Men are like all natural disasters put together, they leave destruction in the places dearest to a woman’s heart … apartments. Woman`s Day tells how to prevent this.
To prevent the inevitable is not always in our power – we will try to at least minimize the damage.
So, the hotbeds of natural disasters and ways to prevent them.
After a man visits this abode of purity, any bathroom, be it a bathtub or a shower stall, invariably turns into a wet-room – water is everywhere, from a foggy mirror to slippers floating in puddles and creams on the shelf.
Means to help somehow reduce the flood: a mandatory curtain, tightly closing doors , a textile rug (or a thick towel) by the bathtub, which immediately absorbs water, preventing it from spreading on the floor. In order to quickly return the fogged mirror to working condition, one cannot do without a powerful hood.
The most difficult point in terms of proactive measures. To prevent unauthorized blockages on the shelves and in the closet, you will have to discard laziness and fully think over your overall storage organization – here his socks will lie, a drawer for T-shirts on the right, etc., etc. Next, you will need to convey information to “ destroyer “. The main rule for the system to work flawlessly is ease of use. Let the upper and lower shelves contain those things that he does not need so often. And those that are in everyday circulation should lie at a height that is comfortable for the eyes and outstretched arms. And let there be an excess of hangers in the closet, then a good desire to hang a shirt in the closet (like a good boy) will be immediately fulfilled.
If the sink in the kitchen, as well as all possible surfaces in the house, are covered with dirty cups and plates every day, you can try on the image of Cinderella and, like a shadow, silently clean up and wash the dishes. But there is a more effective way – gather your will into a fist and, trying not to look at all this disgrace, leave once everything as it is. Sooner or later, the supply of clean dishes will be depleted, and he will have to wash something. And then something else and something else. The hail of discontent that will fall on your head will only play into your hands. After all, this is a great reason to once and for all introduce into your everyday life the concept of “skeet attendant” or to approve other rules for handling dirty dishes.
The pollution of the apartment continues! In addition to ubiquitous dishes, dirty things scattered throughout the apartment are factors that poison your life. Any scout can envy the ingenuity with which a man hides dirty socks in the space of an apartment. Overcoming natural tendencies is not easy. All you can do is show the “right” place to store dirty items. If this does not help, you can try the method described in the previous paragraph.
As for the various screwdrivers, pliers and screws that you now and then find in obscene places, then first rejoice at what kind of rugged man you got. And after that, set aside a special corner for men’s gadgets in your women’s shelter. This little concession will let you forget about leaking faucets and falling shelves forever.
One of the favorite men’s hobbies is collecting (more precisely, warehousing) old newspapers and magazines. With enviable thriftiness, he drags into the house all the fresh press, which becomes waste paper in a day. But if you try to touch this pile without his permission, you will not get away with a cry. After all, this is a source of very important information that will definitely come in handy someday. “Do not touch! I will reread everything – at my leisure / next weekend / as soon as I go on vacation ”(must be emphasized). But this blessed time, of course, does not come.
In order not to turn the apartment into a warehouse, there are two ways – either a demonstrative confrontation, which will spoil the nerves of both of you, or an underground struggle. The second way, as history shows, is very productive. You can throw out the newspapers in his absence, or you can, as it were, accidentally let it go for completely different purposes: “Oh, sorry, I took only a couple of newspapers – I had to wipe the mirror / decorate the vase / put away winter shoes for storage …”
And trust your intuition, it will tell you a way out of even the most hopeless situation. Only in the heat of dealing with natural disasters that hit your home with a man, remember: home is a fortress for both.