluded an agreement with the bank, you can pay bills through Internet banking or pay receipts through an ATM using a plastic card. Another option is to issue a long-term order, then the bank will completely take over all your payments, and you will only have to make sure that there is always a certain amount in the account.
"Minuses"
You will still need to check your accounts regularly. If something is calculated incorrectly for you (and this, alas, happens regularly), then you will not discover the error immediately, and you will have to spend more effort figuring it out.