Can House Cleaning Make You Happier?
Get out the squeegee, Margie—doing housework may well be the way to improve your state of mind.
HAPPY TALK | We don’t need social scientists or surveys to confirm that having a clean house is a natural mood booster. But did you know that actually doing the cleaning may improve your mood as much as having a house that’s clean? In her new book, The First 20 Minutes: Surprising science reveals how we can exercise better, train smarter, live longer, author Gretchen Reynolds reports that a recent large-scale survey done in Europe found an “inverse association between housework and distress.”
Is it possible that mopping and dusting could lead to calm and contentment? Reynolds and the researchers she writes about think so. So imagine the heights of happiness we might reach were we to deep down clean our house.
What Is Deep Down Cleaning?
Have you ever noticed there are two kinds of house dirty? The first is surface dirty. This is what most of us deal with on a weekly basis, doing the dusting, vacuuming and general tidying that keep our homes looking presentable.
The second is deep down dirty. This kind of dirty creeps up on you while you’re religiously attending to the surfaces. Deep down dirty is the leather sofa that never gets conditioned, or the back of the insides of bottom kitchen cupboards that become magnets for grunge, or the dust and gunk that gathers on baseboards behind bedroom dressers that seldom if ever get moved.
Deep down dirty can make even a tidy house feel unclean.
How To Come Super Clean
To get deep down dirty under control, continue with your weekly fluff, brush and swish, and to that add the deep down cleaning of just one room in your house. If you are already feeling overworked or maybe a little lazy, do your deep down routine every two weeks.
To get started, be as meticulous as a surgeon in making a detailed list of absolutely every chore required to make every room you plan to clean feel hospital fresh. To ensure success, do absolutely everything on the list, no matter what it is, because only by doing everything will this attack plan be effective.—eds
I would start off small by cleaning out and purging junk drawers and cluttered spaces rather than deep cleaning an entire room. Then each week, choose a small area rather than deep cleaning an entire room. I’ve found the key is to not overwhelm myself but to pick manageable and doable tasks.
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