Tips To Keep Your Student House Clean

There is a lot of work to do during your day, this we know. Besides the study, job, and finish what is mandatory, a lot of students must take care of their studyhomes. The challenge is, when? After all, when you are cleaning your house you can spend all day finishing. But I have good news. You can clean and organize your home without disturbing your day. When you are an adult you like to arrive at home and see it in a good state. Clean and organized. But when you are a student and share your home with someone, this is not the same. Instead, you are living in a private flat. Then you can clean and organized yourself and see the results. Cleaning alone can be a good or a bad thing. It depends on the student’s characteristics.

Living in community

If you are a student or you have some family members that are, you know that you don’t have a choice, you have to share your studyhome with someone else. And obviously, everybody has different behavior and some of them can be more organized and others...not much. This fact can cause several conflicts between you all. Coexistence is so hard when you have more than one behave in the same space. Then you can solve these conflicts by discussing them and make a deal. Try to make an agreement for writing with the roommates and give a punishment if you all don’t fulfill. About the dishes, if you don’t have the meals together, with the roommates, you have to take care about clean everything when you finish eating. If you take the plates for your room be sure that you come back immediately after the finish to wash and clean everything. Don’t leave packets or plates in your room. Try to eat your meal in the kitchen. If you go to your room, don’t forget to bring the objects to the kitchen and wash them. When you rent student Houses in Southampton you can put on the contract the rules about cleaning.

Every day is a clean day

If you want to keep your house clean you have to create one habit to clean every day. You can buy some baskets to leave all your dirty clothes inside. Don’t leave your school supplies on the sofas or tables. Don’t leave the dishes without washing. Try to vacuum day in day out, Make your bed every morning, Take the clothe from the clothes horse and hang on your closet, don’t forget the garbage, if you made one mess, clean immediately. Buy wet wipes and a little trash can/garbage bin and put one in each room from the accommodation, then when you dirty a center table, for example, you can clean immediately and throw the wet wipe on the trashcan. You can take a home carpet and leave it in front of the door. On rainy and snowy days you use to clean your feet before entering your home. Never enter your house with the shoes dirty.

Cleaning stuff

Take all the stuff that you will need. Do you want to know what can disturb your cleaning and waste a lot of time? When you are cleaning your house and you don’t know where is the cleaning materials. Or the worst thing is when you forget to buy your cleaning things. You can avoid all these problems by making a list in one day, buying in another day, and make the cleaning when you are sure that all is at home. When the day of the cleaning arrives you can separate in each room what you will need. I know that you use the same thing in several rooms but some of them are specific.

Checklist of tasks

You can make a list of work for you and your roommates. You all have your own room. Separate the day that everybody will clean the rooms. And make a list for you and them. They will thank you. On another day you can organize a list that you all will clean the common places, like the kitchen and the bathroom. if you live alone in a flat. I’m so sorry you have to do it all by yourself. Start the day that you will do the basics, like clean the floor only you can see, Vaccun the sofa and wash the toilet. After you can organize a day that you will wash the bathtub, the sink, and toilet. and go on. You can make a schedule for you all at home. On Monday you were in the bathroom, on Thursday your friend. And so on.

Separate the right tool for clean

You can use several tools to help you to clean the house. The vacuum cleaner is the most friend your cleaning the house. If you have allergies it will be your best friend. for the surface of the furniture, you can buy some wipes. Don’t forget the soap. And the fabric to clean. Mops and more.

Discharge what you don’t use

Do you remember those shoes that you don’t use anymore or that t-shirt that has a hole in the back? Then take these things that you don’t use or are old and throw away. don’t put on your closet things that will take your space to be more organized.

Extra

Do you know that you don’t have much space in your room and you need a blanket in the winter but not in the summer, then you can put it in a bag and vacuum then you can take more space and can organize your room. you can do this with all the clothes that you don’t use in some seasons.

The Student houses in Southampton have the right places to discharge the useless things. They are prepared to receive a person that rents the space. Then look for the places that you can leave the garbage, the recycled garbage, things for donation. Don’t leave your studyhomes full of things that you don’t use.

Start Your Own Vegetable Garden at Your Student House in Southampton

Do you like VEgetables? Does your mom insist to you eat? Yeap. Your mom is right. Vegetables are good for your health and for your pocket. Then how can you make your own Vegetable garden? Let’s check the ways. Create a vegetable garden you can improve your physical and mental health. Create in you a responsibility sense. And obviously, you can have good food on your table. And the best, without pesticides. Because you don’t produce in large scale. The vegetables have several processes and events before you reap. Some of them you have the seeds and others you have to take a little piece from another plant. Do you know what are the benefits of a house vegetable garden? They give you a portion of healthy food, therapy for your mind, help you to save money, help with nutrition education, and give decor for your home.

Calendar

You have to stay alert for the calendar. Some vegetables need to be sowed in the autumn and others during the summer. You can check what vegetables you like before plant. Then check the best days to seed. you can choose the best time during the day to plant.

Soil

You can find the soil to plant your seed in specific stores. Some of them have already come prepared for your plant. Others you have to prepare. When you have to prepare the soil you will need some compost or organic matter. Then you must clean the soil with the rake and level it. The composts that you can find is Peat free, Mushroom, Organic, and multi-purpose. But You can make your own compost with kitchen scraps, leaves, peels. Putting them on the corner of your garden. Wait to dry and place under the leaves of the vegetables.

Seeds or plants

Some vegetables or fruits need much time to grow up and produce. Then you have the option to solve this. Instead, you buy the seeds, you can buy the plant in a little pot and transfer it to your garden. The fruits are the main plants that need a long time to produce. But you have some of them that produce fast like Strawberries, Japanese wineberries.

Fertilizer

You have many options for fertilizers. Liquid and solids. And you should stay alert for the fertilizer that you are allowed to use in the UK. Here is the security fertilizer you can buy. Ammonium Nitrate (AN), Nitram®, and True Granular Compound fertilizers. Or produce your own fertilizer with food and vegetables and fruits peels.

Water

You know water is life, don’t you? Then for the plants is the main ingredient to grown health and give more fruits and vegetables. But you have to study how much water you must run in each plant. Some of them don’t need much water. Prefer to water the plants with the watering can instead of the garden hose. Some plants are so delicate.

Specific place

Some vegetables and fruits have a specif place to plant. If you take the lettuce for example the sun can make them wither. Then you can use a net to cover it. Other plants need a small space to grow up and you can use a little pot. Like the Basil. In the garden stores, you can find specific planters or pots for the potatoes for example.

Fence

If your  Southampton student accommodation is a house outside the campus maybe you have a big yard. Then you can start your garden. Take some fences and make a little space to make your beautiful vegetable garden.

In the houses

If you choose a Southampton student accommodation that has a big yard, you can make a great vegetable garden. The options for a big garden are numerous. Horizontal garden, vertical garden. A little space separated by a fence. Or a lot of planters around the yard.

In the flat

If you live in flats don’t worry you can make some gardens too. But not much. You can take little pots and plant some herbs. These kinds of plants you can add to your food and decorate the kitchen. ordecorste  your bedroom. If you have a little space on the window you can buy a planter and plant strawberries. Or you can talk with the staff of the Studyhome to get permission.

Specific stores

For the supplies to make your own vegetable garden in a student house in Southampton you can find a lot of stores that have good stuff to use and plant. A lot of then you can buy online and ask for delivery. You can find some of them at the Supermarket too.

Tools

Do you know what is the tools that you will need to start your garden? Here are some of them: ruler, tape measure, wheelbarrow, hoe, mattock, shovel, pitchfork, rake, compressor, bamboo bedclothes, Biodegradable netting, butterfly protection cage, planting trowel, white labels, seeder, handle tiller, Gloves, Watering can, pruning shear, twine, and level. In some gardens, you need specific places to plant. Then you can make or buy.

After you decide what you will plant, where you will plant, and read about all the things you need you can start to organize the supplies and start your garden. Start with that plant that doesn’t need a lot of care. Remember you have to organize your time to make it. you have to prepare the space and buy the tools first. If you don’t do it you can take a risk of don’t have some stuff and forget the garden. Some student houses in Southampton have a space to make your garden. If you are a person that likes to do it. Think about it when you are searching for a studyhome. Your roommate can help you too. Then you all can eat healthy food at the University. Be a healthy person take a little care with yourself. Remember you have to work, study, but you can’t forget your own health and life. If you are sick you can’t work or study. Then take care and be a green person.

Save money and time with accommodations that are close to University.

When you are young, sometimes you forget to save money because you think that you can recover, you have time. Save money is one thing that you have to do all your life. Since childhood. But don't be confuse, save money and don't spend anything. Save money is a good many to you spend with the right thing. A graduation life needs a lot of control because many students like to go to clubs, travel, buy clothes, school supplies. Then when you separate your money into blocks you can have money for everything. But you have some ways to save more money for your investments. Let's check some of them.

1.    Sharing your room

A lot of students houses in Southampton have 3 to 5 rooms. Or some flats you can share with a friend. In Southampton, you can find places that are good and next to the University. Inside the house, you can have one bedroom for you and share other rooms with friends or you can share your bedroom too. The more you share the more you can save. When you share the studyhome with friends you stay more relaxed because they make part of your group and you know everyone. But when you share with people from other places you can think this is hard. Don't be worried, you will make new friends and the best you will know another culture and interact with different people. Take advantage to improve your knowledge about other places from real people. Not from internet research. Southampton university invests in flats that have good prices for students starting from 99 pounds per week. They are around the University then you can save more time to go to your classes.

2.    By bike, by walking

When the Southampton student accommodation is close to the University you can save more money on transportation. Because if you are close you can go to your classes by bike, and take a good exercise, breath the air, appreciate the visual, when you go by walking you can exercise too, but you have more time to talk with friends, get your question answered, appreciate the moment before you enter in the classroom. When you get the bike you don't have to pay for any fuel and improve your health. In Southampton, you can buy bikes at good prices on the second hand. By the way, you can use your bike to get a part-time job and instead spend money you can earn money.

3.    Enjoy cooking

When you eat food from the restaurant you spend a lot of money and time, because you buy the food and drink. If you don't like to cook, sorry, you have to learn and make it. If you want to save money, obviously. Make your snacks from your studyhome, like fruits, healthy sandwiches, sweets. You can organize your time and make some food the night before the classes. When you cook you can have some benefits like therapy to relieve all the problems and stress from your studies. When you are making food you concentrate on the process to make. Then you will forget other things and then relieve your stress. Then take the weekend or your day off and go to the supermarket to buy healthy food to prepare. Avoid that snacks that are bad for your health. Like Potato chips, chips, cereal bars, Smoothies. They can make you feel bad.

4.    Part-time job

Remember about the bike? Then you can take it to get a part-time delivery job. Or got to your job by bike. When you are working you can earn more money and save. Inside the University you have a lot of options to work. If you get a job at the University you can improve your knowledge and make some contacts that can help you in the future. If you are interested look for it on the University website. There you can find a way to apply for a job at the university.

5.    Don’t forget your budget

When you are a student you can’t do what you want. You have more spends on the houses and the food because you aren’t in your parents’ house. Everything is in your hands. Then take your notebook and put it on all the spends. Separate in blocks what you have and what you spend. Remember your parents doing the calculations. Yes, you have to do the same. Or you are a modern student use the technology with you. Make a list on a spreadsheet and there you can make the total faster than you can think.

6.    Help!

If you need help to organize your finances you can get help from the UNiversity, they have a department to help the students with finances or give some advice about save and earn it. You can read several articles about it or accesses the department to get help.

7.    Discount

You can ask for a discount on your fees from the university - You can take a discount if you already study at the University or if you are a staff or if you are a family member of the staff. Then you can get a discount. But don’t forget if you take a discount you can’t apply for bursaries. We know that student houses in Southampton can be hard for to you pay for. If you have some discount, it’s pretty much better, isn’t it?

8.    Bursaries

In Southampton, you can apply for scholarships or bursaries. You can receive from the university or government an amount of money to pay your Costs and your studyhomes in the university. They are not repayable. You can get a scholarship until the third year. There are bursaries from 500 pounds to 1000 pounds. But you have some rules to get the Bursaries. like your household, full-time course, and others. You don’t need to ask for Bousaries, When you apply for the finances they can see your information and tell you if you are eligible. But you have to know when you are eligible for both Bousaries and Discount you have to choose only one because you can’t  use both of them. If you apply for both you risk to you lose both.

You have a lot of ways to save your money. Take your time before going to the University and make your plan. Go to the Universities’ websites to get complete information about the boundaries, student Southampton accommodation, and finances. Don’t forget to study and make good grades. You have more chances to save money.

Perfect House Plants for Student Accommodation

Insert Green in your home in a simple manner to bring some color to your eyes. And refresh the environment inside the rooms. There are a lot of types of decoration plants and some plants that you can use to relieve your stress. Then try to add some plants inside your Student accommodation. Here you will see the best plants to leave in each space of the house. Here are some benefits from the plants: Breathing easier, Releasing water, purifying the air, Improve your health, sharpening Focus.

How many plants do you need?

It depends on your objective. You can put more than one plant in each room. But remember you have to take care of them. If you want to improve your health you can use one plant in each room like your bedroom and office. If you want to purify the air you have to use from 10 to 18 plants in the entire house.

Bathroom

Southampton student accommodations are small. In consequence, the bathroom is small too. Then, the plants for this space must be little. Bird's nest fern is little and you can find one place for it in your bathroom. Maranta’s, palm trees orchids, aloe vera are good options too because they can stay in humid spaces. Peace lily is not a good option for a little bathroom, but if you are in a Student house maybe you have a big one. Tillandsias you can hang on the window or hang from the ceiling. On the cabinet, you can put some succulents.

Bedroom

Here are some plants that you can use in your bedroom. Yucca elephantipes are plants that look like coconut trees. But they are little. And if your bedroom is big, it is a good option. A rubber plant is a little plant that you can leave on your desk. Or you can find some different types of succulents to add to your desk. Cacti are a good option too. You can buy a spider plant to leave in your bedroom. Maybe hanging from the ceiling. Or you can take an aloe vera on your desk. English ivy is perfect for your bedroom. Try it.

Kitchen

Many student houses in Southampton the students have a good size kitchen. For this kitchen, you can take both the culinary plants, perfume, and healthy. The plants that you can choose for this space are Rosemary, parsley, Mint, Basil, balm-lemon, which are the best for it. This one of these, Basil you can touch and feel the smell spread out for the entire kitchen. You can take one piece from the Mint and put it on your water or make tea. They can make you calm. They all are little plants that you can put on the counter or next to the windows. The moment you are washing the dishes you can take some water and sprinkle it on them. If you share the space, talk to the community about the plants that you can put on it.

Living room

The living room in Southampton student accommodation has a good size to decorate. This is the place where generally you have more spaces in the corner. Then you can put some big plants like Lady palm, Chamaedorea Elegans, Rhapis excelsa, Sansevieria zeylanica, Hoya curtisi, Monstera deliciosa. You can find a lot of options to put on your center table like a mix of cactus, Peperomia 'Hope', or a Mix of Succulents in a boat. If you have a big window you can mix the plants like the succulents.

To relax

If you are a person that likes to relieve your stress with a garden but some student houses in Southampton don’t have you can choose some little plants that you can take care of inside your home. Bonsai is one of them. Bonsai are little trees that don't need a lot of soil and water. You can take care of them by putting some fertilizer and sprinkle water. Sometimes cut the old leaves or model them. Reading about how can you take care of them is a good option to learn and relieve your stress. Bonsai is so cute and you bring a kindly visual for your study home. You can include put on your desk to admire its beauty. Some plants like orchids are beautiful and need care. Then you can buy a lot of them to spread in the studyhome.

Plants that don't need a lot of care

-          Dracaena is resistant to artificial lights and also can stay under the sun. They can survive in dry places. Then if you always forget to water this is perfect for you.

-          Cacti is the perfect plant for a person that has a bad memory. They need water every fifteen days. But it needs the sun and wind.

-          Dicksonia antarctica doesn't like the sun, because it can burn their leaves. They can tolerate the dry air and you need to water once a week.

-          Orchids are plants that you can water every fifteen days if they have flowers and one a week when there are no flowers.

As you see the plants can bring a lot of benefits for you and your friends. According to neuroarchitecture, a project can impact directly people’s well-being. You can improve the air quality. Reduce your stress, increase your productivity, stimulate your creativity, beauty for your eyes. All these factors you can get from the plants. And you can find a lot of numbers of plants that you can use in your house. The best for all the places big and small are the succulents. These little plants are making success where you go. If you are a person that doesn’t have much patience with plants but wants to decorate your studyhome, you can use some artificial plants but remembers the only thing that this plant will do is decorate. Maybe you can choose some of them and some natural plants to make your home a decorated and healthy place.

Last touch

What plant you can put in all rooms at your study house? Yeap. Succulents. These little plants are good everywhere. They are little, beautiful, and don’t need much effort to take care of.

Part-Time Job Opportunities for Students

Student life is not easy. When you are at the University many times you need extra money to get a lot of things. Like supermarkets, clothes, school supplies, and travel. Besides you can meet a lot of people and make friends and connections. You can find jobs in several areas, lets’ list here at least 10. Read all of them, in the end, you will read a good thing. Important: The job list doesn’t have any classification. It was written aleatory.

If you are a student and you need a part-time job to help your student life this article is for you.

1.    Hospitality

This area is about bartenders, Catering staff, waiters, kitchen assistants,s or cooks. In this type of job, you don’t need to have experience. The average salary for this is 8 pounds per hour but this is the minimum but some places pay more. This kind of job is good because they are mostly restaurants, bars, fast foods are full-time and you choose the time you want to work.

2.    Retail stories

This type of job pays around 8.15 pounds per hour. Some stores work 24 hours, then if you work at night you can earn a high number of pounds. For this job, you don’t have experience. Many places about it are next to you, like Convenience shops. Doing this job you can cut costs and earn more. Ther you will have less competition than the big supermarkets. I suggest this one for starters because they are close to you and they are very easy to find.

3.    Customer service advisor

The average you will earn around 8.45 pounds per hour. Customer service advisors help customers to understand the product you are selling      and you will answer all the questions about that. Here you will need the ability to convince the client about the products and cross-sell to the customers to bring more business. Here you should have good spoken and written communication skills. There you can be asked to work explaining face to face, via phone, or via e-mail. It doesn’t matter you are working you have to answer the question from the customers. Having good people skill is a big help for this job.

4.    Food Delivery Driver

   This type of job you can do by bike or another vehicle if you have a license. The average hourly pay is 8.5 pounds plus tips. If you are a bike delivery you don’t need to get a license and you don’t need fuel. And you more, you can buy a second-hand bike that you can find on market places online. The price of a second-hand bike is between 20 - 40 pounds. In these jobs, you can earn good tips from your customers. If you have a vehicle you can offer better results in your deliveries and earn more tips. One of these companies is Uber eats

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5.    Warehouse Operative

They pay around 5.61 per hour. This job involves many responsibilities, But most of them are Picking and packing stock for delivery keeping track of stock levels. It doesn’t matter if you are a man or woman both of you can work in this place.

6.    Labour Jobs

You could be working in gardens, washing windows in big buildings and others. For this type of job, you can earn around 9 pounds per hour. This is a kind of jobs for the people that want to work outdoors. if you don’t have time to work out, this job will help you with it, because you will do a lot of manual works.

7.    Admin jobs

In this type of job, you will work inside a building probably in an office. they pay around 9.50 pounds per hour and you basically will managing diaries, taking phone calls, filing, greeting people or sending e-mails, you have to be good at organization and communications. And you have to know to manage software. They have a lot of types of these jobs, and you can search for them in your study area.

8.    Security Jobs

This Job is one of the best part-time jobs related to payment. Around 11.99 per hour. A few students can do this type of job, for this, you have to get SIA - Security Guarding License or a Door Supervisor License. Being a Security agent you can work in a restaurant, private member clubs, Hotels, Night clubs. For the license you to do a course training the abilities. And after you have to do some exams to get your license.

9.    Skilled jobs

If you are good at Bloggs, Article writing, social media marketing, data entry, spreadsheets work, video editor, programming you must take this kind of part job, you can earn more money and you can work from your own room. They pay around 12 to 15 pounds per hour.

10.  University jobs

If you are studying at the university you can take some jobs from then. you can earn money and save from transportation. 8.35 pounds is the average payment. They are librarians, dorm receptionists/security monitors, campus tour guides, research assistants, or cafeteria workers. Check if you can find a job inside the campus before outside.

Some tips to you improve your abilities and get more money

Number 1. Learn about digital marketing - You can find on the internet a lot of course about this subject and you can do in 24 hours. And you can watch a lot of videos about it. Then don’t be lazy and start to work now.

Number 2. Learn about computer skills like MS office, if you have some abilities in this software you will have facilities to get a lot of offices jobs.

Number 3. Learn about telephone etiquette. A lot of jobs from the call center require some knowledge about it.

Number 4. Don’t forget to bring some formal clothes, because when you go to the interview you need to be in looking.

A part-time job is a place that you won’t work for the rest of your life. If you are a University student you will get a profession. But if you take this kind of job you can get experience and contacts. This will be good for you in your future carrier.