House rituals .. Women prepare their homes to receive the winter

Larissa Slaie - Beirut

With the end of the summer and before entering the winter, many women prepare for this season by arranging and cleaning the house and mattresses, to create an atmosphere of warmth, which reflects on the relationships of family members and their sense of comfort at home.

The fiftieth "Um Basil" Taha began this year to prepare for the winter early; for fear of repeating what happened with last winter, as the atmosphere began to turn cold before usual, especially in mountainous areas.

In the next few days, Um Bassel says she intends to do full carpeting and warm the house in preparation for the expected winter cold, as she heard from more than one source.

The atmosphere has changed
In this transition between summer and winter, housewives are doing a lot of housework in preparation for the winter, as the requirements of the family and the house change as the atmosphere changes.

Once the cold and winter breezes blow through the fall, families are ready to make many changes in the corners of the house, including cleaning the fireplace and preparing it for the winter season.

special program
The 30-year-old Afaf Itani used to bring a worker from the employment offices to help her “remove” the house, make carpets before the winter suddenly enters. Complete maintenance of the house.

Itani said that despite the effort and fatigue you feel after the complete demolition of the house, she is happy by the winter, because it has a special program to spend more time with the family.

She decided that the winterization and preparation for early winter, unlike the rest of the years, so began to prepare for the winter preparations, and has equipped the home heating to receive any "winter" emergency, as she put it.

Family members gathered
Mrs. Rana Al Masri begins to prepare for the winter by changing the decor and arrangement of the house, where the place of family sitting in summer is different from winter. During this period, she moves the living room and TV to another warmer room near the bedrooms, so that the beds stay together in a warm and suitable place for everyone.

In addition, Rana takes out the winter and warm clothes her family needs during this period.

She believes that winter has a beautiful privacy in the family gathering hours longer than the summer, and usually these family sessions are intimate, so the situation requires the presence of many different things such as entertainment and snacks.

Takaful increases in winter
Social psychologist Mona Darwish says that changes in families, such as the weather and the advent of winter, may have positive family repercussions, such as the emergence of family and social solidarity, and previous years have clearly demonstrated such a trait in society.

Tips for receiving for winter
Housekeeping expert Noha Khazaal offers some tips that help women clean the house in preparation for winter, which positively affects physical and mental health, reduces stress and stress:

1. Unload the closet from old clothes, which facilitates the step of arranging the winter clothes later. With the arrangement of the wardrobe for shoes and collection of toys scattered in most parts of the house.

2. Clean down the beds and get rid of unnecessary things.

3 - get rid of dust under the furniture and polished with walls and ceilings, as well as shaking off pillows and seats.

Wash carpets, covers and curtains.

5 - cleaning the walls of the kitchen and arrange cabinets and shelves, in addition to cleaning the refrigerator, fridge and gas oven.

Special treatment arrangement
Noha Khazaal says that the physical activity we do during cleaning places and rearranging things can be a kind of treatment, by controlling the ocean around us, the process of cleaning can be an escape from the pressures of daily life, which is overwhelming us, such as work troubles and control of technology.